Reconstructing Orphic theogonies / Dwayne A. Meisner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meisner, Dwayne A., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek poetry--History and criticism.

Greek poetry.

Religious poetry, Greek--History and criticism.

Religious poetry, Greek.

Dionysia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Other Title:

Orphic traditions and the birth of the gods

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

'Orphic Traditions 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 text 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).

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780190663544

0190663545

9780190663551

0190663553

9780190663537

0190663537