The Derveni papyrus [electronic resource] : unearthing ancient mysteries / edited by Marco Antonio Santamaría.

"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 divini...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Santamaría Álvarez, Marco Antonio (Editor)
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Series:	Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava, Volume XXXVI
Subjects:	Derveni papyrus. Dionysia. Greece > Religion.
Online Access:	ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2018 (Ebook Central @ Proquest) EBSCO eBooks: 2019 (EBSCO) eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2019 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:	The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries
Format:	Electronic eBook

Contents:

Problems pertaining to the restoration, conservation, and reproduction of the Derveni papyrus / Roger T. Macfarlane and Gianluca Del Mastro
Some textual issues on column III (ed. Piano) 19 / Valeria Piano
Daimons in the Derveni papyrus and in early stoicism / Carlos Megino Rodriguez
The Orphic poem of the Derveni papyrus and Hesiod's theogony / Marco Antonio Santamaria
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 Bernabe
Rites and officiants in col. XX of the Derveni papyrus / Ana Isabel Jimenez San Cristobal
Aphrodite Urania and Uranus Euphronides in the Derveni papyrus : a semantic genealogy / Marisa Tortorelli Ghidini.