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Recent papers in Gold Tablets
Courtney J. P. Friesen explores shifting boundaries of ancient religions by way of the reception of a popular tragedy, Euripides’ Bacchae . As a play staging political crises provoked by the arrival of the “foreign” god Dionysus and his... more
In Southern Italy/ Magna Graecia and many find spots across the ancient Greek and Roman world, a peculiar type of grave goods has been retrieved: small inscribed gold tablets, dating from between c. 400 BC to 300 AD. These leaflets were... more
This article offers an interpretation of the enigmatic “kid-in-milk” formula which appears in four of the “Orphic” gold tablets from Thurii and Pelinna. These tiny tablets accompanied the dead in their graves and contained texts of... more
Zusammenfassung: Dieser Beitrag soll aufzeigen, dass eine chthonische und eschatologische Dimension der dionysischen Göttlichkeit in verschiedenen Riten und Kulten des Gottes nachgewiesen werden kann und dabei keinesfalls... more
This book offers a concise whole-encompassing definition of Orphism through bringing together all of its main components in a single study, highlighting both parallels and divergences between the Gold Tablets, the Derveni Papyrus and the... more
Section of: Giovanna Rocca and Domenico Giuseppe Muscianisi. La lamina aurea Schøyen MS 5236. Abstract: a linguistic and poetic commentary of two imperial-age “twin” inscriptions in Pisidia (rupestral) and on a gold tablet. The text... more
Some thoughts about the archetype of Mnemosyne's gold tablets, with special regard to Janko (2016)
Resumen: Según Hom. Od. 10.492-495, el alma de Tiresias obtuvo de Perséfone el privilegio de conservar su νόος y sus φρένες en el Hades. Como en dos laminillas de oro se atribuye a los guardianes del agua de Memoria la posesión de φρένες,... more
https://bit.ly/2KsmpUr This is a chapter from my book "Defining Orphism: the Beliefs, the teletae and the Writings". It is currently available in free access until the end of the year by De Gruyter through the link above.