The Derveni papyrus : : unearthing ancient mysteries / / edited by Marco Antonio Santamaría.

• Superior document: Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava, v. 36
• Author: Santamaría Álvarez, Marco Antonio
• TeilnehmendeR: Santamaría Álvarez, Marco Antonio,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava ; v. 36.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright page --; Contributors --; Abbreviations --; Introduction /; Conservation and Restoration --; Problems Pertaining to the Restoration, Conservation, and Reproduction of the Derveni Papyrus /; Reconstruction and Interpretation of the First Six Columns --; Some Textual Issues on Column III (ed. Piano) /; Daimons in the Derveni Papyrus and in Early Stoicism /; The Orphic Poem --; The Orphic Poem of the Derveni Papyrus and Hesiod’s Theogony /; Ζεὺς µοῦνος and Parmenides’ What-is /; The Interpretation of the Poem: Exegesis and Cosmogony --; Misleading and Unclear to the Many: Allegory in the Derveni Papyrus and the Orphic Theogony of Hieronymus /; The Sage Speaks in Riddles: Notes on Col. VII of the Derveni Papyrus /; The Commentary of the Derveni Papyrus: Pre-Socratic Cosmogonies at Work /; The Last Columns --; Rites and Officiants in Col. XX of the Derveni Papyrus /; Aphrodite Urania and Uranus Euphronides in the Derveni Papyrus: A Semantic Genealogy /; Back Matter --; Bibliography of the Derveni Papyrus (1997–2018) --; Index Locorum --; Index Nominum et Rerum Notabiliorum --; Index Verborum Graecorum.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004384855; 9004384847
• ISSN: 0169-9652
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Marco Antonio Santamaría.

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.