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:The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance

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The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance

The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance

“You Fell into Milk”: Symbols and Narratives of Kinship in Bacchic Mysteries

This article argues that claims of divine kinship play a central role in the Bacchic gold tablets of the late classical period. While many scholars have interpreted these tablets in reference to the Orphic Zagreus myth, I contend that key details of their texts are better understood as assertions of a familial link with the gods that assured postmortem happiness. The tablets develop the Hesiodic idea of human-divine fellowship, expanding this theme to include claims of identity or kinship with the gods through a variety of narrative strategies. This aspect of the tablets finds a parallel in Empedocles, who (under Orphic-Pythagorean influence) elaborates traditional human-divine fellowship into a claim that humans are exiled gods who can hope to rejoin divine society. Following this interpretive approach, I suggest that the puzzling expression “I/you fell into milk” in some tablets expresses a symbolic relation to the gods via divine breast milk.

User-friendly and ultra-stable all-inclusive gold tablets for cysteamine detection.

To date, a range of nanozymes has been reported for their enzyme-mimicking catalytic activity such as solution-based sensors. However, in remote areas, the need for portable, cost-effective, and one-pot prepared sensors is obvious. In this study, we report the development of a highly stable and sensitive gold tablet-based sensor for cysteamine quantification in human serum samples. The sensor is produced in two steps: synthesis of a pullulan-stabilized gold nanoparticle solution (pAuNP-Solution) using a pullulan polymer as a reducing, stabilizing, and encapsulating agent and then, casting the pAuNP-Solution into a pullulan gold nanoparticle tablet (pAuNP-Tablet) by a pipetting method. The tablet was characterized by UV-vis, DLS, FTIR, TEM, and AFM analyses. The pAuNP-tablet exhibited a high peroxidase-mimetic activity via a TMB-H2O2 system. The presence of cysteamine in the system introduced two types of inhibition which were dependent on the cysteamine concentration. By determining Michaelis-Menten's kinetic parameters, we gained mechanistic insights into the catalytic inhibition process. Based on the catalytic inhibition capability of cysteamine, the limit of detection (LoD) was calculated to be 69.04 and 82.9 μM in buffer and human serum samples, respectively. Finally, real human serum samples were tested, demonstrating the applicability of the pAuNP-Tablet for real-world applications. The % R values in human serum samples were in the range of 91-105% with % RSD less than 2% for all replicas. The stability tests over 16 months revealed the ultra-stable properties of the pAuNP-Tablet. Overall, with a simple fabrication method and a novel employed technique, this study contributes to the advancement of tablet-based sensors and helps in cysteamine detection in clinical settings.

«Орфические» золотые таблички

The gold tablets of the Classical and Hellenistic periods from burials in Italy and Greece are published in Russian translation and accompanied by a commentary. The text is a supplement to the previous article.

Gold Tablets: Gold Nanoparticles Encapsulated into Dextran Tablets and Their pH-Responsive Behavior as an Easy-to-Use Platform for Multipurpose Applications.

Many applications using gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) require (i) their functionalization with a biopolymer to increase their stability and (ii) their transformation into an easy-to-handle material, which provide them with specific properties. In this research, a portable tablet platform is presented based on dextran-encapsulated gold nanoparticles (AuNPs-dTab) by a ligand exchange reaction between citrate-capped gold nanoparticles (AuNPs-Cit) and dextran. These newly fabricated tablets were characterized utilizing ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy (UV–vis), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy–attenuated total reflectance (FTIR–ATR), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), dynamic light scattering (DLS), X-ray diffraction spectroscopy (XRD), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and atomic force microscopy (AFM) techniques. The results showed that dextran-capped gold nanoparticles in a tablet platform (AuNPs-dTab) were well-dispersed and highly stable for at least a year at room temperature. In addition to particle and surface characterization of AuNPs-dTab, the tablet morphology in terms of thickness, diameter, density, and opacity was also measured using 6 and 10% dextran with 2, 4 and 8 nM AuNPs-Cit. We further investigated the pH-responsive behavior of AuNPs-dTab in the presence and absence of sodium chloride. Results showed that neutral and alkaline environments were suitable to render AuNPs dispersed in a tablet, while an acidic condition controls the aggregation rate of AuNPs as confirmed by concentration-dependent aggregation phenomena. Besides the easy fabrication, these tablets were portable and low-cost (approx. 1.22 CAD per 100 tablets of a 100 μL solution of dextran-capped gold nanoparticles (AuNPs-dSol)). The biocompatible nature of dextran along with the acidic medium trigger nature of AuNPs makes our proposed tablet a potential candidate for cancer therapy due to the acidic surrounding of tumor tissues as compared to normal cells. Also, our proposed tablet approach paves the way for the fabrication of portable and easy-to-use optical sensors based on the AuNPs embedded in a natural polymeric architecture that would serve as a colorimetric recognition indicator for detecting analytes of interest.

