Professor Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

Associate Professor, Department of Greek, Latin, & Classical Studies
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-2899

Office: Thomas 245
Office Phone: (610) 526-5046
redmonds@brynmawr.edu
Office Hours: MWF 10-11 or by appointment

 

Current Courses:

Fall 2008:

CSem: Greek Myth

Greek 201: Plato and Thucydides

CSTS/HIST 205:  Greek History

Spring 2009:

CSTS 212: Magic in the Greco-Roman World

GSem: Death and Beyond

 

Previous Courses

 

Publications and Projects:

Myths of the Underworld Journey in Plato, Aristophanes, and the Orphic Gold Tablets: A Path Neither Simple Nor Single Cambridge University Press (2004). (abstract)

"Tearing Apart the Zagreus Myth: A Few Disparaging Remarks on Orphism and Original Sin," Classical Antiquity 18.1 (1999), pp. 35-73. (abstract) (article)

"Socrates the Beautiful: Role Reversal and Midwifery in Plato's Symposium," Transactions of the American Philological Association 130 (2000), pp. 261-285. (abstract) (article)

"Did the Mithraists Inhale? - A Technique for Theurgic Ascent in the Mithras Liturgy, the Chaldaean Oracles, and some Mithraic Frescoes," Ancient World 32.1 (2000), pp. 10-24. (abstract) (article)

"Who in Hell is Heracles? Dionysos' Disastrous Disguise in Aristophanes' Frogs," in Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives: New Critical Perspectives, eds. Dodds & Faraone, Routledge 2003, pp. 181-200. (abstract) (article)

"At the Seizure of the Moon: The Absence of the Moon in the Mithras Liturgy," in Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World , eds. Noegel, Walker, & Brannon, Penn State University Press, 2003, pp. 223-239. (abstract) (article)

"Faces of the Moon: Cosmology, Genesis, and the Mithras Liturgy," in Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions, eds. Ra'anan S. Boustan & Annette Yoshiko Reed, Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 275-295. (abstract) (article)

"To Sit in Solemn Silence? Thronosis in Ritual, Myth, and Iconography," American Journal of Philology 127 (2006), pp. 347-366. (abstract) (article)

"Extra-ordinary People: Mystai and Magoi, Magicians and Orphics in the Derveni Papyrus," Classical Philology 103 (2008), pp. 16-39. (abstract) (article)

"Recycling Laertes' Shroud: More on Orphism and Original Sin" (article published online at the Center for Hellenic Studies) (abstract)

"Who are you? Mythic Narrative and Identity in the 'Orphic' Gold Tablets," in Cults of Magna Grecia, eds. Patricia Johnston and Giovanni Casadio, (forthcoming) (abstract)

"The Children of Earth and Starry Heaven:  The Meaning and Function of the Formula in the 'Orphic' Gold Tablets," in Orfeo y el orfismo: nuevas perspectivas, ed. Alberto Bernabe (forthcoming). (abstract)

"Whip Scars on the Naked Soul: Myth and Elenchos in Plato's Gorgias" in Platonic Myths: Status, Uses, and Functions, (Brill) ed. Collobert, Destree & Gonzalez (forthcoming). (abstract)

"Persephone and ποινή: Recompense for the Powers of the Underworld in the 'Orphic' Gold Tablets and Pindar fr. 133," in Graf, Fritz, ed., Ritual Texts for the Afterlife, (forthcoming). (abstract)

"The Bright Cypress of the 'Orphic' Gold Tablets: Direction and Illumination in Myths of the Underworld," in Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek & Roman Mythology and Religion, (forthcoming). (abstract)

"Orphic Mythology" in Blackwell Companion to Classical Mythology (forthcoming). (abstract)

"Sacred Scripture or Oracles for the Dead?  The Semiotic Situation of the 'Orphic' Gold Tablets," in The Orphic Gold Tablets and Greek Religion (forthcoming). (abstract)

The Orphic Gold Tablets and Greek Religion: Further Along the Path, editor and contributing article and introduction for a collection of new and previously published articles on the ‘Orphic’ Gold Tablets (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press). (abstract)

Redefining Ancient Orphism (book in preparation). (abstract)

 

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