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Author : Edward Jenner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0994137656
The Gold Leaves is a study of ancient (c.400BC-300AD) verses, often fragmentary, incised on fragile gold leaves that have been found (and continue to be found) buried in graves and tombs in the culturally Greek parts of the Mediterranean world.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Yulia Ustinova
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351581264
‘Our greatest blessings come to us by way of mania, provided it is given us by divine gift,’ – says Socrates in Plato’s Phaedrus. Certain forms of alteration of consciousness, considered to be inspired by supernatural forces, were actively sought in ancient Greece. Divine mania comprises a fascinating array of diverse experiences: numerous initiates underwent some kind of alteration of consciousness during mystery rites; sacred officials and inquirers attained revelations in major oracular centres; possession states were actively sought; finally, some thinkers, such as Pythagoras and Socrates, probably practiced manipulation of consciousness. These experiences, which could be voluntary or involuntary, intense or mild, were interpreted as an invasive divine power within one’s mind, or illumination granted by a super-human being. Greece was unique in its attitude to alteration of consciousness. From the perspective of individual and public freedom, the prominent position of the divine mania in Greek society reflects its acceptance of the inborn human proclivity to experience alteration of consciousness, interpreted in positive terms as god-sent. These mental states were treated with cautious respect, and in contrast to the majority of complex societies, ancient and modern, were never suppressed or pushed to the cultural and social periphery.
Author : Edward Jenner
Publisher : Atuanui Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Dionysia
ISBN : 0992245370
"The Gold Leaves is a study of ancient (c.400BC-300AD) verses, often fragmentary, incised on fragile gold leaves that have been found (and continue to be found) buried in graves and tombs in the culturally Greek parts of the Mediterranean world. These leaves have been placed carefully, perhaps on the chest, or in the mouth or in the hand, of the body. The leaves are messages designed to guide the souls of the dead on their journey to immortality and paradise. With this book Jenner aims to bring the Leaves to the attention of the reader who has no background in the Classics or ancient Greek but shares an interest in pre-Christian ideas about the soul, the Underworld and the afterlife." --Publisher's description.
Author : Radcliffe G. Edmonds,Radcliffe G. Edmonds (III)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110299557
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 : Alberto Bernabé,Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : Glenn W. Most
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780192668431
Studies on the Derveni Papyrus, volume II brings together two new editions of the first fragmentarily extant columns of the Derveni Papyrus and seven scholarly articles devoted to their interpretation. The Derveni Papyrus is by far the most important textual discovery of the 20th century regarding early Greek philosophy, religion, exegetical theory and practice, linguistic ideas, and a host of other areas and issues. But the editorial and interpretative history of this extraordinary document has been very checkered. While the interpretation of the better preserved later columns is still highly controversial in many regards, at least the text of those columns has by and large found a scholarly consensus; but the editorial and interpretative situation with the worse preserved first columns is quite different. This volume offers not one but two editions of the first columns, by Richard Janko and by Valeria Piano, given that it is not currently possible to agree upon a single edition; and it explains clearly and in detail the papyrological problems and doubts that lead to these two editions, making it possible for readers (even non-papyrologists) to form their own informed judgment about the most likely readings to be adopted. Furthermore, it contains a number of articles by leading scholars on the Derveni Papyrus, above all offering original solutions to the question of the relation between the earlier and the later columns, but also providing analysis and interpretation of other, related problems.
Author : Jitse Dijkstra,Justin Kroesen,Yme Kuiper
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004193659
This volume in honour of Jan N. Bremmer consists of a variety of contributions offering a broad spectrum of original ideas and innovative approaches in the history of religions both past and present, thus reflecting the nature of the scholarship of Bremmer himself.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421408811
The best-selling English translation of the mysterious and cosmic Greek poetry known as the Orphic Hymns. At the very beginnings of the Archaic Age, the great singer Orpheus taught a new religion that centered around the immortality of the human soul and its journey after death. He felt that achieving purity by avoiding meat and refraining from committing harm further promoted the pursuit of a peaceful life. Elements of the worship of Dionysus, such as shape-shifting and ritualistic ecstasy, were fused with Orphic beliefs to produce a powerful and illuminating new religion that found expression in the mystery cults. Practitioners of this new religion composed a great body of poetry, much of which is translated in The Orphic Hymns. The hymns presented in this book were anonymously composed somewhere in Asia Minor, most likely in the middle of the third century AD. At this turbulent time, the Hellenic past was fighting for its survival, while the new Christian faith was spreading everywhere. The Orphic Hymns thus reflect a pious spirituality in the form of traditional literary conventions. The hymns themselves are devoted to specific divinities as well as to cosmic elements. Prefaced with offerings, strings of epithets invoke the various attributes of the divinity and prayers ask for peace and health to the initiate. Apostolos N. Athanassakis and Benjamin M. Wolkow have produced an accurate and elegant translation accompanied by rich commentary.
Author : Fritz Graf,Sarah Iles Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134119677
Fascinating texts written on small gold tablets that were deposited in graves provide a unique source of information about what some Greeks and Romans believed regarding the fate that awaited them after death, and how they could influence it. These texts, dating from the late fifth century BCE to the second century CE, have been part of the scholarly debate on ancient afterlife beliefs since the end of the nineteenth century. Recent finds and analysis of the texts have reshaped our understanding of their purpose and of the perceived afterlife. The tablets belonged to those who had been initiated into the mysteries of Dionysus Bacchius and relied heavily upon myths narrated in poems ascribed to the mythical singer Orpheus. After providing the Greek text and a translation of all the available tablets, the authors analyze their role in the mysteries of Dionysus, and present an outline of the myths concerning the origins of humanity and of the sacred texts that the Greeks ascribed to Orpheus. Related ancient texts are also appended in English translations. Providing the first book-length edition and discussion of these enigmatic texts in English, and their first English translation, this book is essential to the study of ancient Greek religion.
Author : Indogermanische Gesellschaft. Kolloquium
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Anatolian languages
ISBN : UOM:39015053758341
Author : Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Theokritos Kouremenos,George M. Parássoglou,K. Tsantsanoglou
Publisher : Olschki
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UVA:X030086919
