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100 1 $aTzifopoulos, Yannis.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009029414
245 10 $aParadise earned :$bthe Bacchic-Orphic gold lamellae of Crete /$cYannis Tzifopoulos.
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bCenter for Hellenic Studies ;$aCambridge, Mass. :$bDistributed by Harvard University Press,$c2010.
300 $aix, 373 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aHellenic studies ;$v23
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tEdition -- $tThe Gold Epistomia of Crete -- $tNos. 1-9: Nine Incised -- $tNos. 10-12: Three Unincised -- $tRelated Texts -- $tNos. 13-15: The Incised Coins and Epistomion from Pieria -- $tNo. 16: The Hymn from the Diktaian Sanctuary in Palaikastro, Crete -- $tNo. 17: The Epigram of Magna Mater from Phaistos, Crete -- $tNos. 18-23: Epistomia in Byzantine Graves -- $tNos. 24-25: Modern Greek Examples -- $g2.$tCommentary on Epistomia nos. 1-12 -- $tTopography -- $tLettering Engraving -- $tDialect Orthography -- $tMeter -- $tChronology -- $tMaterial -- $tShape Burial Context -- $tUsage -- $g3.$tThe Cretan Epistomia in Context -- $tThe Corpus of the Epistomia: Nature and Classification -- $tThe Cretan Texts in the Context of a Ritual and a Hieros Logos -- $tIn Search of a Context: Rhapsodizing and 'Prophesying' the Afterlife -- $g4.$tThe Cretan Contexts -- $tA Literary Cretan Context -- $tA Cretan Context -- $tThe Cretan Context of the Cretan Epistomia.
520 1 $a"This work is a study of the twelve small gold lamellae from Crete, nine of them engraved with texts, that were tokens for entrance into a golden afterlife: the deceased who were buried or cremated with them believed that they had earned 'Paradise'. The lamellae are here placed within the context of a small corpus of similar texts, and they are published in an edition with extensive commentary on their topography, lettering and engraving, dialect and orthography, meter, chronology, material, shape, and usage. The texts on the lamellae reveal a hieros logos whose poetics and ritual(s) are not much different from Homeric rhapsodizing and prophetic discourses. Cretan contexts, both literary and archaeological, are also brought to bear on these incised objects and on the burial custom involved. Finally, this work also adduces parallels to the texts on the lamellae from the Byzantine period and modern Greece in order to illuminate the everlasting and persistent human quest for 'earning Paradise'."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aInscriptions, Greek$zGreece$zCrete.
650 0 $aGoldwork$zGreece$zCrete$xHistory.
650 0 $aBurial$zGreece$zCrete$xHistory.
650 0 $aFuture life$xSocial aspects$zGreece$zCrete$xHistory.
600 00 $aOrpheus$c(Greek mythological character)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2014043594
600 00 $aDionysus$c(Greek deity)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014014847
650 0 $aFuture life in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004308
650 0 $aReligious literature, Greek (Hellenistic)$zGreece$zCrete$xHistory and criticism.
651 0 $aCrete (Greece)$xAntiquities.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85033942
651 0 $aCrete (Greece)$xReligious life and customs.
830 0 $aHellenic studies ;$v23.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003001348
852 00 $bglx$hCN420$i.T95 2010