Instructions for the netherworld : the Orphic gold tablets / / by Alberto Bernabé, Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal ; with an iconographical appendix by Ricardo Olmos and illustrations by Sara Olmos ; translated by Michael Chase.

• Superior document: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, v. 162
• Author: Bernabé Pajares, Alberto.
• TeilnehmendeR: Jiménez San Cristóbal, Ana Isabel.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 162.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (391 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Instrucciones para el mas allá.; Preliminary Materials /; Introduction /; Chapter One. Arrival In The Subterranean World (The Tablets From Hipponion, Entella, Petelia And Pharsalus And The Reduced Versions, L 1–6) /; Chapter Two. A Ritual For The Dead: The Tablets From Pelinna (L 7AB) /; Chapter Three. Best Wishes For Accompanying The Soul To The Other World: A Tablet From Thurii (L 8) /; Chapter Four. Before Persephone: More Tablets From Thurii (L 9–10AB) /; Chapter Five. A Tablet In Imperial Rome (L 11) /; Chapter Six. A "Word Search Puzzle" For Deceiving Non-Initiates: The "Great" Tablet From Thurii (L 12) /; Chapter Seven. Passwords To Accede To The Meadow Of The Blessed And A Prayer To Persephone: The Tablets From Pherai (L 13 And 13a) /; Chapter Eight. Other Tablets (L 14–16) /; Chapter Nine. The Soul’s Final Destiny. Results And Conclusions /; Chapter Ten. The Central Question: Are The Gold Leaves Orphic? /; Chapter Eleven. Parallels To The Tablets In Other Cultures /; Chapter Twelve. Literary Questions: Characteristics, Models And Archetypes /; Appendix I. Edition Of The Tablets /; Appendix II. Iconographical Notes On The Orphic Tablets. Selection Of Illustrations And Commentaries By Ricardo Olmos. Drawings by Sara Olmos /; Bibliography /; Index Locorum /; General Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-346) and indexes.
• ISBN: 1281937002; 9786611937003; 9047423747
• ISSN: 0927-7633
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Alberto Bernabé, Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal ; with an iconographical appendix by Ricardo Olmos and illustrations by Sara Olmos ; translated by Michael Chase.

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.