| Epimenides must be reckoned with Melampus and Onomacritus as one of the founders of Orphism. |
| But Orphism was also connected with Crete, and Cretan civilization had oriental affinities. |
| But Orphism, though liable to degradation, purified and elevated the old Bacchic rites. |
| Orphism and the Mysteries had attempted the same thing in the Grecian world without achieving a lasting success. |
| Although it was short-lived, Orphism was the first movement devoted explicitly to non-representational colour abstraction. |
| Orphism took up the beliefs of paganism, and adapted them to its own ends. |
