The Orphic Pantheon

Author : G. R. S. Mead
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781425314637
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Orphic Pantheon written by G. R. S. Mead and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : George Robert Snow Mead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780916411183
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orphic Pantheon written by George Robert Snow Mead and published by . This book was released on 1984-06-01 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dwayne A. Meisner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190663529
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orphic Tradition and the Birth of the Gods written by Dwayne A. Meisner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Orphic Tradition and the Birth of the Gods is a literary history that attempts to reconstruct the fragments of four theogonies that were attributed to the legendary singer Orpheus: the Derveni, Eudemian, Hieronyman, and Rhapsodic Theogonies. Most modern scholars have described these poems as if they were similar to Hesiod's Theogony—lengthy chronological accounts of the births of the gods from the beginning of time to the present—but this book suggests that a better model for understanding how these poems were composed is to see each of them as an individual product of bricolage (as explained by Claude Lévi-Strauss), rather than as items in the stemma of a static manuscript tradition (as reconstructed by Martin West). The Orphic tradition was more fluid and fragmented than modern reconstructions would lead one to believe, but in these four Orphic theogonies certain features stand out, such as points of comparison with Near Eastern myths, the continuous discourse between Orphic poetry and philosophy, and speculations on the nature of the gods in ways that generated unique deities and new narratives. A study of Orphic theogonies reveals that the Orphic myths of Phanes and Zeus were no less important than the Orphic myth of Dionysus"--

Author : William Keith Guthrie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691024995
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orpheus and Greek Religion written by William Keith Guthrie and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1993-10-10 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tales told of Orpheus are legion. He is said to have been an Argonaut--and to have saved Jason's life. Rivers are reported to have stopped their flow to listen to the sounds of his lyre and his voice. Plato cites his poetry and Herodotus refers to "practices that are called Orphic." Did Orpheus, in fact, exist? His influence on Greek thought is undeniable, but his disciples left little of substance behind them. Indeed, their Orphic precepts have been lost to time. W.K.C. Guthrie attempts to uncover and define Orphism by following its circuitous path through ancient history. He tackles this daunting task with the determination of a detective and the analytical rigor of a classical scholar. He ferries his readers with him on a singular voyage of discovery.

Author : Dwayne A. Meisner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190663537
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orphic Tradition and the Birth of the Gods written by Dwayne A. Meisner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hatching of the Cosmic Egg, the swallowing of Phanes by Zeus, and the murder of Dionysus by the Titans were just a few of the many stories that appeared in ancient Greek epic poems that were thought to have been written by the legendary singer Orpheus. Most of this poetry is now lost, surviving only in the form of brief quotations by Greek philosophers. Orphic Tradition and the Birth of the Gods brings together the scattered fragments of four Orphic theogonies: the Derveni, Eudemian, Hieronyman, and Rhapsodic theogonies. Typically, theogonies are thought to be poetic accounts of the creation of the universe and the births of the gods, leading to the creation of humans and the establishment of the present state of the cosmos. The most famous example is Hesiod's Theogony, which unlike the Orphic theogonies has survived. But did Orphic theogonies look anything like Hesiod's Theogony? Meisner applies a new theoretical model for studying Orphic theogonies and suggests certain features that characterize them as different from Hesiod: the blending of Near Eastern narrative elements that are missing in Hesiod; the probability that these were short hymns, more like the Homeric Hymnsr than Hesiod; and the continuous discourse between myth and philosophy that can be seen in Orphic poems and the philosophers who quote them. Most importantly, this book argues that the Orphic myths of Phanes emerging from the Cosmic Egg and Zeus swallowing Phanes are at least as important as the well-known myth of Dionysus being dismembered by the Titans, long thought to have been the central myth of Orphism. As this book amply demonstrates, Orphic literature was a diverse and ever-changing tradition by which authors were able to think about the most current philosophical ideas through the medium of the most traditional poetic forms.

Author : Alan B. Lloyd
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589519
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What is a God? written by Alan B. Lloyd and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2009-12-31 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent study Greek religion has often dissolved itself into many religions. The eleven original essays here focus both on extremes of the Greek world and on its classical 'centre'. Distinguished scholars examine the earliest traces of religious thought in the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures. Striking similarities are revealed between religious ideas of Greece and of non-Greek Asia. There are special studies of Apollo, Athena, and Dionysiac religion. And new patterns are identified in the archaic and classical thought of Heraclitus, Herodotus and Sophocles.

