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Redefining Ancient Orphism - A Study in Greek Religion (Hardcover, New)
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Redefining Ancient Orphism - A Study in Greek Religion (Hardcover, New)
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This book examines the fragmentary and contradictory evidence for
Orpheus as the author of rites and poems to redefine Orphism as a
label applied polemically to extra-ordinary religious phenomena.
Replacing older models of an Orphic religion, this richer and more
complex model provides insight into the boundaries of normal and
abnormal Greek religion. The study traces the construction of the
category of 'Orphic' from its first appearances in the Classical
period, through the centuries of philosophical and religious
polemics, especially in the formation of early Christianity and
again in the debates over the origins of Christianity in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A paradigm shift in the study
of Greek religion, this study provides scholars of classics, early
Christianity, ancient religion and philosophy with a new model for
understanding the nature of ancient Orphism, including ideas of
afterlife, cosmogony, sacred scriptures, rituals of purification
and initiation, and exotic mythology.
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