Orpheus: Magical and Cosmological Poems.
The Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 30079 |
| Format | 13.5 x 21 |
| Détails | 180 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251454870 |
For the Ancients, Orpheus was a poet, and one of the greatest, a founder of mysteries, a soothsayer, a musician, a singer, capable of conquering death, but who was tragically killed by women. If the texts of Orpheus are of fundamental importance, it is because we find there a Revelation prior to any other, for Orpheus speaks directly under the inspiration of the gods. This Revelation gives the key to the creation of the world and of man; it establishes the principle of the immortality of the soul and founds the initiatory ritual practices that can lead human beings to immortality.
In this volume, the reader will find:
• a selection of more than 250 ancient testimonies on Orpheus, which highlight the diversity of this divine figure.
• all the oldest attestations of Orphic doctrines in the 5th -6th centuries centuries BC
• the texts of the main Orphic tablets on gold and silver plates discovered in Magna Graecia.
• the Derveni papyrus, a sensational discovery in the 1960s, which provides direct access to an Orphic text from the 4th century century BC
• a diagram of the transmission of Orphic theogonies.
• the various variants of Theogony.
• a complete translation of the Rhapsodies in Cantos XXIV. In this translation, we not only give the poetic texts, often of rare beauty, but all the contexts, in which the Neoplatonic authors developed their subtle exegeses of these texts.
• a bibliographical overview of textual and epigraphic sources.
• a bibliographic orientation to go further.
• an index of the passages cited.
For the Ancients, Orpheus was a poet, and one of the greatest, a founder of mysteries, a soothsayer, a musician, a singer, capable of conquering death, but who was tragically killed by women. If the texts of Orpheus are of fundamental importance, it is because we find there a Revelation prior to any other, for Orpheus speaks directly under the inspiration of the gods. This Revelation gives the key to the creation of the world and of man; it establishes the principle of the immortality of the soul and founds the initiatory ritual practices that can lead human beings to immortality.
In this volume, the reader will find:
• a selection of more than 250 ancient testimonies on Orpheus, which highlight the diversity of this divine figure.
• all the oldest attestations of Orphic doctrines in the 5th -6th centuries centuries BC
• the texts of the main Orphic tablets on gold and silver plates discovered in Magna Graecia.
• the Derveni papyrus, a sensational discovery in the 1960s, which provides direct access to an Orphic text from the 4th century century BC
• a diagram of the transmission of Orphic theogonies.
• the various variants of Theogony.
• a complete translation of the Rhapsodies in Cantos XXIV. In this translation, we not only give the poetic texts, often of rare beauty, but all the contexts, in which the Neoplatonic authors developed their subtle exegeses of these texts.
• a bibliographical overview of textual and epigraphic sources.
• a bibliographic orientation to go further.
• an index of the passages cited.