Author: William Keith Guthrie
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691024998
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The tales told of Orpheus are legion. He is said to have been an Argonaut--and to have saved Jason's life. Rivers are reported to have stopped their flow to listen to the sounds of his lyre and his voice. Plato cites his poetry and Herodotus refers to "practices that are called Orphic." Did Orpheus, in fact, exist? His influence on Greek thought is undeniable, but his disciples left little of substance behind them. Indeed, their Orphic precepts have been lost to time. W.K.C. Guthrie attempts to uncover and define Orphism by following its circuitous path through ancient history. He tackles this daunting task with the determination of a detective and the analytical rigor of a classical scholar. He ferries his readers with him on a singular voyage of discovery.
Orpheus and Greek Religion
Author: William Keith Guthrie
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691024998
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The tales told of Orpheus are legion. He is said to have been an Argonaut--and to have saved Jason's life. Rivers are reported to have stopped their flow to listen to the sounds of his lyre and his voice. Plato cites his poetry and Herodotus refers to "practices that are called Orphic." Did Orpheus, in fact, exist? His influence on Greek thought is undeniable, but his disciples left little of substance behind them. Indeed, their Orphic precepts have been lost to time. W.K.C. Guthrie attempts to uncover and define Orphism by following its circuitous path through ancient history. He tackles this daunting task with the determination of a detective and the analytical rigor of a classical scholar. He ferries his readers with him on a singular voyage of discovery.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691024998
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The tales told of Orpheus are legion. He is said to have been an Argonaut--and to have saved Jason's life. Rivers are reported to have stopped their flow to listen to the sounds of his lyre and his voice. Plato cites his poetry and Herodotus refers to "practices that are called Orphic." Did Orpheus, in fact, exist? His influence on Greek thought is undeniable, but his disciples left little of substance behind them. Indeed, their Orphic precepts have been lost to time. W.K.C. Guthrie attempts to uncover and define Orphism by following its circuitous path through ancient history. He tackles this daunting task with the determination of a detective and the analytical rigor of a classical scholar. He ferries his readers with him on a singular voyage of discovery.
Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion
Author: Jane Ellen Harrison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cults
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cults
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Redefining Ancient Orphism
Author: Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107038219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
In a paradigm shift, this book redefines Orphism as a polemical label for extra-ordinary religion, good or bad.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107038219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
In a paradigm shift, this book redefines Orphism as a polemical label for extra-ordinary religion, good or bad.
Greek Religion
Author: Walter Burkert
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118724976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
"Greek Religion . . . already has the standing of a classic, and the publication of an English version, which incorporates new material and is in effect a second edition, demands a toast . . . Anyone who pretends to survey Greek religion must be phenomenally learned. Burkert is. His book is a marvel of professional scholarship." London Review of Books "This book has established itself as a masterpiece, packed with learning but also rich in ideas and connections of every sort. Its appearance in a good English translation is an event not only for Hellenists but for all those interested in the study of religion . . . nobody else could have produced an account of the subject of comparable range and power. This will be the best history of Greek religion for this generation." New York Review of Books Cover illustration: detail from an Attic vase, 450 B.C., showing a victory sacrifice (The Mansell Collection).
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118724976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
"Greek Religion . . . already has the standing of a classic, and the publication of an English version, which incorporates new material and is in effect a second edition, demands a toast . . . Anyone who pretends to survey Greek religion must be phenomenally learned. Burkert is. His book is a marvel of professional scholarship." London Review of Books "This book has established itself as a masterpiece, packed with learning but also rich in ideas and connections of every sort. Its appearance in a good English translation is an event not only for Hellenists but for all those interested in the study of religion . . . nobody else could have produced an account of the subject of comparable range and power. This will be the best history of Greek religion for this generation." New York Review of Books Cover illustration: detail from an Attic vase, 450 B.C., showing a victory sacrifice (The Mansell Collection).
Orphism
Author: J. R. Watmough
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107497426
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
This book contains the Cromer Greek Prize-winning essay for 1934 on the subject of the still little-understood Greek religion Orphism. Watmough examines Orpheus and Orphism through a distinctly Protestant lens, arguing that both were religions 'of reform' sharing similar views on asceticism and the wages of sin in the afterlife.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107497426
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
This book contains the Cromer Greek Prize-winning essay for 1934 on the subject of the still little-understood Greek religion Orphism. Watmough examines Orpheus and Orphism through a distinctly Protestant lens, arguing that both were religions 'of reform' sharing similar views on asceticism and the wages of sin in the afterlife.
