The Derveni papyrus : unearthing ancient mysteries /

The Derveni papyrus : unearthing ancient mysteries /

The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries is devoted to this fascinating and challenging document, discovered in 1962 in a tomb in Derveni, near Thessaloniki, and dated c. 340-320 BCE. It contains a text probably written at the end of 5th c. BCE, which after some reflections on minor divinit...

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Other Authors: Santamaría Álvarez, Marco Antonio (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Series: Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 36.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386266.

Subjects:

Derveni papyrus.
Dionysia.
Greece > Religion.

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Call Number: BL783

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Contributors
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction /
  • Marco Antonio Santamaría
  • Conservation and Restoration
  • Problems Pertaining to the Restoration, Conservation, and Reproduction of the Derveni Papyrus /
  • Roger T. Macfarlane and Gianluca Del Mastro
  • Reconstruction and Interpretation of the First Six Columns
  • Some Textual Issues on Column III (ed. Piano) /
  • Valeria Piano
  • Daimons in the Derveni Papyrus and in Early Stoicism /
  • Carlos Megino Rodríguez
  • The Orphic Poem
  • The Orphic Poem of the Derveni Papyrus and Hesiod's Theogony /
  • Marco Antonio Santamaría
  • Ζεὺς µοῦνος and Parmenides' What-is /
  • Chiara Ferella
  • The Interpretation of the Poem: Exegesis and Cosmogony
  • Misleading and Unclear to the Many: Allegory in the Derveni Papyrus and the Orphic Theogony of Hieronymus /
  • Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
  • The Sage Speaks in Riddles: Notes on Col. VII of the Derveni Papyrus /
  • Sofia Ranzato
  • The Commentary of the Derveni Papyrus: Pre-Socratic Cosmogonies at Work /
  • Alberto Bernabé
  • The Last Columns
  • Rites and Officiants in Col. XX of the Derveni Papyrus /
  • Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal
  • Aphrodite Urania and Uranus Euphronides in the Derveni Papyrus: A Semantic Genealogy /
  • Marisa Tortorelli Ghidini
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography of the Derveni Papyrus (1997-2018)
  • Index Locorum
  • Index Nominum et Rerum Notabiliorum
  • Index Verborum Graecorum.