Fritz Graf, Sarah Johnston, Sarah Iles Johnston

Ritual Texts for the Afterlife

Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Fascinating texts written on small gold tablets that were deposited in graves provide a unique source of information about what some Greeks and Romans believed regarding the fate that awaited them after death, and how they could influence it. These texts, dating from the late fifth century BCE to the second century CE, have been part of the scholarly debate on ancient afterlife beliefs since the end of the nineteenth century. Recent finds and analysis of the texts have reshaped our understanding of their purpose and of the perceived afterlife.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780415508025
• ISBN-10: 0415508029
• Artikelnr.: 36265024

Autorenporträt

Graf, Fritz; Johnston, Sarah; Graf, Fritz; Johnston, Sarah Iles

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
1 The tablets: An edition and translation
Concordance
2 A history of scholarship on the tablets
3 The myth of Dionysus
4 The eschatology behind the tablets
5 Dionysiac mystery cults and the Gold Tablets
6 Orpheus
his poetry
and sacred texts
Appendix 1: Orphism in the twenty-first century
Appendix 2: The tablets from Pherae
Appendix 3: The tablets from Roman Palestine
Appendix 4: Additional Bacchic texts
1 The Olbia bone tablets
2 Bacchic inscriptions from Olbia
3 The Gurôb Papyrus
4 The Edict of Ptolemy IV Philopator
Notes
Bibliography
Subject index
Index of ancient texts