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There is hardly a more controversial issue in the study of ancient religion than Orphism. More than two centuries of debate have not closed the subject, since n
Ritual Texts for the Afterlife
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Pages: 257
Authors: Fritz Graf
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-06-11 - Publisher: Routledge

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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
Orpheus
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Ann Wroe
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-14 - Publisher: Random House

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For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet and lover, his story
Orpheus and the Roots of Platonism
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Authors: Algis Uždavinys
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A book on the religious, mystic origins and substance of philosophy. This is a critical survey of ancient and modern sources and of scholarly works dealing with
Greek Myth and the Bible
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Authors: Bruce Louden
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Since the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Gilgamesh epic, we have known that the Bible imports narratives from outside of Israelite culture, refiguring th