Initiation into the mysteries of the ancient world /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bremmer, Jan N. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin : De Gruyter, [2014]
Series:	Münchner Vorlesungen zu antiken Welten ; Bd. 1.
Subjects:	Mysteries, Religious. Mysteries, Religious > Greece Civilization, Classical. Christianity and other religions > Greek. Christianity and other religions > Roman. Christianity and culture > History > Early church, ca. 30-600. Rome > Religion. History.

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.