Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Text and translation
- 1 The find
- 2 The first columns
- 3 The reconstruction of the poem
- 4 The interpretation of the poem
- 5 The cosmic god
- 6 Cosmology
- 7 Anaxagoras
- 8 Diogenes of Apollonia and Archelaus of Athens
- 9 Physics and eschatology: Heraclitus and the gold plates
- 10 Understanding Orpheus, understanding the world
- Appendix: Diagoras and the Derveni author
- Bibliography
- Index verborum
- Index of passages
- Index of modern names
- Index of subjects
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Text and translation
- 1 The find
- 2 The first columns
- 3 The reconstruction of the poem
- 4 The interpretation of the poem
- 5 The cosmic god
- 6 Cosmology
- 7 Anaxagoras
- 8 Diogenes of Apollonia and Archelaus of Athens
- 9 Physics and eschatology: Heraclitus and the gold plates
- 10 Understanding Orpheus, understanding the world
- Appendix: Diagoras and the Derveni author
- Bibliography
- Index verborum
- Index of passages
- Index of modern names
- Index of subjects
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Derveni PapyrusCosmology, Theology and Interpretation, pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004