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Orphée Et L'orphisme Dans L'antiquité Gréco-romaine

Author : Luc Brisson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780860784531
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Orphée Et L'orphisme Dans L'antiquité Gréco-romaine written by Luc Brisson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1995 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The figure of Orpheus has long exercised a potent influence on religious thought. Yet what we know directly about Orphism comes from a scatter of isolated and often very short fragments quoted in the works of Platonists of the Roman period, notably Proclus, Damascius and Olympiodorus. The author's concern here is to establish the context in which these passages were cited, and to trace the development of the written tradition, from the texts which contain a critique of the beliefs of the Homeric era to those, whether newly composed or transformed, which show signs of adaptation to later religious and philosophical movements, among them Stoicism and Platonism. In sharp contrast to views held by others, it is argued that it is possible to map out a process of evolution, amongst other criteria by focusing on the role and place of Chronos in the Orphic theogony. The author also asks whether there really ever existed true Orphic sects with a cult with specific rites, and would conclude that the present evidence cannot be held to substantiate this. Orphée a pendant longtemps exercé une puissante influence sur la pensée religieuse. Cependant, ce que nous connaissons directement de l'Orphïsme se réduit Ã une poignée de fragments isolés et souvent très courts qui se trouvent éparpillés dans les oeuvres de Platoniciens ayant vécu sous l'Empire romain, surtout Proclus, Damascius et Olympiodore. Dans les articles qui composent ce recueil, l'auteur s'est attaché Ã reconstituer les contextes dans lesquels ces passages sont cités, et Ã comprendre comment s'est développée la tradition écrite Ã laquelle ils appartiennent, depuis les textes qui critiquent les croyances véhiculées par Homère et par Hésiode et qui, ayant fait l'objet d'une rédaction ou d'une transformation récente, présentent les signes d'une adaptation Ã des mouvements religieux ou philosophiques tardifs, le Stoïcisme et le médio-Platonisme entre autres. S'opposant en cela Ã b

La figure d'Orphée dans l'antiquité tardive

Author : Laurence Vieillefon
Publisher : Editions De Boccard
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book La figure d'Orphée dans l'antiquité tardive written by Laurence Vieillefon and published by Editions De Boccard. This book was released on 2003 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 0rphée est resté - de tout temps et depuis ses origines grecques - un objet de fascination pour ses aventures, terrestres et infernales, comme pour ses composantes plus mystiques et donc mystérieuses. Son rôle durant l'Antiquité tardive est primordial, à la jonction entre la vision païenne et la vision chrétienne, entre l'Antiquité et le Moyen Age. Cette figure de la mythologie gréco-romaine offre en effet la particularité, unique et encore inexpliquée, d'être aussi populaire dans les milieux païens que dans la communauté chrétienne, durant cette période de mutation politique, sociale, artistique et religieuse que sont les IVe-VIIe siècles de notre ère. Loin des images romantiques d'Orphée et Eurydice, c'est le musicien charmant les animaux qui est alors abondamment et uniformément représenté sur une grande variété de supports : mosaïques de villas romaines, tissus coptes, parois de sarcophages, murs de catacombes chrétiennes, reliefs funéraires, gemmes, céramiques, ivoires et même deux synagogues juives ... Il est aussi souvent cité et commenté dans les textes tardifs les plus représentatifs : ceux des philosophes néoplatoniciens et ceux des Pères de l'Eglise. Tandis que l'enquête navigue de l'orphisme archaïque au christianisme en formation, du ciel à la terre, du paradis à l'enfer, le héros se révèle peu à peu un être polymorphe et atypique, à la fois musicien, théologien, mage, pacificateur : peut-être une image paradigmatique et universelle de l'homme divin, nouvel idéal spirituel de l'Antiquité tardive.

The 'Orphic' Gold Tablets and Greek Religion

Author : Radcliffe G. Edmonds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521518318
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book The 'Orphic' Gold Tablets and Greek Religion written by Radcliffe G. Edmonds and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines new methodologies used in the study of these tablets. Includes an updated edition and translation of the tablet texts.

Education, Religion, and Literary Culture in the 4th Century CE

Author : Gabriela Ryser
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647573213
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Education, Religion, and Literary Culture in the 4th Century CE written by Gabriela Ryser and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contextualizes Claudian's handling of the Proserpina myth and the underworld in the history of literature and religion while showing intersections with and differences between the literary and religious uses of the underworld topos. In doing so, the study provides an incentive to rethink the dichotomy of the terms 'religious' and 'non-religious' in favour of a more nuanced model of references and refunctionalisations of elements which are, or could be, religiously connotated. A close philological analysis of De raptu Proserpinae identifies the sphere of myth and poetry as an area of expressive freedom, a parallel universe to theological discourses (whether they be pagan-philosophical or Christian), while the profound understanding and skilful use of this particular sphere – a formative aspect of European religious and intellectual history – is postulated as a characteristic of the educated Roman and of Claudian's poetry.

