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Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.
Dionysia --- 292.1 --- 292.1 Godsdiensten van de Grieken --- Godsdiensten van de Grieken --- Orphic mysteries --- Orphism --- Cults --- Dionysia.
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Many recent discoveries have confirmed the importance of Orphism for ancient Greek religion, philosophy and literature. Its nature and role are still, however, among the most debated problems of Classical scholarship. A cornerstone of the question is its relationship to Christianity, which modern authors have too often discussed from apologetic perspectives or projections of the Christian model into its supposed precedent. Besides, modern approaches are strongly based on ancient ones, since Orpheus and the poems and mysteries attributed to him were fundamental in the religious controversies of Late Antiquity. Both Pagan and Christian authors often present Orphism as a precedent, alternative or imitation of Chistianity.This free and thorough study of the ancient sources sheds light on these controversial questions. The presence of the Orphic tradition in Imperial Age, documented by literary and epigraphical evidence, is confronted with the informations transmitted by Christian apologists on Orphic poems and cults. The manifold Christian treatments of Pagan sources, and their particular value to understand Greek religion, are illuminated by this specific case, which exemplifies the complex encounter between Classical culture and Jewish-Christian tradition.
Christianity and other religions --- Dionysia. --- Orphic mysteries --- Orphism --- Cults --- Dionysus. --- Orpheus. --- Orphism (Religion). --- Reception (Religion).
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This volume sheds light on the most relevant pieces of evidence for ancient Orphism, collected in the recent edition by Alberto Bernabé. It contains 65 short new studies on Orphic fragments by leading international scholars who comment one of the most controversial phenomena in Antiquity from a plurality of perspectives. Readers will acquire a global vision of the multiple dimensions of the Orphic tradition, as well as many new insights into particular Orphic fragments.
Dionysia. --- Orphic mysteries --- Orphism --- Cults --- Dionysos. --- Greek Literature. --- Greek Philosophy. --- Greek Religion. --- Orphism. --- Orphisme --- Mélanges et hommages
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Orphic gold tables are key documents for the knowledge of rites and beliefs of Orphics, an atypical group that configured a highly original creed and that influenced powerfully over other Greek writers and thinkers. The recent discovery of some tablets has forced a noteworthy modification of some points of view and a review ofthe different hypothesis proposed about them. The book presents a complete edition of the texts, their translation and some fundamental keys for their interpretation, in an attempt at updating our current knowledge on Orphic ideas about the soul and the Afterlife stated in those texts. The work is improved with an appendix of iconographic annotations in which some plastic representations in drawings are reproduced related to the universe of tablets, selected and commented on by Ricardo Olmos.
Dionysia. --- Tablets (Paleography) --- Orphisme --- Tablettes (Paléographie) --- 292.9 --- Religion Classical Greek and Roman Sects and reform movements --- Dionysia --- Tablettes (Paléographie) --- Waxen tablets --- Writing tablets --- Diptychs --- Inscriptions --- Paleography --- Writing materials and instruments --- Orphic mysteries --- Orphism --- Cults --- Grekisk mytologi. --- Orficism. --- Tablets (Paleography).
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From archaic Greece to the Roman Empire, the remains of comic and satyric performances reveal a range of literary, aesthetic, historical, religious, and geographical connections. This book analyzes the details of this interplay diachronically, showing that comedy and satyr plays influenced each other in nearly all stages of their development.
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The contributions to this book offer a broad vision of the relationships that were established between Greek Philosophy and the Mystery Cults. The authors centre their attention on such thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoic and the Neoplatonist philosophers, who used - and in some cases criticised - doctrinal elements from Mystery Cults, adapting them to their own thinking. Thus, the volume provides a new approach to some of the most renowned Greek philosophers, highlighting the influence that Mystery Cults, such as Orphism, Dionysianism, or the Eleusinian rites, had on the formation of
Mysteries, Religious --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Eleusinian mysteries. --- Dionysia. --- Orphic mysteries --- Orphism --- Cults --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- Mystery religions --- Religious mysteries --- Religion --- Secret societies --- Rites and ceremonies
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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.
