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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Derveni Papyrus"”.
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What can the Derveni Papyrus tell us about the religious milieu of the author?
The discovery at Derveni in 1962 of the remains of a fourth-century BC papyrus, consisting largely of a philosophical commentary on a religious text, has provided a unique opportunity to investigate the religious milieu in which the author worked. This study concentrates neither on the author’s …
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Plato's Orpheus: The Philosophical Appropriation of Orphic Formulae
… word poinē in Homer, Pindar, Plato, the Derveni Papyrus and the Gur\xf4b Papyrus in order to demonstrate that poinē points to the cohesiveness and integrity of the Orphic doctrine.
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Private initiation and the afterlife in classical Greece
… of Selinous, the funerary gold leaves and the Derveni Papyrus to find a common underlying pattern, featuring the survival of the soul after death, a division between those with a better and a worse fate after death, enforced by hostile divine powers, and an initiation ritual to neutralise these …
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The Golden Chain: Redrawing the map of ancient allegory
This PhD thesis discusses the concept of allegory from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. In the first chapter, which discusses the hermeneutics of allegorical reading in the late Archaic and Classical periods, I aim to show that previous discussions have misunderstood both the texts which …