TY - BOOK ID - 33227754 TI - The Derveni papyrus : unearthing ancient mysteries PY - 2019 SN - 9789004384842 9004384847 9789004384859 9004384855 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Dionysia KW - Orphic mysteries KW - Orphism KW - Cults KW - Derveni papyrus. KW - Greece KW - Religion. KW - Dionysia. KW - Manuscripts (Papyri) KW - Conservation and restoration. KW - Greece. KW - Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) KW - Conservatie. Restauratie KW - Klassieke Griekse letterkunde KW - Handschriften. Epigrafie. Paleografie KW - papyrologie KW - Conservation. Restoration KW - Classical Greek literature KW - Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography KW - papyrology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33227754 AB - "The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries is devoted to this fascinating and challenging document, discovered in 1962 in a tomb in Derveni, near Thessaloniki, and dated c. 340-320 BCE. It contains a text probably written at the end of 5th c. BCE, which after some reflections on minor divinities and unusual cults, comments upon a poem attributed to Orpheus from an allegorical and philosophical perspective. This volume focuses on the restoration and conservation of the papyrus, the ideas of the anonymous author about Erinyes and daimons, the quoted Orphic poem in comparison with Hesiod's Theogony and Parmenides' poem, the exegetical approach of the commentator, his cosmogonic system, his attitude regarding mystery cults and his peculiar theology"-- ER -