Ritual texts for the afterlife Orpheus and the Bacchic gold tablets

• Main Author: Graf, Fritz
• Other Authors: Johnston, Sarah Iles
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London New York Routledge 2007
• Subjects: Διόνυσος (Θεός); Ορφέας (Μυθολογία); Ελλάδα > Θρησκεία

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Tablets: An Edition and Translation
• 2. A History of Scholarship on the Tablets
• 3. The Myth of Dionysus
• 4. The Eschatology Behind the Tablets
• 5. Dionysiac Mystery Cults and the Gold Tablets
• 6. Orpheus, His poetry, and Sacred Texts
• Appendix: Additional Bacchic Texts 1. The Olbia Bone Tablets
• 2. Bacchic Inscriptions from Olbia
• 3. The Gurob Papyrus
• 4. the Edict of Ptolemy IV Philopator.