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Ritual Texts for the Afterlife Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets 1st Edition by Fritz Graf, Sarah Iles Johnston 9780415415507 0415415500

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Author(s): Fritz Graf, Sarah Iles Johnston
ISBN(s): 9780415415507, 0415415500
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.81 MB
Year: 2007
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0415415500

ISBN 13: 9780415415507

Author: Fritz Graf, Sarah Iles Johnston

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.

Table of contents:

  1. The Tablets: An Edition and Translation

  2. A History of Scholarship on the Tablets

  3. The Myth of Dionysus

  4. The Eschatology Behind the Tablets

  5. Dionysiac Mystery Cults and the Gold Tablets

  6. Orpheus, His Poetry, and Sacred Texts

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