Redefining Ancient Orphism
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Redefining Ancient Orphism
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Author : Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-07
Redefining Ancient Orphism written by Radcliffe G. Edmonds III and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-07 with History categories.
In a paradigm shift, this book redefines Orphism as a polemical label for extra-ordinary religion, good or bad.
Redefining Ancient Orphism
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Author : Radcliffe G. Edmonds (III)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Redefining Ancient Orphism written by Radcliffe G. Edmonds (III) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Cults categories.
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.
Drawing Down The Moon
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Author : Radcliffe G. Edmonds (III)
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2019-07-02
Drawing Down The Moon written by Radcliffe G. Edmonds (III) and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-02 with History categories.
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.
The Orphic Gold Tablets And Greek Religion
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Author : Radcliffe G. Edmonds
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-01-06
The Orphic Gold Tablets And Greek Religion written by Radcliffe G. Edmonds and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-06 with History categories.
Examines new methodologies used in the study of these tablets. Includes an updated edition and translation of the tablet texts.
Redefining Dionysos
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Author : Alberto Bernabé
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2013-06-26
Redefining Dionysos written by Alberto Bernabé and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-26 with History categories.
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 booknarrows 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.
Tracing Orpheus
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Author : Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-12-08
Tracing Orpheus written by Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
There is hardly a more controversial issue in the study of ancient religion than Orphism. More than two centuries of debate have not closed the subject, since new evidence and divergent approaches have kept appearing regularly. This volume sheds light on the most relevant pieces of evidence for ancient Orphism, collected in the recent edition by Alberto Bernabé. It contains 65 short new studies on Orphic fragments by leading international scholars who comment one of the most controversial phenomena in Antiquity from a plurality of perspectives. Readers will acquire a global vision of the multiple dimensions of the Orphic tradition, as well as many new insights into particular Orphic fragments.
Round Trip To Hades In The Eastern Mediterranean Tradition
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-08-13
Round Trip To Hades In The Eastern Mediterranean Tradition written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-13 with History categories.
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.
Instructions For The Netherworld
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Author : Alberto Bernabé
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2008-01-30
Instructions For The Netherworld written by Alberto Bernabé and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-30 with History categories.
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
Orphic Tradition And The Birth Of The Gods
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Author : Dwayne A. Meisner
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
Orphic Tradition And The Birth Of The Gods written by Dwayne A. Meisner and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Literary Collections categories.
"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"--
Christian Teachers In Second Century Rome
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-06-29
Christian Teachers In Second Century Rome written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-29 with Religion categories.
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.