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.

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 po...

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Superior document:Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, v. 162
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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.
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