Initiation into the mysteries of the ancient world
The ancient Mysteries have long attracted the interest of scholars, an interest that goes back at least to the time of the Reformation. After a period of interest around the turn of the twentieth century, recent decades have seen an important study of Walter Burkert (1987). Yet his thematic approach...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter
2014
[2014] |
| Colección: | Münchner Vorlesungen zu antiken Welten ;
Bd. 1. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423601606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Conventions and Abbreviations
- I. Initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries: A 'Thin' Description
- II. Mysteries at the Interface of Greece and Anatolia: Samothracian Gods, Kabeiroi and Korybantes
- III. Orpheus, Orphism and Orphic-Bacchic Mysteries
- IV. Greek Mysteries in Roman Times
- V. The Mysteries of Isis and Mithras
- VI. Did the Mysteries Influence Early Christianity?
- Appendix 1: Demeter and Eleusis in Megara / Sfameni Gasparro, Giulia
- Appendix 2: The Golden Bough: Orphic, Eleusinian and Hellenistic-Jewish Sources of Virgil's Underworld in Aeneid VI
- Bibliography
- Index of Names, Subjects and Passages
