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Indigenous and Ancient Religions

The Derveni Papyrus

Cosmology, Theology and Interpretation

by Gábor Betegh

A full study of the Derveni papyrus, the carbonised roll found near Thessaloniki that contains a commentary on an Orphic theogony. Betegh offers a text and translation and examines the commentator's allegorical method and its place in early Greek philosophy and religion.

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