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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- leader of rites
Meaning
Dionysos and Silenos are addressed as leaders of rites (LII.3; LIV.4). Silenos's setting includes the thiasos, making leadership within a ritual company especially clear. The compound supplies a relation to τελετή, not evidence for importing a later philosophical hierarchy into either hymn.
Places to read
- Hymn LII · Line 3Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
τελετάρχα
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. LII.3; LIV.4