The Orphic Hymns - Softcover

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The Orphic Hymns are a collection of 87 short poems, composed sometime between the late Hellenistic and early Roman Imperial age (100 BC - 200 CE). They are written in hexameters, the standard epic meter for classical Latin and Greek literature, for example the Iliad, Aeneid and the Odyssey. The Orphic Hymns are attributed to Orpheus, a legendary Greek musician, prophet and the founder of the Orphic Mysteries.

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