Explained vocabulary

Wooded glen — νάπη

νάπη

napē

Athena delights her heart in νάπαι at XXXII.5, paired with shadowy mountains.

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
Wooded glen

Meaning

Athena delights her heart in νάπαι at XXXII.5, paired with shadowy mountains. The glen-word gives depth and vegetation to the landscape; it is not a separate name for the cave addressed elsewhere in her hymn.

Places to read

  1. Hymn XXXII · Line 5Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

νάπῃσί

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. XXXII.5

Lexical references

LSJ n69721 (n69721)