audiobook The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional by Agustín Fuentes in History

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The 'Orphic' gold tablets; tiny scraps of gold foil found in graves throughout the ancient Greek world; are some of the most fascinating and baffling pieces of evidence for ancient Greek religion. This collection brings together a number of previously published and unpublished studies from scholars around the world; making accessible to a wider audience some of the new methodologies being applied to the study of these tablets. The volume also contains an updated edition of the tablet texts; reflecting the most recent discoveries and accompanied by English translations and critical apparatus. This survey of trends in the scholarship; with an up-to-date bibliography; not only provides an introduction to the serious study of the tablets; but also illuminates their place within scholarship on ancient Greek religion.