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Orphism

Set of religious beliefs and practices originating in the ancient Greek and Hellenistic world

EntityGreco-Roman mysteries school of thoughtQ242517

Also known as Orphicism · Orphism (religions)

Instance of: Greco-Roman mysteries
, school of thought

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Orphism is the name given to a set of religious beliefs and practices originating in the ancient Greek and Hellenistic world, associated with literature ascribed to the mythical poet Orpheus, who descended into the Greek underworld (katabasis) and returned. Orphism has been described as a reform of the earlier Dionysian religion, involving a re-interpretation or re-reading of the myth of Dionysus and a re-ordering of Hesiod's Theogony, based in part on pre-Socratic philosophy.

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Different from: Orphism
Native label: Ὀρφικά ala-lc romanization: Orphika

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