Mystic cults in Magna Graecia
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 Jimenez San Cristobal -- New contributions of dionysiac iconography to the history of religions in Greece...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin, Tex.
University of Texas Press
2009
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| In: | Year: 2009 |
| Edition: | 1. ed. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Magna Graecia
/ Mysteries
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Mysteries, Religious Italy Magna Graecia B Mysteries, Religious (Italy) (Magna Graecia) B Magna Graecia (Italy) Religion |
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| Summary: | 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 Jimenez San Cristobal -- New contributions of dionysiac iconography to the history of religions in Greece and Italy / Cornelia Isler-Kernyi -- Who are you? : mythic narrative and identity in the "orphic" gold tablets / Radcliffe G. Edmonds -- Imago inferorum orphica / Alberto Bernab -- 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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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0292719027 |