Initiation into the mysteries of the ancient world
By: Jan N. Bremmer
Series: Münchner Vorlesungen zu antiken Welten -- Band 1; Münchner Vorlesungen zu antiken Welten -- Bd. 1.
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9783110299298; 9783110299557
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Classical Civilization; Greeks; Urchristentum; Eleusinska mysterierna; Interfaith relations; Christianity; Religion; Roman; Initiation; 11.15 Greek religion; Kulter; Christianity and other religions; History; Religious Mysteries; Mysterienreligion; Greek; Christianity and culture; Initiationsriter; Romans; Early church; Rezeption; Mysteries (ancient greece)
Notes: Based in part on lectures presented at the University of Munich, 2011-2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Initiation into the Eleusinian mysteries : a "thin" description; title: Mysteries at the interface of Greece and Anatolia : Samothracian Gods, Kabeiroi and Korybantes; title: Orpheus, Orphism and Orphic-Bacchic mysteries; title: Greek mysteries in Roman times; title: The mysteries of Isis and Mithras; title: Did the mysteries influence early Christianity?; title: Appendix 1. Demeter and Eleusis in Megara; title: Appendix 2. The Golden Bough : Orphic, Eleusinian and Hellenistic-Jewish sources of Virgil's Underworld in Aeneid VI.