Cybelle Attis And Related Cults
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Cybele Attis And Related Cults
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Author : Eugene N. Lane
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-08-27
Cybele Attis And Related Cults written by Eugene N. Lane and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-27 with History categories.
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.
Soteriology And Mystic Aspects In The Cult Of Cybele And Attis
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Author : Giulia Sfameni Gasparro
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-09-07
Soteriology And Mystic Aspects In The Cult Of Cybele And Attis written by Giulia Sfameni Gasparro and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-07 with History categories.
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.
Cybele And Attis
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Author : Maarten Jozef Vermaseren
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Cybele And Attis written by Maarten Jozef Vermaseren and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Attis categories.
Cybele And Attis
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Author : Maarten Jozef Vermaseren
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Cybele And Attis written by Maarten Jozef Vermaseren and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Attis categories.
In Search Of God The Mother
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Author : Lynn E. Roller
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1999-07-13
In Search Of God The Mother written by Lynn E. Roller and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-07-13 with Religion categories.
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.
Romanising Oriental Gods
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Author : Jaime Alvar Ezquerra
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2008
Romanising Oriental Gods written by Jaime Alvar Ezquerra and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Religion categories.
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.
Mother Of The Gods
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Author : Philippe Borgeaud
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2004-11-12
Mother Of The Gods written by Philippe Borgeaud and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-12 with History categories.
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.
Attis
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Author : Maria Lancellotti
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-08-24
Attis written by Maria Lancellotti and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-24 with History categories.
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.
The Haskins Society Journal 24
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Author : William North
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2013-10-17
The Haskins Society Journal 24 written by William North and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-17 with History categories.
Fruits of the most recent research on the worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Catullus Poem On Attis
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Author : Ruud R. Nauta
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-08-30
Catullus Poem On Attis written by Ruud R. Nauta and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Catullus 63, the poem on Attis’ self-castration, regret, and final subjection to the goddess Cybele, has been called ‘the most remarkable poetical creation in the Latin language’. Scholarly debate has focused on the poem’s relationship to the myths and cults of Attis and Cybele, its dependence on Hellenistic models, its meanings for a Roman audience, and its unusual language and metre. In the present volume these questions are being addressed by a team of specialists in religious history, Hellenistic poetry, Roman poetry and culture, and Latin linguistics. The volume not only sheds much new light on a fascinating poem, it also demonstrates how the various disciplines of Classics may cooperate towards a better understanding of ancient culture. The contents of this volume also appear in Mnemosyne, 57,5. (2004), as a special issue on Catullus.