Note 396 — Chapter IV · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE ORPHICI
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Orpheus is mentioned in the IVth Pythian ode as the “father of songs,” and in fragments of the Threnoi as “the golden-sworded son of Oiagreus,” p. 116 (Bergk). In the VIth Isthmian ode, Dionysos is made the temple-companion or assessor (πάρεδρος) of Demeter. The delights of the blessed dead are set forth in fragments of the Threnoi (see Fragment X. 1, 2, 3, 4 of Teubner, pp. 95, 96, Cod. Boeckh); their reincarnation as heroes in a fragment from the same poem: ibid. Frag. X. 4, p. 98, Cod. Bö.