Poetry as Initiation

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-674-72676-5
Verlag: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Buch, Englisch, Band 63, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 411 g

Reihe: Hellenic Studies Series

The Derveni Papyrus is the oldest known European "book." It was meant to accompany the cremated body in Derveni Tomb A but, by a stroke of luck, did not burn completely. Considered the most important discovery for Greek philology in the twentieth century, the papyrus was found accidentally in 1962 during a public works project in an uninhabited place about 10 km from Thessaloniki, and it is now preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.

The papers in Poetry as Initiation discuss a number of open questions: Who was the author of the papyrus? What is the date of the text? What is the significance of burying a book with a corpse? What was the context of the peculiar chthonic ritual described in the text? Who were its performers? What is the relationship of the author and the ritual to the so-called Orphic texts?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Papadopoulou, Ioanna

Muellner, Leonard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Papadopoulou, Ioanna
Ioanna Papadopoulou is CHS–EU Fellow in Interdisciplinary Research, Information Technology, and Publications at the Center for Hellenic Studies and Researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Muellner, Leonard
Leonard Muellner is Professor of Classical Studies at Brandeis University and Director of Information Technology, Collections, and Publications at the Center for Hellenic Studies.