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The Orphic Hymns
Aposto Athanassakis
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Description for The Orphic Hymns
Paperback. Wolkow have produced an accurate and elegant translation accompanied by rich commentary. Translator(s): Athanassakis, Apostolos N.; Wolkow, Benjamin M. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 416.
At the very beginnings of the Archaic Age, the great singer Orpheus taught a new religion that centered around the immortality of the human soul and its journey after death. He felt that achieving purity by avoiding meat and refraining from committing harm further promoted the pursuit of a peaceful life. Elements of the worship of Dionysus, such as shape-shifting and ritualistic ecstasy, were fused with Orphic beliefs to produce a powerful and illuminating new religion that found expression in the mystery cults. Practitioners of this new religion composed a great body of poetry, much of which is translated in ... Read more
At the very beginnings of the Archaic Age, the great singer Orpheus taught a new religion that centered around the immortality of the human soul and its journey after death. He felt that achieving purity by avoiding meat and refraining from committing harm further promoted the pursuit of a peaceful life. Elements of the worship of Dionysus, such as shape-shifting and ritualistic ecstasy, were fused with Orphic beliefs to produce a powerful and illuminating new religion that found expression in the mystery cults. Practitioners of this new religion composed a great body of poetry, much of which is translated in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421408828
SKU
V9781421408828
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About Aposto Athanassakis
Apostolos N. Athanassakis is the Argyropoulos Chair in Hellenic Studies and a professor emeritus of classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the translator of several books, including Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield and The Homeric Hymns, both published by Johns Hopkins. Benjamin M. Wolkow is a lecturer in the Classics Department of the ... Read more
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