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The article proposes an analysis of col. VI of the Derveni Papyrus aimed to shed light on the typ... more The article proposes an analysis of col. VI of the Derveni Papyrus aimed to shed light on the typologies of emotions involved in the ritual exegesis developed by the author in the coloumn.
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The first part (ch. 1) analyzes the archaeological context of the find of the Derveni papyrus, in light of the funerary customs of the Macedonian élite and of other analogous finds in Macedonian funeral archaeology dating between the IV and the III century BC.
The second part is entirely devoted to the first columns of the papyrus. The first chapter of the second part (Ch. 2) concerns the methodology of the reconstruction of the roll and contains a new edition of columns III-VI . Ch. 3 proposes an analysis of the themes emerging from the fragments constituting the columns preceding col. III, while ch. 4 concerns the themes emerging from cols. III and IV, (i. e. demonology, retributive and cosmic justice). Ch. 5 concerns mantics (col. V), and the exegesis of sacrifices for the souls developed in col. VI. Finally, ch. 6—the last one of the second part of the book—proposes a conclusive analysis of the conception of the soul that can be ascribed to the author on the basis of his religious and physical concepts.
The third part is devoted to the intellectual characterization of the author, and aims to define a possible intellectual background in which the Derveni author was operating (Athens of the end of the V century BC). His exegetical practice is analyzed in light of the previous interpreters of the Homeric poems, and is compared with some Stoic allegorical patterns, with the purpose of showing the differences existing between the two form of allegorical interpretation of divine names, as well as of the physics that is connected to them.
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16 octobre 2017
Institut Protestant de Théologie, salle 11
83, Boulevard Arago – 75014 Paris
Programme
- Sylvana CHRYSAKOPOULOU, La théologie hénothéiste de Xénophane et sa réception
- Valeria PIANO, αὐτὸς δ᾿ ἄρα μοῦνος ἔγεντο. 'Reductio ad unum' del divino nel poema orfico e nel commentario del papiro di Derveni
- Constantinos MACRIS, Penseurs et poètes pré-platoniciens dans un centon monothéiste de Clément d’Alexandrie
- Caterina SCHIARITI, Tra religione e filosofia : la “monoteizzazione” del pensiero preplatonico nel 'True Intellectual System of the Universe' di Ralph Cudworth
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.