Examines new methodologies used in the study of these tablets. Includes an updated edition and translation of the tablet texts.

Orphic gold tables are key documents for the knowledge of rites and beliefs of Orphics, an atypical group that configured a highly original creed and that influ

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

In a paradigm shift, this book redefines Orphism as a polemical label for extra-ordinary religion, good or bad.

The tales told of Orpheus are legion. He is said to have been an Argonaut--and to have saved Jason's life. Rivers are reported to have stopped their flow to lis