Orpheus Tr Thomas Taylor — Source Library

Orpheus

fl. 15–1885

A legendary Greek musician and prophet whose Orphic Hymns and mythic descent into the underworld were central to the development of Renaissance natural magic and prisca theologia.

Also known as: Orpheos · Orpheus; Proclus · Orpheus; Proclus; Musaeus; Homer · Orpheus; Homer; Callimachus · Orpheus (ed. Gottfried Hermann) · Orpheus; tr. Thomas Taylor · Orpheus (ed. Eugen Abel)

7 worksGreek, English

Bibliography

Title	Year	Language	Publisher	Pages
Orphic Hymns, Orphic Argonautica & Hymns of ProclusOrphei Hymni, Orphei Argonautica, Procli Hymni	1450	Greek	—	230done
Orphic Hymns & Proclus Hymns — 15th-Century ManuscriptArgonautica Orphica, Orphic Hymns, Proclus Hymns (BPG 74 C)	1460	Greek	—	122done
Orphic PoemsFirst TranslationOrphei Carmina	1500	Greek	Ant. perrer canus (Florence)	148done
Orphic and Homeric HymnsHymnes Orphiques et Hymnes Homériques (MS Grec 2763)	1560	Greek	—	69done
OrphicaOrphica (Hermann Critical Edition)	1805	Greek	Caspar Fritsch (Leipzig)	1030done
The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus (revised edition)	1824	English	—	278done
Orphica (Abel Edition, with Proclus Hymns & Hymn to Isis)First Translation	1885	Greek	G. Freytag (Leipzig \| Prague)	340done