CLT-3370 Lecture Notes - Creation Myth, Archaic Greece, Theogony
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Different stories of creation: philosophical accounts, the pre-socratic philosophers, religious accounts, orphism. Orphism: a mystic religion of ancient greece, originating in the 7th or. 6th century bc and based on poems (now lost) attributed to orpheus, emphasizing the necessity for individuals to rid themselves of the evil part of their nature by ritual and moral purification throughout a series of reincarnations. Knew secret rites knew all the secret rituals how the universe came to be: of dionysus especially knew the rites of him, about the afterlife, 5) orpheus and eurydike (eurydice): story says that. Orpheus married eurdike yet she was bitten by a snake-she died and part of her soul went down into the underworld. Orpheus plays his lyre for hades and persephone so well that they are agreed to allow him to take her back, yet the one rule is that he cannot look back, so he loses her to the underworld.
