The Derveni Papyrus

Unearthing Ancient Mysteries

Marco Antonio Santamaría Álvarez (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

182 Seiten

2018
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-38484-2 (ISBN)

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The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries collects several articles on the Derveni Papyrus addressing its Orphic poem and the religious and philosophical ideas of the anonymous author of the text.

The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries is devoted to this fascinating and challenging document, discovered in 1962 in a tomb in Derveni, near Thessaloniki, and dated c. 340-320 BCE. It contains a text probably written at the end of 5th c. BCE, which after some reflections on minor divinities and unusual cults, comments upon a poem attributed to Orpheus from an allegorical and philosophical perspective. This volume focuses on the restoration and conservation of the papyrus, the ideas of the anonymous author about Erinyes and daimons, the quoted Orphic poem in comparison with Hesiod’s Theogony and Parmenides’ poem, the exegetical approach of the commentator, his cosmogonic system, his attitude regarding mystery cults and his peculiar theology.

Marco Antonio Santamaría, Ph. D. (2005), University of Salamanca, is Associate Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Salamanca. He has published articles and books chapters on Orphic texts, Greek cosmogonies and afterlife conceptions.

Contributors

Abbreviations

Introduction

Marco Antonio Santamaría

Part 1: Conservation and Restoration

1 Problems Pertaining to the Restoration, Conservation, and Reproduction of the Derveni Papyrus

Roger T. Macfarlane and Gianluca Del Mastro

Part 2: Reconstruction and Interpretation of the First Six Columns

2 Some Textual Issues on Column III (ed. Piano)

Valeria Piano

3 Daimons in the Derveni Papyrus and in Early Stoicism

Carlos Megino Rodríguez

Part 3: The Orphic Poem

4 The Orphic Poem of the Derveni Papyrus and Hesiod’s Theogony

Marco Antonio Santamaría

5 Ζεὺς μοῦνος and Parmenides’ What-is

Chiara Ferella

Part 4: The Interpretation of the Poem: Exegesis and Cosmogony

6 Misleading and Unclear to the Many: Allegory in the Derveni Papyrus and the Orphic Theogony of Hieronymus

Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

7 The Sage Speaks in Riddles: Notes on Col. VII of the Derveni Papyrus

Sofia Ranzato

8 The Commentary of the Derveni Papyrus: Pre-Socratic Cosmogonies at Work

Alberto Bernabé

Part 5: The Last Columns

9 Rites and Officiants in Col. XX of the Derveni Papyrus

Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal

10 Aphrodite Urania and Uranus Euphronides in the Derveni Papyrus: A Semantic Genealogy

Marisa Tortorelli Ghidini

Bibliography of the Derveni Papyrus (1997–2018)

Index Locorum

1 Derveni Papyrus

2 Other Authors

Index Nominum et Rerum Notabiliorum

Index Verborum Graecorum

Erscheinungsdatum	29.12.2018
Reihe/Serie	Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava ; 36
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 290 mm
Gewicht	856 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	90-04-38484-7 / 9004384847
ISBN-13	978-90-04-38484-2 / 9789004384842
Zustand	Neuware