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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- beast-killing
Meaning
Artemis is beast-killing at XXXVI.9, an active hunting epithet among her divine descriptions. The noun θήρ supplies the kind of creature involved, while the compound adds killing. This differs from being merely beast-shaped or fond of animals, even when such descriptions coexist in the wider vocabulary.
Places to read
- Hymn XXXVI · Line 9Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
θηροκτόνος
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. XXXVI.9