The Orphic Hymns by Orpheus

The Orphic Hymns

Orpheus with Apostolos N. Athanassakis (Translator), Benjamin M. Wolkow (Translator)

280 pages first pub 300 (editions)

nonfiction classics poetry informative reflective slow-paced

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At the very beginnings of the Archaic Age, the great singer Orpheus taught a new religion that centered around the immortality of the human soul and its journey after death. He felt that achieving purity by avoiding meat and refraining from commit...

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