The Orphic Hymns

Athanassakis, Apostolos N., Wolkow, Benjamin M.

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The best-selling English translation of the mysterious and cosmic Greek poetry known as the Orphic Hymns.

At the very beginnings of the Archaic Age, the great singer Orpheus taught a new religion that centered around the immortality of the human soul and its journey after death. He felt that achieving purity by avoiding meat and refraining from committing harm further promoted the pursuit of a peaceful life. Elements of the worship of Dionysus, such as shape-shifting and ritualistic ecstasy, were fused with Orphic beliefs to produce a powerful and illuminating new religion that found expression in the mystery cults. Practitioners of this new religion composed a great body of poetry, much of which is translated in The Orphic Hymns.

种类:

Poetry - Ancient & Classical Poetry

年:

2013

出版社:

Johns Hopkins University Press

语言:

english

页:

280

文件:

PDF, 2.44 MB