Definitionadj. ascribed to Orpheus or characteristic of ideas in works ascribed to Orpheus
Last update: June 16, 2015
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A large number of writings in the tone of the Orphic religion were ascribed to Orpheus. [Please select]
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And the Orphic poets add a similar picture of another. [Please select]
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These ideas were creeping out from their hiding-places, and expressing themselves in Greek in Athens during this period in the Orphic religious poetry. [Please select]
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These religions of the shadows, these practices of the women and peasants and slaves, gave Greece her Orphic, Dionysic, and Demeter cults; they have lurked in the tradition of Europe down almost to our own times. [Please select]
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And he who desires to signify divine concerns through symbols is Orphic, and, in short, accords with those who write fables respecting the gods. [Please select]
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"Hence," he adds in the Orphic writings, the first cause is denominated time; for where there is generation, according to its proper signification, there also there is time. [Please select]
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He was a poet, a teacher of the religious doctrines known as the Orphic mysteries, and a great musician, having inherited from his father an extraordinary genius for music. [Please select]
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