Explained vocabulary

Queen of all — παμβασίλεια

παμβασίλεια

pambasileia

Nature, Rheia, Hera, Artemis, Health, Semele, and earth receive παμβασίλεια.

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
Queen of all

Meaning

Nature, Rheia, Hera, Artemis, Health, Semele, and earth receive παμβασίλεια. The word elevates the addressed figure’s sovereignty within the local hymn; applied to earth, it also personifies the domain called queen of all. It is the queen-title, not the differently accented abstract παμβασιλεία for absolute monarchy, and its repeated use does not establish one exclusive ruler over all others.

Places to read

  1. Hymn X · Line 16Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

παμβασίλεια; παμβασίλειαν

Occurrence inventory

9 in total. X.16; XI.2; XIV.7; XVI.2; XVI.9; XVIII.6; XXXVI.11; XLIV.1; LXVIII.1

Lexical references

LSJ παμβασίλεια2 (n77054)