Tracing Orpheus
Tracing Orpheus

Author: Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-12-08

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 3110260530

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There is hardly a more controversial issue in the study of ancient religion than Orphism. More than two centuries of debate have not closed the subject, since new evidence and divergent approaches have kept appearing regularly. This volume sheds light on the most relevant pieces of evidence for ancient Orphism, collected in the recent edition by Alberto Bernabé. It contains 65 short new studies on Orphic fragments by leading international scholars who comment one of the most controversial phenomena in Antiquity from a plurality of perspectives. Readers will acquire a global vision of the multiple dimensions of the Orphic tradition, as well as many new insights into particular Orphic fragments.

Orpheus and Greek Religion
Orpheus and Greek Religion

Author: William Keith Guthrie

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1993-10-10

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 0691024995

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The tales told of Orpheus are legion. He is said to have been an Argonaut--and to have saved Jason's life. Rivers are reported to have stopped their flow to listen to the sounds of his lyre and his voice. Plato cites his poetry and Herodotus refers to "practices that are called Orphic." Did Orpheus, in fact, exist? His influence on Greek thought is undeniable, but his disciples left little of substance behind them. Indeed, their Orphic precepts have been lost to time. W.K.C. Guthrie attempts to uncover and define Orphism by following its circuitous path through ancient history. He tackles this daunting task with the determination of a detective and the analytical rigor of a classical scholar. He ferries his readers with him on a singular voyage of discovery.

Redefining Ancient Orphism
Redefining Ancient Orphism

Author: Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-11-07

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1107038219

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In a paradigm shift, this book redefines Orphism as a polemical label for extra-ordinary religion, good or bad.

Redefining Ancient Orphism
Redefining Ancient Orphism

Author: Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-11-07

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1107512603

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This book examines the fragmentary and contradictory evidence for Orpheus as the author of rites and poems to redefine Orphism as a label applied polemically to extra-ordinary religious phenomena. Replacing older models of an Orphic religion, this richer and more complex model provides insight into the boundaries of normal and abnormal Greek religion. The study traces the construction of the category of 'Orphic' from its first appearances in the Classical period, through the centuries of philosophical and religious polemics, especially in the formation of early Christianity and again in the debates over the origins of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A paradigm shift in the study of Greek religion, this study provides scholars of classics, early Christianity, ancient religion and philosophy with a new model for understanding the nature of ancient Orphism, including ideas of afterlife, cosmogony, sacred scriptures, rituals of purification and initiation, and exotic mythology.

Defining Orphism
Defining Orphism

Author: Anthi Chrysanthou

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-04-20

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 3110678454

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The complex matter of Orphism has so far been addressed by scholars through studies focusing on one of its components each time, primarily the Derveni Papyrus and the Gold Tablets while the text of the Orphic Rhapsodies has remained under-examined mostly due to its fragmentary nature and the lack of a reconstruction. This book brings all of the major components of Orphism together in one study, in this way highlighting both parallels and divergences between them, and a wide range of non-Orphic sources referring to Orphic practices, beliefs and texts. For the complete analysis of the Orphic Rhapsodies a reconstruction of the text was necessary, which is included in this book along with a commentary and translation. This work proposes a new definition of Orphism and it can constitute a whole-encompassing and concise guide for scholars and students interested in Orphism. The reconstruction of the Orphic Rhapsodies could also contribute on shifting the understanding of this work to new perspectives as it demonstrates that the Orphic Rhapsodies was a more complex text rather than a single continuous theogonic narrative as has been approached up to this date.

Orphism
Orphism

Author: J. R. Watmough

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-04-02

Total Pages: 91

ISBN-13: 1107497426

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This book contains the Cromer Greek Prize-winning essay for 1934 on the subject of the still little-understood Greek religion Orphism. Watmough examines Orpheus and Orphism through a distinctly Protestant lens, arguing that both were religions 'of reform' sharing similar views on asceticism and the wages of sin in the afterlife.