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Paradise Earned: The Bacchic-Orphic Gold Lamellae of Crete
Yannis Tzifopoulos
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Paperback. A study of the twelve small gold lamellae from Crete that were tokens for entrance into a golden afterlife: the deceased who were buried or cremated with them believed that they had 'earned Paradise.' It adduces parallels to the texts on the lamellae from the Byzantine period and modern Greece to illuminate the human quest for 'earning Paradise.' Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, 65 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVGSC; 2AHA; DSBB; HDDK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 620.
This is a study of the twelve small gold lamellae from Crete that were tokens for entrance into a golden afterlife: the deceased who were buried or cremated with them believed that they had 'earned Paradise.' The lamellae are placed within the context of a small corpus of similar texts, and published with extensive commentary on their topography, lettering and engraving, dialect and orthography, meter, chronology, and usage. The texts reveal a hieros logos whose poetics and rituals are not much different from Homeric rhapsodizing and prophetic discourses. Cretan contexts, both literary and archaeological, are also brought to bear ... Read more
This is a study of the twelve small gold lamellae from Crete that were tokens for entrance into a golden afterlife: the deceased who were buried or cremated with them believed that they had 'earned Paradise.' The lamellae are placed within the context of a small corpus of similar texts, and published with extensive commentary on their topography, lettering and engraving, dialect and orthography, meter, chronology, and usage. The texts reveal a hieros logos whose poetics and rituals are not much different from Homeric rhapsodizing and prophetic discourses. Cretan contexts, both literary and archaeological, are also brought to bear ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Hellenic Studies Series
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674023796
SKU
V9780674023796
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About Yannis Tzifopoulos
Yannis Tzifopoulos is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki.
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