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Paradise Earned: The Bacchic-Orphic Gold Lamellae of Crete - Hellenic Studies Series Yannis Tzifopoulos
Paradise Earned: The Bacchic-Orphic Gold Lamellae of Crete - Hellenic Studies Series
Yannis Tzifopoulos
This is a study of the twelve small gold lamellae from Crete that were tokens for entrance into a golden afterlife. The lamellae are placed within the context of a small corpus of similar texts, and published with extensive commentary on their topography, lettering and engraving, dialect and orthography, meter, chronology, and usage.
200 pages, 65 halftones
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674023796 |
| Publishers | Harvard University, Center for Hellenic |
| Pages | 384 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 228 × 24 mm · 620 g |
| Language | English |