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HYMEN, or HYMENAEUS

This article appears in Volume V14, Page 177 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HOR-I25
HYMEN, or HYMENAEUS , originally the name of the song sung at marriages among the Greeks. As usual the name gradually produced the
idea
  of an actual person whose adventures gave rise to the custom of this song. He occurs often in association with
Linus
  and Ialemus, who represent similar personifications, and is generally called a son of Apollo and a Muse. As the son of Dionysus and Aphrodite, he was regarded as a god of fruitfulness. In Attic
legend
  he was a beautiful youth who, being in love with a girl, followed her in a procession to Eleusis disguised as a woman, and saved the whole band from pirates. As reward
he obtained the girl in
marriage
 , and his happy married
life
  caused him ever afterwards to be invoked in
marriage
  songs (Servius on Virgil, Aen. i. 651). According to another story, he was a youth who was killed by the fall of his
house
  on his
wedding
  day; hence he was invoked to propitiate him and avert a similar fate from others (Servius, loc. cit.). He is represented in works of art as an effeminate-looking, winged youth, carrying a bridal torch and wearing a nuptial veil. The marriage song was sung, with musical accompaniment, during the procession of the
bride
  from her parents'
house
  to that of the bridegroom, Hymenaeus being invoked at the end of each portion.
See R. Schmidt, De Hymenaeo et Talasio (1886), and J. A. Hild in Daremberg and Saglis's Dictionnaire des antiquites.


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