Orphism

Klappentext This book contains the Cromer Greek Prize-winning essay for 1934 on the subject of the still little-understood Greek religion Orphism. Zusammenfassung This book contains the Cromer Greek Prize-winning essay for 1934 on the subject of the still little-understood Greek religion Orphism. Watmough examines Orpheus and Orphism through a distinctly Protestant lens! arguing that both were religions 'of reform' sharing similar views on asceticism and the wages of sin in the afterlife. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Prologue. The sources; 1. The 'Orpheus' of history; 2. The 'Orpheus' of religion; Epilogue. 'Orphism' and the present day.

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• Authors: J. R. Watmough, Watmough J. R.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2015
• EAN: 9781107497429
• ISBN: 978-1-107-49742-9
• No. of pages: 90
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, RELIGION / Ancient, Ancient Greek religion & mythology, Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500