Paradise earned the Bacchic-Orphic gold lamellae of Crete

• Main Author: Τζιφόπουλος, Ιωάννης (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, D.C. Cambridge, Mass Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University ; Distributed by Harvard University Press 2010
• Series: Hellenic studies 23
• Subjects: Επιγραφές, Ελληνικές > Ελλάδα > Κρήτη; Χρυσοχοϊα > Ελλάδα > Κρήτη; Ταφή > Ελλάδα > Κρήτη; Μετά θάνατον ζωή > Κοινωνικές απόψεις > Ελλάδα > Κρήτη; Ορφέας (Ελληνική μυθολογία); Διόνυσος (Θεός); Μετά θάνατον ζωή στη λογοτεχνία
• Physical Description: ix, [1], 373 p. iil., charts, maps 23 cm.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-367) and index.
• ISBN: 9780674023796

A study of twelve small gold lamellae from Crete that were tokens form entrance into a golden afterlife: the deceased who were buried or cremated with them believed that they had earned "Paradise"