Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 59 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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60.1	Primary Κλῦτέ μευ, ὦ Χάριτες μεγαλώνυμοι, ἀγλαότιμοι, Permalink
60.2	Primary θυγατέρες Ζηνός τε καὶ Εὐρυνόμης βαθυκόλπου, Permalink
60.3	Primary Ἀγλαΐη Θαλίη τε καὶ Εὐφροσύνη πολύολβε, Permalink
60.4	Primary χαρμοσύνης γενέτειραι, ἐράσμιαι, εὔφρονες, ἁγναί, Permalink
60.5	Primary αἰολόμορφοι, ἀειθαλέες, θνητοῖσι ποθειναί· Permalink
60.6	Primary οὔτε γὰρ ἠελίου ταχιναὶ φλόγες οὔτε σελήνης Permalink
60.7	Primary καὶ σοφίης ἀρετῆς τε καὶ ἐργάσιμου θρασύτητος Permalink
60.8	Primary εὐχέρει’ οὔτε βίοθ λιπαρῆς περικαλλέος ἥβης Permalink
60.9	Primary ὑμῶν χωρὶς ἐγείρει ἐυφροσύνας βιότοιο· Permalink
60.10	Primary εὐκταῖαι, κυκλάδες, καλυκώπιδες, ἱμερόεσσαι· Permalink
60.11	Primary ἔλθοιτ’ ὀλβοδότειραι, ἀεὶ μύσταισι προσηνεῖς. Permalink

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Orphic Hymns

The Orphic Hymns compress cosmology, prayer, ritual address, and divine epithets into compact devotional poems especially suited to meditative and oracle-like reading; the corpus now also carries an Abel-based Greek witness aligned as honestly as possible against the existing Taylor English sequence.

Hymns | Original language: Ancient Greek

Late Hellenistic to early Imperial Greek religious poetry, often dated between the 2nd century BCE and 2nd century CE

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Primary Edition

Greek source text

Ancient Greek | Verse

Greek Abel 1885 witness via Wikisource page transcription

This edition preserves the Greek text of the Orphic Hymns from the Abel-based Greek Wikisource transcription, pinned by revision id and NFC-normalized for corpus use.

The Greek layer is aligned to the existing Taylor English sequence for compare reading, so the Musaeus proem and Abel hymn 1 (Hecate) remain outside the current main corpus book run.

Source family: Greek ritual source texts

Wikisource / Internet Archive | Public-domain source texts

Greek hymn and oracle witnesses staged where page-level provenance is clean enough to support direct reading.

Pinned source commit: elwikisource

Source path: Ορφικοί ύμνοι/Χαρίτων :: pages 104 :: Abel hymn 60

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