Greek religious terminology; telete and orgia; a revised and expanded English edition of the studies by Zijderveld and Van der Burg.

9789004178137

Greek religious terminology; telete and orgia; a revised and expanded English edition of the studies by Zijderveld and Van der Burg.

Schuddeboom, Feyo.

BRILL

2009

285 pages

$138.00

Hardcover

Religions in the Graeco-Roman world; v.169

PA430

Patching a tire rather than reinventing the wheel, a new reference on the two semantically related Greek religious terms updates established scholarship and adds to it. The first two parts are revised editions of C. Zijderveld's 1934 Telete: Bijdrage tot de kennis der religieuze terminologie in het Grieksch, and N. M. H. van der Berg's 1939 Aporreta - drumena - orgia: Bijdrage tot de kennis der religieuze terminologie in het Grieksch. Over 70 additions have been made to the citations of literary sources. A chapter on the loanword orgia in Latin has also been added by Schuddeboom (classics, Het Amsterdams Lyceum), who in the third section presents two new chapters setting out epigraphical evidence for each of the terms. False and dubious attestations are appended, as are occurrences of the proper name Telete in inscriptions. The scholarship and the volume should be good for another seven decades.

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