Ebook: The Derveni papyrus : unearthing ancient mysteries
Author: Santamaría Álvarez Marco Antonio
- Tags: Papiri letterari greci -- Derveni -- Sec IV a C
- Series: Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 36.
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Brill
- City: Boston, Leiden
- Language: English
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"The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries" is devoted to this fascinating and challenging document, discovered in 1962 in a tomb in Derveni, near Thessaloniki, and dated c. 340-320 BCE. It contains a text probably written at the end of 5th c. BCE, which after some reflections on minor divinities and unusual cults, comments upon a poem attributed to Orpheus from an allegorical and philosophical perspective. Read more...