{"product_id":"orphee-poemes-magiques-et-cosmologiques","title":"Orpheus: Magical and Cosmological Poems.","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\n \u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e In this volume, the reader will find:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e • a selection of more than 250 ancient testimonies on Orpheus, which highlight the diversity of this divine figure.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e • all the oldest attestations of Orphic doctrines in the \u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5th\u003c\/sup\u003e -6th \u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecenturies\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecenturies BC \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e• the texts of the main Orphic tablets on gold and silver plates discovered in Magna Graecia.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e • the Derveni papyrus, a sensational discovery in the 1960s, which provides direct access to an Orphic text from the 4th \u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecentury\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecentury BC\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e • a diagram of the transmission of Orphic theogonies.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e • the various variants of Theogony.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e • 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e • a bibliographical overview of textual and epigraphic sources.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e • a bibliographic orientation to go further.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e • an index of the passages cited.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antinoë","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47358899519812,"sku":"30079","price":21.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/4043\/6408\/files\/p1.svg?v=1699548169","url":"https:\/\/anttopinoe.com\/en-en\/products\/orphee-poemes-magiques-et-cosmologiques","provider":"Antinoë","version":"1.0","type":"link"}