Orphic tradition and the birth of the gods

• Verfasst von: Meisner, Dwayne A. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Orphic tradition and the birth of the gods
• Verf.angabe: Dwayne A. Meisner
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2019
• Jahr: January 2019
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 318 Seiten)
• Illustrationen: illustrations (black and white)
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index ; Zielgruppe - Audience: Specialized
• ISBN: 978-0-19-066355-1
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780190663520.001.0001
• Schlagwörter: (s)Griechisch / (s)Literatur / (s)Orphik / (s)Theogonie
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Meisner, Dwayne A.: Orphic tradition and the birth of the Gods. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018. - xii, 318 Seiten
• Sach-SW: Religious poetry, Greek ; History and criticism
• Sach-SW: Greek poetry ; History and criticism
• Sach-SW: Dionysia
• Sach-SW: Greek poetry
• Sach-SW: Religious poetry, Greek
• K10plus-PPN: 1051388600
• K10plus-PPN:
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• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

'Orphic Tradition 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 Lâevi-Strauss), rather than as items in the stemma of a static manuscript tradition (as reconstructed by Martin West)