Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the bacchic Gold Tablets

Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the bacchic Gold Tablets

Orpheus (Greek mythological character)
Dionysus (Greek deity)
Future life
Greece -- Religion

Fascinating texts written on small gold tablets that were depositedin graves provide a unique source of information about what some Greeksand Romans believed regarding the fate that awaited them after death, and how they could influence it. These texts, dating from the latefifth century BCE to the second century CE, have been part of thescholarly debate on ancient afterlife beliefs since the end of thenineteenth century. Recent finds and analysis of the texts havereshaped our und.

Fritz Graf and Sarah Iles Johnston

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