In search of god the mother : the cult of Anatolian Cybele / Lynn E. Roller. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roller, Lynn E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cybele (Goddess)--Cult.

Cybele.

Goddesses--Mediterranean Region.

Goddesses.

Mediterranean Region--Antiquities.

Mediterranean Region.

Medea (Greek mythology) in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 380 p. ) ill., maps ;

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This book is the first comprehensive assembly and discussion of the entire extant evidence concerning the worship of this goddess, called Matar Kubileya in Phrygia, Kybele in ancient Greece, and Magna Mater (the Great Mother) in Rome. Lynn E. Roller presents and analyzes literary, historiographic, and archaeological data ranging from the prehistoric record to the early centuries of the Roman Empire. This book will interest classicists, archaeologists, ancient historians, historians of religion and religious ecology, and everyone who has ever been piqued by curiosity about the Great Mother goddess in the ancient Mediterranean world."--Book jacket.

Contents:

Prolegomenon to a study of the Phrygian mother goddess

The mother goddess in Anatolia ; The evidence from prehistory ; The bronze and early iron ages ; The cult of the mother goddess in Phrygia

The mother goddess in Greece. The early cult ; The classical period ; The Hellenistic period

From cult to myth. The myth of Cybele and Attis

The Roman magna mater. The arrival of the magna mater in Rome ; The republic and early empire ; The Roman goddess in Asia Minor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-365) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-520-91968-8

0-585-15373-6