Polyónymoi: A Lexicon of the Divine Epithets in the Orphic Hymns (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783958261549)

The Orphic Hymns consist of a prooemium and 87 hymns addressed to several deities in a late Orphic initiation of sorts. They were composed probably in Asia Minor during the second or third century CE. The bulk of these hymns are made up of divine epithets often linked together in chains of considerable length. The lexicon attempts to give a comprehensive account of the roughly 850 epithets, bringing together the most relevant information scattered in the scholarly literature and adding others from various sources (literary, epigraphic, lexicographic, scholia etc.) in order to provide an overview of their usage and the main details of their models.

Author: José Marcos Macedo, Daniel Kölligan, Pedro Barbieri
ISBN-10: 395826154X
ISBN-13: 9783958261549
Publisher: Wurzburg University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/06/2021
Pages: 266
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.56d