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Old Article Notes

• Thalassa
• Pan (god)

Zeus: Iconography

Rhea handing stone to Cronus:

• Louvre G 366; Clark, p. 20, figure 2.1
• Metropolitan Museum of Art 06.1021.144; LIMC 15641; Beazley Archive 214648; Richter, pp. 100–1

Orphic Hymns

• Athanassakis and Wolkow
• Morand
• Meisner, West
• Otlewska-Jung; Jauregui, p. 36; Jauregui article; Chrysanthou, p. 47
• Graf article; West article; Guthrie article
• Reviews: Fayant–Bernabe, Martin–Morand

Lead

The Orphic Hymns are a collection of eighty-seven hymns which were attributed to Orpheus in antiquity, and are among the few extant works of Orphic literature. Each hymn addresses They were most likely composed in Asia minor, and date to around the second century AD.

Contents

The Hymns consist of eighty-seven short poems, of an average length of ten to fifteen lines, and preceded by a dedication entitled "Orpheus to Musaeus".

each addressed to a specific deity

The hymns

Reception and transmission

The earliest reference to the Orphic Hymns comes from the 12th-century AD writer

It has been argued that Nonnus,

Editions and translations

• Hermann, G., Orphica, Leipzig, C. Fritsch, 1805. Internet Archive. Edition of various works of Orphic literature.
• Taylor, Thomas, The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus, London, Bertram Dobell, 1824. Internet Archive. Originally published in 1792. The first English translation of the Hymns. Completely out of date.
• Quandt, Wilhelm, Orphei Hymni, Weidmann, 1955. Originally published in 1941.
• Athanassakis, Apostolos N., The Orphic Hymns: Text, Translation, and Notes, Scholars Press, 1977. ISBN 978-0-89130-119-6. The first English translation after Taylor. Uses the Greek text of Quandt.
• Athanassakis, Apostolos N., and Benjamin M. Wolkow, The Orphic Hymns, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4214-0882-8. Internet Archive. Google Books. English translation, with notes on each hymn.
• Fayant, Marie-Christine, Hymnes Orphiques, Paris, Collection Budé, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2014. ISBN 978-2-251-00593-5. Greek text and French translation, with commentaries on each hymn.

References

• Morand, Anne-France, Études sur les Hymnes Orphiques, Brill, 2001. ISBN 978-900-4-12030-3. Online version at Brill.

Michael Aurel (talk) 03:28, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

Zagreus

Bernabe 2008?

List

• Brisson 1995 VI
• Brisson 1995 V
• Linforth
• Edmonds 2009
• Bremmer 2004 pp. 50 ff.
• Dodds
• Christopoulos 1991
• Mancini
• Jacob Plato
• Bernabe 2003
• Alderink
• Parker
• Guthrie
• RE article

