Creation and Salvation in Ancient Orphism
Author | : Larry J. Alderink |
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Total Pages | : 150 |
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ISBN | : 9780608086811 |
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Author | : Larry J. Alderink |
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Total Pages | : 150 |
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ISBN | : 9780608086811 |
Author | : Larry J. Alderink |
Publisher | : American Philological Association Book |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Religion |
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Author | : Larry J. Alderink |
Publisher | : American Philological Association Book |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Religion |
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Author | : Radcliffe G. Edmonds III |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2013-11-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107512603 |
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.
Author | : Everett Ferguson |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780802822215 |
New to this expanded & updated edition are revisions of Ferguson's original material, updated bibliographies, & a fresh dicussion of first century social life, the Dead Sea Scrolls & much else.
Author | : Radcliffe G. Edmonds III |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2013-11-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107038219 |
In a paradigm shift, this book redefines Orphism as a polemical label for extra-ordinary religion, good or bad.
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Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Dwayne A. Meisner |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2018-07-17 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0190663545 |
The hatching of the Cosmic Egg, the swallowing of Phanes by Zeus, and the murder of Dionysus by the Titans were just a few of the many stories that appeared in ancient Greek epic poems that were thought to have been written by the legendary singer Orpheus. Most of this poetry is now lost, surviving only in the form of brief quotations by Greek philosophers. Orphic Tradition and the Birth of the Gods brings together the scattered fragments of four Orphic theogonies: the Derveni, Eudemian, Hieronyman, and Rhapsodic theogonies. Typically, theogonies are thought to be poetic accounts of the creation of the universe and the births of the gods, leading to the creation of humans and the establishment of the present state of the cosmos. The most famous example is Hesiod's Theogony, which unlike the Orphic theogonies has survived. But did Orphic theogonies look anything like Hesiod's Theogony? Meisner applies a new theoretical model for studying Orphic theogonies and suggests certain features that characterize them as different from Hesiod: the blending of Near Eastern narrative elements that are missing in Hesiod; the probability that these were short hymns, more like the Homeric Hymnsr than Hesiod; and the continuous discourse between myth and philosophy that can be seen in Orphic poems and the philosophers who quote them. Most importantly, this book argues that the Orphic myths of Phanes emerging from the Cosmic Egg and Zeus swallowing Phanes are at least as important as the well-known myth of Dionysus being dismembered by the Titans, long thought to have been the central myth of Orphism. As this book amply demonstrates, Orphic literature was a diverse and ever-changing tradition by which authors were able to think about the most current philosophical ideas through the medium of the most traditional poetic forms.
Author | : Olaf Almqvist |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2022-01-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1350221864 |
Cosmological narratives like the creation story in the book of Genesis or the modern Big Bang are popularly understood to be descriptions of how the universe was created. However, cosmologies also say a great deal more. Indeed, the majority of cosmologies, ancient and modern, explore not simply how the world was made but how humans relate to their surrounding environment and the often thin line which separates humans from gods and animals. Combining approaches from classical studies, anthropology, and philosophy, this book studies three competing cosmologies of the early Greek world: Hesiod's Theogony; the Orphic Derveni theogony; and Protagoras' creation myth in Plato's eponymous dialogue. Although all three cosmologies are part of a single mythic tradition and feature a number of similar events and characters, Olaf Almqvist argues they offer very different answers to an ongoing debate on what it is to be human. Engaging closely with the ontological turn in anthropology and in particular with the work of Philippe Descola, this book outlines three key sets of ontological assumptions – analogism, pantheism, and naturalism – found in early Greek literature and explores how these competing ontological assumptions result in contrasting attitudes to rituals such as prayer and sacrifice.
Author | : Marta Weigle |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1512809004 |
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.