Ritual texts for the afterlife : Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets / Fritz Graf and Sarah Iles Johnston.

  • Graf, Fritz.
Date:
2013
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

London : Routledge, 2013.

Physical description

xii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Contributors

Edition

Second edition.

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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-272) and indexes.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    JIB.328.AA1
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ISBN

  • 9780415508025
  • 0415508029