| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Summary |
'Orphic Traditions 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 Lévi-Strauss), rather than as items in the stemma of a static manuscript tradition (as reconstructed by Martin West) |
| Notes |
Previously issued in print: 2018 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 8, 2019) |
| Subject |
Religious poetry, Greek -- History and criticism
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Dionysia.
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Greek poetry -- History and criticism
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Dionysia.
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Greek poetry.
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Religious poetry, Greek.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190663551 |
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0190663553 |
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