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Ritual texts for the afterlife : Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Graf, Fritz
Other Authors: Johnston, Sarah Iles, 1957-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, [2013]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Greece > Religion.
Future life.
Orpheus > (Greek mythological character)
Dionysus > (Greek deity)
Table of Contents:
  • The tablets: an edition and translation
  • A history of scholarship on the tablets
  • The myth of Dionysus
  • The eschatology behind the tablets
  • Dionysiac mystery cults and the Gold Tablets
  • Orpheus, his poetry, and sacred texts.