Instructions for the Netherworld: The Orphic Gold Tablets: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, cartea 162
Autor Alberto Bernabé, Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbalen Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 dec 2007
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789004163713
ISBN-10: 9004163719
Pagini: 380
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Religions in the Graeco-Roman World
ISBN-10: 9004163719
Pagini: 380
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Religions in the Graeco-Roman World
Notă biografică
Alberto Bernabé, Ph. D. (1973) in Classical Philology, University Complutense, Madrid, is Professor of Ancient Greek at the same University. He has published extensively on Orphic Texts including the edition of the Orphic Testimonies and Fragments in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana (2004-2005).
Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal, Ph. D. (2002) in Classical Philology, University Complutense, Madrid, is Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek at the same University. She has published extensively on Orphic Texts including her Ph. D. and published Rituales órficos (Universidad Complutense, 2002).
Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal, Ph. D. (2002) in Classical Philology, University Complutense, Madrid, is Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek at the same University. She has published extensively on Orphic Texts including her Ph. D. and published Rituales órficos (Universidad Complutense, 2002).
Cuprins
INTRODUCTION
0.1. The gold tablets
0.2. External aspects of the tablets
0.3. The texts: a brief approximation of their contents
0.4. Sketch of a typology of the tablets. Our grouping
0.5. Editions
I. ARRIVAL IN THE SUBTERRANEAN WORLD (The Tablets from Hipponion, Entella, Petelia and Pharsalus and the Reduced Versions, L 1-6)
TRANSLATION OF TABLETS L 1-6
COMMENTARIES
1.1.A textual problem
1.2.Mnemosyne
1.3.Crossing over to the other world
1.4.The cypress of the underworld
1.5.The thirst of the dead and the two fountains
1.6.The soul faced by the guardians
1.7.Continuing journey
1.8.The sacred way
1.9.Mystai and bacchoi
1.10.The Orphic model and the Platonic model
1.11.Instructions for use?
1.12.Short versions: the Cretan tablets
1.13.The relation between the long and the shorter tablets
1.14.Gender hesitations
II. A RITUAL FOR THE DEAD: THE TABLETS FROM PELINNA (L 7AB)
TRANSLATION OF TABLETS 7AB FROM PELINNA
COMMENTARIES
2.1. Structure of the text
2.2. A death that is life
2.3. The soul liberated by Dionysus
2.4. The formulas of the animal fallen in the milk
2.5. Wine
2.6. The rites completed
III. BEST WISHES FOR ACCOMPANYING THE SOUL TO THE OTHER WORLD: A TABLET FROM THURII (L. 8)
TRANSLATION OF TABLET 8 FROM THURII
COMMENTARIES
3.1. The difficult reading of verse 2
3.2. The formula of salutation
3.3. The great experience
IV. BEFORE PERSEPHONE: MORE TABLETS FROM THURII (L 9-10AB)
TRANSLATION OF TABLETS 9 AND 10AB FROM THURII
COMMENTARIES
4.1. The introductory formula
4.2. The reference to punishment
4.3. Fate and the lightning of Zeus
4.4. Two variants at the end: a) the supplication to Persephone
4.5. b) The second variant: the cycle, the crown, and the lap of the goddess
V. A TABLET IN IMPERIAL ROME (L 11)
TRANSLATION OF TABLET 11 FROM ROME
COMMENTARIES
5.1. Change of person in the sacred formula
5.2. The deceased woman called by name
VI. A «WORD SEARCH PUZZLE» FOR DECEIVING NON-INITIATES: THE «GREAT» TABLET FROM THURII (L 12)
TRANSLATION OF TABLET 12 FROM THURII
COMMENTARIES
6.1. A disconcerting discovery
6.2. A new reading proposal
6.3. Sacred formulas among meaningless letters. Some parallels
6.4. Reconstruction of the religious background
VII. PASSWORDS TO ACCEDE TO THE MEADOW OF THE BLESSED AND A PRAYER TO PERSEPHONE: THE TABLETS FROM PHERAI (L 13 AND 13A)
TRANSLATION OF THE TABLETS FROM PHERAI (L 13 AND 13A)
