The Orphic Argonautica
Author : Jason Colavito
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 18,5 MB
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ISBN : 1105198944
Author : Jason Colavito
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 18,5 MB
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ISBN : 1105198944
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Page : 12 pages
File Size : 27,60 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Greek poetry
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Author : Jason Colavito
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 39,2 MB
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1476615667
The story of Jason and the Argonauts is one of the most famous in Greek myth, and its development from the oldest layers of Greek mythology down to the modern age encapsulates the dramatic changes in faith, power and culture that Western civilization has seen over the past three millennia. From the Bronze Age to the Classical Age, from the medieval world to today, the Jason story has been told and retold with new stories, details and meanings. This book explores the epic history of a colorful myth and probes the most ancient origins of the quest for the Golden Fleece--a quest that takes us to the very dawn of Greek religion and its close relationship with Near Eastern peoples and cultures.
Author : Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 31,41 MB
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1107038219
In a paradigm shift, this book redefines Orphism as a polemical label for extra-ordinary religion, good or bad.
Author : Robert Temple
Publisher : Random House
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 23,20 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Civilization, Ancient
ISBN : 0099257440
The most academically credible case for alien visitation. Is the existance of civilisation on earth the result of contact from inhabitants of a planet in the system of the star Sirius prior to 3000BC? There are tribal cultures in present-day Africa whose most sacred and secret and traditions are based on this theory. Central to their cosmology is a body of knowledge concerning the system of the star Sirius that is astounding it in its accuracy of detail, including specific information only recently accessible to modern science. Robert Temple traces the traditions of the Dogon and three related tribes back 5, 000 years to the ancient Mediterranean cultures of Sumer and Egypt. He shows a knowledge dependent on physics and astrophysics, which they claimed was imported to them by visitors from Sirius.
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Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1421408864
The best-selling English translation of the mysterious and cosmic Greek poetry known as the Orphic Hymns. At the very beginnings of the Archaic Age, the great singer Orpheus taught a new religion that centered around the immortality of the human soul and its journey after death. He felt that achieving purity by avoiding meat and refraining from committing harm further promoted the pursuit of a peaceful life. Elements of the worship of Dionysus, such as shape-shifting and ritualistic ecstasy, were fused with Orphic beliefs to produce a powerful and illuminating new religion that found expression in the mystery cults. Practitioners of this new religion composed a great body of poetry, much of which is translated in The Orphic Hymns. The hymns presented in this book were anonymously composed somewhere in Asia Minor, most likely in the middle of the third century AD. At this turbulent time, the Hellenic past was fighting for its survival, while the new Christian faith was spreading everywhere. The Orphic Hymns thus reflect a pious spirituality in the form of traditional literary conventions. The hymns themselves are devoted to specific divinities as well as to cosmic elements. Prefaced with offerings, strings of epithets invoke the various attributes of the divinity and prayers ask for peace and health to the initiate. Apostolos N. Athanassakis and Benjamin M. Wolkow have produced an accurate and elegant translation accompanied by rich commentary.
Author : Padraic Colum
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 38,33 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Argonauts (Greek mythology)
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Describes the cycle of myths about the Argonauts and the quest for the Golden Fleece, as well as the tales of the Creation of Heaven and Earth, the labors of Hercules, Theseus and the Minotaur, etc.
Author : Radcliffe G. Edmonds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 26,88 MB
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0521518318
Examines new methodologies used in the study of these tablets. Includes an updated edition and translation of the tablet texts.
Author : James J. Clauss
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 36,73 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520079250
This revelatory exploration of Book One of the Argonautica rescues Jason from his status as the ineffectual hero of Apollonius' epic poem. James J. Clauss argues that by posing the question, "Who is the best of the Argonauts?" Apollonius redefines the epic hero and creates, in Jason, a man more realistic and less awesome than his Homeric predecessors, one who is vulnerable, dependent on the help of others, even morally questionable, yet ultimately successful. In bringing Apollonius' "curious and demanding poem" to life, Clauss illuminates two features of the poet's narrative style: his ubiquitous allusions to the poetry of others, especially Homer, and the carefully balanced structural organization of his episodes. The poet's subtextual interplay is explored, as is his propensity for underscoring the manipulation of the poetry of others through ring composition.
Author : Martin Litchfield West
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Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,20 MB
Release : 1983
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