Explained vocabulary

Circular dance — χορεία

χορεία

khoreia

Aphrodite delights in the circular dances or circling movements of sea creatures at LV.21.

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
circular dance

Meaning

Aphrodite delights in the circular dances or circling movements of sea creatures at LV.21. The marine company gives the dance its local setting. It may illuminate the hymn's festive imagination without proving that human singers enact a particular choreography.

Places to read

  1. Hymn LV · Line 21Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

χορείαις

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. LV.21

Lexical references

LSJ χορεία (n114413)