From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
Browse this book’s lexicon →- English renderings
- lovely-haired
Meaning
Aphrodite, Semele and Persephone share the lovely-haired description (LV.10; XLIV.2; XXIX.5; LVI.9). The epithet can occur in direct praise or in a genitive naming a parent. Its shared beauty-language does not identify the goddesses with one another.
Places to read
- Hymn XXIX · Line 5Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἐρασιπλόκαμ’; ἐρασιπλόκαμον; ἐρασιπλόκαμος; ἐρασιπλοκάμου
Occurrence inventory
4 in total. XXIX.5; XLIV.2; LV.10; LVI.9