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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