Dwayne a Meisner, Orphic Traditions and the Birth of the Gods, Oxford University Press, USA, 2018.
p vii Debate as to whether this was a unified movement or a literary phenomena
p viii adding to the debate from newly found Orphic fragments by Alberto Bernabe, constructing 4 theogonies
p 1 1 Derveni Theogony ( papyrus 4th C BC) as well as Neoplatonists
2 Eudamian Theogony (5th BC based on Aristotle's student)
3 Hieronymon theogony ( 2nd C BC) by Hieronymus and Hellanicus
4 Rhapsodic Theogony, the Rhapsodies ( 1st C BC/AD)
these are short narratives and are really hymns
p 18 The Hurrian-Hittite Song of Kumarbi ( kingship in Heaven myth) shows as Burkett and West pointed out that the Greek and Near Eastern myths have much in common and the myths must have come to Greece in the late Bronze Age to early Archaic period.- an orientalising revolution at every level of society in the 8 to 6 Centuries BC
p 19 also seen in Enuma Elis
Lopez Luisdraws analagies witht he Semitic, eg Urgaritic deity list, Baal and Hebrew Bible
p vii Debate as to whether this was a unified movement or a literary phenomena
p viii adding to the debate from newly found Orphic fragments by Alberto Bernabe, constructing 4 theogonies
p 1 1 Derveni Theogony ( papyrus 4th C BC) as well as Neoplatonists
2 Eudamian Theogony (5th BC based on Aristotle's student)
3 Hieronymon theogony ( 2nd C BC) by Hieronymus and Hellanicus
4 Rhapsodic Theogony, the Rhapsodies ( 1st C BC/AD)
these are short narratives and are really hymns
p 18 The Hurrian-Hittite Song of Kumarbi ( kingship in Heaven myth) shows as Burkett and West pointed out that the Greek and Near Eastern myths have much in common and the myths must have come to Greece in the late Bronze Age to early Archaic period.- an orientalising revolution at every level of society in the 8 to 6 Centuries BC
p 19 also seen in Enuma Elis
Lopez Luisdraws analagies witht he Semitic, eg Urgaritic deity list, Baal and Hebrew Bible
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