Orpheus and the Roots of Platonism
Author: Algis Uždavinys
Publisher: The Matheson Trust
ISBN: 1908092076
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
A book on the religious, mystic origins and substance of philosophy. This is a critical survey of ancient and modern sources and of scholarly works dealing with Orpheus and everything related to this major figure of ancient Greek myth, religion and philosophy. Here poetic madness meets religious initiation and Platonic philosophy. This book contains fascinating insights into the usually downplaid relations between Egyptian initiation, Greek mysteries and Plato's philosophy and followers, right into Hellenistic Neoplatonic and Hermetic developments.
Publisher: The Matheson Trust
ISBN: 1908092076
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
A book on the religious, mystic origins and substance of philosophy. This is a critical survey of ancient and modern sources and of scholarly works dealing with Orpheus and everything related to this major figure of ancient Greek myth, religion and philosophy. Here poetic madness meets religious initiation and Platonic philosophy. This book contains fascinating insights into the usually downplaid relations between Egyptian initiation, Greek mysteries and Plato's philosophy and followers, right into Hellenistic Neoplatonic and Hermetic developments.
Orpheus and Greek Religion
Author: William Keith Chambers Guthrie
Publisher: New York : Norton, [1966, i.e. 1967]
ISBN:
Category : Cults
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Norton, [1966, i.e. 1967]
ISBN:
Category : Cults
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East
Author: Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004164731
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
This book greatly enhances our knowledge of the interrelationship of Greek religion & culture and the Ancient Near East by offering important analyses of Greek myths, divinities and terms like a ~magica (TM) and 'paradise', but also of the Greek contribution to the Christian notion of atonement.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004164731
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
This book greatly enhances our knowledge of the interrelationship of Greek religion & culture and the Ancient Near East by offering important analyses of Greek myths, divinities and terms like a ~magica (TM) and 'paradise', but also of the Greek contribution to the Christian notion of atonement.
A History of Pythagoreanism
Author: Carl A. Huffman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139915983
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
This is a comprehensive, authoritative and innovative account of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism, one of the most enigmatic and influential philosophies in the West. In twenty-one chapters covering a timespan from the sixth century BC to the seventeenth century AD, leading scholars construct a number of different images of Pythagoras and his community, assessing current scholarship and offering new answers to central problems. Chapters are devoted to the early Pythagoreans, and the full breadth of Pythagorean thought is explored including politics, religion, music theory, science, mathematics and magic. Separate chapters consider Pythagoreanism in Plato, Aristotle, the Peripatetics and the later Academic tradition, while others describe Pythagoreanism in the historical tradition, in Rome and in the pseudo-Pythagorean writings. The three great lives of Pythagoras by Diogenes Laertius, Porphyry and Iamblichus are also discussed in detail, as is the significance of Pythagoras for the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139915983
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
This is a comprehensive, authoritative and innovative account of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism, one of the most enigmatic and influential philosophies in the West. In twenty-one chapters covering a timespan from the sixth century BC to the seventeenth century AD, leading scholars construct a number of different images of Pythagoras and his community, assessing current scholarship and offering new answers to central problems. Chapters are devoted to the early Pythagoreans, and the full breadth of Pythagorean thought is explored including politics, religion, music theory, science, mathematics and magic. Separate chapters consider Pythagoreanism in Plato, Aristotle, the Peripatetics and the later Academic tradition, while others describe Pythagoreanism in the historical tradition, in Rome and in the pseudo-Pythagorean writings. The three great lives of Pythagoras by Diogenes Laertius, Porphyry and Iamblichus are also discussed in detail, as is the significance of Pythagoras for the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
The 'Orphic' Gold Tablets and Greek Religion
Author: Radcliffe G. Edmonds
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521518318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Examines new methodologies used in the study of these tablets. Includes an updated edition and translation of the tablet texts.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521518318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Examines new methodologies used in the study of these tablets. Includes an updated edition and translation of the tablet texts.