Cybele Attis And Related Cults

Author : Eugene N. Lane
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004295889

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Cybele, Attis and Related Cults by Eugene N. Lane Pdf

This volume brings together articles on the cult of the mother-goddess Cybele and her consort Attis, from the emergence of the religion in Anatolia through its expansion into Greece and Italy to the latest times of the Roman Empire and its farthest extent west, the Iberian Peninsula. It combines the work of established scholars with that of young researchers in the field, and represents a truly international perspective. The reader will find treatment inter alia of Cybele's emasculated priests, the Galli; the dissemination of Cybele-cult through the harbour city, Miletus; the cult of Cybele in Ephesus; the rock-cut sanctuary of Cybele at Akrai in Sicily; the competition between the Cybele-cult and Christianity; and the role of Attis in Neo-Platonic philosophy.

Author : Maarten Jozef Vermaseren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Attis
ISBN : 0500250545

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Cybele and Attis by Maarten Jozef Vermaseren Pdf

Author : Giulia Sfameni Gasparro
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004296558

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Soteriology and Mystic Aspects in the Cult of Cybele and Attis by Giulia Sfameni Gasparro Pdf

Preliminary material -- INTRODUCTION -- THE MYSTIC CULT OF CYBELE IN CLASSICAL GREECE -- MYSTERIES IN THE HELLENIZED CULT OF CYBELE -- MYSTIC ASPECTS IN THE “PHRYGIAN” MYTHICAL-RITUAL CYCLE -- THE PROBLEM OF THE PHRYGIAN MYSTERIES -- SOTERIOLOGICAL PROSPECTS IN THE CULT OF CYBELE -- MYSTIC AND SOTERIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE TAUROBOLIUM -- CONCLUSION -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ADDENDUM -- INDEX.

Author : Jaime Alvar
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047441847

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Romanising Oriental Gods by Jaime Alvar Pdf

The relative sophistication of the three major 'Oriental cults' of the Roman Empire, combining unfamiliar myth with distinctive ritual, enabled them, like Early Christianity, to offer a properly ethical salvation in the Weberian sense.

Author : Maarten Jozef Vermaseren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Attis
ISBN : 0500250545

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Cybele and Attis by Maarten Jozef Vermaseren Pdf

Author : Lynn E. Roller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999-07-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520210240

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In Search of God the Mother by Lynn E. Roller Pdf

This is the first thorough account of the nature and the spread of the cult of Cybele, the Great Mother, and the first to present her worship soberly as a religion rather than sensationally as an orgiastic celebration of self-castrated priest-attendants.

Author : Philippe Borgeaud
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801879852

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Mother of the Gods by Philippe Borgeaud Pdf

Worshiped throughout the ancient Mediterranean world, the "Mother of the Gods" was known by a variety of names. Among peoples of Asia Minor, where her cult first began, she often shared the names of local mountains. The Greeks commonly called her Cybele, the name given to her by the Phrygians of Asia Minor, and identified her with their own mother goddesses Rhea, Gaia, and Demeter. The Romans adopted her worship at the end of the Second Punic War and called her Mater Magna, Great Mother. Her cult became one of the three most important mystery cults in the Roman Empire, along with those of Mithras and Isis. And as Christianity took hold in the Roman world, ritual elements of her cult were incorporated into the burgeoning cult of the Virgin Mary. In Mother of the Gods, Philippe Borgeaud traces the journey of this divine figure through Asia Minor, Greece, and Rome between the sixth century B.C. and the fourth century A.D. He examines how the Mother of the Gods was integrated into specific cultures, what she represented to those who worshiped her, and how she was used as a symbol in art, myth, and even politics. The Mother of the Gods was often seen as a dualistic figure: ancestral and foreign, aristocratic and disreputable, nurturing and dangerous. Borgeaud's challenging and nuanced portrait opens new windows on the ancient world's sophisticated religious beliefs and shifting cultural identities.

Author : Lynn E. Roller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-07-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520919688

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In Search of God the Mother by Lynn E. Roller Pdf

This book examines one of the most intriguing figures in the religious life of the ancient Mediterranean world, the Phrygian Mother Goddess, known to the Greeks and Romans as Cybele or Magna Mater, the Great Mother. Her cult was particularly prominent in central Anatolia (modern Turkey), and spread from there through the Greek and Roman world. She was an enormously popular figure, attracting devotion from common people and potentates alike. This book is the first comprehensive assembly and discussion of the entire extant evidence concerning the worship of the Phrygian Mother Goddess, from her earliest appearance in the prehistoric record to the early centuries of the Roman Empire. Lynn E. Roller presents and analyzes literary, historiographic, and archaeological data with equal acuity and flair. While previous studies have tended to emphasize the more outrageous aspects of the Mother Goddess's cult, such as her orgiastic rituals and the eunuch priests who attended her, this book places a special focus on Cybele's position in Anatolia and the ways in which the identity of the goddess changed as her cult was transmitted to Greece and Rome. Roller gives a detailed account of the growth, spread, and evolution of her cult, her ceremonies, and her meaning for her adherents. This book will introduce students of Classical antiquity to many aspects of the Great Mother which have been previously unexamined, and will interest anyone who has ever been piqued by curiosity about the Mother Goddess of the ancient Western world.

Author : Jaime Alvar Ezquerra
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004132931

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Romanising Oriental Gods by Jaime Alvar Ezquerra Pdf

The traditional grand narrative correlating the decline of Graeco-Roman religion with the rise of Christianity has been under pressure for three decades. This book argues that the alternative accounts now emerging significantly underestimate the role of three major cults, of Cybele and Attis, Isis and Serapis, and Mithras. Although their differences are plain, these cults present sufficient common features to justify their being taken typologically as a group. All were selective adaptations of much older cults of the Fertile Crescent. It was their relative sophistication, their combination of the imaginative power of unfamiliar myth with distinctive ritual performance and ethical seriousness, that enabled them both to focus and to articulate a sense of the autonomy of religion from the socio-political order, a sense they shared with Early Christianity. The notion of 'mystery' was central to their ability to navigate the Weberian shift from ritualist to ethical salvation.

Author : Maria Lancellotti
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004295971

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Attis by Maria Lancellotti Pdf

This volume deals with the figure of Attis. The work aims to reconsider the mythical and cultic information about this character, trying to provide proof of the processes of "construction" and "reconstruction" that have contributed to the moulding of the different forms of Attis that developed as a result of various demands within different religious traditions. After an introduction about the history of the studies, the first part examines the oldest evidence on Attis, resorting to comparison with religious traditions earlier than or contemporary with Phrygian culture. The second part tackles the classical world and collects the elements of continuity and of innovation in respect of Asianic religious traditions. The third part analyses the problem of the processes of reinterpretation of the traditional cults that both the "pagan" philosophers and the fathers of the Church effected. The link between Attis and Death is discussed in the fourth part.

Author : Nadežda Gavrilović Vitas
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789699142

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Ex Asia et Syria: Oriental Religions in the Roman Central Balkans by Nadežda Gavrilović Vitas Pdf

'Ex Asia et Syria: Religions in the Roman Central Balkans' examines the cults of Asia Minor and Syrian origin in the Roman provinces of the Central Balkans. The author analyzes all hitherto known epigraphical and archaeological material attesting to the presence of the cults in that region, a subject yet to be the object of serious scholarly study.

Author : David Leeming,Christopher Fee
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781780235387

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The Goddess by David Leeming,Christopher Fee Pdf

For as long as we have sought god, we have found the goddess. Ruling over the imaginations of humankind’s earliest agricultural civilizations, she played a critical spiritual role as a keeper of nature’s fertile powers and an assurance of the next sustaining harvest. In The Goddess, David Leeming and Christopher Fee take us all the way back into prehistory, tracing the goddess across vast spans of time to tell the epic story of the transformation of belief and what it says about who we are. Leeming and Fee use the goddess to gaze into the lives and souls of the people who worshipped her. They chart the development of traditional Western gender roles through an understanding of the transformation of concepts of the Goddess from her earliest roots in India and Iran to her more familiar faces in Ireland and Iceland. They examine the subordination of the goddess to the god as human civilizations became mobile and began to look upon masculine deities for assurances of survival in movement and battle. And they show how, despite this history, the goddess has remained alive in our spiritual imaginations, in figures such as the Christian Virgin Mother and, in contemporary times, the new-age resurrection of figures such as Gaia. The Goddess explores this central aspect of ancient spiritual thought as a window into human history and the deepest roots of our beliefs.

Author : Everett Ferguson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0802822215

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Backgrounds of Early Christianity by Everett Ferguson Pdf

New to this expanded & updated edition are revisions of Ferguson's original material, updated bibliographies, & a fresh dicussion of first century social life, the Dead Sea Scrolls & much else.

Author : William North,Laura L. Gathagan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843838302

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The Haskins Society Journal by William North,Laura L. Gathagan Pdf

The latest historical and interdisciplinary research on the early and central Middle Ages, focussing on the the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and Angevin worlds. Topics considered include the role of material objects in Orderic Vitalis's History; landholding and service in England after the Norman Conquest; and self-flagellation in eleventh-century Italy.

Author : Douglas Boin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107024014

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Ostia in Late Antiquity by Douglas Boin Pdf

'Ostia in Late Antiquity' narrates the life of Ostia Antica, Rome's ancient harbor, during the later empire.