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Author : Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107038219
In a paradigm shift, this book redefines Orphism as a polemical label for extra-ordinary religion, good or bad.
Author : Radcliffe G. Edmonds (III)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Cults
ISBN : 1461953804
This book examines the fragmentary and contradictory evidence for Orpheus as the author of rites and poems to redefine Orphism as a label applied polemically to extra-ordinary religious phenomena. Replacing older models of an Orphic religion, this richer and more complex model provides insight into the boundaries of normal and abnormal Greek religion. The study traces the construction of the category of 'Orphic' from its first appearances in the Classical period, through the centuries of philosophical and religious polemics, especially in the formation of early Christianity and again in the debates over the origins of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A paradigm shift in the study of Greek religion, this study provides scholars of classics, early Christianity, ancient religion and philosophy with a new model for understanding the nature of ancient Orphism, including ideas of afterlife, cosmogony, sacred scriptures, rituals of purification and initiation, and exotic mythology. -- Provided by publisher.
Author : Radcliffe G. Edmonds (III)
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691156934
One of the foremost experts on magic, religion, and the occult in the ancient world provides an unparalleled exploration of magic in the Greco-Roman world, giving insight into the shifting ideas of religion and the divine in the ancient past and in the later Western tradition.
Author : Anthi Chrysanthou
Publisher : ISSN
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110778092
This book offers a concise whole-encompassing definition of Orphism through bringing together all of its main components in a single study, highlighting both parallels and divergences between the Gold Tablets, the Derveni Papyrus and the Orphic Rhap
Author : Alberto Bernabé,Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui,Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal,Raquel Martín Hernández
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110301328
This book contributes to the understanding of Dionysos, the Greek god of wine, dancing, theatre and ecstasy, by putting together 30 studies of classical scholars. They combine the analysis of specific instances of particular dimensions of the god in cult, myth, literature and iconography, with general visions of Dionysos in antiquity and modern times. Only from the combination of different perspectives can we grasp the complex personality of Dionysos, and the forms of his presence in different cults, literary genres, and artistic forms, from Mycenaean times to late antiquity. The ways in which Dionysos was experienced may vary in each author, each cult, and each genre in which this god is involved. Therefore, instead of offering a new all-encompassing theory that would immediately become partial, the book narrows the focus on specific aspects of the god. Redefinition does not mean finding (again) the essence of the god, but obtaining a more nuanced knowledge of the ways he was experienced and conceived in antiquity.
Author : Alberto Bernabé,Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047423744
The book presents a complete edition of the texts, their translation and some fundamental keys for their interpretation, in an attempt at updating our current knowledge on Orphic ideas about the soul and the Afterlife stated in those texts
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004375963
Round Trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean Tradition explores the theme of visits to the underworld in the ancient Greek and Byzantine traditions from a broad perspective including written sources, iconography and archaeology.
Author : Radcliffe G. Edmonds,Radcliffe G. Edmonds (III)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521518314
Examines new methodologies used in the study of these tablets. Includes an updated edition and translation of the tablet texts.
Author : Radcliffe G. Edmonds, III
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1107407303
Plato, Aristophanes, and the creators of the "Orphic" gold tablets employ the traditional tale of a journey to the realm of the dead to redefine, within the mythic narrative, the boundaries of their societies. Rather than being the relics of a faded ritual tradition or the products of Orphic influence, these myths can only reveal their meanings through this detailed analysis of the specific ways in which each author makes use of the tradition.
Author : Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110376999
The ancient Mysteries have long attracted the interest of scholars, an interest that goes back at least to the time of the Reformation. After a period of interest around the turn of the twentieth century, recent decades have seen an important study of Walter Burkert (1987). Yet his thematic approach makes it hard to see how the actual initiation into the Mysteries took place. To do precisely that is the aim of this book. It gives a ‘thick description’ of the major Mysteries, not only of the famous Eleusinian Mysteries, but also those located at the interface of Greece and Anatolia: the Mysteries of Samothrace, Imbros and Lemnos as well as those of the Corybants. It then proceeds to look at the Orphic-Bacchic Mysteries, which have become increasingly better understood due to the many discoveries of new texts in the recent times. Having looked at classical Greece we move on to the Roman Empire, where we study not only the lesser Mysteries, which we know especially from Pausanias, but also the new ones of Isis and Mithras. We conclude our book with a discussion of the possible influence of the Mysteries on emerging Christianity. Its detailed references and up-to-date bibliography will make this book indispensable for any scholar interested in the Mysteries and ancient religion, but also for those scholars who work on initiation or esoteric rituals, which were often inspired by the ancient Mysteries.
Author : Dwayne A. Meisner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780190663520
"Orphic Tradition and the Birth of the Gods is a literary history that attempts to reconstruct the fragments of four theogonies that were attributed to the legendary singer Orpheus: the Derveni, Eudemian, Hieronyman, and Rhapsodic Theogonies. Most modern scholars have described these poems as if they were similar to Hesiod's Theogony—lengthy chronological accounts of the births of the gods from the beginning of time to the present—but this book suggests that a better model for understanding how these poems were composed is to see each of them as an individual product of bricolage (as explained by Claude Lévi-Strauss), rather than as items in the stemma of a static manuscript tradition (as reconstructed by Martin West). The Orphic tradition was more fluid and fragmented than modern reconstructions would lead one to believe, but in these four Orphic theogonies certain features stand out, such as points of comparison with Near Eastern myths, the continuous discourse between Orphic poetry and philosophy, and speculations on the nature of the gods in ways that generated unique deities and new narratives. A study of Orphic theogonies reveals that the Orphic myths of Phanes and Zeus were no less important than the Orphic myth of Dionysus"--
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004428010
Christian Teachers in Second-Century Rome situates second-century Christian teachers such as Marcion, Justin, Valentinus and others in the social and intellectual context of the Roman urban environment, placing their teaching and textual activity in the midst of physicians, philosophers, and other religious experts.
Author : Cornelia Isler-Kerényi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004144453
An interpretation of the god Dionysos as seen by Greek vase painters before the golden age of classical culture, which will help understand his wide popularity beyond wine consumption, which lasted until the end of antiquity.
Author : Theokritos Kouremenos,George M. Parássoglou,K. Tsantsanoglou
Publisher : Olschki
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UVA:X030086919
Author : Irene Polinskaya
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004262089
This book provides the first comprehensive and detailed study of the deities and cults of the important Greek island-state of Aigina from the Geometric to Classical periods (800-400 BCE). It rests on a thorough first-hand reconsideration of the archaeological, epigraphic and literary evidence. The development of the local cults is reconstructed, along with their interrelationships and how they responded to the social needs of the Aiginetans. Revising other recent models of interpretation, the author proposes a distinctive approach, informed by anthropology and social theory, to the study of the religious life of the ancient Greeks. On this basis, she uses the case of Aigina to explore fundamental issues such as the nature and variety of local religious worlds and their relationship to the panhellenic concepts and practices of Greek religion.
