Instructions for the netherworld: the Orphic gold tablets
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Main Authors: Bernabé Pajares, Alberto 1946- (Author), Jiménez San Cristóbal, Ana Isabel (Author)
Other Authors: Olmos, Sara (Illustrator), Chase, Michael (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Greek
Spanish
Published: Leiden ; Boston Brill 2008
Series:Religions in the Graeco-Roman world Volume 162
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Preface to the English Edition; Introduction; Chapter One. Arrival in the Subterranean World (The Tablets from Hipponion, Entella, Petelia and Pharsalus and the Reduced Versions, L 1-6); Chapter Two. A Ritual for the Dead: The Tablets from Pelinna (L 7ab); Chapter Three. Best Wishes for Accompanying the Soul to the Other World: A Tablet from Thurii (L 8); Chapter Four. Before Persephone: More Tablets from Thurii (L 9-10ab); Chapter Five. A Tablet in Imperial Rome (L 11); Chapter Six. A "Word Search Puzzle" for Deceiving Non-Initiates: The "Great" Tablet from Thurii (L 12)
Orphic gold tables are key documents for the knowledge of rites and beliefs of Orphics, an atypical group that configured a highly original creed and that influenced powerfully over other Greek writers and thinkers. This book presents their translation and some fundamental keys for their interpretation
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 379 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9047423747
9789047423744

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