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The "Orphic" gold tablets and Greek religion : further along the path / edited by Radcliffe G. Edmonds.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Original language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (x, 385 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780511729447
  • 0511729448
  • 9780511726149
  • 0511726147
  • 0511730217
  • 9780511730214
  • 9780511727542
  • 0511727542
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: "Orphic" gold tablets and Greek religion.DDC classification:
  • 292.08 22
LOC classification:
  • Z110.T2 O77 2010eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Who are you? A brief history of the scholarship ; "Orphic" gold tablets : texts and translations, with critical apparatus and tables / Radcliffe G. Edmonds III -- Text and ritual : the corpus eschatologicum of the Orphics / Fritz Graf -- Are the "Orphic gold leaves Orphic? / Alberto Bernabé, Ana Il Jiménez San Cristóbal -- "A child of earth am I and of starry heaven" : concerning the anthropology of the Orphic gold tablets / Hans Dieter Betz [ translated Maria Sturm] -- Common motifs in the "Orphic" B tablets and Egyptian funerary texts : continuity or convergence? / Thomas M. Dousa -- Center, periphery, or peripheral center : a Cretan connection for the gold lamellae of Crete / Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos -- Funerary gold lamellae and Orphic papyrus commentaries : same use, different purpose / Claude Calame [ translated Sarah Melker] -- Initiation, death, underworld : narrative and ritual in the gold leaves / Christoph Riedweg -- Sacred scripture or oracles for the dead? The semiotic situation of the "Orphic" gold tablets / Radcliffe G. Edmonds III -- Dialogues of immortality from the Iliad to the gold leaves / Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui -- Poetry and performance in the Orphic gold leaves / Dirk Obbink -- Rushing into milk : new perspectives on the gold tablets / Christopher A. Faraone.
Summary: Examines new methodologies used in the study of these tablets. Includes an updated edition and translation of the tablet texts.

Includes bibliographical reference and index.

Print version record.

Who are you? A brief history of the scholarship ; "Orphic" gold tablets : texts and translations, with critical apparatus and tables / Radcliffe G. Edmonds III -- Text and ritual : the corpus eschatologicum of the Orphics / Fritz Graf -- Are the "Orphic gold leaves Orphic? / Alberto Bernabé, Ana Il Jiménez San Cristóbal -- "A child of earth am I and of starry heaven" : concerning the anthropology of the Orphic gold tablets / Hans Dieter Betz [ translated Maria Sturm] -- Common motifs in the "Orphic" B tablets and Egyptian funerary texts : continuity or convergence? / Thomas M. Dousa -- Center, periphery, or peripheral center : a Cretan connection for the gold lamellae of Crete / Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos -- Funerary gold lamellae and Orphic papyrus commentaries : same use, different purpose / Claude Calame [ translated Sarah Melker] -- Initiation, death, underworld : narrative and ritual in the gold leaves / Christoph Riedweg -- Sacred scripture or oracles for the dead? The semiotic situation of the "Orphic" gold tablets / Radcliffe G. Edmonds III -- Dialogues of immortality from the Iliad to the gold leaves / Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui -- Poetry and performance in the Orphic gold leaves / Dirk Obbink -- Rushing into milk : new perspectives on the gold tablets / Christopher A. Faraone.

Includes text in ancient Greek with English translation.

Examines new methodologies used in the study of these tablets. Includes an updated edition and translation of the tablet texts.