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Routledge
313 Pages
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Routledge
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The figure of Orpheus has long exercised a potent influence on religious thought. Yet what we know directly about Orphism comes from a scatter of isolated and often very short fragments quoted in the works of Platonists of the Roman period, notably Proclus, Damascius and Olympiodorus. The author’s concern here is to establish the context in which these passages were cited, and to trace the... Read more
Contents: Avant-propos; Les théogonies Orphiques et le papyrus de Derveni: notes critiques; Usages et fonctions du secret dans le Pythagorisme ancien; La figure de Chronos dans la théogonie orphique et ses antécédents iraniens; Orphée et l’Orphisme à l’époque impériale: témoignages et interprétations philosophiques, de Plutarque à Jamblique; Proclus et l’Orphisme; Damascius et l’Orphisme; Le corps ’dionysiaque’: l’anthropogonie décrite dans le Commentaire sur le Phédon de Platon (1, par. 3-6), attribué à Olympiodore est-elle orphique?; Addenda et corrigenda; Indexes.
Biography
Luc Brisson
'The competence with which Brisson moves among the Hellenistic sources makes his argument extremely persuasive.' Numen, Vol. 45






