Contents 8
Preface to the English Edition 12
Introduction 14
0.1. The gold tablets 14
0.2. External aspects of the tablets 15
0.3. The texts: a brief approximation of their contents 17
0.4. Sketch of a typology of the tablets. Our grouping 19
0.5. Editions 21
Chapter One. Arrival in the Subterranean World (The Tablets from Hipponion, Entella, Petelia and Pharsalus and the Reduced Versions, L 1–6) 22
Translation of tablets L 1–6 22
Commentaries 25
1.1. A textual problem 25
1.2. Mnemosyne 28
1.3. Crossing over to the other world 32
1.4. The cypress of the underworld 38
1.5. The thirst of the dead and the two fountains 42
1.6. The soul faced by the guardians 48
1.7. Continuing journey 61
1.8. The sacred way 63
1.9. Mystai and bacchoi 65
1.10. The Orphic model and the Platonic model 66
1.11. Instructions for use? 68
1.12. Short versions: the Cretan tablets 69
1.13. The relation between the long and the shorter tablets 71
1.14. Gender hesitations 72
Chapter Two. A Ritual for the Dead: The Tablets from Pelinna (L 7ab) 74
Translation of tablets L 7AB from Pelinna 74
Commentaries 75
2.1. Structure of the text 75
2.2. A death that is life 77
2.3. The soul liberated by Dionysus 79
2.4. The formulas of the animal fallen in the milk 89
2.5. Wine 97
2.6. The rites completed 103
Chapter Three. Best Wishes for Accompanying the Soul to the Other World: A Tablet from Thurii (L 8) 108
Translation of tablet 8 from Thurii 108
Commentaries 109
3.1. The difficult reading of verse 2 109
3.2. The formula of salutation 109
3.3. The great experience 110
Chapter Four. Before Persephone: More Tablets from Thurii (L 9–10ab) 112
Translation of tablets 9 and 10AB from Thurii 112
Commentaries 113
4.1. The introductory formula 113
4.2. The reference to punishment 118
4.3. Fate and the lightning of Zeus 122
4.4. Two variants at the end: a) the supplication to Persephone 128
4.5. b) The second variant: the cycle, the crown, and the lap of the goddess 130
Chapter Five. A Tablet in Imperial Rome (L 11) 146
translation of tablet 11 from Rome 146
Commentaries 146
5.1. Change of person in the sacred formula 146
5.2. The deceased woman called by name 148
Chapter Six. A "Word Search Puzzle" for Deceiving Non-Initiates: The "Great" Tablet from Thurii (L 12) 150
Translation of tablet 12 from Thurii 150
Commentaries 151
6.1. A disconcerting discovery 151
6.2. A proposal for a new reading 152
6.3. Sacred formulas among meaningless letters. Some parallels 154
6.4. Reconstruction of the religious background 162
Chapter Seven. Passwords to Accede to the Meadow of the Blessed and a Prayer to Persephone: The Tablets from Pherai (L 13 and 13A) 164
Translation of the tablets from Pherai (L 13 and 13A) 164
Commentaries 165
7.1. The passwords 165
7.2. The names used as passwords 167
7.3. The effects of the passwords 170
Chapter Eight. Other Tablets (L 14–16) 174
Translation of tablets L 14–16 174
Commentaries 176
8.1. Greetings to Plato and Persephone: tablets from Milopotamus (L 15), Rethymno (L 14), and Heraclea (L 15a) 176
8.2. Identifications of the mystai; tablets from Pella and other places 177
8.3. The tablet from Manisa and other documents that cannot be attributed to the Orphics 179
Chapter Nine. The Soul's Final Destiny. Results and Conclusions 182
9.1. Recapitulation. Mentions of the soul's destiny 182
9.2. Previous conditions 184
9.3. The scenario of the happy life 187
9.4. Characteristics of the afterlife 190
Chapter Ten. The Central Question: Are the Gold Leaves Orphic? 192
10.1. Discussions of the religious atmosphere of the tablets 192
10.2. Argument from authorship 194
10.3. The Geography of the tablets 196
10.4. Belonging to a mystery ambience 198
10.5. Purity and justice 203
10.6. The gods in the tablets and in other Orphic texts 205
10.7. Iconography 208
10.8. Colophon 217
Chapter Eleven. Parallels to the Tablets in Other Cultures 220
11.1. Introduction 220
11.2. The Egyptian "Book of the Dead" 220
11.3. A Hittite parallel: the "Great voyage of the soul" 222
11.4. Indian parallels 230
11.5. Parallels in the Iranian world 234
11.6. "Tablets" in the Italian environment 237
11.7. A tablet in Gallia 238
11.8. The 'Punic' tablets 238
11.9. Echoes in modern times 239
Chapter Twelve. Literary Questions: Characteristics, Models and Archetypes 240
12.1. Problems of a literary nature 240
12.2. Functional texts 243
12.3. The possible model of the tablets 244
12.4. The tablets' relation to ritual 246
12.5. Various uses of the tablets 249
12.6. The relation between use and appearance or thematic motifs 252
Appendix I. Edition of the Tablets 254
Appendix II. Iconographical Notes on the Orphic Tablets. Selection of illustrations and commentaries by Ricardo Olmos. Drawings by Sara Olmos 286
Bibliography 340
Index Locorum 360
General Index 373

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