Explained vocabulary

Tritogeneia — Τριτογένεια

Τριτογένεια

Tritogeneia

Athena is addressed as Tritogeneia at XXXII.13.

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
Tritogeneia

Meaning

Athena is addressed as Tritogeneia at XXXII.13. The title is printed without an accompanying derivation or explanatory birth narrative. Keeping the name as a title avoids presenting one proposed etymology as though the hymn itself had stated it.

Places to read

  1. Hymn XXXII · Line 13Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

Τριτογένεια

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. XXXII.13

Lexical references

LSJ Τριτογένεια (n105332)