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2 - The “Orphic” gold tablets

Texts and translations, with critical apparatus and tables

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2011

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Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
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Radcliffe G. Edmonds
Radcliffe G. Edmonds
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Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
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The 'Orphic' Gold Tablets and Greek Religion
Further along the Path
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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