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

The 'Orphic' gold tablets, tiny scraps of gold foil found in graves throughout the ancient Greek world, are some of the most fascinating and baffling pieces of

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

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

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