Dark Glass, and: Epitaphs for All the Dead

Dark Glass, and: Epitaphs for All the Dead Austin Allen (bio) DARK GLASS They used to call it "No Such Agency."These days the mystery rises in plain sight.The two main buildings, 2A and 2B, are copper-shielded, black, sleek in the light—2A's been called "a dark glass Rubik's Cube."The rooms inside receive the whole world's chatter:my chirping phone, a buzzing border fence, a whispering diplomat or babbling rubein any town, at any time, might matter. All must be sorted. Records, photos, files—a billion treasures for the ultimate hoarder'sshrine—flow every second from Headquartersout to a hall of servers in the West.In Utah. Where else? Somehow it makes sense:the alien landscape, hidden veins of ore,gold tablets of encoded Mormon lore—it's all connected. Deep in Utah, milesfrom any town, walled off from any seeker,a server holds me in its gleaming pod.It sees my mind as clear as God sees God.Into that hall my life will be compressed till all's revealed by some crusading leaker . . .That fear, that hope, could launch a thousand churches.Deep in the Western desert I am known.All through my fervent writings, furtive searches,I know the silence lies. I'm not alone. [End Page 202] EPITAPHS FOR ALL THE DEAD Out of Circulation Participated Came to Pass Never Outran the Cheetah or Broke the Hummingbird's Record for Wingbeats Per Second Back in Circulation R.I.P. Blank / Born Blank / Died Blank Occurred to Earth Departed This Vale of Tears, Orgasms, and Hangnails Were Not Much More Than a Blur Were [End Page 203] Austin Allen AUSTIN ALLEN's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Yale Review, Southwest Review, 32 Poems, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. His essays appear frequently via the poetry foundation website. His first poetry collection, Pleasures of the Game, won the 2016 Anthony Hecht Prize. Copyright © 2019 Austin Allen

Gold Has Many Uses

Abstract In this paper, I discuss a group of gold tablets from graves in Judaea-Palaestina from about 200 CE. I connect the text in these tablets with a well known funerary acclamation that originated in the East and was brought to the Latin West by immigrants and argue, against earlier scholars, that these tablets mark the very home of this acclamation and express a peculiar eschatology. I end with remarks on the multiple uses of inscribed gold tablets in ancient religions.

The Marcosian Redemption: Mythmaking, the Afterlife, and Early Christian Religiosity

ABSTRACTThe Marcosian ‘redemption’ afterlife practice, described by Irenaeus (Haer. 1.21.5; see also, 1.13.6), exhibits striking similarities with the Bacchic Gold Tablets. This article exploits this largely neglected comparative opportunity to interrogate how the Marcosian redemption would have been recognisable to people in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean, thus bypassing the common focus in our field on ‘origins’ or ‘influences’. The Christians who participated in the Marcosian redemption emerge as people engaged in a broader genre of Greco-Roman religiosity that is associated with independent experts who adapted known mythic resources and offered access to afterlife benefits. This article thus pursues a level of social analysis we often take for granted in Early Christian Studies by attending to the constituent practices of the Marcosian redemption as well as to the social conditions within which it could have been intelligible or compelling. It furthermore leverages this analysis to suggest the fruitfulness of similarly redescribing other, more familiar early Christian materials in terms of practices.

Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets. By FritzGraf and Sarah IlesJohnston. Pp. xii, 284, Routledge,2013, £22.99/$37.95.The Orphic Hymns: Translation, Introduction, and Notes. By Apostolos N.Athanassakis and Benjamin M.Wolkow. Pp. xxi, 255, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013, £12.00/$22.95.

The Heythrop JournalVolume 57, Issue 1 p. 147-148 BOOK REVIEW Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets. By Fritz Graf and Sarah Iles Johnston. Pp. xii, 284, Routledge, 2013, £22.99/$37.95. The Orphic Hymns: Translation, Introduction, and Notes. By Apostolos N. Athanassakis and Benjamin M. Wolkow. Pp. xxi, 255, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013, £12.00/$22.95. Robin Waterfield , Robin Waterfield Lakonia , GreeceSearch for more papers by this author Robin Waterfield , Robin Waterfield Lakonia , GreeceSearch for more papers by this author First published: 14 December 2015 https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.8_12307Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume57, Issue1January 2016Pages 147-148 RelatedInformation

