Radcliffe G. Edmonds III (Pennsylvania Bryn Mawr College)

Redefining Ancient Orphism

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the fragmentary evidence for Orpheus as the author of rites and poems, redefining 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 678g
• ISBN-13: 9781108730075
• ISBN-10: 1108730078
• Artikelnr.: 54640448

Autorenporträt

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.