Initiation into the mysteries of the ancient world /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bremmer, Jan N.
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Berlin : De Gruyter, 2014.
Series:	Münchner Vorlesungen zu antiken Welten ; Bd. 1.
Subjects:	Mysteries, Religious. Civilization, Classical. Civilization, Ancient. History, Ancient. Mystères religieux. Civilisation ancienne. Histoire ancienne. 11.15 Greek religion. HISTORY > Ancient > General. Civilization, Ancient Civilization, Classical History, Ancient Mysteries, Religious Initiation Mysterienreligion Rezeption Urchristentum Mysteries (ancient greece) Eleusinska mysterierna. Kulter. Initiationsriter. Romerska riket. Antiken. Antiquity. cult. initiation. mysteries. Electronic books. History
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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.