Near Eastern Precedents of the “Orphic” Gold Tablets: The Phoenician Missing Link

The Greek Gold Tablets (also called “Orphic Gold Tablets”), have often been compared with Egyptian funerary texts, especially those comprising theBook of the Dead. At the same time, North-West Semitic gold and silver leaves (Phoenician-Punic and Hebrew) with protective formulae offer a close parallel to them in aspects of their function and form. Although this group of funerary amulets are also said to follow Egyptian models, the three corpora have never been discussed together. Egyptian afterlife motifs and magical technologies may have indirectly influenced Greek Orphic funerary ideas and practices. I suggest, however, that this transmission happened through adaptations of Egyptian materials in the Phoenician-Punic realm, with evidence pointing to southern Italy and Sicily (Magna Graecia) as likely scenarios for this exchange. Intersections between Orphic and Phoenician cosmogony and the selective use of Egyptian iconography in Phoenician funerary amulets reinforce this hypothesis.

The Construction of Inner Religious Space in Wandering Religion of Classical Greece

In classical Greece, different kinds of itinerant purifiers are well known mainly through hostile descriptions (Plato, Demosthenes) and sometimes also through some evidence from inside (Empedocles, Orphic gold tablets). However, both perspectives coincide in showing that such wandering “priests” aimed to construe a transportable sacred space, attached to specific people rather than to any specific location. Thus, sacred places could easily turn into metaphorical images for inner states. The main mechanisms of such construction are: creating conceptual boundaries which separate the initiate from the profane; depicting imaginary spaces of purity and impurity at both sides of the boundary; and imagining ways of spatial change from the impure to the pure side, be it as a gradual process (imagined as walking through a path) or as a sudden transportation (imagined as leaping or falling). Sacred space as a metaphor for inner religious experience gained enormous popularity from Plato onwards, and this kind of construction may have been the most immediate antecedent. This approach helps to explain several pieces of evidence of Greek itinerant religion, and, more generally, to understand how the possibility of internalizing sacred spaces may be exploited in specific situations.

中药通淋逐瘀汤配合静滴阿奇霉素及克林霉素治疗慢性前列腺炎合并增生的临床研究

目的：观察通淋逐瘀汤(简称通淋汤)配合静滴阿奇霉素及克林霉素治疗慢性前列腺炎(CPS)合并增生(BPH) (简称前列腺炎合并增生)的临床疗效观察研究。方法：将CPS合并BPH125例患者随机分为通淋逐瘀汤配合静滴阿奇霉素及克林霉素中西医结合治疗组(以下简称治疗组) 50例，单用前列康胶囊(浙江康恩贝制药股份有限公司生产)对照治疗35例(对照1组)和单用三金片(桂林三金药业股份有限公司生产)对照治疗40例(对照2组)，比较3组的临床疗效。结果：治疗组对CPS合并BPH的总有效率为92%，明显高于对照1组(83%)和对照2组(78%)，治疗组疗效分别优于对照1组和对照2组，均为P The purpose of our research is to observe and study the clinical efficacy of chronic prostatitis (CPS) merger hyperplasia (BPH) (referred to as prostatitis hyperplasia) treated by Combining traditional Chinese medicine Tonglin Zhu Yu Tang with static drops of azithromycin and clindamycin. Methods: CPS merged BPH125 patients were randomized into stasis Tonglin soup with intravenous azithromycin and clindamycin combination therapy group (hereinafter referred to as the treatment group) 50 cases; alone forefront Capsule (Zhejiang Pharmaceutical CONBA Co., Ltd.) (control group 1) 35 cases; a single with three gold tablets (Guilin Sanjin Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.) (control group 2) 40 cases, and compare the clinical efficacy of the three groups of treatment. Results: The effective rate of the treatment group for CPS BPH merger is 92%, significantly higher than the control group 1 (83%) and control group 2 (78%), indicating that treatment group is better than the control group 1 and control group 2, both P < 0.05. Conclusion: Stasis Tonglin soup with intravenous azithromycin and clindamycin combination therapy CPS merged BPH, can rapidly improve the CPS merger of BPH symptoms, its clinical efficacy, symptom improvement rate than single-use capsule or single Qianliekang Treatment with three gold pieces CPS merged BPH.

