The Derveni papyrus : unearthing ancient mysteries

Author(s)

• Santamaría Álvarez, Marco Antonio

Bibliographic Information

The Derveni papyrus : unearthing ancient mysteries

edited by Marco Antonio Santamaría

（Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava, 36）

Brill, c2019

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-157) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Contributors Abbreviations Introduction Marco Antonio Santamaria Part 1: Conservation and Restoration 1 Problems Pertaining to the Restoration, Conservation, and Reproduction of the Derveni Papyrus Roger T. Macfarlane and Gianluca Del Mastro Part 2: Reconstruction and Interpretation of the First Six Columns 2 Some Textual Issues on Column III (ed. Piano) Valeria Piano 3 Daimons in the Derveni Papyrus and in Early Stoicism Carlos Megino Rodriguez Part 3: The Orphic Poem 4 The Orphic Poem of the Derveni Papyrus and Hesiod's Theogony Marco Antonio Santamaria 5 and Parmenides' What-is Chiara Ferella Part 4: The Interpretation of the Poem: Exegesis and Cosmogony 6 Misleading and Unclear to the Many: Allegory in the Derveni Papyrus and the Orphic Theogony of Hieronymus Radcliffe G. Edmonds III 7 The Sage Speaks in Riddles: Notes on Col. VII of the Derveni Papyrus Sofia Ranzato 8 The Commentary of the Derveni Papyrus: Pre-Socratic Cosmogonies at Work Alberto Bernabe Part 5: The Last Columns 9 Rites and Officiants in Col. XX of the Derveni Papyrus Ana Isabel Jimenez San Cristobal 10 Aphrodite Urania and Uranus Euphronides in the Derveni Papyrus: A Semantic Genealogy Marisa Tortorelli Ghidini Bibliography of the Derveni Papyrus (1997-2018) Index Locorum 1 Derveni Papyrus 2 Other Authors Index Nominum et Rerum Notabiliorum Index Verborum Graecorum

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Details

• NCID: BB29082697
• ISBN:
  • 9789004384842
• LCCN: 2018043159
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: vi, 173 p.
• Size: 30 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BL783
  • DC23 : 292.8
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Derveni papyrus
  • LCSH : Greece -- Religion
  • LCSH : Dionysia
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA01008599