Orphic Tablets and Hymns

Further Reading

Books

• Alderink, L. J. Creation and Salvation in Ancient Orphism. Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press, 1981.
• Athanassakis, Apostolos N. The Orphic Hymns: Text, Translation, and Notes. Missoula, Mont.: Scholars Press, 1977.
• Betegh, Gábor. The Derveni Papyrus: Cosmology, Theology, and Interpretation. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• Burkert, Walter. Ancient Mystery Cults. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987.
• Detienne, Marcel. The Writings ofOrpheus, trans. Janet Lloyd. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
• Eliade, Mircea. Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, trans. W. R. Transk. New York, Pantheon, 1964.
• Graf, Fritz, and Sarah Iles Johnston. Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets. London, U.K.: Routledge, 2007.
• Kotansky, Roy. “Incantations and Prayers for Salvation on Inscribed Greek Amulets.” In Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion, ed. Christopher A. Faraone and Dirk Obbink. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1991.
• Plato. The Dialogues of Plato, trans. Benjamin Jowett. New York: Macmillan, 1892.
• Swain, Simon. Hellenism and Empire: Language, Classicism, and Power in the Greek World AD 50–250. Oxford, U.K.: Clarendon, 1996.
• West, M. L. The Orphic Poems. Oxford, U.K.: Clarendon Press, 1983.
• Zuntz, Günther. Persephone: Three Essays on Religion and Thought in Magna Graecia. Oxford, U.K.: Clarendon Press, 1971.

Journals

• Nilsson, M. “Early Orphism and Kindred Religious Movements.” Harvard Theological Review 28 (1935): 181–230.