Instructions for the Netherworld: The Orphic Gold Tablets

Religions in the Graeco-Roman World

by Alberto Bernabé Pajares, Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal, Michael Chase (Translator)

With an Iconographical Appendix by Ricardo Olmos and Illustrations by Sara Olmos

Orphic gold tables are key documents for the knowledge of rites and beliefs of Orphics, an atypical group that configured a highly original creed and that influenced powerfully over other Greek writers and thinkers. The recent discovery of some tablets has forced a noteworthy modification of some points of view and a review ofthe different hypothesis proposed about them. The book presents a complete edition of the texts, their translation and some fundamental keys for their interpretation, in an attempt at updating our current knowledge on Orphic ideas about the soul and the Afterlife stated in those texts. The work is improved with an appendix of iconographic annotations in which some plastic representations in drawings are reproduced related to the universe of tablets, selected and commented on by Ricardo Olmos.

Genres: Religion

392 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2001

Reviews

[Miguel · Rating 3 out of 5]

bernabé é un pouco tonto, contradícese moito na cuestión de se acepta ou non influencias orientais no orfismo grego porque noutros libros di que o rexeita por completo e é un fenómeno "netamente grego" pero aquí non para de relacionalo co libro dos mortos o papiro de gorub nsq non soporto a este tío, ademais hai partes bastante mal escritas pero bueno hailles que agradecer a edición en castelán que non hai outra

[Sofia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very informative and really well written but I’d true that school ruins everything good and pure and I made the dumb decision to write a 10 page paper about this and now I never want to think about it ever again so screw this a little 8/10

[Julia · Rating 5 out of 5]

so useful