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Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus
The Derveni Papyrus is the oldest known European "book." It was meant to accompany the cremated body in Derveni Tomb A but, by a stroke of luck, did not burn completely. Considered the most important discovery for Greek philology in the twentieth century, the papyrus was found accidentally in 1962 during a public works project in an uninhabited place about 10 km from Thessaloniki, and it is now preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.

The papers in Poetry as Initiation discuss a number of open questions: Who was the author of the papyrus? What is the date of the text? What is the significance of burying a book with a corpse? What was the context of the peculiar chthonic ritual described in the text? Who were its performers? What is the relationship of the author and the ritual to the so-called Orphic texts?

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Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus
The Derveni Papyrus is the oldest known European "book." It was meant to accompany the cremated body in Derveni Tomb A but, by a stroke of luck, did not burn completely. Considered the most important discovery for Greek philology in the twentieth century, the papyrus was found accidentally in 1962 during a public works project in an uninhabited place about 10 km from Thessaloniki, and it is now preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.

The papers in Poetry as Initiation discuss a number of open questions: Who was the author of the papyrus? What is the date of the text? What is the significance of burying a book with a corpse? What was the context of the peculiar chthonic ritual described in the text? Who were its performers? What is the relationship of the author and the ritual to the so-called Orphic texts?

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Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus

Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus

Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus

Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus

Overview

The Derveni Papyrus is the oldest known European "book." It was meant to accompany the cremated body in Derveni Tomb A but, by a stroke of luck, did not burn completely. Considered the most important discovery for Greek philology in the twentieth century, the papyrus was found accidentally in 1962 during a public works project in an uninhabited place about 10 km from Thessaloniki, and it is now preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.

The papers in Poetry as Initiation discuss a number of open questions: Who was the author of the papyrus? What is the date of the text? What is the significance of burying a book with a corpse? What was the context of the peculiar chthonic ritual described in the text? Who were its performers? What is the relationship of the author and the ritual to the so-called Orphic texts?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674726765
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 04/21/2014
Series: Hellenic Studies Series , #63
Pages: 296
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Ioanna Papadopoulou is CHS–EU Fellow in Interdisciplinary Research, Information Technology, and Publications at the Center for Hellenic Studies and Researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Leonard Muellner is Professor of Classical Studies at Brandeis University and Director of Information Technology, Collections, and Publications at the Center for Hellenic Studies.

Table of Contents

Foreword Leonard Muellner vii

Introduction: Testing Our Tools: Open Questions on the Derveni Papyrus Ioanna Papadopoulou ix

1 Some Desiderata in the Study of the Derveni Papyrus Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou 1

2 On the Rites Described and Commented Upon in the Derveni Papyrus, Columns I-VI Alberto Bernabé 19

3 Democritus, Heraclitus, and the Dead Souls: Reconstructing Columns I-VI of the Derveni Papyrus Franco Ferrari 53

4 Derveni and Ritual Fritz Graf 67

5 Divination in the Derveni Papyrus Sarah Iles Johnston 89

6 How to Learn about Souls: The Derveni Papyrus and Democritus Walter Burkert 107

7 Unlocking the Orphic Doors: Interpretation of Poetry in the Derveni Papryus between Presocratics and Alexandrians Jeffrey Rusten 115

8 The Derveni Papyrus and the Bacchic-Orphic Epistomia Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos 135

9 The Derveni Papyrus between the Power of Spoken Language and Written Practice: Pragmatics of Initiation in an Orpheus Poem and Its Commentary Claude Calame 165

10 "Riddles over Riddles": "Mysterious" and "Symbolic" (inter)textual Strategies. The Problem of Language in the Derveni Papyrus Anton Bierl 187

11 Reading the Authorial Strategies in the Derveni Papyrus Evina Sistakou 211

12 The Orphic Poem of the Derveni Papyrus David Sider 225

13 The Garland of Hippolytus Richard Hunter 255

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