Reconstructing Orphic theogonies /
'Orphic Traditions and the Birth of the Gods' is a literary history that attempts to reconstruct the fragments of four theogonies that were attributed to the legendary singer Orpheus: the Derveni, Eudemian, Hieronyman, and Rhapsodic Theogonies. Most modern scholars have described these poe...
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- Orphic traditions and the birth of the gods
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- Englisch
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2019.
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'Orphic Traditions and the Birth of the Gods' is a literary history that attempts to reconstruct the fragments of four theogonies that were attributed to the legendary singer Orpheus: the Derveni, Eudemian, Hieronyman, and Rhapsodic Theogonies. Most modern scholars have described these poems as if they were similar to Hesiod's Theogony-lengthy chronological accounts of the births of the gods from the beginning of time to the present, but this text suggests that a better model for understanding how these poems were composed is to see each of them as an individual product of bricolage (as explained by Claude Lévi-Strauss), rather than as items in the stemma of a static manuscript tradition (as reconstructed by Martin West).
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- 1 online resource (337 pages)
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- Previously issued in print: 2018.
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- Specialized.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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9780190663544
0190663545
9780190663551
0190663553
9780190663537
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Parallelausgabe: 9780190663520Parallelausgabe: 0190663529
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