From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- of lightning; lightning-bearing
Meaning
Zeus receives this lightning epithet in direct address, in his lightning hymn and in Semele’s birth narrative. The last context is especially consequential: at XLIV.5 the apparatus attributes ἀστραπίοιο to Wiel against ἀθανάτου, replacing “immortal” with “of lightning.” The printed adjective should retain that electrical force rather than becoming generic brilliance.
Places to read
- Hymn XV · Line 9Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἀστράπιε; ἀστραπίοιο; ἀστράπιον
Occurrence inventory
3 in total. XV.9; XX.5; XLIV.5
Heading and incense rubric evidence
ΑΣΤΡΑΠΙΟΥ · XX.heading. XX. ΔΙΟΣ ΑΣΤΡΑΠΙΟΥ
Local sense
Zeus characterised by lightning