Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 75 | Primary edition: Greek source text

Previous hymn Next hymnsingle editionContinue down

Text

Position

Line 1 of 12

Line Ref	Greek source text \| Ancient Greek
76.1	Primary Μνημοσύνης καὶ Ζηνὸς ἐριγδούποιο θύγατρες, Permalink
76.2	Primary Μοῦσαι Πιερίδες, μεγαλώνυμοι, ἀγλαόφημοι, Permalink
76.3	Primary θνητοῖς, οἷς κε παρῆτε, ποθεινόταται, πολύμορφοι, Permalink
76.4	Primary πάσης παιδείης ἀρετὴν γεννῶσαι ἄμεμπτον, Permalink
76.5	Primary θρέπτειραι ψυχῆς, διανοίης ὀρθοδότειραι, Permalink
76.6	Primary καὶ νόου εὐδυνάτοιο καθηγήτειραι ἄνασσαι, Permalink
76.7	Primary αἳ τελετὰς θνητοῖς ἀνεδείξατε μυστιπολεύτους, Permalink
76.8	Primary Κλειώ τ’ Εὐτέρπη τε Θάλειά τε Μελπομένη τε Permalink
76.9	Primary Τερψιχόρη τ’ Ἐρατώ τε Πολύμνιά τ’ Οὐρανίη τε Permalink
76.10	Primary Καλλιόπῃ σὺν μητρὶ καὶ Εὐνομίῃ θεᾷ ἁγνῇ. Permalink
76.11	Primary ἀλλὰ μόλοιτε, θεαί, μύσταις, πολυποίκιλοι, ἁγναί, Permalink
76.12	Primary εὔκλειαν ζῆλόν τ’ ἐρατὸν πολύυμνον ἄγουσαι. Permalink

Text notes and edition context

Work

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

You are reading Hymn 75.

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/Μουσών :: pages 111 :: Abel hymn 76

Previous hymn Next hymnsingle editionBack to top