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The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 29, 2025 by Wehwalt (talk) 10:12, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Magic tablet from Pergamon

The Orphic Hymns are a collection of eighty-seven ancient Greek hymns addressed to various deities, which were 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 individual hymns in the collection, all of which are brief, typically call for the attention of the deity they address, before describing them and highlighting aspects of their divinity, and then 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. (Full article...)

• Most recent similar article(s): I don't recall anything similar
• Main editors: Michael Aurel
• Promoted: April 2025
• Reasons for nomination: User's first FA, unusual topic, no serious date connection. The blurb will need work.
• Support as nominator. Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:37, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support as author. It's worth noting that this is the 525th year since the editio princeps (or first printed edition) of the Hymns was published, as noted in the last sentence of the blurb (though, seeing as we don't have the exact day of publication, this perhaps isn't of much significance here?). – Michael Aurel (talk) 21:59, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Support High quality historical article, and it can't easily be placed on a specific anniversary because the topic is so ancient. Harizotoh9 (talk) 01:24, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]