Instructions for the netherworld : the Orphic gold tablets / by Alberto Bernabe, Ana Isabel Jimenez San Cristobal ; with an iconographical appendix by Ricardo Olmos and illustrations by Sara Olmos ; translated by Michael Chase.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernabé Pajares, Alberto.

Contributor:

Jiménez San Cristóbal, Ana Isabel.

Series:

Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 162.

Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, 0927-7633 ; v. 162

Standardized Title:

Instrucciones para el mas allá. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dionysia.

Tablets (Paleography).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (391 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Orphic gold tables are key documents for the knowledge of rites and beliefs of Orphics, an atypical group that configured a highly original creed and that influenced powerfully over other Greek writers and thinkers. The recent discovery of some tablets has forced a noteworthy modification of some points of view and a review ofthe different hypothesis proposed about them. The book presents a complete edition of the texts, their translation and some fundamental keys for their interpretation, in an attempt at updating our current knowledge on Orphic ideas about the soul and the Afterlife stated in those texts. The work is improved with an appendix of iconographic annotations in which some plastic representations in drawings are reproduced related to the universe of tablets, selected and commented on by Ricardo Olmos.

Contents:

Preliminary Materials / A. Bernabé and Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal

Introduction / A. Bernabé and Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal

Chapter One. Arrival In The Subterranean World (The Tablets From Hipponion, Entella, Petelia And Pharsalus And The Reduced Versions, L 1–6) / A. Bernabé and Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal

Chapter Two. A Ritual For The Dead: The Tablets From Pelinna (L 7AB) / A. Bernabé and Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal

Chapter Three. Best Wishes For Accompanying The Soul To The Other World: A Tablet From Thurii (L 8) / A. Bernabé and Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal

Chapter Four. Before Persephone: More Tablets From Thurii (L 9–10AB) / A. Bernabé and Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal

Chapter Five. A Tablet In Imperial Rome (L 11) / A. Bernabé and Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal

Chapter Six. A "Word Search Puzzle" For Deceiving Non-Initiates: The "Great" Tablet From Thurii (L 12) / A. Bernabé and Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal

Chapter Seven. Passwords To Accede To The Meadow Of The Blessed And A Prayer To Persephone: The Tablets From Pherai (L 13 And 13a) / A. Bernabé and Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal

Chapter Eight. Other Tablets (L 14–16) / A. Bernabé and Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal

Chapter Nine. The Soul’s Final Destiny. Results And Conclusions / A. Bernabé and Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal

Chapter Ten. The Central Question: Are The Gold Leaves Orphic? / A. Bernabé and Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal

Chapter Eleven. Parallels To The Tablets In Other Cultures / A. Bernabé and Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal

Chapter Twelve. Literary Questions: Characteristics, Models And Archetypes / A. Bernabé and Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal

Appendix I. Edition Of The Tablets / A. Bernabé and Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal

Appendix II. Iconographical Notes On The Orphic Tablets. Selection Of Illustrations And Commentaries By Ricardo Olmos. Drawings by Sara Olmos / A. Bernabé and Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal

Bibliography / A. Bernabé and Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal

Index Locorum / A. Bernabé and Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal

General Index / A. Bernabé and Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-346) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-281-93700-2

9786611937003

90-474-2374-7

OCLC:

441826973

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004163713.i-379 DOI