Studies on the Derveni papyrus, edited by André Laks and Glenn W. Most

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Note: Papers presented by various scholars at a colloquium at Princeton University, Apr. 17-18, 1993

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-185) and indexes

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Contents: Introduction / Andre Laks and Glenn W. Most -- A Provisional Translation of the Derveni Papyrus / Andre Laks and Glenn W. Most -- 1. The Derveni Papyrus / Maria Serena Funghi -- 2. Cosmology as Initiation vs. the Critique of Orphic Mysteries / Dirk Obbink -- 3. Was Euthyphro the Author of the Derveni Papyrus? / Charles H. Kahn -- 4. Figures of Sexuality and Initiatory Transition in the Derveni Theogony and its Commentary / Claude Calame -- 5. Hocus-Pocus in East and West. Theogony, Ritual, and the Tradition of Esoteric Commentary / Martin L. West -- 6. The First Columns of the Derveni Papyrus and their Religious Significance / K. Tsantsanoglou -- 7. Heraclitus in the Derveni Papyrus / David Sider -- 8. Chronos in Column XII of the Derveni Papyrus / Luc Brisson -- 9. Star Wars or One Stable World? A Problem of Presocratic Cosmogony (PDerv. Col. XXV) / Walter Burkert -- Bibliography of the Derveni Papyrus / Maria Serena Funghi

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