Note 410 — Chapter IV · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE ORPHICI

Perhaps not directly. There is some reason for thinking that the soul of the true Orphic was supposed to pass through the intermediate stages of hero and demon: see Hild, Étude sur les Démons, Paris, 1881, p. 144, where the subject is excellently treated. Cf. Pindar, Threnoi, Frag. X. 4, p. 98, Cod. Bö. The deification of the dead was also a Pythagorean doctrine, as appears in the Aurea Carmina, ll. 70, 71, ed. Gaisford.