COMMENTARIES
7.1. The passwords
7.2. The names used as passwords
7.3. The effects of the passwords
VIII. OTHER TABLETS (L 14-16)
TRANSLATION OF TABLETS L 14-16
COMMENTARIES
8.1. Greetings to Plato and Persephone: tablets from Milopotamus (L 15), Rethymno (L 14), and Heraclea (L 15a)
8.2. Identifications of the mystai; tablets from Pella and other places
8.3. The tablet from Manisa and other documents that cannot be attributed to the Orphics
IX. THE SOUL'S FINAL DESTINY. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS
9.1. Recapitulation. Mentions of the soul's destiny
9.2. Previous conditions
9.3. The scenario of the happy life
9.4. Characteristics of the afterlife
X. THE CENTRAL QUESTION: ARE THE GOLD LEAVES ORPHIC?
10.1. Discussions of the religious atmosphere of the tablets
10.2. Argument from authorship
10.3. The Geography of the tablets
10.4. Belonging to a mysteric ambiance
10.5. Purity and justice
10.6. The gods in the tablets and in other Orphic texts
10.7. Iconography
10.8. Colophon
XI. PARALLELS TO THE TABLETS IN OTHER CULTURES
11.1. Introduction
11.2. The Egyptian «Book of the Dead»
11.3. A Hittite parallel: the «Great voyage of the soul».
11.4. Indian parallels
11.5. Parallels in the Iranian world
11.6. «Tablets» in the Italian environment
11.7. A tablet in Gallia
11.8. The 'Punic' tablets
11.9. Echoes in modern time
XII. LITERARY QUESTIONS: CHARACTERISTICS, MODELS AND ARCHETYPES
12.1. Problems of a literary nature
12.2. Functional texts
12.3. The possible model of the tablets
12.4. The tablets' relation to ritual
12. 5 Various uses of the tablets
12.6. The relation of use and forms of appearance or with thematic motifs
APPENDIX I. EDITION OF THE TABLETS
APPENDIX II. ICONOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON THE ORPHIC TABLETS
Selection of illustrations and commentaries by Ricardo Olmos, CSIC; Drawings by Sara Olmos
Index locorum
0.1. The gold tablets
0.2. External aspects of the tablets
0.3. The texts: a brief approximation of their contents
0.4. Sketch of a typology of the tablets. Our grouping
0.5. Editions
I. ARRIVAL IN THE SUBTERRANEAN WORLD (The Tablets from Hipponion, Entella, Petelia and Pharsalus and the Reduced Versions, L 1-6)
TRANSLATION OF TABLETS L 1-6
COMMENTARIES
1.1.A textual problem
1.2.Mnemosyne
1.3.Crossing over to the other world
1.4.The cypress of the underworld
1.5.The thirst of the dead and the two fountains
1.6.The soul faced by the guardians
1.7.Continuing journey
1.8.The sacred way
1.9.Mystai and bacchoi
1.10.The Orphic model and the Platonic model
1.11.Instructions for use?
1.12.Short versions: the Cretan tablets
1.13.The relation between the long and the shorter tablets
1.14.Gender hesitations
II. A RITUAL FOR THE DEAD: THE TABLETS FROM PELINNA (L 7AB)
TRANSLATION OF TABLETS 7AB FROM PELINNA
COMMENTARIES
2.1. Structure of the text
2.2. A death that is life
2.3. The soul liberated by Dionysus
2.4. The formulas of the animal fallen in the milk
2.5. Wine
2.6. The rites completed
III. BEST WISHES FOR ACCOMPANYING THE SOUL TO THE OTHER WORLD: A TABLET FROM THURII (L. 8)
TRANSLATION OF TABLET 8 FROM THURII
COMMENTARIES
3.1. The difficult reading of verse 2
3.2. The formula of salutation
3.3. The great experience
IV. BEFORE PERSEPHONE: MORE TABLETS FROM THURII (L 9-10AB)
TRANSLATION OF TABLETS 9 AND 10AB FROM THURII
COMMENTARIES
4.1. The introductory formula
4.2. The reference to punishment
4.3. Fate and the lightning of Zeus
4.4. Two variants at the end: a) the supplication to Persephone
4.5. b) The second variant: the cycle, the crown, and the lap of the goddess
V. A TABLET IN IMPERIAL ROME (L 11)
TRANSLATION OF TABLET 11 FROM ROME
COMMENTARIES
5.1. Change of person in the sacred formula
5.2. The deceased woman called by name
VI. A «WORD SEARCH PUZZLE» FOR DECEIVING NON-INITIATES: THE «GREAT» TABLET FROM THURII (L 12)
TRANSLATION OF TABLET 12 FROM THURII
COMMENTARIES
6.1. A disconcerting discovery
6.2. A new reading proposal
6.3. Sacred formulas among meaningless letters. Some parallels
6.4. Reconstruction of the religious background
VII. PASSWORDS TO ACCEDE TO THE MEADOW OF THE BLESSED AND A PRAYER TO PERSEPHONE: THE TABLETS FROM PHERAI (L 13 AND 13A)
TRANSLATION OF THE TABLETS FROM PHERAI (L 13 AND 13A)
COMMENTARIES
7.1. The passwords
7.2. The names used as passwords
7.3. The effects of the passwords
VIII. OTHER TABLETS (L 14-16)
TRANSLATION OF TABLETS L 14-16
COMMENTARIES
8.1. Greetings to Plato and Persephone: tablets from Milopotamus (L 15), Rethymno (L 14), and Heraclea (L 15a)
8.2. Identifications of the mystai; tablets from Pella and other places
8.3. The tablet from Manisa and other documents that cannot be attributed to the Orphics
IX. THE SOUL'S FINAL DESTINY. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS
9.1. Recapitulation. Mentions of the soul's destiny
9.2. Previous conditions
9.3. The scenario of the happy life
9.4. Characteristics of the afterlife
X. THE CENTRAL QUESTION: ARE THE GOLD LEAVES ORPHIC?
10.1. Discussions of the religious atmosphere of the tablets
10.2. Argument from authorship
10.3. The Geography of the tablets
10.4. Belonging to a mysteric ambiance
10.5. Purity and justice
10.6. The gods in the tablets and in other Orphic texts
10.7. Iconography
10.8. Colophon
XI. PARALLELS TO THE TABLETS IN OTHER CULTURES
11.1. Introduction
11.2. The Egyptian «Book of the Dead»
11.3. A Hittite parallel: the «Great voyage of the soul».
11.4. Indian parallels
11.5. Parallels in the Iranian world
11.6. «Tablets» in the Italian environment
11.7. A tablet in Gallia
11.8. The 'Punic' tablets
11.9. Echoes in modern time
XII. LITERARY QUESTIONS: CHARACTERISTICS, MODELS AND ARCHETYPES
12.1. Problems of a literary nature
12.2. Functional texts
12.3. The possible model of the tablets
12.4. The tablets' relation to ritual
12. 5 Various uses of the tablets
12.6. The relation of use and forms of appearance or with thematic motifs
APPENDIX I. EDITION OF THE TABLETS
APPENDIX II. ICONOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON THE ORPHIC TABLETS
Selection of illustrations and commentaries by Ricardo Olmos, CSIC; Drawings by Sara Olmos
Index locorum