Dionysia --- Mythology, Greek --- Mythology, Greek, in literature --- Voyages to the otherworld --- Voyages to the otherworld in literature --- Subterranean voyages --- Underworld, Voyages to the --- Voyages to the underworld --- Voyages, Imaginary --- Greek mythology --- Orphic mysteries --- Orphism --- Cults --- Aristophanes. --- Plato. --- Mythology, Greek. --- Voyages to the otherworld. --- Dionysia. --- Mythology, Greek, in literature. --- Voyages to the otherworld in literature. --- Lamellae aureae Orphicae. --- Orphicae lamellae --- Lamine d'oro orfiche --- Orphic gold leaves --- Orphic gold tablets --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Thematology --- Comparative literature --- Aristophanes [Comicus] --- Plato
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The book is a study of the Orphic Hymns , a collection of 87 Greek texts in hexameter addressed to various deities. These hymns are closely related to one another and seem to originate in Asia Minor during the first centuries of the Christian era. The great originality of this corpus is that a link can be traced between a set of beliefs, rituals, offerings and mysteries, and a group of believers. Surprisingly the Hymns has been generally neglected. Les études sur les Hymnes orphiques begins with a study of the genre. The Hymns are essentially composed of long lists of epithets and are therefore distinctive. Through the choice of epithets in the different hymns and a comparision between the different texts it is possible to trace allusions to myths, to rituals and to mysteries related to the gods. This first part also concentrates on the literary ways of expressing religious ideas. The group using this text referred to the legendary figure Orpheus as the composer of the Hymns . It is therefore not surprising to find Dionysos at the center of this text. The basic approach is to compare the content of the Hymns to what we know and do not know about orphism. Questions such as vegetarianism, prohibition of beans, belief in metempsychosis, the content of the mysteries arise. It may seem awkward to find typically orphic gods, such as Protogonos, next to traditional gods and local deities from Asia Minor. Finally, the group was organised and the participants bore titles such as boukolos , the oxherd. A large place is given to epigraphy. The aim is to fit these elements to a definition of orphism during the first centuries of our era and to put together an image of this particular group. This book will be essential to scholars interested in orphism, in Greek religion, in religion at the beginning of Christianity, in literature and in hymns.
Ancient philosophy --- Antieke filosofie --- Filosofie [Antieke ] --- Filosofie [Griekse ] --- Filosofie [Romeinse ] --- Filosofie van de Oudheid --- Greek philosophy --- Griekse filosofie --- Philosophie ancienne --- Philosophie antique --- Philosophie de l'Antiquité --- Philosophie grecque --- Philosophie romaine --- Philosophy [Ancient ] --- Philosophy [Greek ] --- Philosophy [Roman ] --- Roman philosophy --- Romeinse filosofie --- Hymns, Greek (Classical) --- Hymnes grecs anciens --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Orphic hymns --- Dionysia. --- Dionysia --- 881 --- 292.38 --- Orphic mysteries --- Orphism --- Cults --- Literature Greek Classical Greek poetry --- Religion Classical Greek and Roman Rites and ceremonies --- Orphica --- Poesia Orphica --- Khimnite na Orfeĭ --- Hymni Orphici --- Orphei hymni --- History and criticism.
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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.
Dionysies --- Dionysia. --- Dionysus (Greek deity) --- Cults --- Cult. --- Dionysos, --- Dionysus --- Dionysus, --- Dionysies. --- Orphic mysteries --- Orphism --- Bacchus --- Bakchos --- Dionís --- Dionisas --- Dioniso --- Dionīss --- Dionisu --- Dioniz --- Dionizi --- Dionizo --- Dionizos --- Dionüszosz --- Dionysos --- Dionýzos --- Diyonizosse --- Διόνυσος --- Дионис --- ديونيسوس --- 디오니소스 --- דיוניסוס --- ディオニューソス --- 狄俄倪索斯 --- Βάκχος --- Діоніс --- Arts and Humanities --- History
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