Abstract

BERNABE, Alberto. Orfeo y Eleusis. Synthesis (La Plata) [online]. 2008, vol.15, pp.13-36. ISSN 0328-1205.

Orpheus appears in numerous sources as founder of the teletai, this is, the type of rites to which the Eleusian mysteries clearly belong to, and as author of religious poetry related to them. However, nobody states that the Eleusinian Mysteries are "Orphic". On the other hand some sources consider Eumolpus as the founder of these rites. The paper tries to analyse this contradiction. In order to do so, the testimonies linking Orpheus to Eleusis or to the teletai in general and the relics of the Orphic poetry about Demeter and Persephone are examined.

Keywords : Orphism; Mysteries; Eleusis; Greek religion; Eumolpus.

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