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Ritual texts for the afterlife : Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets /
Fascinating texts written on small gold tablets that were deposited in graves provide a unique source of information about what some Greeks and Romans believed regarding the fate that awaited them after death, and how they could influence it. These texts, dating from the late fifth century BCE to th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The tablets: an edition and translation
- A history of scholarship on the tablets
- The myth of Dionysus
- The eschatology behind the tablets
- Dionysiac mystery cults and the Gold Tablets
- Orpheus, his poetry, and sacred texts.