Book

Mystery cults of the ancient world

Call Number

  • 201.3 B7845 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.

Physical Description

256 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 27 cm.

Contents

  • The Eleusinian mysteries
  • The mysteries of the Kabeiroi and the great gods of Samothrace
  • Other mystery sanctuaries in the Greek world
  • The mother of the gods
  • Dionysus
  • Private initiation
  • Words written on gold
  • Isis
  • Mithras
  • The end of the mysteries
  • Encountering the sacred.

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