Initiation into the mysteries of the ancient world / Jan N. Bremmer.
This book explores ancient mystery cults and their influence on emerging Christianity. The author discusses the famous Eleusian Mysteries as well as smaller and lesser-known Greek and Roman mysteries, offering an indispensable in-depth analysis of this fascinating phenomenon.
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2014.
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| Series: | Münchner Vorlesungen zu antiken Welten ;
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Table of Contents:
- Initiation into the Eleusinian mysteries : a "thin" description
- Mysteries at the interface of Greece and Anatolia : Samothracian Gods, Kabeiroi and Korybantes
- Orpheus, Orphism and Orphic-Bacchic mysteries
- Greek mysteries in Roman times
- The mysteries of Isis and Mithras
- Did the mysteries influence early Christianity?
- Appendix 1. Demeter and Eleusis in Megara
- Appendix 2. The Golden Bough : Orphic, Eleusinian and Hellenistic-Jewish sources of Virgil's Underworld in Aeneid VI.