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Author: M.J. Vermaseren
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-09-29
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9004296166
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Preliminary material -- INTRODUCTION -- ATTIS' BIRTH -- ATTIS' CHILDHOOD -- CYBELE'S PASSION FOR ATTIS -- ATTIS SESE MUTILANS ET MORIENS -- ATTIS TRISTIS ET HILARIS -- PLATE I.
Author: Maria Lancellotti
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-08-24
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9004295976
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9004164731
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book greatly enhances our knowledge of the interrelationship of Greek religion & culture and the Ancient Near East by offering important analyses of Greek myths, divinities and terms like a ~magica (TM) and 'paradise', but also of the Greek contribution to the Christian notion of atonement.
Author: Giulia Sfameni Gasparro
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-09-07
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9004296557
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Henk Versnel
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-09-01
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9004296727
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first of a two-volume collection of studies in inconsistencies in Greek and Roman religion. Their common aim is to argue for the historical relevance of various types of ambiguity and dissonance. The first volume focuses on the central paradoxes in ancient henotheism. The term 'henotheism' -- a modern formation after the stereotyped acclamation: #EIS O QEOS# ("one is the god"), common to early Christianity and contemporaneous paganism -- denotes the specific devotion to one particular god without denying the existence of, or even cultic attention to, other gods. After its prime in the twenties and thirties of this century the term fell into disuse. Nonetheless, the notion of henotheism represents one of the most remarkable and significant shifts in Graeco-Roman religion and hence deserves fresh reconsideration.
Author: Keith Hopwood
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780719024016
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sir Thomas Fairfax, not Oliver Cromwell, was creator and commander of Parliament's New Model Army from 1645 to1650. Although Fairfax emerged as England's most successful commander of the 1640s, this book challenges the orthodoxy that he was purely a military figure, showing how he was not apolitical or disinterested in politics. The book combines narrative and thematic approaches to explore the wider issues of popular allegiance, puritan religion, concepts of honour, image, reputation, memory, gender, literature, and Fairfax's relationship with Cromwell. 'Black Tom' delivers a groundbreaking examination of the transformative experience of the English revolution from the viewpoint of one of its leading, yet most neglected, participants. It is the first modern academic study of Fairfax, making it essential reading for university students as well as historians of the seventeenth century. Its accessible style will appeal to a wider audience of those interested in the civil wars and interregnum more generally.
Author: Ruud R. Nauta
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-08-30
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9047414462
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Peggy Zeglin Brand
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 0271043962
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Granger Cook
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2018-09-06
Total Pages: 733
ISBN-13: 3161565037
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Back cover: In this work, John Granger Cook argues that there is no fundamental difference between Paul's conception of the resurrection body and that of the Gospels; and, the resurresction and translation stories of antiquity help explain the willingness of Mediterranean people to accept the Gospel of a risen savior.
Author: Helmut Koester
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9783110146929
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