Osek, Ewa (2018) The Modena Relief: A Mystery of What? ACTA ANTIQUA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE, 58 (1-4). pp. 693-719. ISSN 0044-5975 (print); 1588-2543 (online)
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Abstract
The subject of my paper concerns the iconography of the mysterious relief at Modena (Galleria Museo e Medagliere Estense, inv. 2676) showing a young god in a cosmic egg. The paper is to review the state of research in modern scholarship since 1863, to discuss various attempts at its interpretation, and to propose my own working hypothesis, which links the Modena relief to the Orphic Rhapsodies and the Middle-Platonic passage transmitted by Porphyry of Tyre in his The Cave of the Nymphs 21–29.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | MTA KFB támogatási szerződés alapján archiválva |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Modena relief, iconography, interpretations, Mithras, Phanes, Orphic cosmogonies |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PA Classical philology / klasszika-filológia |
| Depositing User: | László Sallai-Tóth |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Dec 2019 14:09 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Aug 2023 08:43 |
| URI: | https://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/104188 |
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