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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- Iacchus
Meaning
Iacchus is named within the Dionysian invocation at XLII.4 as male, female, double-natured, and releasing. Hipta’s hymn places her amid his loud nocturnal dances at XLIX.3. The name therefore participates both in a sequence of divine qualifications and in a setting of collective celebration; neither occurrence supplies a separate biography.
Places to read
- Hymn XLII · Line 4Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
Ἴακχον; Ἰάκχου
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. XLII.4; XLIX.3