In Pythagoras and Orpheus: Preludes to a Future History of Orphism and Pythagoreanism, renowned twentieth century mythologist Karl Kerényi introduces what he proposed as an entirely new understanding of the Ancient Greek Pythagorean and Orphic religious complexes. The work, now for the first time available in English, examines the apparently separate but actually intertwined phenomena embodied in these two figures.
A link between them existed in what for the place and era was a revolutionary appraisal of soul and its destination in the afterlife. Though differing in interpretation, the similarities highlight an increased concern with the hereafter and means of changing that outcome during life.
Though Orpheus was entirely mythical, both he and Pythagoras presided as figureheads of their respective spiritual communities. Each had its own values, beliefs, and practices, but common between them was self-purification in pursuit of transcendence.
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