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... Orpheus is the immortality of the soul . For the Homeric thinker who sees immortality as a radical difference between gods and men , the descent into Hades of Orpheus , or Hercules , or Theseus is heroic . For the Platonist who ...
... Orpheus is the immortality of the soul . For the Homeric thinker who sees immortality as a radical difference between gods and men , the descent into Hades of Orpheus , or Hercules , or Theseus is heroic . For the Platonist who ...
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... Orpheus myth an allegory of the cosmos and the human soul according to Plato . As myth and as a poetic language , Orphism may be the inven- tion of the early Christian Platonists , or of the Pythagoreans , or of Orpheus himself : it ...
... Orpheus myth an allegory of the cosmos and the human soul according to Plato . As myth and as a poetic language , Orphism may be the inven- tion of the early Christian Platonists , or of the Pythagoreans , or of Orpheus himself : it ...
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... Orpheus comes to figure on the second- century sarcophagus from Ostia and in the Domitilla catacomb as both a shepherd and a fisherman.1 At that stage of theological history the Orphic is apparently the exoteric aspect of the hidden god ...
... Orpheus comes to figure on the second- century sarcophagus from Ostia and in the Domitilla catacomb as both a shepherd and a fisherman.1 At that stage of theological history the Orphic is apparently the exoteric aspect of the hidden god ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION Pastoralism and Aesthetic Platonic Tradition I | 1 |
THE PASTORALISM OF TASSOS AMINTA | 21 |
The Shepherds Life | 44 |
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