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In the rest of the collection, there are several passages which indicate the work was written as though Orpheus was the composer: [21] Orphic Hymn 76 to the Muses mentions "mother Calliope", [22] and Orphic Hymn 24 to the Nereids refers to "mother Calliope and lord Apollo", alluding to the parentage of Orpheus (whose father was sometimes said ...
Orphic mosaics were found in many late-Roman villas. Orphism (more rarely Orphicism; Ancient Greek: Ὀρφικά, romanized: Orphiká) is the name given to a set of religious beliefs and practices [1] originating in the ancient Greek and Hellenistic world, [2] associated with literature ascribed to the mythical poet Orpheus, who descended into the Greek underworld and returned.
The Homeric Hymns (Ancient Greek: Ὁμηρικοὶ ὕμνοι, romanised: Homērikoì húmnoi) are a collection of thirty-three ancient Greek hymns and one epigram. [a] The hymns praise deities of the Greek pantheon and retell mythological stories, often involving a deity's birth, their acceptance among the gods on Mount Olympus, or the establishment of their cult.
[5] The name "Selene" is derived from the Greek noun selas (σέλας), meaning "light, brightness, gleam". [6] In the Doric and Aeolic dialects, her name was also spelled Σελάνα (Selána) and Σελάννα (Selánna) respectively. [2] Selene was also called Mene. [7] The Greek word mene, meant the moon, and the lunar month. [8]
Phanes was a male god; in an original Orphic Hymn he is named as "Lord Priapos", [5] although others consider him androgynous. [1] Phanes was a deity of light and goodness, whose name meant "to bring light" or "to shine"; [6] [7] a first-born deity, he emerged from the abyss and gave birth to the universe. [7]
Erato is the Muse of lyric poetry, particularly erotic poetry, and mimic imitation. In the Orphic hymn to the Muses, it is Erato who charms the sight. Since the Renaissance she has mostly been shown with a wreath of myrtle and roses, holding a lyre, or a small kithara, a musical instrument often associated with Apollo. [2]
The Orphic Hymns, a collection of 87 religious poems as translated by Thomas Taylor, contains two stanzas regarding the Erinyes. Hymn 68 refers to them as the Erinyes, while hymn 69 refers to them as the Eumenides. [28] Hymn 68, to the Erinyes: Vociferous Bacchanalian Furies [Erinyes], hear!
According to the Homeric Hymn and the Orphic Hymn 35 to Leto, Artemis was born on the island of Ortygia before Apollo was on Delos. [48] Stephanus of Byzantium also states that Artemis was born before Apollo, however he claims that she was born at Coressus. [49]