From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- life-giving; giver of livelihood
Meaning
Persephone and Aphrodite are addressed by this feminine life-giving title. The surrounding language of marriage, fertility and generation keeps both life and its sustaining conditions relevant. It is not necessary to impose a strict distinction in which one goddess gives biological life and the other only material subsistence.
Places to read
- Hymn XXIX · Line 3Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
βιοδῶτι
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. XXIX.3; LV.12