TY - BOOK ID - 5480662 TI - The Derveni papyrus PY - 2004 SN - 0521801087 9780521801089 9780521047395 0521047390 9780511584435 0511584431 0511207336 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Dionysia. KW - Orphisme KW - Derveni papyrus. KW - Papyrus de Derveni. KW - Greece KW - Grèce KW - Religion. KW - Religion KW - 292.9 KW - 113 KW - Religion Classical Greek and Roman Sects and reform movements KW - Philosophy Cosmology KW - Grèce KW - Dionysia KW - Orphic mysteries KW - Orphism KW - Cults KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History KW - Religion grecque KW - Cosmologie grecque KW - Musée archéologique (Thessalonique, Grèce) KW - Héraclite d'Éphèse (0550?-0480? av. J.-C.) KW - Papyrus grecs KW - Sources KW - Manuscrits. Papyrus de Derveni UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5480662 AB - This is a comprehensive study of the Derveni Papyrus. The papyrus, found in 1962 near Thessaloniki, is not only one of the oldest surviving Greek papyri but is also considered by scholars as a document of primary importance for a better understanding of the religious and philosophical developments in the fifth and fourth centuries BC. Gábor Betegh aims to reconstruct and systematically analyse the different strata of the text and their interrelation by exploring the archaeological context; the interpretation of rituals in the first columns of the text; the Orphic poem commented on by the author of the papyrus; and the cosmological and theological doctrines which emerge from the Derveni author's exegesis of the poem. Betegh discusses the place of the text in the context of late Presocratic philosophy and offers an important preliminary edition of the text of the papyrus with critical apparatus and English translation. ER -