Derveni Papyrus Cosmology, Theology and Interpretation

Name: Derveni Papyrus Cosmology, Theology and Interpretation
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ISBN: 9780521047395

ISBN-10: 0521047390

ISBN-13: 9780521047395

Edition: 2007

Authors: Gï¿½bor Betegh

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Gbor Betegh presents the first systematic reconstruction and examination of the Derveni papyrus and analyzes its role in the intellectual milieu of its age. Found in 1962 near Thessaloniki among the remains of a funeral pyre, it is one of the earliest surviving Greek papyri and is a document of primary importance for understanding religious and philosophical developments of the time of Socrates. The book will appeal strongly to classicists, philosophers and historians of religion.

Book details

List price: $62.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/19/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 456
Size: 6.06" wide x 8.98" long x 8.86" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Gï¿½bor Betegh is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Central European University, Budapest.



Preface


List of abbreviations


Text and translation



The find



The first columns



The reconstruction of the poem



The interpretation of the poem



The cosmic god



Cosmology



Anaxagoras



Diogenes of Apollonia and Archelaus of Athens



Physics and eschatology: Heraclitus and the gold plates



Understanding Orpheus, understanding the world


Appendix: Diagoras and the Derveni author


Bibliography


Index verborum


Index of passages


Index of modern names


Index of subjects