Early Greek Mythography

Author : Robert L. Fowler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198147414
Total Pages : 849 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Early Greek Mythography written by Robert L. Fowler and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 is a detailed commentary on the texts of Early Greek Mythography: Volume 1, a critical edition of the twenty-nine authors of this genre from the late 6th to early 4th centuries BC. Volume 2 provides a mythological commentary of the original works, as well as a philological commentary on separate authors.

Orphic Tradition and the Birth of the Gods

Author : Dwayne A. Meisner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190663545
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Orphic Tradition and the Birth of the Gods written by Dwayne A. Meisner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Hymns^r 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.

Redefining Ancient Orphism

Author : Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107512603
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis Redefining Ancient Orphism by : Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

Download or read book Redefining Ancient Orphism written by Radcliffe G. Edmonds III and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Damascius' Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles

Author : Sara Ahbel-Rappe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199722315
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Damascius' Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles written by Sara Ahbel-Rappe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-25 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Damascius was head of the Neoplatonist academy in Athens when the Emperor Justinian shut its doors forever in 529. His work, Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles, is the last surviving independent philosophical treatise from the Late Academy. Its survey of Neoplatonist metaphysics, discussion of transcendence, and compendium of late antique theologies, make it unique among all extant works of late antique philosophy. It has never before been translated into English. The Problems and Solutions exhibits a thorough?going critique of Proclean metaphysics, starting with the principle that all that exists proceeds from a single cause, proceeding to critique the Proclean triadic view of procession and reversion, and severely undermining the status of intellectual reversion in establishing being as the intelligible object. Damascius investigates the internal contradictions lurking within the theory of descent as a whole, showing that similarity of cause and effect is vitiated in the case of processions where one order (e.g. intellect) gives rise to an entirely different order (e.g. soul). Neoplatonism as a speculative metaphysics posits the One as the exotic or extopic explanans for plurality, conceived as immediate, present to hand, and therefore requiring explanation. Damascius shifts the perspective of his metaphysics: he struggles to create a metaphysical discourse that accommodates, insofar as language is sufficient, the ultimate principle of reality. After all, how coherent is a metaphysical system that bases itself on the Ineffable as a first principle? Instead of creating an objective ontology, Damascius writes ever mindful of the limitations of dialectic, and of the pitfalls and snares inherent in the very structure of metaphysical discourse.

Greek Religion

Author : Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199220731
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Greek Religion written by Jan N. Bremmer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief but highly informative book on Greek religion in the classical period.

The Fall of the Angels

Author : Christoph Auffarth
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004126686
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Fall of the Angels written by Christoph Auffarth and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fall of the Angels focuses on a biblical tradition whose significance has been recognised, elaborated and explored in literature and art outside the Bible. Its extensive influence on religion and culture during the last two millenia is reflected in the wide variety of interpretations of this tradition among communities as they came to terms with religious identity in the face of opposition.

Mapping the Afterlife

Author : Emma Gee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190670509
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Mapping the Afterlife written by Emma Gee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are very few accounts of the afterlife across the period from Homer to Dante. Most traditional studies approach the classical afterlife from the point of view of its "evolution" towards the Christian afterlife. This book tries to do something different: to explore afterlife narratives in spatial terms and to situate this tradition within the ambit of a fundamental need in human psychology for the synthesis of soul (or "self") and universe. Drawing on the works of Homer, Plato, Cicero, Virgil, and Dante, among others, as well as on modern works on psychology, cartography, and music theory, Mapping the Afterlife argues that the topography of the afterlife in the Greek and Roman tradition, and in Dante, reflects the state of "scientific" knowledge at the time of the various contexts in which we find it. The book posits that there is a dominant spatial idiom in afterlife landscapes, a "journey-vision paradigm"--the horizontal journey of the soul across the afterlife landscape, and a synoptic vision of the universe. Many scholars have argued that the vision of the universe is out of place in the underworld landscape. However, looking across the entire tradition, we find that afterlife landscapes, almost without exception, contain these two kinds of space in one form or another. This double vision of space brings the underworld, as the landscape of the soul, into contact with the "scientific" universe; and brings humanity into line with the cosmos.

