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The Gold Leaves : Being an Account and Translation from the Ancient Greek of the So-Called 'Orphic' Gold Tablets.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Auckland : Atuanui Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (162 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780994137654
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Gold LeavesDDC classification:
  • 292.37
LOC classification:
  • BL820.B2 .J466 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- The Gold Leaves -- The Discoveries -- Physical Characteristics of the Leaves -- A Consistent Doctrine of a Life after Death? -- Dionysus Orpheus Persephone -- A Question of Gender -- Controversial Images in the Texts of the Leaves -- Ritual Performance and the Leaves -- References -- Translations with Selected Texts -- Brief Commentaries on the Texts and Translations -- Bibliography -- Index -- Index of Classical References -- Back Cover.
Summary: The Gold Leaves is a study of ancient (c.400BC-300AD) verses, often fragmentary, incised on fragile gold leaves that have been found (and continue to be found) buried in graves and tombs in the culturally Greek parts of the Mediterranean world.
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- The Gold Leaves -- The Discoveries -- Physical Characteristics of the Leaves -- A Consistent Doctrine of a Life after Death? -- Dionysus Orpheus Persephone -- A Question of Gender -- Controversial Images in the Texts of the Leaves -- Ritual Performance and the Leaves -- References -- Translations with Selected Texts -- Brief Commentaries on the Texts and Translations -- Bibliography -- Index -- Index of Classical References -- Back Cover.

The Gold Leaves is a study of ancient (c.400BC-300AD) verses, often fragmentary, incised on fragile gold leaves that have been found (and continue to be found) buried in graves and tombs in the culturally Greek parts of the Mediterranean world.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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