Orphic hymns
As Orphic hymns are hymn texts from the field of Orphic poetry called. A few fragments of texts of this kind have come down to us. This includes:
- a hymn to the Orphic Zeus
- a hymn to Dionysus , in which Dionysus is equated with Zeus, Helios and the Orphic deities Phanes , Eubuleus and Antauges .
Finally, Pausanias mentions that at the mystery celebrations of Phlya in Attica the priests of the Lykomidai dynasty sang short hymn songs, which Orpheus was considered to be the author and which, according to Pausanias, did not need to fear comparison with the Homeric hymns .
A corpus of 87 hymns called Orphic Hymns , which was handed down together with the Homeric Hymns and the Hymns of Callimachus and Proclus, must be distinguished from these individual traditions. Possibly it is a work from the 2nd century by a single author that was compiled for a (perhaps Asian Minor) cult community. The relatively short texts of six to thirty verses have a pronounced invocation character, whereby the invoked deities of the Orphic pantheon ( Nyx , Kronos , Eros , Zeus , Dionysus , Curetes , Themis , Dike etc.) are often identified with one another. The collection is dedicated to Musaios , Orpheus' legendary pupil.
Editions and translations
- Apostolos N. Athanassakis (Ed.): The Orphic hymns. Text, translation and notes. Scholars Press, Missoula (Montana) 1988, ISBN 0-89130-119-4
- Joseph O. Plassmann: Orpheus. Ancient Greek mysteries. Diederichs, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-424-00740-4 (with translation of the Orphic hymns; first edition Jena 1928)
- Marie-Christine Fayant (Ed.): Hymnes orphiques. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-251-00593-5 (critical edition with French translation)
literature
- Alberto Bernabé: Orphei hymnorum concordantia. Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 1988, ISBN 3-487-07872-4 .
- Claude Calame : Orphic, Orphic Poetry II C). In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 9, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01479-7 , Sp. 58-69 ..
- Anne-France Morand: Études sur les Hymnes Orphiques. Brill, Leiden et al. 2001, ISBN 90-04-12030-0 .
- Jean Rudhardt : Opera inedita. Essai sur la religion grecque & Recherches sur les Hymnes orphiques (= Kernos . Supplément 19). Center International d'Étude de la Religion Grecque Antique, Liège 2008, ISBN 978-2-9600717-2-6 , pp. 157-325, 335-346
Web links
- The Orphic Hymns , English translation by Thomas Taylor , rhymed (1792)
- The Orphic Hymns , English prose translation by Virginia Stewart-Avalon
- David Karl Philipp Dietsch: The Hymns of Orpheus , Greek and German, Erlangen 1822 ( digitized ); Translation of No. 1–30, Nuremberg 1820 ( digitized version )
Remarks
OF refers to the corresponding number in Orphicorum Fragmenta , ed. by Otto Kern.
- ^ Plato , Nomoi 715e = OF 21; Aristotle , De mundo 401a 25-b 7 = OF 21a; J. v. Arnim (Ed.): Stoicorum veterum fragmenta , Vol. 2, pp. 1078, 1081 = OF test. 233, OF 30.
- ↑ Macrobius , Saturnalia 1.23.21; 12/18/17; 12/18/22 = OF 236-239; see. 307
- ↑ Pausanias, Description of Greece 9.27.2, 30.12 = OF 304-305.