This is a comprehensive study of the Derveni Papyrus. The papyrus,
found in 1962 near Thessaloniki, is not only one of the oldest
surviving Greek papyri but is also considered by scholars as a
document of primary importance for a better understanding of the
religious and philosophical developments in the fifth and fourth
centuries BC. Gabor Betegh aims to reconstruct and systematically
analyse the different strata of the text and their interrelation by
exploring the archaeological context; the interpretation of rituals
in the first columns of the text; the Orphic poem commented on by
the author of the papyrus; and the cosmological and theological
doctrines which emerge from the Derveni author's exegesis of the
poem. Betegh discusses the place of the text in the context of late
Presocratic philosophy and offers an important preliminary edition
of the text of the papyrus with critical apparatus and English
translation.
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