god
Hymenaeus
Hymen
also: Hymenaeon
God of weddings, invoked in the marriage-hymn ('Hymenaeon') sung at the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodame.
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §1.2 led the Hymenaeon
Hymenaeus, god of marriage, invoked by the wedding-cry 'Hymen'; Ovid recalls having sung the marriage-song at the wedding of Fabius Maximus.
- Metamorphoses §12.363 the wedding-hymn
God of weddings, invoked in the marriage-hymn ('Hymenaeon') at Pirithous's feast.