Mystic cults in Magna Graecia

Weitere Verfasser: Casadio, Giovanni, 1950-
Johnston, Patricia A.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2009.
Ausgabe: 1st ed.
Umfang/Format: xv, 372 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Magna Graecia
Inhalte/Bestandteile: 18 Datensätze
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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-Kerenyi
  • Who are you? : mythic narrative and identity in the "orphic" gold tablets / Radcliffe G. Edmonds
  • Imago inferorum orphica / Alberto Bernabe
  • 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.