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Orphic mosaics were found in many late-Roman villas. Orphism is the name given to a set of religious beliefs and practices [ 1 ] originating in the ancient Greek and Hellenistic world, [ 2 ] associated with literature ascribed to the mythical poet Orpheus , who descended into the Greek underworld and returned.
The Orphic mysteries are used as an example of the false cults of Greek paganism in the Protrepticus. The Protrepticus (Greek: Προτρεπτικὸς πρὸς Ἕλληνας: "Exhortation to the Greeks") is, as its title suggests, an exhortation to the pagans of Greece to adopt Christianity. Within it, Clement demonstrates his extensive ...
Orpheus was regarded as a founder and prophet of the mysteries called "Orphic," "Dionysiac," or "Bacchic." Mythologized for his ability to entrance even animals and trees with his music, he was also credited in antiquity with the authorship of the lyrics that have survived as the Orphic Hymns, among them a hymn to Pluto. Orpheus's voice and ...
For the Greeks, Orpheus was a founder and prophet of the so-called "Orphic" mysteries. [11] He was credited with the composition of a number of works, including several theogonies, the Orphic Hymns, [12] the Orphic Argonautica, [13] the Lithica [14] and the Hexameter poem. [15] Shrines containing purported relics of Orpheus were regarded as ...
The Derveni papyrus is an Ancient Greek papyrus roll that was discovered in 1962 at the archaeological site of Derveni, near Thessaloniki, in Central Macedonia.A philosophical treatise, the text is an allegorical commentary on an Orphic poem, a theogony concerning the birth of the gods, produced in the circle of the philosopher Anaxagoras.
Blanchot's interpretation and use of the Orphic myth is to highlight the non-dialectical movement of art, and especially literature's, self-realization. Against Hegelian dialectics, Blanchot's Orpheus sacrifices Eurydice but does not attain the work, only the sacrifice of the work, and affirms the impossibility that grounds the work at its origin.
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Mystery religions, mystery cults, sacred mysteries or simply mysteries (Greek: μυστήρια), were religious schools of the Greco-Roman world for which participation was reserved to initiates (mystai). The main characteristic of these religious schools was the secrecy associated with the particulars of the initiation and the ritual practice ...