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“DALL’ACQUA TURCHINA BALZAVANO IN ALTO I PESCI PER IL CANTO BELLO”. MUSICA, POESIA E ANIMA NEL MITO DI ORFEO

open access: yesRiCognizioni, 2019
“Fishes leapt out from the blue water because of his sweet music”. Music, poetry and soul in Orpheus’ myth. Through the analysis of different sources, this paper highlights the main events in Orpheus’ myth: the heroes’ birth, the power of his singing on ...
Matteo Stefani
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Orphism. Birth, evolution and heritage of a forgotten avant-garde

open access: yes, 2018
La notion d’orphisme est née à la veille de la Première Guerre mondiale. Forgée par Guillaume Apollinaire, elle lui sert à désigner l’art nouveau et audacieux de ses amis-peintres, notamment ceux réunis autour de Robert Delaunay.
Sawczuk, Magdalena
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Milk as a symbol of immortality in the “Orphic” gold tablets from Thurii and Pelinna

open access: yesNordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2014
This article offers an interpretation of the enigmatic “kid-in-milk” formula which appears in four of the “Orphic” gold tablets from Thurii and Pelinna. These tiny tablets accompanied the dead in their graves and contained texts of various lengths which ...
Stian Sundell Torjussen
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“Many Rivers to Cross:” Orphic Confluences of Fred D’Aguiar’s Children of Paradise and Wilson Harris’ Palace of the Peacock

open access: yesAngles, 2018
Seldom does criticism address cross-cultural issues in terms of confluence. In fact, scholars tend to use chaos theory (Glissant, Benitez-Rojo), oceanic tropes (Gilroy, Brathwaite), and linguistic foci (Chamoiseau, Bhabha) to deal with them.
Léo Courbot
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«Vengo puro dal puro». Iniziati e non iniziati tra culti misterici, orfismo e rituali per l’aldilà

open access: yesOtium, 2017
Mystery cults and Orphism represent two important aspects of ancient Greek religion. The connection with concepts like mortality and salvation of the soul is a key point to understand some changes in ancient cults in the transition from Classic to ...
Emiliano Cruccas
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Orphism and the Dionysian Gaze: Myth, Art, and Lyric Poetry in Ancient Greece

open access: yesRevista Académica Estesis
In today's totally desacralized and thus also dis-connected world, Orpheus' attitude, namely the turning of the gaze towards the sacred, or Euridice in Hell, undoubtedly implies the assumption of the refreshing (and redemptive) stance of the tragic: a ...
Francisco Aranda Espinosa
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The nature of water: Greek thought from Homer to Acusilaos.

open access: yes, 2009
Greek philosophy finds its roots in the myth of Homer's and Hesiod's poems and especially in Orphism which introduced the concept of a soul separated from the body with an independent principle, psichē (soul), to be rewarded or punished after death ...
De Santo RM   +5 more
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The Influence of Egyptian Funerary Practices on Greek Orphism : A Comparison of the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Orphic Gold Tablets

open access: yes, 2013
47 p.Orphism is a historically controversial title due to the lack of a collective ancient group who called themselves "Orphic." On a basic level, Orphism is a branch of Dionysiac, or Bacchic, worship.
Vincensi, Elizabeth
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