Richard Janko / A Freethinker on the Mysteries of Dionysus: Philosophy and Religion in the Derveni Papyrus
Abstract
The lecture was devoted to the Derveni Papyrus, a late Presocratic treatise consisting in a philosophical interpretation of an Orphic poem. The leading specialist in the field presented his new "reconstructore" of some parts of the fragmentary papyrus and offered new look on its opening columns.