Extra‐Ordinary People:<i>Mystai</i>and<i>Magoi</i>, Magicians and Orphics in the Derveni Papyrus

Edmonds, Radcliffe G.

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“…It could be objected that this argument trades on a hypostatization of "Orphism" (cf. Edmonds 2008). But my argument is that if, as argued by Detienne, vegetarianism, omophagia, and cannibalism are similar-regardless of ascriptions or subscriptions to -isms-in the perspective of the principle, then Euripides' argumentative aberrations are no longer inexplicable.…”

Section: Animals Humans and Other Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 83%

Cannibalism, Vegetarianism, and the Community of Sacrifice: Rediscovering Euripides’Cretansand the Beginnings of Political Philosophy

Tralau¹

2017

Classical Philology

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Section: Animals Humans and Other Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 83%

Cannibalism, Vegetarianism, and the Community of Sacrifice: Rediscovering Euripides’Cretansand the Beginnings of Political Philosophy

Tralau¹

2017

Classical Philology

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“…Some scholars of Orphism do not discuss the Bologna nekyia (e.g . West 1983;Brisson 1990;Edmonds 2004), and may not consider it "Orphic." Others, e.g.…”

Section: Orphism and Abortion?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sin autem mors eius fuerit subsecuta, reddet animam pro anima, oculum pro oculo, dentem pro dente, manum pro manu, pedem pro pede, adustionem pro adustione, vulnus pro vulnere, livorem pro livore. 34) For a clear discussion of these issues, see Edmonds 2008, andalso Edmonds 2004:37-46. 35) See the cautious Friedrich Solmsen (1968:9).…”

Section: Orphism and Abortion?mentioning

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Voices and Bodies: The Afterlife of the Unborn

Shanzer

2009

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Th is article discuses the fate of a special class of child, the unborn, in the afterlife, as well as the gradual criminalization of abortion in Antiquity. Particular attention is paid to a possible prohibition of abortion in Orphism that may underpin the nekyiai in P. Bon. 4. and Vergil Aen. 6. Th en it turns to depictions of the aborted in the Apocalypse of Peter and its late antique off spring to show how the aborted fetus gradually acquires a visible body and an articulate voice. At the same time, the theology of sentiment works out its solutions to mitigate the problem of the innocent in hell. Th e fate of the almost bodiless fetus in the Resurrection became a bone of contention by the early 5th C. Th e satirical questions posed Christians about the resurrection of the unborn may fi rst have been raised by Porphyry. His interest in the embryo and its ensoulment in the Pros Gauron are adduced as evidence. Attention is drawn to Augustine's doubts about the status and fate of the human embryo, and some reasons are suggested about why he hesitated to adopt an unambiguous "human from conception"

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Redefining Ancient Orphism

Edmonds¹,

Radcliffe²

2013

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This book examines the fragmentary and contradictory evidence for Orpheus as the author of rites and poems to redefine Orphism as a label applied polemically to extra-ordinary religious phenomena. Replacing older models of an Orphic religion, this richer and more complex model provides insight into the boundaries of normal and abnormal Greek religion. The study traces the construction of the category of 'Orphic' from its first appearances in the Classical period, through the centuries of philosophical and religious polemics, especially in the formation of early Christianity and again in the debates over the origins of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A paradigm shift in the study of Greek religion, this study provides scholars of classics, early Christianity, ancient religion and philosophy with a new model for understanding the nature of ancient Orphism, including ideas of afterlife, cosmogony, sacred scriptures, rituals of purification and initiation, and exotic mythology.

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Extra‐Ordinary People:MystaiandMagoi, Magicians and Orphics in the Derveni Papyrus

Cited by 10 publications

References 27 publications

Cannibalism, Vegetarianism, and the Community of Sacrifice: Rediscovering Euripides’Cretansand the Beginnings of Political Philosophy

Cannibalism, Vegetarianism, and the Community of Sacrifice: Rediscovering Euripides’Cretansand the Beginnings of Political Philosophy

Voices and Bodies: The Afterlife of the Unborn

Redefining Ancient Orphism

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