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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- of noble fatherhood
Meaning
Aphrodite, the Fates, and Themis receive this feminine honorific. It praises paternal descent without itself naming the father. LXXIX.1 is especially clear because Themis is also called the child of Ouranos: the adjoining expression supplies the specific genealogy that εὐπατέρεια alone does not.
Places to read
- Hymn LV · Line 10Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
εὐπατέρεια; εὐπατέρειαι; εὐπατέρειαν
Occurrence inventory
3 in total. LV.10; LIX.16; LXXIX.1