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In Vergil's Aeneid, the poet implies that those who have been initiated into mystery cults enjoy a blessed situation both in life and after death. This collection of essays brings new insight to the study of mystic cults in the ancient world, particularly those that flourished in Magna Graecia...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Casadio, Giovanni, 1950-, Johnston, Patricia A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, ©2009.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Mysteries, Religious > Italy > Magna Graecia.
Mystères religieux > Italie > Grande-Grèce.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
RELIGION > Antiquities & Archaeology.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Spirituality > Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
Mysteries, Religious
Religion
Magna Graecia (Italy) > Religion.
Grande-Grèce > Religion.
Italy > Magna Graecia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Giovanni Casadio and Patricia A. Johnston
  • Dionysus and Orpheus
  • Dionysus in Campania : Cumae / Giovanni Casadio
  • The meaning of [Bavkco"] and [Bakceuvein] in orphism / Ana Jiménez San Cristóbal
  • New contributions of dionysiac iconography to the history of religions in Greece and Italy / Cornelia Isler-Kerényi
  • Who are you? : mythic narrative and identity in the "orphic" gold tablets / Radcliffe G. Edmonds
  • Imago inferorum orphica / Alberto Bernabé
  • Putting your mouth where your money is : Eumolpus' will, pasta e fagioli, and the fate of the soul in South Italian thought from Pythagoras to Ennius / R. Drew Griffith
  • Demeter and Isis
  • Aspects of the cult of Demeter in Magna Graecia : the "case" of San Nicola di Albanella / Giulia Sfameni Gasparro
  • Landscape synchesis : a Demeter temple in Latium / Kathryn M. Lucchese
  • The eleusinian mysteries and Vergil's "appearance-of-a-terrifying-female-apparition-in-the-underworld" motif in Aeneid 6 / Raymond J. Clark
  • Women and nymphs at the Grotta Caruso / Bonnie MacLachlan
  • "Great royal spouse who protects her brother Osiris" : Isis in the Isaeum at Pompeii / Frederick Brenk
  • Aegyptiaca from Cumae : new evidence for isis cult in Campania : site and materials / Paolo Caputo
  • The mystery cults and Vergil's Georgics / Patricia A. Johnston
  • Mithras
  • The amor and psyche relief in the Mithraeum of Capua Vetere : an exceptional case of Graeco-Roman syncretism or an ordinary instance of human cognition? / Luther H. Martin
  • The mythraic body : the example of the Capua Mithraeum / Richard Gordon
  • Why the shoulder? : a study of the placement of the wound in the Mithraic Tauroctony / Glenn Palmer.

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