Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets by Fritz Graf, Sarah Iles Johnston

Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets

Fritz Graf, Sarah Iles Johnston

256 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Fascinating texts written on small gold tablets that were deposited in graves provide a unique source of information about what some Greeks and Romans believed regarding the fate that awaited them after death, and how they could influence it. Thes...

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