Dionysus and Politics

Author : Filip Doroszewski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000392414
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Dionysus and Politics written by Filip Doroszewski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents an essential but underestimated role that Dionysus played in Greek and Roman political thought. Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, the volume covers the period from archaic Greece to the late Roman Empire. The reader can observe how ideas and political themes rooted in Greek classical thought were continued, adapted and developed over the course of history. The authors (including four leading experts in the field: Cornelia Isler-Kerényi, Jean-Marie Pailler, Richard Seaford andRichard Stoneman) reconstruct the political significance of Dionysus by examining different types of evidence: historiography, poetry, coins, epigraphy, art and philosophy. They discuss the place of the god in Greek city-state politics, explore the long tradition of imitating Dionysus that ancient leaders, from Alexander the Great to the Roman emperors, manifested in various ways, and shows how the political role of Dionysus was reflected in Orphism and Neoplatonist philosophy. Dionysus and Politics provides an excellent introduction to a fundamental feature of ancient political thought which until now has been largely neglected by mainstream academia. The book will be an invaluable resource to students and scholars interested in ancient politics and religion.

Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East

Author : Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004164731
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East written by Jan N. Bremmer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book greatly enhances our knowledge of the interrelationship of Greek religion & culture and the Ancient Near East by offering important analyses of Greek myths, divinities and terms like a ~magica (TM) and 'paradise', but also of the Greek contribution to the Christian notion of atonement.

Cult, Ritual, Divinity and Belief in the Roman World

Author : Duncan Fishwick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351219642
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Book Synopsis Cult, Ritual, Divinity and Belief in the Roman World by : Duncan Fishwick

Download or read book Cult, Ritual, Divinity and Belief in the Roman World written by Duncan Fishwick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers assembled in this selection of studies range in subject matter from early Judaic magic to an inscribed monument of the Neo-Classical period. The principal emphasis of the collection is nevertheless on religious developments under the High Roman Empire: problems arising from the interpretation of oriental cults imported from the Hellenistic East but primarily the development of imperial cult, the one universal religion of the empire before the coming of Christianity. The essays divide into five categories: Divinity and Power; The Imperial Numen; The Imperial Cult: Review and Discussion; Rituals and Ceremonies; Ainigmata. The titles of the individual articles speak for themselves but readers may also find the preface of interest in so far as it sets out the author's ideas on the controversial nature of the emperor's divinity. While this is a topic deserving of a book in its own right, the preface together with the points raised by individual studies within the overall framework may go some way to repairing this defficiency.

Underworld Gods in Ancient Greek Religion

Author : Ellie Mackin Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351273701
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Underworld Gods in Ancient Greek Religion written by Ellie Mackin Roberts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a case for how and why people in archaic and classical Greece worshipped Underworld gods. These gods are often portrayed as malevolent and transgressive, giving an impression that ancient worshippers derived little or no benefit from developing ongoing relationships with them. In this book, the first book-length study that focuses on Underworld gods as an integral part of the religious landscape of the period, Mackin Roberts challenges this view and shows that Underworld gods are, in many cases, approached and ‘befriended’ in the same way as any other kind of god. Underworld Gods in Ancient Greek Religion provides a fascinating insight into the worship of these deities, and will be of interest to anyone working on ancient Greek religion and cult.

Myths of the Underworld Journey

Author : Radcliffe G. Edmonds, III
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139456005
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Myths of the Underworld Journey written by Radcliffe G. Edmonds, III and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-20 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was first published in 2004. Plato, Aristophanes and the creators of the 'Orphic' gold tablets employ the traditional tale of a journey to the realm of the dead to redefine, within the mythic narrative, the boundaries of their societies. Rather than being the relics of a faded ritual tradition or the products of Orphic influence, these myths can only reveal their meanings through a close analysis of the specific ways in which each author makes use of the tradition. For these authors, myth is an agonistic discourse, neither a kind of sacred dogma nor a mere literary diversion, but rather a flexible tool that serves the wide variety of uses to which it is put. The traditional tale of the journey to the Underworld in Greek mythology is neither simple nor single, but each telling reveals a perspective on the cosmos, a reflection of the order of this world through the image of the other.

The Rise and Fall of the Afterlife

Author : Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134768222
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Afterlife written by Jan N. Bremmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belief in the afterlife is still very much alive in Western civilisation, even though the truth of its existence is no longer universally accepted. Surprisingly, however, heaven, hell and the immortal soul were all ideas which arrived relatively late in the ancient world. Originally Greece and Israel - the cultures that gave us Christianity - had only the vaguest ideas of an afterlife. So where did these concepts come from and why did they develop? In this fascinating, learned, but highly readable book, Jan N. Bremmer - one of the foremost authorities on ancient religion - takes a fresh look at the major developments in the Western imagination of the afterlife, from the ancient Greeks to the modern near-death experience.