Research Catalog

Title

Ritual texts for the afterlife : Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets / Fritz Graf and Sarah Iles Johnston.

Author

Graf, Fritz.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Johnston, Sarah Iles, 1957-

Description

x, 246 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

Fascinating texts written on small gold tablets that were depositedin graves provide a unique source of information about what some Greeksand Romans believed regarding the fate that awaited them after death, and how they could influence it. These texts, dating from the latefifth century BCE to the second century CE, have been part of thescholarly debate on ancient afterlife beliefs since the end of thenineteenth century. Recent finds and analysis of the texts havereshaped our und.

Subject

• Orpheus (Greek mythological character)
• Dionysus (Greek deity)
• Orphicae Lamellae
• Future life
• Religion
• Dionysoskult
• Jenseitsglaube
• Orpheus-Mythos
• Inscripties
• Grieks
• Orfisme (religie)
• Het Dionysische
• Eschatologie
• Mysteriegodsdiensten
• Livet efter detta > grekisk och romersk religion
• Dionysos (grekisk gud)
• Greece > Religion
• Greece

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-233) and indexes.

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 0415415500
• 9780415415507
• 0415415519
• 9780415415514
• 020396134X
• 9780203961346
• 0415312728
• 9780415312721
• 0415312736
• 9780415312738

LCCN

2006033828

OCLC

• ocm74029212
• 74029212
• SCSB-1441466

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library