The Orphic Hymns

Apostolos N. Athanassakis (Translator) and Benjamin M. Wolkow (Translator)

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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...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781421408866
  • Publish Date 25 September 2013 (first published 31 July 2013)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press