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Orpheus and Greek Religion
Author | : William Keith Guthrie |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1993-10-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 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
Author | : Radcliffe G. Edmonds III |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2013-11-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107038219 |
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In a paradigm shift, this book redefines Orphism as a polemical label for extra-ordinary religion, good or bad.
Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion
Author | : Jane Ellen Harrison |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 717 |
Release | : 2021-03-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780691227467 |
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Jane Harrison examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identify the primitive "substratum" of ritual and its persistence in the realm of classical religious observance and literature. In Harrison's preface to this remarkable book, she writes that J. G. Frazer's work had become part and parcel of her "mental furniture" and that of others studying primitive religion. Today, those who write on ancient myth or ritual are bound to say the same about Harrison. Her essential ideas, best developed and most clearly put in the Prolegomena, have never been eclipsed.
Orphism
Author | : J. R. Watmough |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 91 |
Release | : 2015-04-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781107497429 |
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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.
Orpheus and Greek Religion
Author | : William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Cults |
ISBN | : UCAL:$B116714 |
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Greek Religion
Author | : Jan N. Bremmer |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199220735 |
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A brief but highly informative book on Greek religion in the classical period.
Redefining Ancient Orphism
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Author | : Radcliffe G. Edmonds (III) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Cults |
ISBN | : 1461953804 |
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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. -- Provided by publisher.
Greek Religion and Culture the Bible and the Ancient Near East
Author | : Jan N. Bremmer |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004164734 |
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This book greatly enhances our knowledge of the interrelationship of Greek religion & culture and the Ancient Near East by offering important analyses of Greek myths, divinities and terms like a ~magica (TM) and 'paradise', but also of the Greek contribution to the Christian notion of atonement.