🏛️ Hymn 40 - THE CERALIAN MOTHER [METER ANTAIA]

Ceralian [Antaia] queen, of celebrated name, from whom both men, and Gods immortal came; Who widely wand'ring once, oppress'd with grief, in Eleusina's valley found'st relief, Discovering Proserpine [Persephone] thy daughter pure in dread Avernus [Aides], dismal and obscure;

A sacred youth while thro' the world you stray Bacchus [Dysaulos], attending leader of the way; The holy marriage of terrestrial Jove [Zeus Khthonios] relating, while oppress'd with grief you rove;

Come, much invok'd, and to these rites inclin'd, thy mystic suppliant bless, with fav'ring mind. SEARCH THEOI CLASSICAL TEXTS LIBRARY Aeschylus, Agamemnon Aeschylus, Eumenides Aeschylus, Libation Bearers Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes Aeschylus, Suppliant Women Aeschylus, Fragments Alcman, Fragments Apollodorus, The Library Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica Aratus of Soli, Phaenomena Bion, Poems Callimachus, Hymns Callistratus, Descriptions Claudian, Gigantomachia Claudian, Rape of Proserpine Clement, Exhortation to the Greeks Clement, Recognitions Colluthus, Rape of Helen Dares Phrygius Dictys Cretensis Diodorus Siculus, Library of History Epic Cycle Fragments Fulgentius, Mythologies Greek Lyric Fragments Hesiod, Shield of Heracles Hesiod, Theogony Hesiod, Works and Days Hesiod, Fragments Homer, Iliad Homer, Odyssey Homeric Hymns Hyginus, Astronomica Hyginus, Fabulae Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods Lycophron, Alexandra Moschus, Poems Nonnus, Dionysiaca Orphic Hymns Ovid, Fasti Ovid, Heroides Ovid, Metamorphoses Parthenius, Love Romances Pattern Poems Pausanias, Description of Greece Philostratus the Elder, Imagines Philostratus the Younger, Imagines Plutarch, Life of Theseus Plutarch, Parallel Stories Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy Seneca, Agamemnon Seneca, Hercules Furens Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus Seneca, Medea Seneca, Oedipus Seneca, Phaedra Seneca, Phoenissae Seneca, Thyestes Seneca, Troades Statius, Achilleid Statius, Thebaid Theocritus, Idylls Tryphiodorus, Taking of Ilios Tzetzes, Chiliades Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica Virgil, Aeneid Virgil, Eclogues Virgil, Georgics RECENT ARTICLES Who Was Achilles A Warrior? What Were The 12 Labors of Hercules? Gods, Spirits & Monsters A - Z Theoi Project © Copyright 2000 - 2017 Aaron J.

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