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Hello and welcome to my userpage!![]() Hello, editors. I like quotes. "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" Albert EinsteinHeptanitrocubane is my nickname. Quotes"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limit." Albert Einstein "Believe you can and you're halfway there." Theodore Roosevelt "Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." George Woodberry "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." Benjamin Franklin "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." David Brinkley "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas Edison "If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." Napoleon Hill
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Today's Featured Article![]() Magic tablet from Pergamon The Orphic Hymns are a collection of 87 hymns in ancient Greek, addressed to various deities. Attributed in antiquity to the mythical poet Orpheus, they were composed in Asia Minor (in modern-day Turkey), most likely around the 2nd or 3rd centuries AD, and seem to have belonged to a cult community which used them in ritual. The collection is preceded by a proem (or prologue) in which Orpheus addresses the legendary poet Musaeus. The hymns in the collection, all of which are brief, typically call for the attention of the deity they address, describing them and their divinity, and appealing to them with a request. The first codex containing the Orphic Hymns to reach Western Europe arrived in Italy in the first half of the 15th century, and in 1500 the first printed edition of the Hymns was published in Florence. During the Renaissance, some scholars believed that the hymns were a genuine work of Orpheus; later, a more sceptical wave of scholarship argued for a dating in late antiquity. (Full article...)
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