Mystic cults in Magna Graecia
By: edited by Giovanni Casadio and Patricia A. Johnston.
Contributors: Casadio, Giovanni, 1950-; Johnston, Patricia A.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Austin, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780292719026
Subjects: Mysteries, Religious -- Italy -- Magna Graecia; Magna Graecia (Italy) -- Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Giovanni Casadio and Patricia A. Johnston; title: Dionysus and orpheus; title: Dionysus in campania : cumae / Giovanni Casadio; title: The meaning of Bavkco" and Bakceuvein in orphism / Ana Jimenez San Cristobal; title: New contributions of dionysiac iconography to the history of religions in Greece and Italy / Cornelia Isler-Kernyi; title: Who are you? : mythic narrative and identity in the "orphic" gold tablets / Radcliffe G. Edmonds; title: Imago inferorum orphica / Alberto Bernab; title: Putting your mouth where your money is : eumolpus' will, pasta e fagioli, and the fate of the soul in South Italian thought from Pythagoras to Ennius / R. Drew Griffith; title: Demeter and isis; title: Aspects of the cult of demeter in Magna Graecia : the "case" of San Nicola di Albanella / Giulia Sfameni Gasparro; title: Landscape synchesis : a demeter temple in Latium / Kathryn M. Lucchese; title: The eleusinian mysteries and Vergil's "appearance-of-a-terrifying-female-apparition-in-the-underworld" motif in Aeneid 6 / Raymond J. Clark; title: Women and nymphs at the Grotta Caruso / Bonnie MacLachlan; title: "Great royal spouse who protects her Brother Osiris" : Isis in the Isaeum at Pompeii / Frederick Brenk; title: Aegyptiaca from cumae : new evidence for isis cult in Campania : site and materials / Paolo Caputo; title: The mystery cults and Vergil's georgics / Patricia A. Johnston; title: Mithras; title: The amor and psyche relief in the mithraeum of capua vetere : an exceptional case of Graeco-Roman syncretism or an ordinary instance of human cognition? / Luther H. Martin; title: The mythraic body : the example of the Capua Mithraeum / Richard Gordon; title: Why the shoulder? : a study of the placement of the wound in the Mithraic Tauroctony / Glenn Palmer.