From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- Amphietes; associated with yearly celebration
Meaning
The opening of LIII calls Bacchos Ἀμφιετής, a title also used in the heading. The English preserves Amphietes as a name; LSJ connects it with ἀμφιέτηρος and its annual-festival interpretation. That temporal sense remains relevant beside the hymn’s trieteric language, but neither the transliteration nor the dictionary gloss alone settles the actual calendar of celebration.
Places to read
- Hymn LIII · Line 1Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
Ἀμφιετῆ
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LIII.1
Heading and incense rubric evidence
ΑΜΦΙΕΤΟΥΣ · LIII.heading. LIII. ΑΜΦΙΕΤΟΥΣ
Local sense
Amphietes, a periodic Dionysian title