Poetry as Initiation : The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus

by: Papadopoulou, I. Muellner, L.

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The Derveni Papyrus is the oldest known European “book.” It was meant to accompany the cremated body in Derveni Tomb A but, by a stroke of luck, did not burn completely. Considered the most important discovery for Greek philology in the twentieth century, the papyrus was found accidentally in 1962 during a public works project in an uninhabited place about 10 km from Thessaloniki, and it is now preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.

The papers in Poetry as Initiation discuss a number of open questions: Who was the author of the papyrus? What is the date of the text? What is the significance of burying a book with a corpse? What was the context of the peculiar chthonic ritual described in the text? Who were its performers? What is the relationship of the author and the ritual to the so-called Orphic texts?

Foreword by Leonard Muellner
Introduction. Testing Our Tools: Open Questions on the Derveni Papyrus [Ioanna Papadopoulou]
1. Some Desiderata in the Study of the Derveni Papyrus [Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou]
2. On the Rites Described and Commented Upon in the Derveni Papyrus, Columns I–VI [Alberto Bernabé]
3. Democritus, Heraclitus, and the Dead Souls: Reconstructing Columns I–VI of the Derveni Papyrus [Franco Ferrari]
4. Derveni and Ritual [Fritz Graf]
5. Divination in the Derveni Papyrus [Sarah Iles Johnston]
6. How to Learn about Souls: The Derveni Papyrus and Democritus [Walter Burkert]
7. Unlocking the Orphic Doors: Interpretation of Poetry in the Derveni Papyrus between Presocratics and Alexandrians [Jeffrey Rusten]
8. The Derveni Papyrus and the Bacchic-Orphic Epistomia [Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos]
9. The Derveni Papyrus between the Power of Spoken Language and Written Practice: Pragmatics of Initiation in an Orpheus Poem and Its Commentary [Claude Calame]
10. “Riddles over Riddles”: “Mysterious” and “Symbolic” (Inter)textual Strategies. The Problem of Language in the Derveni Papyrus [Anton Bierl]
11. Reading the Authorial Strategies in the Derveni Papyrus [Evina Sistakou]
12. The Orphic Poem of the Derveni Papyrus [David Sider]
13. The Garland of Hippolytus [Richard Hunter]

Poetry as Initiation : The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus

by: Papadopoulou, I. Muellner, L.

• ISBN-13: 9780674726765 / 978-0-674-72676-5
• ISBN-03: 0674726766 / 0-674-72676-6
• Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2014

Price: 24,90 EURO

1 copy in stock