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Author Graf, Fritz.

Title Ritual texts for the afterlife [electronic resource] : Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets / Fritz Graf and Sarah Iles Johnston.

Imprint London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 2nd ed.
Description xii, 284 p. : ill.
Note "First published 2007"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-272) and indexes.
Contents The tablets: an edition and translation -- A history of scholarship on the tablets -- The myth of Dionysus -- The eschatology behind the tablets -- Dionysiac mystery cults and the Gold Tablets -- Orpheus, his poetry, and sacred texts.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Future life.
Orpheus (Greek mythology)
Dionysus (Greek deity)
Greece -- Religion.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Johnston, Sarah Iles, 1957-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780415508025 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780415508032 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780203564240 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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