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Watmough, J. R.

 
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Sinossi

This book contains the Cromer Greek Prize-winning essay for 1934 on the subject of the still little-understood Greek religion Orphism.

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Descrizione del libro

This book contains the Cromer Greek Prize-winning essay for 1934 on the subject of the still little-understood Greek religion Orphism. Watmough examines Orpheus and Orphism through a distinctly Protestant lens, arguing that both were religions 'of reform' sharing similar views on asceticism and the wages of sin in the afterlife.

Contenuti

Preface; Prologue. The sources; 1. The 'Orpheus' of history; 2. The 'Orpheus' of religion; Epilogue. 'Orphism' and the present day.

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