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.

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Bernabé Pajares, Alberto

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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

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9047423747
9789047423744

Uniform titles:

Instrucciones para el mas allá. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Instructions for the netherworld.DDC classification:

292.9 22 22

LOC classification:

BL820.B2 B4713 2008eb

Other classification:

18.43

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Contents:

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).

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the Spanish with text in English and Greek.

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.