6/3/2023 0 Comments Homeric hymns to dionysusWest in his article on the fragmentary first Homeric Hymn (2943, esp. 48 to the first Homeric Hymn to Dionysus (A 26 West), he posits a knowledge by Callimachus of an ordered collection of hymns where Dionysus came first. And so, farewell, Dionysus, Insewn, with your mother Semele whom men call Thyone. On the basis of the probable allusion of Call. (17–20) Be favourable, O Insewn, Inspirer of frenzied women! we singers sing of you as we begin and as we end a strain, and none forgetting you may call holy song to mind. So spake wise Zeus and ordained it with a nod. And the divine locks of the king flowed forward from his immortal head, and he made great Olympus reel. And as these things are three, so shall mortals ever sacrifice perfect hecatombs to you at your feasts each three years.” The Son of Cronos spoke and nodded with his dark brows. and men will lay up for her many offerings in her shrines. There is a certain Nysa, a mountain most high and richly grown with woods, far off in Phoenice, near the streams of Aegyptus. The Father of men and gods gave you birth remote from men and secretly from white-armed Hera. And others yet, lord, say you were born in Thebes but all these lie. For some say, at Dracanum and some, on windy Icarus and some, in Naxos, O Heaven-born, Insewn and others by the deep-eddying river Alpheus that pregnant Semele bare you to Zeus the thunder-lover.
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