Explained vocabulary

Kydonian — Κυδωνιάς

Κυδωνιάς

Kydōnias

Κυδωνιάς addresses Artemis at XXXVI.12 amid woodland, hound, and shifting-form epithets.

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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
Kydonian

Meaning

Κυδωνιάς addresses Artemis at XXXVI.12 amid woodland, hound, and shifting-form epithets. It supplies a place-related designation without explaining the connection in the verse. That local association should not be expanded into a particular cult narrative from the name alone.

Places to read

  1. Hymn XXXVI · Line 12Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

Κυδωνιάς

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. XXXVI.12