Orphism
Orphism refers to Greek religious ideas and practices associated with the mythical poet Orpheus.
Established Evidence includes inscribed gold tablets placed in graves from the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, the Derveni papyrus (found in 1962, a fourth-century BCE commentary on an Orphic theogony), and the later Orphic Hymns.[1][2] Tradition / belief Orphic texts describe the soul's journey after death and the need for purity to escape a cycle of rebirth.[3] Scholarly debate Scholars disagree on whether "Orphism" was an organised movement or a loose set of texts and practices under Orpheus's name.[4]
References
- ↑ Jane Ellen Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (1903). public domain.
- ↑ Thomas Taylor (trans.), The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus (1792). public domain; reissued 1896.
- ↑ Harrison (1903), chapters on the gold tablets.
- ↑ Discussion in W.K.C. Guthrie, Orpheus and Greek Religion (1935). Cited only.
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