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====== Homeric Hymn to Dionysus ======

Hymn to Dionysus, The Homeric Hymns, translated by Hugh Gerard Evelyn-White (1874-1924), from the Loeb edition of 1914, now in the public domain, with thanks to www.theoi.com for making the text available on line. This text has 8 tagged references to 8 ancient places.

§ 1  ((lacuna)) . . . For some say, at Dracanum; and some, on windy Icarus; and some, in Naxos, O Heaven-born, Insewn; and others by the deep-eddying river Alpheus that pregnant Semele bare you to Zeus the thunder-lover. And others yet, lord, say you were born in Thebes; but all these lie. The Father of men and gods gave you birth remote from men and secretly from white-armed Hera. There is a certain Nysa, a mountain most high and richly grown with woods, far off in Phoenice, near the streams of Egyptus. ((lacuna)) . . .

Event Date: -1000 GR

§ 10  [Zeus speaking: ] ". . . and men will lay up for her many offerings in her shrines. And as these things are three, so shall mortals ever sacrifice perfect hecatombs to you at your feasts each three years." The Son of Cronos spoke and nodded with his dark brows. And the divine locks of the king flowed forward from his immortal head, and he made great Olympus reel. So spake wise Zeus and ordained it with a nod.

Event Date: -1000 GR

§ 17  Be favourable, O Insewn, Inspirer of frenzied women! we singers sing of you as we begin and as we end a strain, and none forgetting you may call holy song to mind. And so, farewell, Dionysus, Insewn, with your mother Semele whom men call Thyone.

Event Date: -1000 GR

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