Ritual texts for the afterlife : Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets / Fritz Graf and Sarah Iles Johnston.
By: Graf, Fritz
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Contributor(s): Johnston, Sarah Iles.
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007Description: x, 246 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0415415500 (hbk.); 9780415415507 (hbk.); 0415415519 (pbk.); 9780415415514 (pbk.).Subject(s): Future life | Orpheus (Greek mythology) | Dionysus (Greek deity) | Greece -- ReligionDDC classification: 292.8/5 Online resources: Table of contents only
Contents:
The tablets: an edition and translation -- A history of scholarship on the tablets -- The myth of Dionysus -- The eschatology behind the tablets -- Dionysiac mystery cults and the Gold Tablets -- Orpheus, his poetry, and sacred texts.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-233) and indexes.
The tablets: an edition and translation -- A history of scholarship on the tablets -- The myth of Dionysus -- The eschatology behind the tablets -- Dionysiac mystery cults and the Gold Tablets -- Orpheus, his poetry, and sacred texts.
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