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Ritual texts for the afterlife [electronic resource] : Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets / Fritz Graf and Sarah Iles Johnston.

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Author(s): Graf, Fritz; Johnston, Sarah Iles, 1957-
Language:
English
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Routledge, [2013]
Publication Date:
2013
Physical Description:
xii, 284 pages ;
Publication Type:
Book; eBook
Document Type:
Bibliographies; Electronic; Non-fiction; Electronic document
Subject Terms:
Future life; Electronic books
Subject Terms:
Greece -- Religion
Subject Terms:
Orpheus (Greek mythological character); Dionysus (Greek deity)
Online Access:
Access Electronic Book Note: Access Electronic Book
Availability: 1 Holdings

Additional Information
- Publication Information:
  Second edition.
- Content Notes:
  The tablets: an edition and translation -- A history of scholarship on the tablets -- The myth of Dionysus -- The eschatology behind the tablets -- Dionysiac mystery cults and the Gold Tablets -- Orpheus, his poetry, and sacred texts.
- Notes:
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-272) and indexes.
  Access is available to current Cairn University students, faculty and staff.
- ISBN:
  9780415508025 (hardback : alk. paper)
  9780415508032 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  9780203564240 (ebook)
- Accession Number:
  2012038345
- Accession Number:
  cul.b2127851