The Orphic Hymns

Orpheus
At the very beginnings of the Archaic Age, the great singer Orpheus taught a new religion that centered around the immortality of the human soul and its journey after death. He felt that achieving purity by avoiding meat and refraining from committing harm further promoted the pursuit of a peaceful life. Elements of the worship of Dionysus, such as shape-shifting and ritualistic ecstasy, were fused with Orphic beliefs to produce a powerful and illuminating new religion that found expression in the mystery cults. Practitioners of this new religion composed a great body of poetry, much of which is translated in The Orphic Hymns. The hymns presented in this book were anonymously composed somewhere in Asia Minor, most likely in the middle of the third century AD. At this turbulent time, the Hellenic past was fighting for its survival, while the new Christian faith was spreading everywhere. The Orphic Hymns thus reflect a pious spirituality in the form of traditional literary conventions. The hymns themselves are devoted to specific divinities as well as to cosmic elements. Prefaced with offerings, strings of epithets invoke the various attributes of the divinity and prayers ask for peace and health to the initiate. Apostolos N. Athanassakis and Benjamin M. Wolkow have produced an accurate and elegant translation accompanied by rich commentary.
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Orpheus
Orpheus
Translator:
Apostolos N. Athanassakis
Apostolos N. Athanassakis
Translator:
Benjamin M. Wolkow
Benjamin M. Wolkow
Estimated Reading Time: 7 hrs. 56 min.Page Number: 280Publication Date: May 2013Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 9781421408828Language: İngilizce

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THE ORPHIC HYMNS
Orphism, Antik Yunanların en popüler mezheplerinden birisidir. Yunan mitolojisinden bildiğimiz Zeus, Athena, Dionysus vb. figürleri içerir. Fakat Kozmogoni(evren varoluşu) ve Teogoni(tanrı varoluşu) hikayeleri yönünden, Homer ve Hesiod'un "standart" diyebileceğimiz Yunan mitolojisinden farkları vardır. Örneğin, Persephone'nin annesi Rhea'dır; ve hatta Herakles zaman tanrısı olan Khronos'tur. Bu eser de Orphic geleneğine ait, farklı tanrılara ve kavramlara adanmış 87 şiir içeriyor. Şiirler yaklaşık 90 sayfa tutarken, yazarın açıklamaları ise 300 sayfayı geçiyor. Yani oldukça detaylı, sözlük niyetine kullanılabilir. "Ben Yunan mitolojisini iyi biliyorum, sağ elle yazmak yetmiyor, bir de sol elle yazmayı öğreneyim." diyenlere öneririm.
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