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Adrasteia
Aeschylus
Aether (mythology)
Anaxagoras
Ancient Egyptian deities
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greek coinage
Ancient Greek comedy
Ancient Greek religion
Aphrodite Pandemos
Apollonian and Dionysian
Apollonius of Rhodes
Archaic Greece
Aristotle
Author_William Keith Guthrie
Byzantine Greeks
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Classical Greece
Clothing in ancient Greece
Culture of Greece
Deity
Dike (mythology)
Diodorus Siculus
Dionysus
Egypt
Eleusinian Mysteries
Eleusis
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Euripides
Greco-Roman mysteries
Greece
Greek alphabet
Greek art
Greek literature
Greek mythology
Greek name
Greek Philosophy
Greek tragedy
Greek World
Greeks
Hellenic Spirit
Hellenic studies
Hellenistic period
Hellenization
Hephaestus
Hermes Trismegistus
Hermesianax
Herodotus
Hesiod
Ionians
Mythology
Neoplatonism
Neopythagoreanism
Nikephoros (Caesar)
Odysseus
Orpheus
Orpheus and Eurydice
Orpheus in the Underworld
Orphism (religion)
Pantheism
Phanes (mythology)
Philosopher
Philosophy
Poetry
Pythagoreanism
Pythia
Religion
Silenus
Testament of Orpheus
The House of Hades
The Suppliants (Aeschylus)
Thebes
Theogony
Writing
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- ISBN 9780691024998
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 10 Oct 1993
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The tales told of Orpheus are legion. He is said to have been an Argonaut--and to have saved Jason's life. Rivers are reported to have stopped their flow to listen to the sounds of his lyre and his voice. Plato cites his poetry and Herodotus refers to "practices that are called Orphic." Did Orpheus, in fact, exist? His influence on Greek thought is undeniable, but his disciples left little of substance behind them. Indeed, their Orphic precepts have been lost to time. W.K.C. Guthrie attempts to uncover and define Orphism by following its circuitous path through ancient history. He tackles this daunting task with the determination of a detective and the analytical rigor of a classical scholar. He ferries his readers with him on a singular voyage of discovery.
W.K.C. Guthrie was Professor of Classics at Cambridge University. His books include the six-volume History of Classical Philosophy (Cambridge) and The Greeks and their Gods (Methuen).
