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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- Kypris; the Cyprian Aphrodite
Meaning
Kypris is the goddess whose mother is the sea at XXII.7, whose sweet shoot is Adonis at LVI.8, and whose desire offers Ares an alternative to fighting at LXV.7. III.2 is more surprising: the speaker proposes also to call Night Kypris. That explicit act of naming belongs to Night’s generative description, not to a rule that every occurrence of either name is interchangeable.
Places to read
- Hymn III · Line 2Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
Κύπριδος; Κύπριν
Occurrence inventory
4 in total. III.2; XXII.7; LVI.8; LXV.7