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This volume brings together articles on the cult of the mother-goddess Cybele and her consort Attis, from the emergence of the religion in Anatolia through its expansion into Greece and Italy to the latest times of the Roman Empire and its farthest extent west, the Iberian Peninsula.
It combines the work of established scholars with that of young researchers in the field, and represents a truly international perspective.
The reader will find treatment inter alia of Cybele's emasculated priests, the Galli; the dissemination of Cybele-cult through the harbour city, Miletus; the cult of Cybele in Ephesus; the rock-cut sanctuary of Cybele at Akrai in Sicily; the competition between the Cybele-cult and Christianity; and the role of Attis in Neo-Platonic philosophy.
It combines the work of established scholars with that of young researchers in the field, and represents a truly international perspective.
The reader will find treatment inter alia of Cybele's emasculated priests, the Galli; the dissemination of Cybele-cult through the harbour city, Miletus; the cult of Cybele in Ephesus; the rock-cut sanctuary of Cybele at Akrai in Sicily; the competition between the Cybele-cult and Christianity; and the role of Attis in Neo-Platonic philosophy.
Price: $379.00
Pages: 442
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World
Publication Date:
01 May 1996
ISBN: 9789004101968
Format: Other
'...un très beau volume...'
Albert Deman, l'Antiquite Classique, 2000.
Albert Deman, l'Antiquite Classique, 2000.
Eugene N. Lane, Ph.D. (1962) in Classics, Yale University, is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Missouri. His publications include Corpus Monumentorum Religionis Dei Menis in four volumes, and volumes 2 and 3 of Corpus Cultus Iovis Sabazii, both published by Brill.