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Instructions for the netherworld : the Orphic gold tablets /

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 interpretat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bernabé Pajares, Alberto
Otros Autores: Jiménez San Cristóbal, Ana Isabel, Olmos Romera, Ricardo, Olmos, Sara, Chase, Michael, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
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Publicado: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Colección:Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; 162.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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).