Initiation into the mysteries of the ancient world / / Jan N. Bremmer.
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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| Superior document: | Münchner Vorlesungen zu antiken Welten, Band 1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Münchner Vorlesungen zu antiken Welten ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (274 pages) |
| Notes: | University lectures. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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