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Dionysos, Orpheus and Argead Macedonia. Overview and perspectives

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Fulińska A.

Classica Cracoviensia

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2014

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issue 17

43-67

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Summary: The cult of Dionysos in ancient Macedonia and its possible relation to the Orphic beliefs is one of the most interesting aspects of the Macedonian culture, one, however, accessible to us only via very fragmentary and indirect evidence, partly textual, partly archaeological. The paper summarizes the most important aspects according to the status quaestionis and proposes some interpretations of the problem.

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Parmenide e l’Uovo argenteo degli Orfici in Simplicio, Damascio e Proclo

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Licciardi I. A.

Peitho. Examina Antiqua

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2023

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vol. 14

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issue 1

99-124

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When commenting on Aristotle Ph. 1.3, 187a1, Simplicius in Ph. 1.3, 146, 29–147,2 establishes an equivalence between the shining «silver egg» (ὤεον ἀργύφεον) of Orpheus (fr. 70 Kern) and the Parmenidean being or, rather, one of the determinations with which Parmenides, in the section of his Poem devoted to the so-called Way of Truth, indicates the ἐόν, i.e., «resembling the mass of a well-rounded sphere» (εὐκύκλου σφαίρης ἐναλίγκιον ὄγκωι – DK 28 B 8.43). The equivalence established here is found in the great digression about Parmenides (in Ph. 142, 28–148, 24), where Simplicius puts forward an interpretation of Parmenides that identifies the Parmenidean being-one (τὸ ἓν ὄν) with the intelligible (τὸ νοητόν), which, in another passages of the same commentary, is also qualified with the metaphysical concept of “unified” (τὸ ἡνωμένον) that is taken from Damascius. The aim of the present paper is to trace back the Neo-Platonic assumptions of this identification. In particular, we will focus on Damascius Pr. 2.55.40, 14–19 and 3.123.160, 1–3 Westerink, since these passages contain insights into the Orphic theology that is referred to as “usual”, “common” or “rhapsodic”, as well as a contextual “translation” of various Orphic concepts (e.g. ὤεον ἀργύφεον) in terms of Neo-Platonic metaphysics. The metaphysical transposition of the mythical image of the silver egg goes back, however, to Proclus (in Ti. 1.428, 8–9), who assumes the identity between Plato’s being (“being in the primary sense”, τὸ πρώτως [...] ὄν) and the Orphic egg (ταὐτὸν τό τε Πλάτωνος ὂν καὶ τὸ Ὀρφικὸν ὠόν). One cannot, at the same time, exclude a priori the possibility that the Orphic motif of the silver egg circulated in the Magna Graecia of Parmenides already from at least the 6th century BC. It is possible, as Colli hypothesised, that already Ibycus (who certainly knew Orpheus, fr. 25 Page) betrays a certain knowledge of it in fr. 4.4–5 Page, where we find the expression ἐν ὠέωι ἀργυρέωι. This article demonstrates that Proclus and Damascius embedded the Orphic concept of ὤεον ἀργύφεον into their Neo-Platonic metaphysics by showing its potential for speculative order.

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Ciało jako pułapka na drodze do wyzwolenia.zarys problemu w kontekście refleksji niektórych myślicieli antycznychi wczesnochrześcijańskich

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Sawicka J.

IDEA. Studia nad strukturą i rozwojem pojęć filozoficznych

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2013

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vol. 25

47- 68

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In this article the author attempts to show what can be described as a life of ideas in culture. The starting point for the discussion is the idea of the body as the prison of the soul, which came into philosophical discourse by Orphism, then Pythagoreanism. In this way the Greek philosophy shaped the paradigm according to which the spiritual is superior to that which is bodily; that it is the primary purpose of man to care about his spirituality, as only spirituality can contribute to the liberation of the human being. This idea was taken over by Plato, and after a few centuries it was transplanted into the ground of Christian theology. Then it underwent a kind of religious transformation, mainly due to St. Paul, Origen and St. Augustine and became for many centuries an important theological and pedagogical directive to cherish the soul at the expense of the body, because only your heart is the gateway to eternal life.

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Mit orfejski à rebours. O Pieśni tryumfującej miłości Tadeusza Micińskiego

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Badowska K.

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2019

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vol. 52

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issue 1

25-48

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The author analyses Pieśń tryumfującej miłości (one the prose poems by Tadeusz Miciński) as an inverted version of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. The interpretation is embedded in the context of the Orphic doctrine and Orphic mystery cults. It refers also to the significant role of music – not only in the nineteenthcentury literature but also in Miciński’s life and work.

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Autorka interpretuje poemat prozą Tadeusza Micińskiego jako transpozycję mitu o Orfeuszu. Rozważaniami obejmuje przy tym nie tylko mit orfejski, ale i doktrynę orficką. Analizy sytuuje na szerokim tle podkreślającym znaczenie muzyki w Młodej Polsce. Odnotowuje kontakty pisarza z kompozytorami, reperkusje jego pobytu w Hellerau, a także utwory, w których tematyzował muzykę. W takiej perspektywie dokonuje analizy Pieśni tryumfującej miłości.

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Dionysos, Orpheus and Argead Macedonia. Overview and perspectives

Parmenide e l’Uovo argenteo degli Orfici in Simplicio, Damascio e Proclo

Ciało jako pułapka na drodze do wyzwolenia.zarys problemu w kontekście refleksji niektórych myślicieli antycznychi wczesnochrześcijańskich

Mit orfejski à rebours. O Pieśni tryumfującej miłości Tadeusza Micińskiego