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Redefining Ancient Orphism

A Study in Greek Religion

By: Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Redefining Ancient Orphism

A Study in Greek Religion

By: Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

In a paradigm shift, this book redefines Orphism as a polemical label for extra-ordinary religion, good or bad.

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Drawing Down the Moon

Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World

By: I. I. I. Radcliffe G. G. Edmonds III,Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World

By: I. I. I. Radcliffe G. G. Edmonds III,Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

An unparalleled exploration of magic in the Greco-Roman world What did magic mean to the people of ancient Greece and Rome? How did Greeks and Romans not only imagine what magic could do, but also use it to try to influence the world around them? In Drawing Down the Moon, Radcliffe Edmonds, one of the foremost experts on magic, religion, and the occult in the ancient world, provides the most comprehensive account of the varieties of phenomena labeled as magic in classical antiquity. Exploring why certain practices, images, and ideas were labeled as “magic” and set apart from “normal” kinds of practices, Edmonds gives insight into the shifting ideas of religion and the divine in the ancient past and later Western tradition. Using fresh approaches to the history of religions and the social contexts in which magic was exercised, Edmonds delves into the archaeological record and classical literary traditions to examine images of witches, ghosts, and demons as well as the fantastic powers of metamorphosis, erotic attraction, and reversals of nature, such as the famous trick of drawing down the moon. From prayer and divination to astrology and alchemy, Edmonds journeys through all manner of ancient magical rituals and paraphernalia—ancient tablets, spell books, bindings and curses, love charms and healing potions, and amulets and talismans. He considers the ways in which the Greco-Roman discourse of magic was formed amid the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, including Egypt and the Near East. An investigation of the mystical and marvelous, Drawing Down the Moon offers an unparalleled record of the origins, nature, and functions of ancient magic.

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Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World

By: I. I. I. Radcliffe G. G. Edmonds III,Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Redefining Ancient Orphism

A Study in Greek Religion

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A Study in Greek Religion

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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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Myths of the Underworld Journey

Plato, Aristophanes, and the 'Orphic' Gold Tablets

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Plato, Aristophanes, and the 'Orphic' Gold Tablets

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This book was first published in 2004. Plato, Aristophanes and the creators of the 'Orphic' gold tablets employ the traditional tale of a journey to the realm of the dead to redefine, within the mythic narrative, the boundaries of their societies. Rather than being the relics of a faded ritual tradition or the products of Orphic influence, these myths can only reveal their meanings through a close analysis of the specific ways in which each author makes use of the tradition. For these authors, myth is an agonistic discourse, neither a kind of sacred dogma nor a mere literary diversion, but rather a flexible tool that serves the wide variety of uses to which it is put. The traditional tale of the journey to the Underworld in Greek mythology is neither simple nor single, but each telling reveals a perspective on the cosmos, a reflection of the order of this world through the image of the other.

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Plato, Aristophanes, and the 'Orphic' Gold Tablets

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Redefining Ancient Orphism

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Drawing Down the Moon

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Drawing Down the Moon

Drawing Down the Moon

Redefining Ancient Orphism

Redefining Ancient Orphism

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