TY - BOOK ID - 3464314 TI - Redefining ancient Orphism : a study in Greek religion PY - 2013 SN - 9781107038219 9781139814669 1139814664 9781107496958 1107496950 9781461953807 1461953804 9781107516830 1107516838 1107038219 1139892789 9781139892780 1107502527 9781107502529 1107506417 9781107506411 1107503701 9781107503700 1107514061 9781107514065 1108730078 1306211948 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Dionysies KW - Dionysia. KW - Dionysus (Greek deity) KW - Cults KW - Cult. KW - Dionysos, KW - Dionysus KW - Dionysus, KW - Dionysies. KW - Orphic mysteries KW - Orphism KW - Bacchus KW - Bakchos KW - Dionís KW - Dionisas KW - Dioniso KW - Dionīss KW - Dionisu KW - Dioniz KW - Dionizi KW - Dionizo KW - Dionizos KW - Dionüszosz KW - Dionysos KW - Dionýzos KW - Diyonizosse KW - Διόνυσος KW - Дионис KW - ديونيسوس KW - 디오니소스 KW - דיוניסוס KW - ディオニューソス KW - 狄俄倪索斯 KW - Βάκχος KW - Діоніс KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3464314 AB - 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. ER -