TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marco Antonio Santamaría
TI  - The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries
SN  - 9789004384842
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Derveni papyrus
KW  - Dionysia
KW  - Religion
KW  - Literature
KW  - 340-320 B.C
KW  - Greece
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Problems Pertaining to the Restoration, Conservation, and Reproduction of the Derveni Papyrus; Roger T. Macfarlane and Gianluca Del Mastrop; Some textual issues on column III (ed. Piano) 19; Valeria Piano; Daimons in the Derveni Papyrus and in Early Stoicism; Carlos Megino Rodríguez; The Orphic Poem of the Derveni Papyrus and Hesiod's Theogony; Marco Antonio Santamaría; Parmenides' what-is; Chiara Ferella; Misleading and Unclear to the Many: Allegory in the Derveni Papyrus and the Orphic Theogony of Hieronymus; Radcliffe G. Edmonds III; The Sage Speaks in Riddles: Notes on Col. VII of the Derveni Papyrus; Sofia Ranzato; The Commentary of the Derveni Papyrus: Pre-Socratic Cosmogonies at Work; Alberto Bernabé; Rites and Officiants in Col. XX of the Derveni Papyrus; Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal; Aphrodite Urania and Uranus Euphronides in the Derveni Papyrus: a Semantic Genealogy; Marisa Tortorelli Ghidini
N2  - "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"--
ER  -