The orphic hymns

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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.

The hymns presented in this book were anonymously composed somewhere in Asia Minor, most likely in the middle of the third century AD. At this turbulent time, the Hellenic past was fighting for its survival, while the new Christian faith was spreading everywhere. The Orphic Hymns thus reflect a pious spirituality in the form of traditional literary conventions. The hymns themselves are devoted to specific divinities as well as to cosmic elements. Prefaced with offerings, strings of epithets invoke the various attributes of the divinity and prayers ask for peace and health to the initiate. Apostolos N. Athanassakis and Benjamin M. Wolkow have produced an accurate and elegant translation accompanied by rich commentary.

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Orphic Hymns

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The Magic of the Orphic Hymns

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Recaptures the magical vitality of the original orphic hymns recaptures the magical vitality of the original orphic hymns as famous renaissance philosopher marsilio ficino wrote no magic is more powerful than that of the orphic hymns these legendary teletai of orpheus were not simply hym 2 - 4 weken .. MEER INFO

The Homeric Hymns

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The best selling essential and straightforward translation of the homeric hymns accompanied by an expanded introduction and updated expert notes a rich source for students of greek mythology and literature the homeric hymns are also fine poetry attributed by the ancients to homer these prooim Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: E-book

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 31 juli 2013

Ebook Formaat: Adobe ePub

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Aposto Athanassakis

Co Auteur: Benjamin M. Wolkow

Hoofduitgeverij: Johns Hopkins University Press

Eerste Vertaler: Apostolos N. Athanassakis

Tweede Vertaler: Benjamin M. Wolkow

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EAN: 9781421408866

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