Initiation into the mysteries of the ancient world / Jan N. Bremmer.
2014
BL610 .B74 2014
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Title
Initiation into the mysteries of the ancient world / Jan N. Bremmer.
Author
ISBN
9783110299557 (online)
3110299550 (online)
3110299291 (hard cover)
9783110299298 (hard cover)
3110376997
9783110376999 (electronic bk.)
3110299550 (online)
3110299291 (hard cover)
9783110299298 (hard cover)
3110376997
9783110376999 (electronic bk.)
Imprint
Berlin : De Gruyter, 2014.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 256 pages)
Call Number
BL610 .B74 2014
System Control No.
(OCoLC)887091553
Summary
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.
Note
University lectures.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
Access Note
Open Access
Digital File Characteristics
text file
Series
Münchner Vorlesungen zu antiken Welten ; Bd. 1. 2198-9664
Available in Other Form
Print version: Bremmer, Jan N. Initiation into the Mysteries of the Ancient World Druck-Ausgabe
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