The Cults of the Roman Empire
Turcan, Robert
The Cults of the Roman Empire - Oxford Blackwell Publishers 1996 - 399p - Ancient World ; 199600ENGGPS1 .
includes index and biblioraphy
Introduction ....1 Terminology .....3 Typology ......7 Externa superstitio .......10 The romanization of foreign gods .....12 Society and states of mind .....15 Attraction and efficacy of the liturgies ......18 Theo-cosmologies .......22 Spteriology ....24 1. The great mother and her eunuchs .....28 Origins .....28 The great mother and the greeks .....29 Cybele and agdists in the hellenistic world ........31 Cybele and the republic .....35 Imperial phygianism ....43 The expansion of mother-worship ......56 Syncretisms and theosophical allegories ......67 2 Isis of the many names, or our lady of the waves .......75 Zeus-serapis and hellenized egypt ......76 From the nile to the tiber .......81 Religion and politics: From the streets to the palatine .....85 The conquest of the west .....95 Scenes,acts and actors of isiacism .....104 Public solemnities and mystery rites ....114 The twilight of the gods ......121 3. The orontes pouring into the tiber .......130 Dea syria ......133 Adonis and salambo .....143 Jupiter heliopolitanus and the tired of baalbek ......148 Jupiter dolichenus ......159 Other city or local gods ........169 Palmyrenian gods ......173 Elagabal .......176 Other arab divinities .....183 The syrian sanctuary of the janiculum ....188 4 Beneath the rocks of the persian cavern ......195 Indo-european heredity and iranian protohistory .....196 Hellenistic mithras .....199 Mithras in italy .....203 The mithraic diaspora in the west .....207 The mithraic diaspora in eastern europe .....211 A region of the crypt ....215 Myth and mythography ....221 Rituals ....233 Social and political impact .....240 The invincible vanquished ....245 5. Horsemen, mothers and serpents .......248 Horsemen gods .....248 Mothers of ephesus and aphrodisias .....254 The mysteries of ghycon ......258 Gnostic serpents .....260 The imagery of carved stones .....262 6. Occultism and theosophy .....266 Magic and necromancy .....267 Alchemy and astrology ....269 Ocultism and mysterism ....271 Hermes trismegistus ....274 The chaldaean oracles and theurgy .....279 7 Dionysus and sabazius ......291 From orgy to initiation ....294 Scandalous bacchanalia ....300 Dionysian mysteries in the imperial era .......306 Funerary dionysism .....312 Sanctus sabazius ......315 Literary, clandestine or popular survivals .....325
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The Cults of the Roman Empire - Oxford Blackwell Publishers 1996 - 399p - Ancient World ; 199600ENGGPS1 .
includes index and biblioraphy
Introduction ....1 Terminology .....3 Typology ......7 Externa superstitio .......10 The romanization of foreign gods .....12 Society and states of mind .....15 Attraction and efficacy of the liturgies ......18 Theo-cosmologies .......22 Spteriology ....24 1. The great mother and her eunuchs .....28 Origins .....28 The great mother and the greeks .....29 Cybele and agdists in the hellenistic world ........31 Cybele and the republic .....35 Imperial phygianism ....43 The expansion of mother-worship ......56 Syncretisms and theosophical allegories ......67 2 Isis of the many names, or our lady of the waves .......75 Zeus-serapis and hellenized egypt ......76 From the nile to the tiber .......81 Religion and politics: From the streets to the palatine .....85 The conquest of the west .....95 Scenes,acts and actors of isiacism .....104 Public solemnities and mystery rites ....114 The twilight of the gods ......121 3. The orontes pouring into the tiber .......130 Dea syria ......133 Adonis and salambo .....143 Jupiter heliopolitanus and the tired of baalbek ......148 Jupiter dolichenus ......159 Other city or local gods ........169 Palmyrenian gods ......173 Elagabal .......176 Other arab divinities .....183 The syrian sanctuary of the janiculum ....188 4 Beneath the rocks of the persian cavern ......195 Indo-european heredity and iranian protohistory .....196 Hellenistic mithras .....199 Mithras in italy .....203 The mithraic diaspora in the west .....207 The mithraic diaspora in eastern europe .....211 A region of the crypt ....215 Myth and mythography ....221 Rituals ....233 Social and political impact .....240 The invincible vanquished ....245 5. Horsemen, mothers and serpents .......248 Horsemen gods .....248 Mothers of ephesus and aphrodisias .....254 The mysteries of ghycon ......258 Gnostic serpents .....260 The imagery of carved stones .....262 6. Occultism and theosophy .....266 Magic and necromancy .....267 Alchemy and astrology ....269 Ocultism and mysterism ....271 Hermes trismegistus ....274 The chaldaean oracles and theurgy .....279 7 Dionysus and sabazius ......291 From orgy to initiation ....294 Scandalous bacchanalia ....300 Dionysian mysteries in the imperial era .......306 Funerary dionysism .....312 Sanctus sabazius ......315 Literary, clandestine or popular survivals .....325
9780631200475 2870
W37 / T842