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Orphism
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thumb|200px|right|Orphic mosaics were found in many late-Roman villas.
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15 sectionsContents
- History
- Origins
- Relationship to Pythagoreanism
- Orphic literature
- Theogonies
- Gold tablets
- Extant works
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Editions and translations
- References
- Further reading
- Articles on Orphism
- Books on Orphism
- General studies
thumb|200px|right|Orphic mosaics were found in many late-Roman villas.
Orphism is the name given to a set of religious beliefs and practices originating in the ancient Greek and Hellenistic world, associated with literature ascribed to the mythical poet Orpheus, who descended into the Greek underworld and returned. Orphism has been described as a reform of the earlier Dionysian religion, involving a re-interpretation or re-reading of the myth of Dionysus and a re-ordering of Hesiod's Theogony, based in part on pre-Socratic philosophy.