Ebook: Poetae Epici Graeci: Testamonia et Fragmenta, Pars II: Orphicorum et Orphicis similium Testimonia et fragmenta, Fasciculus 2

This book is the second volume of the second part of Bernabé’s edition of Greek epic poets. The first part, published in 1987 (second edition in 1996), covered the poets of the epic cycle. The second part, an edition of the Orphica, will ultimately consist of three volumes; the first two volumes were published in 2004 and 2005 respectively, and the third is announced to come out late in 2006. The Orphic material is divided into two main parts that do not correspond to the division into two volumes. Part I, which takes up the entire Volume I and more than half of Volume II, contains fragments of and testimonies about Orphic poems, as well as testimonies about Orphic rites and Orphic practitioners and their relationship to other religious movements and rites. The second half of Volume II contains Part II, which presents the testimonia about Orpheus, his assumed disciples and followers (from Eumolpus and Museaus to Empedocles and Onomacritus), and authors who were supposed to compose, used, or interpreted Orphic poetry. The third volume will contain the fragments of Musaeus, Linus, Epimenides, an Appendix containing the integral text of the Derveni papyrus, and numerous indexes.