Instructions for the Netherworld: The Orphic Gold Tablets (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World) - Hardcover

Bernabé, Alberto; Jiménez San Cristóbal, Ana Isabel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004163719 ISBN 13: 9789004163713

Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2007

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The book presents a complete edition of the texts, their translation and some fundamental keys for their interpretation, in an attempt at updating our current knowledge on Orphic ideas about the soul and the Afterlife stated in those texts

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Alberto Bernabé, Ph. D. (1973) in Classical Philology, University Complutense, Madrid, is Professor of Ancient Greek at the same University. He has published extensively on Orphic Texts including the edition of the Orphic Testimonies and Fragments in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana (2004-2005).
Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal, Ph. D. (2002) in Classical Philology, University Complutense, Madrid, is Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek at the same University. She has published extensively on Orphic Texts including her Ph. D. and published Rituales órficos (Universidad Complutense, 2002).

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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 points of view and a review ofthe different hypothesis proposed about them. The book presents a complete edition of the texts, their translation and some fundamental keys for their interpretation, in an attempt at updating our current knowledge on Orphic ideas about the soul and the Afterlife stated in those texts. The work is improved with an appendix of iconographic annotations in which some plastic representations in drawings are reproduced related to the universe of tablets, selected and commented on by Ricardo Olmos.

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• Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9004163719
• ISBN 13: 9789004163713
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 380
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