Poetry as initiation : the Center for Hellenic Studies symposium on the Derveni papyrus
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Poetry as initiation : the Center for Hellenic Studies symposium on the Derveni papyrus
(Hellenic studies, 63)
Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harverd University , Harbard University Press [distributor], 2014
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Includes bibliographical references
Contents of Works
- Introduction : Testing our tool : open questions on the Derveni papyrus / Ioanna Papadopoulou
- Some desiderata in the study of the Derveni papyrus / Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou
- On the rites described and commented upon in the Derveni papyrus, Columns I-VI / Alberto Bernabé
- Democritus, Heraclitus, and the dead souls : reconstructing columns I-IV of the Derveni papyrus / Franco Ferrari
- Derveni and ritual / Fritz Graf
- Divination in the Derveni papyrus / Sarah Iles Johnston
- How to learn about souls : the Derveni papyrus and Democritus / Walter Burkert
- Unlocking the Orphic doors : interpretation of poetry in the Derveni papryus between Presocratics and Alexandrians / Jeffrey Rusten
- The Derveni papyrus and the Bacchic-Orphic epistomia / Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos
- The Derveni papyrus between the power of spoken language and written practice : pragmatics of initiation in an Orpheus poem and its commentary / Claude Calame
- "Riddles over riddles" : "mysterious" and "symbolical" (inter)textual strategies : the problem of language in the Derveni papyrus / Anton Bierl
- Reading the authorial strategies in the Derveni papyrus / Evina Sistakou
- The Orphic poem of the Derveni papyrus / David Sider
- The garland of Hippolytus / Richard Hunter
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Derveni Papyrus is the oldest known European "book." It was meant to accompany the cremated body in Derveni Tomb A but, by a stroke of luck, did not burn completely. Considered the most important discovery for Greek philology in the twentieth century, the papyrus was found accidentally in 1962 during a public works project in an uninhabited place about 10 km from Thessaloniki, and it is now preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.
The papers in Poetry as Initiation discuss a number of open questions: Who was the author of the papyrus? What is the date of the text? What is the significance of burying a book with a corpse? What was the context of the peculiar chthonic ritual described in the text? Who were its performers? What is the relationship of the author and the ritual to the so-called Orphic texts?
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