The Derveni Papyrus
Cosmology, Theology and Interpretation
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 5 August 2004
- ISBN 9780521801089
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages456 pages
- Size 235x162x34 mm
- Weight 825 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 table 0
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Short description:
A comprehensive and systematic reconstruction and analysis of the Derveni Papyrus, found in 1962.
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This is a comprehensive study of the Derveni Papyrus. The papyrus, found in 1962 near Thessaloniki, is not only one of the oldest surviving Greek papyri but is also considered by scholars as a document of primary importance for a better understanding of the religious and philosophical developments in the fifth and fourth centuries BC. G&&&225;bor Betegh aims to reconstruct and systematically analyse the different strata of the text and their interrelation by exploring the archaeological context; the interpretation of rituals in the first columns of the text; the Orphic poem commented on by the author of the papyrus; and the cosmological and theological doctrines which emerge from the Derveni author's exegesis of the poem. Betegh discusses the place of the text in the context of late Presocratic philosophy and offers an important preliminary edition of the text of the papyrus with critical apparatus and English translation.
'Gab&&&243;r Betegh has done a brilliant job. His book provides his readers with a Greek text and an intelligent translation that does not hesitate to go its own way ... Thanks to Betegh's careful and thorough book, an important text has finally become much more accessible ...' The Times Literary Supplement
Table of Contents:
Preface; List of abbreviations; Text and translation; 1. The find; 2. The first columns; 3. The reconstruction of the poem; 4. The interpretation of the poem; 5. The cosmic god; 6. Cosmology; 7. Anaxagoras; 8. Diogenes of Apollonia and Archelaus of Athens; 9. Physics and eschatology: Heraclitus and the gold plates; 10. Understanding Orpheus, understanding the world; Appendix: Diagoras and the Derveni author; Bibliography; Index verborum; Index of passages; Index of modern names; Index of subjects.
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