Orpheus And Greek Religion
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Author | : William Keith Guthrie |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1993-10-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0691024995 |
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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.
Author | : Radcliffe G. Edmonds III |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2013-11-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107038219 |
Download Redefining Ancient Orphism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In a paradigm shift, this book redefines Orphism as a polemical label for extra-ordinary religion, good or bad.
Author | : Jane Ellen Harrison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 716 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Cults |
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Download Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : William Dameron Guthrie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 1935 |
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Author | : William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
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Release | : 1955 |
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Author | : Jan N. Bremmer |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004164731 |
Download Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Author | : William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
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Release | : 1935 |
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Download Orpheus and Greek Religion. A Study of the Orphic Movement. With ... Plates, Etc Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : William Keith Guthrie |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1993-10-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780691024998 |
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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.
Author | : Carl A. Huffman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 659 |
Release | : 2014-04-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139915983 |
Download A History of Pythagoreanism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Algis Uždavinys |
Publisher | : The Matheson Trust |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1908092076 |
Download Orpheus and the Roots of Platonism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.