Hellenistic Religions An Introduction
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TextPublication details: Oxford Oxford University Press 1987Description: 170pISBN: - 019504391X
- SS21 M363
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| SS21 F829 Religious Experience of the Roman People | SS21 H874 Votive Body Parts in Greek and Roman Religion | SS21 K454 Religion of the Greeks and Romans | SS21 M363 Hellenistic Religions | SS21 SCH253 An Introduction to Roman Religion | SS21.1 B542 Religion in Archaic and Republican Rome and Italy | SS21.1 P931 Religions of the Ancient Greeks |
includes index and biblioraphy
Introduction 3 The hellenistic age The hellenidtic world Religion in the hellenistic world Syncretism or system Piety, mystery, gnosis 1. The golden ass in a labyrinthian world ......16 The fictive world of apuleius The cosmic world of apuleius The mythic world of apuleius Fortune Wandering Salvation The social world of apuleius home Magic The world of apuleius 2. Hellenistic piety .....35 Traditional piety Hellenistic philosophy and the rational order of things Philosophy in the hellenistic world The epicureans The stoics Philosophy and piety Divination and the cosmic order of things Artifical divination Astrology Alchemy Natural divination The delphic oracle Dreaming Asclepius and healing Specialization and senility 3. The mysteries and the sovereignty of the feminine ......58 Mystery deities The mysteries The eleusinian mysteries The myth of demeter The rites of demeter The mystery initiation Eleusis and athens The mysteries of isis The myth of isis and osiris The rites of isis The mysteries of isis The universal goddess The syrian goddess The great mother of the gods 4 Reformations and innovations ....90 Reformations Dionysus The myth of dionysus The mysteries of dionysus The origes of the roman bacchanalia orpheus The orphic myth of dionysus Orphic mysteries Judaisum Hellenistic judaism Yahweh and the feminine Innovations Alexander of abonoteichus Mithraism The origin of mithraism The myth of mithras Mithraic initiation Christianity The christ myth Appeal and reaction 5 Late hellenistic gnosis ....134 Cosmic revaluation Gnosticism Christian and non-christian gnosis Gnostic seeking Gnostic cult Manichacism The hermetic tradition The patriarchal challenge Conclusion: Hellenistic religion as system ......155
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