The Derveni Papyrus is the oldest known European "book." It was
meant to accompany the cremated body in Derveni Tomb A but, by a
stroke of luck, did not burn completely. Considered the most
important discovery for Greek philology in the twentieth century,
the papyrus was found accidentally in 1962 during a public works
project in an uninhabited place about 10 km from Thessaloniki, and
it is now preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.
The papers in Poetry as Initiation discuss a number of open
questions: Who was the author of the papyrus? What is the date of
the text? What is the significance of burying a book with a corpse?
What was the context of the peculiar chthonic ritual described in
the text? Who were its performers? What is the relationship of the
author and the ritual to the so-called Orphic texts?
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