Mother of the gods
Subtitle: from Cybele to the Virgin Mary
By: Philippe Borgeaud ; translated by Lysa Hochroth.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Devotion to; Cybele (Goddess); Christianity and other religions -- Roman; Mother goddesses -- Rome
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-177) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: An itinerant mother; title: In the Athenian Agora; title: The invention of a mythology; title: The mother's entrance into the Roman Republic; title: The origin of the Mater Magna; title: Attis in the Imperial period; title: From mother of the gods to Mother of God.