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Mystery cults of the ancient world / Hugh Bowden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowden, Hugh.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mysteries, Religious.
- Greece--Religion.
- Greece.
- Religion.
- Rome--Religion.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- The Eleusinian mysteries
- The mysteries of the Kabeiroi and the great gods of Samothrace
- Other mystery sanctuaries in the Greek world
- The mother of the gods
- Dionysus
- Private initiation
- Words written on gold
- Isis
- Mithras
- The end of the mysteries
- Encountering the sacred.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691146386
- 0691146381
- OCLC:
- 466341396
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