'Orphic' Gold Tablets and Greek Religion (eBook, PDF)

Further along the Path
Redaktion: Edmonds, Radcliffe G.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The 'Orphic' gold tablets, tiny scraps of gold foil found in graves throughout the ancient Greek world, are some of the most fascinating and baffling pieces of evidence for ancient Greek religion. This collection brings together a number of previously published and unpublished studies from scholars around the world, making accessible to a wider audience some of the new methodologies being applied to the study of these tablets. The volume also contains an updated edition of the tablet texts, reflecting the most recent discoveries and accompanied by English translations and critical apparatus. This survey of trends in the scholarship, with an up-to-date bibliography, not only provides an introduction to the serious study of the tablets, but also illuminates their place within scholarship on ancient Greek religion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511730900
• Artikelnr.: 38214355

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Part I. The Tablet Texts: 1. Who
are you? A brief history of the scholarship Radcliffe G. Edmonds III; 2.
The 'Orphic' gold tablets - texts and translations, with critical apparatus
and tables Radcliffe G. Edmonds III; Part II. Texts and Contexts: 3. Text
and ritual: the corpus eschatologicum of the Orphics Fritz Graf; 4. Are the
Orphic gold leaves Orphic? Alberto Bernabé and Ana Jiménez San Cristobal;
5. 'A Child Of Earth Am I And Of Starry Heaven' concerning the anthropology
of man in the Orphic gold tablets Hans Dieter Betz (translated by Maria
Sturm); 6. Common motifs in the 'Orphic' B tablets and Egyptian funerary
texts: continuity or convergence? Thomas M. Dousa; 7. Centre, periphery, or
peripheral centre: a Cretan connection for the gold lamellae of Crete
Yannis Tzifopoulos; Part III. Semiotic and Narrative Analyses: 8. 'Orphic'
invocations and commentaries: funerary transpositions of religious
discourse Claude Calame (translated by Sarah Melker); 9. Initiation - death
- underworld: narrative and ritual in the gold leaves Christoph Riedweg;
10. Sacred scripture or oracles for the dead: the semiotic situation of the
'Orphic' gold tablets Radcliffe G. Edmonds III; 11. Dialogues of
immortality from the Iliad to the golden leaves Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui;
12. Poetry and performance in the Orphic gold leaves Dirk Obbink; 13.
Rushing into milk: new perspectives on the gold tablets Christopher
Faraone; Index; Index locorum; Bibliography of scholarship on the tablets.