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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 ...
Fragment of a hekataion with the head of Hecate Prothyraia, 4th-century BC, Museum of Cycladic Art, Greece [1]. Prothyraia (Ancient Greek: Προθυραία, romanized: Prothuraía) is the figure addressed in the second of the Orphic Hymns, a collection of ancient Greek hymns composed around the 2nd and 3nd centuries AD.
Orphic mosaics were found in many late-Roman villas. Orphism 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.
He was credited with the composition of a number of works, among which are a number of now-lost theogonies, including the theogony commented upon in the Derveni papyrus, [10] as well as extant works such the Orphic Hymns, the Orphic Argonautica, and the Lithica. [11] Shrines containing purported relics of Orpheus were regarded as oracles. [12]
— 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.
Proclus, Hymn to Athena in Sallust, On the gods and the world; and the Pythagoric sentences of Demophilus, translated from the Greek; and five hymns by Proclus, in the original Greek, with a poetical version. To which are added five hymns by the translator, translated by Thomas Taylor, London, Printed for E. Jeffrey, 1793.
The Orphic Hymn to Selene addresses her as "O bull-horned Moon", ... a common epithet of the goddess Athena) [33] while in a fragment from a poem, ...
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