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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. This volume focuses on the restoration and conservation of the papyrus, the ideas of the anonymous author about Erinyes and daimons, the quoted Orphic poem in comparison with Hesiod’s Theogony and Parmenides’ poem, the exegetical approach of the commentator, his cosmogonic system, his attitude regarding mystery cults and his peculiar theology.
Price: $161.00
Pages: 174
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava
Publication Date:
20 December 2018
ISBN: 9789004384842
Format: Hardcover
"Overall, this book is well-conceived and nicely edited (...). It certainly represents a step forward in the challenging task of unearthing the many mysteries that surround the Derveni Papyrus." - Matthieu Réal, in: BMCR 2019.10.40
''In sum, the volume is a welcome addition to the lively scholarship on the Derveni papyrus. Santamaría can be congratulated for bringing together a set of diverse viewpoints on several of the mysteries that the Derveni papyrus offers.'' - Mirjam E. Kotwick, in: The Classical review 70.2: 320-323 (2020)
"La importancia del volumen radica tanto en lo que se plantea en cada contribución como en las cuestiones que éstas suscitan en el contexto de la investigación sobre el papiro y, además, sobre la religión, el pensamiento, los mitos, los cultos mistéricos, la naturaleza de los practicantes, etc. Es evidente que se trata de un documento que, empezando por las dificultades textuales, plantea problemas que admiten soluciones variadas y lógicamente discordantes." - Emilio Suarez, in: Antiguëdad: Religiones y Sociedades vol.18 (2020)
''In sum, the volume is a welcome addition to the lively scholarship on the Derveni papyrus. Santamaría can be congratulated for bringing together a set of diverse viewpoints on several of the mysteries that the Derveni papyrus offers.'' - Mirjam E. Kotwick, in: The Classical review 70.2: 320-323 (2020)
"La importancia del volumen radica tanto en lo que se plantea en cada contribución como en las cuestiones que éstas suscitan en el contexto de la investigación sobre el papiro y, además, sobre la religión, el pensamiento, los mitos, los cultos mistéricos, la naturaleza de los practicantes, etc. Es evidente que se trata de un documento que, empezando por las dificultades textuales, plantea problemas que admiten soluciones variadas y lógicamente discordantes." - Emilio Suarez, in: Antiguëdad: Religiones y Sociedades vol.18 (2020)
Marco Antonio Santamaría, Ph. D. (2005), University of Salamanca, is Associate Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Salamanca. He has published articles and books chapters on Orphic texts, Greek cosmogonies and afterlife conceptions.