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Tearing Apart the Zagreus Myth: A Few Disparaging Remarks on Orphism and Original Sin

An article challenging the reconstructed Zagreus dismemberment myth and arguing that the Orphic doctrine of inherited original sin is a modern scholarly fabrication.

Author: Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
Type: Book
Written: 1999
Edition: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press (Classical Antiquity, vol. 18 no. 1, 1999, pp. 35-73)
Language: English
Tradition: Orphism

Where to find it

DOI: Classical Antiquity 18.1 (1999) 35-73
Bryn Mawr College open-access repository (author's institutional copy)