| Yet how does one distill the Orphic essence from its various and utterly distinctive incarnations? |
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| With their kaleidoscopic color shifts and vibrations, their blurred halos, the Sisters reminded her of Sonia Delaunay's Orphic paintings. |
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| The Orphic literature influenced many Bacchic mystery groups in antiquity. |
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| The works of the Orphic artist must simultaneously give a pure aesthetic pleasure, a structure which is self-evident, and a sublime meaning, that is, a subject. |
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| We usually think of the Orphic myth as a story about the artist's deadly gaze and the power of his art, about love and its fatal moment of madness. |
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| Orphic religion, a Hellenistic mystery religion, thought to have been based on the teachings and songs of the legendary Greek musician Orpheus. |
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| In The Flutist, an Orphic piper with a mother-of-pearl face charms fossilized rocks, which rise from the grassy ground to assemble a ziggurat ascending to the ether. |
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| Inspired by Alexandria, this religion differs from Neo-Platonism in rejecting all the mythologies, the Orphic, Homeric, Olympian traditions, to be linked with Christ, through St John. |
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| Most scholars agree that by the 5th century bc there was at least an Orphic movement, with travelling priests who offered teaching and initiation, based on a body of legend and doctrine said to have been founded by Orpheus. |
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| That of an Orphic quest for a lost wife, after passing through a gateway leading to a central path evoking cathedrals and overhanging supernatural creatures which conjur up the many hells of mythology. |
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| There are indications that Plato was familiar with some version of the Orphic theogony. |
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| One gets the impression that Syrianus was very interested in Orphic theogony, whereas for Proclus the Chaldaean Oracles are more authoritative when developing a Platonic theology. |
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| Although only scraps of the Orphic narratives survive, they show interesting differences with the Hesiodic tradition. |
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| Yoder relates the issue of unriddling to his explanation of Emerson's concept of the Orphic poet, tracing the role of the poet as fiddle-solver back to Old English culture. |
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| The painter's orphic sleight of hand was abetted by arcane titles that conjure profligate aristocrats, sexual libertines, adepts of the dark arts and drugged esthetes. |
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