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Examines new methodologies used in the study of these tablets. Includes an updated edition and translation of the tablet texts.

In a paradigm shift, this book redefines Orphism as a polemical label for extra-ordinary religion, good or bad.

Orphic gold tables are key documents for the knowledge of rites and beliefs of Orphics, an atypical group that configured a highly original creed and that influ

Fascinating texts written on small gold tablets that were deposited in graves provide a unique source of information about what some Greeks and Romans believed

Plato, Aristophanes, and the creators of the "Orphic" gold tablets employ the traditional tale of a journey to the realm of the dead to redefine, within the myt