Pagan regeneration : a study of mystery initiations in the Graeco-Roman world
By: by Harold R. Willoughby.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1929
Place of publication: [Chicago]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Mysteries, Religious.; Greece -- Religion.; Rome -- Religion.
Other titles: Regeneration.
Notes: Bibliography at end of each chapter.
Table of contents: title: Pagan piety in the Graeco-Roman world; title: The greater mysteries of Eleusis; title: Dionysian excesses; title: Orphic reform; title: The regenerative rites of the Great mother; title: Death and rebirth in Mithraism; title: Isiac initiation; title: The new birth experience in Hermeticism; title: The mysticism of Philo; title: The social significance of mystery initiation.