Instructions for the netherworld : the Orphic gold tablets / by Alberto Bernabé, Ana Isabel Jimenez San Cristóbal ; with an iconographical appendix by Ricardo Olmos and illustrations by Sara Olmos ; translated by Michael Chase.
Material type: TextLanguage: English, Greek, Modern (1453- ) Original language: Spanish Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; 162.Publication details: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 379 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9047423747
- 9789047423744
- Instrucciones para el mas allá. English
- 292.9 22 22
- BL820.B2 B4713 2008eb
- 18.43
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translated from the Spanish with text in English and Greek.
Preface to the English Edition; Introduction; Chapter One. Arrival in the Subterranean World (The Tablets from Hipponion, Entella, Petelia and Pharsalus and the Reduced Versions, L 1-6); Chapter Two. A Ritual for the Dead: The Tablets from Pelinna (L 7ab); Chapter Three. Best Wishes for Accompanying the Soul to the Other World: A Tablet from Thurii (L 8); Chapter Four. Before Persephone: More Tablets from Thurii (L 9-10ab); Chapter Five. A Tablet in Imperial Rome (L 11); Chapter Six. A "Word Search Puzzle" for Deceiving Non-Initiates: The "Great" Tablet from Thurii (L 12).
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. This book presents their translation and some fundamental keys for their interpretation.
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