The Derveni Papyrus: Cosmology, Theology and Interpretation by Gábor Betegh
By Gábor Betegh
G?bor Betegh offers the 1st systematic reconstruction and exam of the Derveni papyrus and analyzes its position within the highbrow milieu of its age. present in 1962 close to Thessaloniki one of the continues to be of a funeral pyre, it really is one of many earliest surviving Greek papyri and is a record of fundamental value for figuring out spiritual and philosophical advancements of the time of Socrates. The publication will attraction strongly to classicists, philosophers and historians of faith.
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For it was not born, but existed. And the reason why air received its name has been made clear above. But it was thought that it was born, because it got the name Zeus, just as if it did not exist previously. And he said that this will be ‘the last’, because it was named Zeus, and it will continue to be his name until the things that are now have got set together into the same form in which they were floating as they were before. And it is clear that they became such because of this, and having come to be, they are all in it.
H ª Janko 10. [²nai Ts. ap. [nta Janko: [e²nai Janko: [ ] ZPE 11. toÅtwi. Ts. ap. Bernab´e: toÅtw[i ZPE p[nta Ts. ap. Bernab´e: [pnta Janko: mnein or ke± qai West: [. . [± de] Ts. ap. Bernab´e: t[o± de] ZPE 12. kefa[l Ts. ap. [l ZPE m ] . a. Ts. ap. Bernab´e: m ]a. : k. ZPE tt[uktai] Ts. ap. [uktai] ZPE 13. n. Ts. ap. [ ZPE [lgwn t¼n ra t »]ntì Ts. ap. [³aper Ts. ap. [ ZPE 14. [n Ts. ap. al. Janko conta Ts. ap. Bernab´e oÕto Ts. ap. Bernab´e: aÌth Janko gr Ts. ap. [ t ew Ts.
For air existed even before the things that are now were set together and always will exist. For it was not born, but existed. And the reason why air received its name has been made clear above. But it was thought that it was born, because it got the name Zeus, just as if it did not exist previously. And he said that this will be ‘the last’, because it was named Zeus, and it will continue to be his name until the things that are now have got set together into the same form in which they were floating as they were before.