Instructions for the netherworld : the Orphic gold tablets /

Instructions for the netherworld : the Orphic gold tablets /

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. The recent discovery of some tablets has forced a noteworthy modification of some po...

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Main Author: Bernabé Pajares, Alberto.

Other Authors: Jiménez San Cristóbal, Ana Isabel., Olmos Romera, Ricardo., Olmos, Sara., Chase, Michael, 1959-

Format: eBook

Language: English
Greek
Spanish

Published: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 162.
Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Online, ISBN: 9789004299672.

Subjects:

Dionysia.
Tablets (Paleography)

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Call Number: BL820.B2 B4713 2008eb

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Materials /
  • A. Bernabé and Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal
  • Introduction /
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  • Chapter One. Arrival In The Subterranean World (The Tablets From Hipponion, Entella, Petelia And Pharsalus And The Reduced Versions, L 1-6) /
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  • Chapter Two. A Ritual For The Dead: The Tablets From Pelinna (L 7AB) /
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  • Chapter Three. Best Wishes For Accompanying The Soul To The Other World: A Tablet From Thurii (L 8) /
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  • Chapter Four. Before Persephone: More Tablets From Thurii (L 9-10AB) /
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  • Chapter Five. A Tablet In Imperial Rome (L 11) /
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  • Chapter Six. A "Word Search Puzzle" For Deceiving Non-Initiates: The "Great" Tablet From Thurii (L 12) /
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  • Chapter Seven. Passwords To Accede To The Meadow Of The Blessed And A Prayer To Persephone: The Tablets From Pherai (L 13 And 13a) /
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  • Chapter Eight. Other Tablets (L 14-16) /
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  • Chapter Nine. The Soul's Final Destiny. Results And Conclusions /
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  • Chapter Ten. The Central Question: Are The Gold Leaves Orphic? /
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  • Chapter Eleven. Parallels To The Tablets In Other Cultures /
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  • Chapter Twelve. Literary Questions: Characteristics, Models And Archetypes /
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  • Appendix I. Edition Of The Tablets /
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  • Appendix II. Iconographical Notes On The Orphic Tablets. Selection Of Illustrations And Commentaries By Ricardo Olmos. Drawings by Sara Olmos /
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  • Bibliography /
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  • Index Locorum /
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  • General Index /
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