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Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421408864
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Orphic Hymns written by and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling English translation of the mysterious and cosmic Greek poetry known as the Orphic Hymns. At the very beginnings of the Archaic Age, the great singer Orpheus taught a new religion that centered around the immortality of the human soul and its journey after death. He felt that achieving purity by avoiding meat and refraining from committing harm further promoted the pursuit of a peaceful life. Elements of the worship of Dionysus, such as shape-shifting and ritualistic ecstasy, were fused with Orphic beliefs to produce a powerful and illuminating new religion that found expression in the mystery cults. Practitioners of this new religion composed a great body of poetry, much of which is translated in The Orphic Hymns. The hymns presented in this book were anonymously composed somewhere in Asia Minor, most likely in the middle of the third century AD. At this turbulent time, the Hellenic past was fighting for its survival, while the new Christian faith was spreading everywhere. The Orphic Hymns thus reflect a pious spirituality in the form of traditional literary conventions. The hymns themselves are devoted to specific divinities as well as to cosmic elements. Prefaced with offerings, strings of epithets invoke the various attributes of the divinity and prayers ask for peace and health to the initiate. Apostolos N. Athanassakis and Benjamin M. Wolkow have produced an accurate and elegant translation accompanied by rich commentary.

Author : María José García Blanco
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443889598
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Philosophy and Mystery Cults written by María José García Blanco and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to this book offer a broad vision of the relationships that were established between Greek Philosophy and the Mystery Cults. The authors centre their attention on such thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoic and the Neoplatonist philosophers, who used – and in some cases criticised – doctrinal elements from Mystery Cults, adapting them to their own thinking. Thus, the volume provides a new approach to some of the most renowned Greek philosophers, highlighting the influence that Mystery Cults, such as Orphism, Dionysianism, or the Eleusinian rites, had on the formation of fundamental aspects of their thinking. Given its interdisciplinary character, this book will appeal to a broad academic readership interested in the origin of Hellenic thinking and culture. It will be especially useful for those eager for a deeper approach to two fundamental domains that attract the attention of many Antiquity scholars: Greek philosophy and religion.

Author : George Robert Stow Mead
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230235585
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orpheus written by George Robert Stow Mead and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... VII.--THE ORPHIC PANTHEON. Unaging Time. Orpheus designated the Supreme Cause, although it is in reality ineffable, Chronus (Time). This Time, and with it other ineffable Powers, was prior to Heaven, Uranus (Procl. in CraL, p. 71. Boiss.). The name Chronus closely resembles the name Cronus (Saturn), remarks Proclus (loc. cit., p. 64) suggestively; and in the same passage he says that " ' God-inspired' words Oracles characterize this divinity Cronus as Once Beyond." This may mean that Chronus is ideal Unending Duration, and Cronus Time manifested; though this leaves unexplained the strange term "Once Beyond," which is found in the Chaldsean system. The same statements are found elsewhere in Proclus' works (Tim., i. 86; Theol., i. 28, 68; Parm., vii. 230). And Philo (Quod Mund. Incorr., p. 952, b.) says: "There was once a Time when Cosmos L was not." This is called "Unborn Time, The iEon," by Timseus of Locris (p. 97). It is the "First One, the Supersubstantial, the Ineffable Principle." It may be compared to the Zeryan of the Avesta, the En Suph and Hidden of the Hidden of the Kabalah, the Bythos of the Gnostics, the Unknown Darkness of the Egyptians, and the Parabrahman of the Vedantins. Iether, Chaos And Night. Next come iEther and Chaos, Spirit-Matter, the Bound (irepas) and Infinity (dbmpio) of Plato (Proc., Tim., ii. 117), the Purusha-Prakriti of the Sankhya. Orpheus calls this-.Ether the Mighty Whirlpool--mXwpiov xp-a-(Simplicius, Ausc., iv. 123); called Magna Vorago by Syrianus Metaph., ii. 33. a). And Proclus (Tim., ii. 117), speaking of Chaos, says: "The last Infinity, by which also Matter (vXrj) is circumscribed--is the Container, the field and plane of ideas. About her is 'neither limit, nor foundation, nor seat, but excessive...

Author : William Godwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pantheon; or, Ancient History of the Gods of Greece and Rome ... For the use of schools, and young persons of both sexes ... With engravings, etc written by William Godwin and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: