The Derveni papyrus : unearthing ancient mysteries / edited by Marco Antonio Santamaría.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Santamaría Álvarez, Marco Antonio.

Contributor:

Santamaría Álvarez, Marco Antonio, editor.

Series:

Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava ; v. 36.

Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava, 0169-9652 ; v. 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dionysia.

Greece--Religion.

Greece.

Derveni papyrus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2019

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries is devoted to this fascinating and challenging document, discovered in 1962 in a tomb in Derveni, near Thessaloniki, and dated c. 340-320 BCE. It contains a text probably written at the end of 5th c. BCE, which after some reflections on minor divinities and unusual cults, comments upon a poem attributed to Orpheus from an allegorical and philosophical perspective. This volume focuses on the restoration and conservation of the papyrus, the ideas of the anonymous author about Erinyes and daimons, the quoted Orphic poem in comparison with Hesiod’s Theogony and Parmenides’ poem, the exegetical approach of the commentator, his cosmogonic system, his attitude regarding mystery cults and his peculiar theology.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Contributors

Abbreviations

Introduction / Marco Antonio Santamaría

Conservation and Restoration

Problems Pertaining to the Restoration, Conservation, and Reproduction of the Derveni Papyrus / Roger T. Macfarlane and Gianluca Del Mastro

Reconstruction and Interpretation of the First Six Columns

Some Textual Issues on Column III (ed. Piano) / Valeria Piano

Daimons in the Derveni Papyrus and in Early Stoicism / Carlos Megino Rodríguez

The Orphic Poem

The Orphic Poem of the Derveni Papyrus and Hesiod’s Theogony / Marco Antonio Santamaría

Ζεὺς µοῦνος and Parmenides’ What-is / Chiara Ferella

The Interpretation of the Poem: Exegesis and Cosmogony

Misleading and Unclear to the Many: Allegory in the Derveni Papyrus and the Orphic Theogony of Hieronymus / Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

The Sage Speaks in Riddles: Notes on Col. VII of the Derveni Papyrus / Sofia Ranzato

The Commentary of the Derveni Papyrus: Pre-Socratic Cosmogonies at Work / Alberto Bernabé

The Last Columns

Rites and Officiants in Col. XX of the Derveni Papyrus / Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal

Aphrodite Urania and Uranus Euphronides in the Derveni Papyrus: A Semantic Genealogy / Marisa Tortorelli Ghidini

Back Matter

Bibliography of the Derveni Papyrus (1997–2018)

Index Locorum

Index Nominum et Rerum Notabiliorum

Index Verborum Graecorum.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-38485-5

90-04-38484-7

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004384859 DOI