Hymns and initiations

by Thomas Taylor

Paper Book, 1994

Status

Available

Call number

291.211

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Publication

Frome, Somerset, UK : Prometheus Trust, 1994.

Description

1824. Thomas Taylor was one of the outstanding translators of the philosophical writings of the Greeks and Romans, and also published several original works on philosophy and mathematics. Many of his important contributions in these fields have been long out-of-print and are extremely difficult to obtain, having been issued in very small editions. Most of Taylor's translations have an archaic elegance which preserves the spirit of the older authors in a manner not evident in more recent translations. Taylor also added notes and commentaries which give valuable insight into the essential meaning often obscure in the actual text. This volume contains Taylor's Mystical Hymns of Orpheus, 87 hymns together with a dissertation on the life and theology of Orpheus. Contents also include: The Hymns of Thomas Taylor; and Hymns from the authors of antiquity.… (more)

Language

Original language

Greek

Physical description

xi, 305 p.; 24 cm

ISBN

1898910049 / 9781898910046

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