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Instructions for the Netherworld: The Orphic Gold Tablets [Kietas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Hardback, 380 pages, aukštis x plotis: 235x155 mm, weight: 764 g
  • Serija: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 162
  • Išleidimo metai: 26-Dec-2007
  • Leidėjas: Brill
  • ISBN-10: 9004163719
  • ISBN-13: 9789004163713
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 380 pages, aukštis x plotis: 235x155 mm, weight: 764 g
  • Serija: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 162
  • Išleidimo metai: 26-Dec-2007
  • Leidėjas: Brill
  • ISBN-10: 9004163719
  • ISBN-13: 9789004163713
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Orphic gold tables are key documents for the knowledge of rites and beliefs of Orphics, an atypical group that configured a highly original creed and that influenced powerfully over other Greek writers and thinkers. The recent discovery of some tablets has forced a noteworthy modification of some points of view and a review ofthe different hypothesis proposed about them. The book presents a complete edition of the texts, their translation and some fundamental keys for their interpretation, in an attempt at updating our current knowledge on Orphic ideas about the soul and the Afterlife stated in those texts. The work is improved with an appendix of iconographic annotations in which some plastic representations in drawings are reproduced related to the universe of tablets, selected and commented on by Ricardo Olmos.
Preface to the English Edition xi
Introduction 1
0.1. The gold tablets
1
0.2. External aspects of the tablets
2
0.3. The texts: a brief approximation of their contents
4
0.4. Sketch of a typology of the tablets. Our grouping
6
0.5. Editions
8
Chapter One. Arrival in the Subterranean World (The Tablets from Hipponion, Entella, Petelia and Pharsalus and the Reduced Versions, L 1-6) 9
TRANSLATION OF TABLETS L 1-6
9
COMMENTARIES
12
1.1. A textual problem
12
1.2. Mnemosyne
15
1.3. Crossing over to the other world
19
1.4. The cypress of the underworld
25
1.5. The thirst of the dead and the two fountains
29
1.6. The soul faced by the guardians
35
1.7. Continuing journey
48
1.8. The sacred way
50
1.9. Mystai and bacchoi
52
1.10. The Orphic model and the Platonic model
53
1.11. Instructions for use?
55
1.12. Short versions: the Cretan tablets
56
1.13. The relation between the long and the shorter tablets
58
1.14. Gender hesitations
59
Chapter Two. A Ritual for the Dead: The Tablets froni Pelinna (L lab) 61
TRANSLATION 01."TABLETS L 7AB FROM PELINNA
61
COMMENTARIES
62
2.1. Structure of the text
62
2.2. A death that is life
64
2.3. The soul liberated by Dionysus
66
2.4. The formulas of the animal fallen in the milk
76
2.5. Wine
84
2.6. The rites completed
90
Chapter Three. Best Wishes for Accompanying the Soul to the Other World: A Tablet from Thurii (L 8) 95
TRANSLATION OF TABLET 8 FROM THURII
95
COMMENTARIES
96
3.1. The difficult reading of verse 2
96
3.2. The formula of salutation
96
3.3. The great experience
97
Chapter Four. Before Persephone: More Tablets from Thurii (L 9-10ab) 99
TRANSLATION OF TABLETS 9 AND 10AB FROM THURII
99
COMMENTARIES
100
4.1. The introductory formula
100
4.2. The reference to punishment
105
4.3. Fate and the lightning of Zeus
109
4.4. Two variants at the end: a) the supplication to Persephone
115
4.5. b) The second variant: the cycle, the crown, and the lap of the goddess
117
Chapter Five. A Tablet in Imperial Rome (L 11) 133
TRANSLATION OF TABLET 11 FROM ROME
133
COMMENTARIES
133
5.1. Change of person in the sacred formula
133
5.2. The deceased woman called by name
135
Chapter Six. A "Word Search Puzzle" for Deceiving Non-Initiates: The "Great" Tablet from Thurii (L 12) 137
TRANSLATION OF TABLET 12 FROM THURII
137
COMMENTARIES
138
6.1. A disconcerting discovery
138
6.2. A proposal for a new reading
139
6.3. Sacred formulas among meaningless letters. Some parallels
141
6.4. Reconstruction of the religious background
149
Chapter Seven. Passwords to Accede to the Meadow of the Blessed and a Prayer to Persephone: The Tablets from Pherai (L 13 and 13A) 151
TRANSLATION OF THE TABLETS FROM PHERAI (L 13 AND 13A)
151
COMMENTARIES
152
7.1. The passwords
152
7.2. The names used as passwords
154
7.3. The effects of the passwords
157
Chapter Eight. Other Tablets (L 14-16) 161
TRANSLATION OF TABLETS L 14-16
161
COMMENTARIES
163
8.1. Greetings to Plato and Persephone: tablets from Milopotamus (L 15), Rethymno (L 14), and Heraclea (L 15a)
163
8.2. Identifications of the mystai; tablets from Pella and other places
164
8.3. The tablet from Manisa and other documents that cannot be attributed to the Orphics
166
Chapter Nine. The Soul's Final Destiny. Results and Conclusions 169
9.1. Recapitulation. Mentions of the soul's destiny
169
9.2. Previous conditions
171
9.3. The scenario of the happy life
174
9.4. Characteristics of the afterlife
177
Chapter Ten. The Central Question: Are the Gold Leaves Orphic? 179
10.1. Discussions of the religious atmosphere of the tablets
179
10.2. Argument from authorship
181
10.3. The Geography of the tablets
183
10.4. Belonging to a mystery ambience
185
10.5. Purity and justice
190
10.6. The gods in the tablets and in other Orphic texts
192
10.7. Iconography
195
10.8. Colophon
204
Chapter Eleven. Parallels to the Tablets in Other Cultures 207
11.1. Introduction
207
11.2. The Egyptian "Book of the Dead"
207
11.3. A Hittite parallel: the "Great voyage of the soul"
209
11.4. Indian parallels
217
11.5. Parallels in the Iranian world
221
11.6. "Tablets" in the Italian environment
224
11.7. A tablet in Gallia
225
11.8. The 'Punic' tablets
225
11.9. Echoes in modern times
226
Chapter Twelve. Literary Questions: Characteristics, Models and Archetypes 227
12.1. Problems of a literary nature
227
12.2. Functional texts
230
12.3. The possible model of the tablets
231
12.4. The tablets' relation to ritual
233
12.5. Various uses of the tablets
236
12.6. The relation between use and appearance or thematic motifs
239
APPENDIX I. EDITION OF THE TABLETS 241
APPENDIX II. ICONOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON THE ORPHIC
TABLETS. Selection of illustrations and commentaries by Ricardo Olmos. Drawings by Sara Olmos
273
Bibliography 327
Index Locorum 347
General Index 360
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).