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Roman mosaic of Orpheus, the mythical poet to whom the Orphic Hymns were attributed, from Palermo, 2nd century AD [31]. The collection's attribution to the mythical poet Orpheus is found in its title, "Orpheus to Musaeus", [32] which sits above the proem in the surviving manuscripts of the collection; [33] this proem, an address to the legendary poet Musaeus of Athens (a kind of address found ...
Prothyraia's means 'at the door' or 'at the door-way', [3] and is used to denote a goddess who presides over the area around the entrance to a building. [4] Prothyraia is an epiclesis of the goddesses Eileithyia, Hecate, and Artemis; [3] Prothyraia is attested as an epithet of Artemis in a 2nd-century AD inscription discovered in Epidaurus. [5]
— Orphic Hymn 2, to Prothyraia, as translated by Thomas Taylor, 1792. Eileithyia is commonly in classical Greek art most often depicted assisting childbirth. Vase-painters, when illustrating the birth of Athena from Zeus' head, may show two assisting Eileithyiai, with their hands raised in the epiphany gesture.
Rephrased along those lines: The Orphic Hymns are most important surviving representative of the genre of hymnic literature attributed to Orpheus.. – Michael Aurel 02:02, 10 February 2025 (UTC) "Editions and translations" should probably be after the references
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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.
Melinoë (/ m ɪ ˈ l ɪ n oʊ iː /; Ancient Greek: Μηλινόη, romanized: Mēlinóē pronounced [mɛːlinóɛː]) is a chthonic goddess invoked in one of the Orphic Hymns (2nd or 3rd centuries AD?), and represented as a bringer of nightmares and madness.
In the inscriptions which mention Hipta, her name is given as Hípta (Ἵπτα) or Heípta (Εἵπτα), [1] names which are non-Greek in origin. [2] In editions of the Orphic Hymns produced prior to the discovery of Hipta's name in epigraphic evidence, her name was rendered as "Hippa" (Ἵππα), a reading of her name recorded in a number of the collection's manuscripts. [3]