Orphic ideology mainly concerned the mysteries of Dionysos, which many Greeks took very seriously.
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Orphic
//ˈɔːfɪk//
Synonyms for "orphic" (6 found)
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Related words (3)
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1 entriesTranslations
12 translations across 12 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- орфи́чески adj (Of or pertaining to Orphism and its doctrines and rituals)
Catalan
1 entries- òrfic adj (Of or pertaining to Orphism and its doctrines and rituals)
Dutch
1 entries- orfisch adj (Of or pertaining to Orphism and its doctrines and rituals)
Finnish
1 entries- orfilainen adj (Of or pertaining to Orphism and its doctrines and rituals)
French
1 entries- orphique adj (Of or pertaining to Orphism and its doctrines and rituals)
Friulian
1 entries- orfic adj (Of or pertaining to Orphism and its doctrines and rituals)
Italian
1 entries- orfico adj (Of or pertaining to Orphism and its doctrines and rituals)
Polish
1 entries- dotyczący Orfeusza adj (Of or pertaining to Orphism and its doctrines and rituals)
Portuguese
1 entries- órfico adj (Of or pertaining to Orphism and its doctrines and rituals)
Romanian
1 entries- orfic adj (Of or pertaining to Orphism and its doctrines and rituals)
Russian
1 entries- орфи́ческий adj (Of or pertaining to Orphism and its doctrines and rituals)
Spanish
1 entries- órfico adj (Of or pertaining to Orphism and its doctrines and rituals)
Sample sentences
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[…] he intended to be a divine artist, a man of visionary states and enchantments, Platonic possession. He got a Rationalistic, Naturalistic education at CCNY. This was not easily reconciled with the Orphic. But all his desires were contradictory.
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In particular, Plato often refers to the “Orphics” and mentions the “Orphic life” (Orphikoi tines legomenoi bioi, Laws 782c). Plato clearly distinguished the Orphics and the Pythagoreans. To speak very generally, the Orphics believed that the soul had a divine beginning but fell from the gods due to an original crime.
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