Radcliffe G. Edmonds III is Professor and Chair of the Department of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. He is author of Myths of the Underworld Journey: Plato, Aristophanes, and the 'Orphic' Gold Tablets (2004) and editor of The 'Orphic' Gold Tablets and Greek Religion: Further along the Path (2011).
Inhaltsangabe
Part I. Introduction: Definitions Old and New: 1. The name of Orpheus 2. Orphism through the ages: a history of scholarship 3. The problem of definition Part II. Orphic Scriptures or the Vaporings of Many Books?: 4. Orphic textuality: a hubbub of books 5. Orphic Hieroi Logoi: sacred texts for the rites 6. Orphic mythology: the content of Orphic poems Part III. Orphic Doctrines or the Pure from the Pure?: 7. Orphic purity: piety or superstition? 8. Life in the afterlife: the initiates' privilege and the mythic tradition 9. Original sin or ancestral crimes: Zagreus and the concern with purification 10. Conclusions: redefining ancient Orphism.
Part I. Introduction: Definitions Old and New: 1. The name of Orpheus 2. Orphism through the ages: a history of scholarship 3. The problem of definition Part II. Orphic Scriptures or the Vaporings of Many Books?: 4. Orphic textuality: a hubbub of books 5. Orphic Hieroi Logoi: sacred texts for the rites 6. Orphic mythology: the content of Orphic poems Part III. Orphic Doctrines or the Pure from the Pure?: 7. Orphic purity: piety or superstition? 8. Life in the afterlife: the initiates' privilege and the mythic tradition 9. Original sin or ancestral crimes: Zagreus and the concern with purification 10. Conclusions: redefining ancient Orphism.
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