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Tracing Orpheus

Studies of Orphic Fragments

Raquel Martín Hernández editor Sofia Torallas Tovar editor Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui editor Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal editor Eugenio R Luján Martínez editor Marco Antonio Santamaría Álvarez editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:De Gruyter

Published:22nd Dec '11

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There is hardly a more controversial issue in the study of ancient religion than Orphism. More than two centuries of debate have not closed the subject, since new evidence and divergent approaches have kept appearing regularly. This volume sheds light on the most relevant pieces of evidence for ancient Orphism, collected in the recent edition by Alberto Bernabé. It contains 65 short new studies on Orphic fragments by leading international scholars who comment one of the most controversial phenomena in Antiquity from a plurality of perspectives. Readers will acquire a global vision of the multiple dimensions of the Orphic tradition, as well as many new insights into particular Orphic fragments.

ISBN: 9783110260526

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 803g

468 pages