Readings

• Bernabe 2002
  • 402-3: scholarship, esp Edmonds
  • 403: reconstructed story
  • 403-4: overview of points
  • 404-6: Olympiodorus
  • 406-8: Damascius & Proclus
  • 408-9: Plutarch
  • 409-10: Orphic Argonautica
  • 410: Julian
  • 410-2: Dio Chrysostom
  • 412: Oppian, inscription from Perinthos
  • 413: concl to section
  • 413-4: connection to ritual: Paus, Herodotus, Diodorus
  • 415-6: ritual: Clement, Gurob papyrus, Damascius, concl section
  • 416-7: age of myth, various sources for dismemberment
  • 417-8: Pindar, other evidence
  • 418-20: Plato, Xennocrates
  • 420-3: summary of arguments
• Burkert 1985, pp. 297–8: reconstruction, evidence
• Burkert 1999, p. 101 with n. 67: Olympiodorus' anthropogony
• Chrysanthou
  • 85-8: intro & table with parts of myth and lists of sources
  • 88: Alcmeonis, Aeschylus, Callimachus
  • 88-90: Euripides Cretans
  • 90: is the myth Orphic?
  • 90-1: Philodemus
  • 91-2: Tzetzes on Lycophron
  • 92-3: Diodorus, Clement, Paus, possible ritual connection
  • 93-5: modern interpretations
  • 95-6: Titanic guilt, Dionysiac element, Olympiodorus
  • 96-7: Proclus punishment of Titans, creation of humans, also Plotinus
  • 97-8: Proclus Dionysiac & Titanic nature?
  • 98-100: Plutarch De esu carniam
  • 100: Xenocrates
  • 100-1: Dio Chrysostom
  • 101-5: Plato Laws
  • 105-7: Damascius anthropogony
  • 107-8: Orphic Hymn
  • 108-9: Damascius Dionysiac element, passage from Plutarch
  • 112: concl
  • 175-6: Zagoure from Eighth Book of Moses
  • 219: Plutarch Zagreus as name for Dionysus Delphi
• Edmonds 1999
  • 37-8: four elements
  • 40-2: Olym
  • 42-3: Paus/Onomacritus
  • 43-4: Plato Laws
  • 44-6: Plutarch De Esu Carniam
  • 46: Xenocrates
  • 47-9: Pindar fr.
  • 50-1: strands, earliest tellings
  • 51-2: Diod, Plut Delphi, Neoplatonists
  • 52-3: sparagmos
  • 53-5: punishment of Titans, punishment of humans for their crimes
  • 56-7: anthropogony
  • 57-66: modern fabrication
  • 66-9: Thurii tablet
• Edmonds 2013
  • 297: four elements
  • 300-1: what he sees the evidence as attesting to
  • 304: Thurii tablet
  • 305-12: Pindar fr. as referring to Persephone's abduction
  • 326-9: Plato Laws
  • 330-3: Plato Laws 2nd passage
  • 334-7: Plutarch De esu Carniam
  • 342-5: allegorical interpretation, incl Plutarch, Damasc
  • 345-60: rituals associated with the dismemberment
  • 360-9: Giants' blood in Orphic Arg
  • 369-70: Dio Chrysostom, Oppian
  • 371-2: Julian, Perinthos inscription
  • 372-4: concl to anthropogony section
  • 374-7: Olym: lacks inherited guilt, context of dionysiac element
• Graf & Johnston
  • 66-7: Olympiodorus, reconstructed story
  • 68-70: age of "myth and cult"
  • 70-3: how and why myth and cult was created
  • 73-5: Dionysus' mother: Persephone, Semele
  • 75-7: putting back together, revival, by Rhea or Demeter
  • 77-8: Apollo putting together/reviving
  • 78-9: rebirth from Semele
  • 80: four traditions
  • 80-5: sparagmos/death as sacrifice; initiatory elements & rites
  • 85-7: anthropogony: creation from titans'/giants' blood
  • 87-8: anthropogony as bricoleur's creation
  • 88-90: Proclus three races
  • 90-3: elements brought together by bricoleur
• Herrero
  • 23: myth with anthropogony as dating to Classical period
  • 156-7: Firmicus Maternus
• Meisner
  • 237: reconstruction of myth
  • 238-9: outline of debate, overview
  • Modern interpretations
  • 239-41: "proto-Christian" view, Wil & Linforth, Guthrie & Nilsson
  • 241-2: tablets, possible religious/ritual connection
  • 242-3: Edmonds
  • 243-4: Bernabe et al
  • 244-5: Pindar fr. 133
  • 245: Plato's Laws
  • 245-6: how old? & various incl. Euphorion, Gurob, Diod Sic, Hyg, Paus
  • 246-7: Plutarch De Esu Carniam
  • 247-8: frr. possibly indicating ritual connection
  • 248: references to humans being born from Giant/Titan blood
  • 248-9: Olympiodorus
  • 249-50: interpretations of Dionysiac nature: Linforth, Brisson
  • 250-1: Edmonds on Olymp
  • 251-2: survey of evidence, age of myth, serpent form
  • 252: motifs inherent in Dionysus' nature
  • 252-3: concl
  • Ancient interpretations
  • 253-3: overview
  • 254: physical allegory: Diod Sic, Cornutus
  • 254: euhemerist Diod Sic
  • 255-6: Firmicus Maternus
  • 256-7: apologetic interpretations gen
  • 257-8: Clement
  • 258-9: Arnobius, Origen, gen
  • 259-60: stoic cosmology: plutarch
  • 260: Neoplatonic allegorical interpretation: Neoplatonic role of Dionysus, birth of Persephone
  • 261-3: Zeus raping Persephone, abduction (Neop)
  • 263-4: Dionysus as sixth king (Neop)
  • 264-5: Neoplatonic meaning of dismemberment
  • 265-6: toys (Neop)
  • 266-7: punishment of Titans (Neop)
  • 267: Apollo (Neop)
  • 267-8: rebirth from Semele
  • 268-9: concl section
  • 269: possible early references to anthropogony
  • 269-71: Proclus titanic race
  • 271-2: Damascius anthropogony
  • 272-3: Olympiodorus Dionysiac nature
  • 273-8: story of Dionysus in the Rhapsodies
• West
  • 74-5: reconstruction
  • 140-3: myth, its possible natures
  • 143-50: death & rebirth as an initiatory motif, connection to shamanism
  • 150-2: Apollo burying Dionysus' remains in Delphi
  • 152-3: Zagreus: name, etym, alcmeonis, aeschylus
  • 153-4: Euripides Cretans, Callimachus, Plutarch Delphi, Nonnus
  • 154-5: white faces gypsum
  • 155-9: toys: Clement, individual toys
  • 160-1: pulling apart/cutting & boiling
  • 161-3: rebirth/revival
  • 164-6: creation of man
  • 172-3: Firmicus Maternus
  • 173: Roman period authors on relationship to rites

Notes

• Etymology and origins
• Underworld deity (or "Early sources")
• The "Zagreus myth"
  • Identification with the Orphic Dionysus [section on sparagmos, or better at other article?]
  • Punishment of the Titans and the anthropogony
  • Inherited guilt and the dual nature of mankind
  • Modern scholarship
• Later sources

Separate article on "Dionysus in Orphic literature"?

Sources

Six elements:

• The sparagmos
• The punishment of the Titans
• The anthropogony
• Dionysiac element
• Titanic element & dual nature
• Inherited guilt

Anthropogony

• When the anthropogony was part of the myth
  • yes: Bernabe, Chrysanthou, p. 112; Herrero, p. 23; Burkert 1999, p. 101 with n. 67
  • no: Brisson, Edmonds
• Proclus "Titanic race"
  • Meisner, ; Graf and Johnston, pp. 88–90; Baltzly, Finamore, and Miles, p. 299
• Proclus "mythical chastisement" OF 338 I B = 224 K
  • two elements: punishment, anthropogony
  • Chrysanthou, pp. 96–7; Edmonds 1999, pp. 40–1 n. 14; Linforth, p. 326; Edmonds 2013, pp. 286 n. 138, 381 n. 244; Bernabe 2002, p. 407
• Dio Chrysostom 30.10 OF 320 VII B
  • Linforth, pp. 333–4; Bernabe 2002, pp. 410–2; Edmonds 2013, pp. 369–70; Chrysanthou, pp. 100–1
• OH 37 OF 320 X B
  • Morand, pp. 416–7; Ricciardelli, pp. 381–3; Chrysanthou, pp. 107–8; Bernabe 2003, p. 32