Milk as a symbol of immortality in the “Orphic” gold tablets from Thurii and Pelinna

This article offers an interpretation of the enigmatic “kid-in-milk” formula which appears in four of the “Orphic” gold tablets from Thurii and Pelinna. These tiny tablets accompanied the dead in their graves and contained texts of various lengths which were believed to help the deceased on his or her journey to the otherworld. Many see the tablets as Orphic texts, but this question has been highly debated during the last century. The four tablets in question, from two sites in southern Italy and Greece, tell how the deceased has suffered in life, but that he or she has attained immortality through initiation. The immortalization was referred to and summed up in the “kid-in-milk” formula, where, it is argued, &lt;em&gt;milk &lt;/em&gt;was a direct reference to immortality. Thus &lt;em&gt;milk&lt;/em&gt; in this eschatological context is a symbol of immortality which served as a focal point for both the text and the initates.

RECONSTRUCTING ANCIENT CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE ORPHICTHEOGONY: ARISTOTLE, SYRIANUS AND MICHAEL OF EPHESUS ON ORPHEUS’ SUCCESSION OF THE FIRST GODS

In the last decades Orphic scholarship has found itself in rather fortunate circumstances: there have been not only spectacular finds such as the Derveni Papyrus and the so-called Orphic Gold Tablets, but these texts together with all the other fragments ascribed to the authoritative author-figure Orpheus have been made accessible in the new and extensive edition by Alberto Bernabé (2004–7). Understandably, recent discussions have focussed especially on the new material. Nevertheless, much work remains to be done on those fragments with which we have long been familiar. The present study puts a new complexion on a text long taken as evidence for an Orphic theogony.

Oracles of Orpheus? The Orphic Gold Tablets

Oracles of Orpheus? The Orphic Gold Tablets

Mystery cults of the ancient world

This is the first book to describe and explain all of the ancient world's major mystery cults - one of the most intriguing but least understood aspects of Greek and Roman religion. In the nocturnal Mysteries at Eleusis, participants dramatically re-enacted the story of Demeter's loss and recovery of her daughter Persephone; in the Bacchic cult, bands of women ran wild in the Greek countryside to honor Dionysus; and, in the mysteries of Mithras, men came to understand the nature of the universe and their place within it through frightening initiation ceremonies and astrological teachings. These cults were an important part of life in the ancient Mediterranean world, but their actual practices were shrouded in secrecy, and many of their features have remained unclear until now. By richly illustrating the evidence from ancient art and archaeology, and drawing on enlightening new work in the anthropology and cognitive science of religion, Mystery Cults of the Ancient World allows readers to imagine as never before what it was like to take part in these ecstatic and life-changing religious rituals - and what they meant to those who participated in them. Stunning images of Greek painted pottery, Roman frescoes, inscribed gold tablets from Greek and South Italian tombs, and excavated remains of religious sanctuaries help show what participants in these initiatory cults actually did and experienced. A fresh and accessible introduction to a fascinating subject, this is a book that will interest general readers, as well as students and scholars of classics and religion.

Milk in the Gold Tablets from Pelinna

In this article, the textual problems encountered in the Pelinna tablet are revisited. The reading in the text αἶψα is corrected to αἴξ according to the first editors' suggestion, so as to restore the compositional typology of the line required by the typology of its two surrounding lines. The commentary of these lines leads to the proposal, advocated by Dieterich long ago, to understand γάλα as the “galaxy”, and to interpret ταῦρος, αἴξ, and κριóς as the starry constellations, where the souls of the dead return, an idea already encountered in Aristophanes and Plato.

The Orphic Gold Tablets - (A.) Bernabé, (A.I.) Jiménez San Cristóbal Instructions for the Netherworld. The Orphic Gold Tablets. With an iconographical appendix by Richard Olmos and illustrations by Sara Olmos. Translated by Michael Chase. (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 162.) Pp. xii + 379, ills. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008. Cased, €129, US$188. ISBN: 978-90-04-16371-3.

The Orphic Gold Tablets - (A.) Bernabé, (A.I.) Jiménez San Cristóbal Instructions for the Netherworld. The Orphic Gold Tablets. With an iconographical appendix by Richard Olmos and illustrations by Sara Olmos. Translated by Michael Chase. (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 162.) Pp. xii + 379, ills. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008. Cased, €129, US$188. ISBN: 978-90-04-16371-3. - Volume 59 Issue 2

The religio-social message of the gold tablets from Pyrgi

The gold tablets from Pyrgi, studied many times for linguistic and philological reasons, constitute a clear example of religio-social ideology at work. They deploy their themes (the goddess, the ruler, the sanctuary) in a way that helps create the symbolical universe of the readers, in whose world it is inscribed that these things are part of a greater, orderly whole. The texts are here analysed from the points of view of ideology, power and religious tendency, as parts of the system of religious symbolism that they seek to legitimize. Rhetorical points are also touched upon, as well as the fundamental question of the implied readership of the texts.