Pagan regeneration
Subtitle: A study of mystery initiations in the Graeco-Roman world (Midway reprints)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: 1974
Language: eng
Format: Unknown Binding
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780226900087
Subjects: Greece; Initiations (in religion, folk-lore, etc.); Mysteries, Religious; Religion; Rome
First sentence: THERE is a vague but widespread impression that the age that saw the emergence of Christianity was religiously destitute and morally decadent.