CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Phrygian Cap, Oeagrus, Roman Mosaic
15 Apr 2020
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Attributes: lyre & wild animals (often in a foreign context) Roman mosaic with orpheus wearing a phrygian cap, surrounded by the wild animals which are calmed by his music: the myth, birth: from one of the muses (usu. The religion: orpheus as religious teacher, apollo and/or dionysus, mystery religion: purification & afterlife, orphic theogony: reminiscent of hesiod"s but with many changes. Phanes comes from egg in aether (created by chronus) & creates all things with night his daughter. Night bears gaia and ouranos, who bear titans etc. Nb: this contains the story of zagreus: orphic golden tablets (inscribed gold foil at breast of dead with post-mortem guidance) Avoid the first fountain where all the dead drink (spring of forgetfullness?) Find the stream which come from lake mnemosyne and drink. Nb. reflection of historical eastern influence or a contrast to athenian autochthony: cadmus and thebes, foundation of thebes-spartoi, family of cadmus: Wife: harmonia (daughter of ares and aphrodite)
