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| Instructions for the Netherworld: The Orphic Gold Tablets Contributor(s): Bernabé, Alberto (Author), Jiménez San Cristóbal, Ana Isabel (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004163719 ISBN-13: 9789004163713 Publisher: Brill
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: December 2007 Annotation: The book presents a compete edition of the texts, their translation and some fundamental keys for their interpretation, in an attempt at updating our current knowledge on Orphic ideas about the soul and the Afterlife stated in those texts Click for more in this series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | History - Religion | Antiquities & Archaeology - History | Ancient - Greece |
| Dewey: 292.9 |
| LCCN: 2007047589 |
| Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.3" W x 9.5" L (1.60 lbs) 392 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |
| Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index |
| Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2008 pg. 21 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. The recent discovery of some tablets has forced a noteworthy modification of some points of view and a review ofthe different hypothesis proposed about them. The book presents a complete edition of the texts, their translation and some fundamental keys for their interpretation, in an attempt at updating our current knowledge on Orphic ideas about the soul and the Afterlife stated in those texts. The work is improved with an appendix of iconographic annotations in which some plastic representations in drawings are reproduced related to the universe of tablets, selected and commented on by Ricardo Olmos. |
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