Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 69 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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70.1	Primary Κλῦτέ μευ, Εὐμενίδες μεγαλώνυμοι, εὔφρονι βουλῇ, Permalink
70.2	Primary ἁγναὶ θυγατέρες μεγάλοιο Διὸς χθονίοιο Permalink
70.3	Primary Φερσεφόνης τ’, ἐρατῆς κούρης καλλιπλοκάμοιο, Permalink
70.4	Primary αἳ πάντων καθορᾶτε βίον θνητῶν ἀσεβούντων, Permalink
70.5	Primary τῶν ἀδίκων τιμωροί, ἐφεστηκυῖαι ἀνάγκῃ, Permalink
70.6	Primary κυανόχρωτες ἄνασσαι, ἀπαστράπτουσαι ἀπ’ ὄσσων Permalink
70.7	Primary δεινὴν ἀνταυγῆ φάεος σαρκοφθόρον αἴγλην· Permalink
70.8	Primary ἀίδιοι, φοβερῶπες, ἀπόστροφοι, αὐτοκράτειραι, Permalink
70.9	Primary λυσιμελεῖς οἴστρῳ, βλοσυραί, νύχιαι, πολύποτμοι, Permalink
70.10	Primary νυκτέριαι κοῦραι, ὀφιοπλόκαμοι, φοβερῶπες· Permalink
70.11	Primary ὑμᾶς κικλήσκω γνώμαις ὁσίῃσι πελάζειν. 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/Ευμενίδων :: pages 109 :: Abel hymn 70

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