Orphic tradition and the birth of the gods /

'Orphic Traditions and the Birth of the Gods' is a literary history that attempts to reconstruct the fragments of four theogonies that were attributed to the legendary singer Orpheus: the Derveni, Eudemian, Hieronyman, and Rhapsodic Theogonies. Most modern scholars have described these poe...

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Main Author:	Meisner, Dwayne A. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Subjects:	Religious poetry, Greek > History and criticism. Dionysia. Greek poetry > History and criticism. Poésie grecque > Histoire et critique. Poésie religieuse grecque > Histoire et critique. Dionysia Greek poetry Religious poetry, Greek Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Summary:	'Orphic Traditions and the Birth of the Gods' is a literary history that attempts to reconstruct the fragments of four theogonies that were attributed to the legendary singer Orpheus: the Derveni, Eudemian, Hieronyman, and Rhapsodic Theogonies. Most modern scholars have described these poems as if they were similar to Hesiod's Theogony-lengthy chronological accounts of the births of the gods from the beginning of time to the present, but this text suggests that a better model for understanding how these poems were composed is to see each of them as an individual product of bricolage (as explained by Claude Lévi-Strauss), rather than as items in the stemma of a static manuscript tradition (as reconstructed by Martin West).
Item Description:	Previously issued in print: 2018.
Physical Description:	1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Audience:	Specialized.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780190663551 0190663553