"A very balanced selection of sources for the study of the ancient so-called mystery religions, starting with Eleusis and ending with mysteries in Judaism and Christianity. . . . No other modern sourcebook exists in this field."--Kurt Rudolph
"A very balanced selection of sources for the study of the ancient so-called mystery religions, starting with Eleusis and ending with mysteries in Judaism and Christianity. . . . No other modern sourcebook exists in this field."--Kurt Rudolph
Marvin W. Meyer is Professor of Religious Studies at Chapman University. He has written and edited several books, including The Unknown Sayings of Jesus and Ancient Magic and Ritual Power. He is a research project director at the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont Graduate School, and codirector of the Albert Schweitzer Institute.
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Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Greek Mysteries of the Grain Mother and Daughter, and Related Mysteries Homeric Hymn to Demeter Herodotus, History, Book 8 (selection) Aristophanes, The Frogs (selection) Plutarch of Chaeronea, Progress in Virtue (selection) Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Book 5 (selection) Herodotus, History, Book 2 (selection) Lucian of Samosata, Alexander the False Prophet (selection) 3. The Andanian Mysteries of Messenia Pausanias, Description of Greece, Book 4 (selection) Rule of the Andanian Mysteries 4. The Greek Mysteries of Dionysos Euripides, The Bacchae (selections) Livy, History of Rome, Book 39 (selection) Achilles Tatius, The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon, Book 2 (selection) Pausanias, Description of Greece, Book 6 (selection) Rule of the Iobacchoi Plato, Republic, Book 2 (selection) Orphic Lamella from Thessaly Orphic Hymns 5. The Anatolian Mysteries of the Great Mother and Her Lover, and the Syrian Goddess Arnobius of Sicca, The Case Against the Pagans, Book 5 (selections) Livy, History of Rome, Book 29 (selection) Catullus, Poem 63 Prudentius, On the Martyrs' Crowns (selection) Lucian of Samosata (?), The Syrian Goddess (selections) Apuleius of Madauros, The Golden Ass, Book 8 (selection) Hippolytus of Rome, Refutation of All Heresies (selections) 6. The Egyptian Mysteries of Isis and Osiris Plutarch of Chaeronea, On Isis and Osiris (selections) Isis Aretalogy from Cyme Isis Love Spell from the Great Magical Papyrus of Paris (selection) Apuleius of Madauros, The Golden Ass, Book Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, Book 18(selection) 7. The Roman Mysteries of Mithras Lucian of Samosata, Menippus (selection) Plutarch of Chaeronea, Life of Pompey (selection) Mithraic Inscriptions of Santa Prisca Firmicus Maternus, The Error of the Pagan Religions (selections) Origen, Against Celsus (selection) Porphyry, On the Cave of the Nymphs (selection) The Mithras Liturgy 8. The Mysteries within Judaism and Christianity Plutarch of Chaeronea, Table-Talk, Book 4 (selection) Philo of Alexandria, On the Contemplative Life (selection) Clement of Alexandria, "To Theodore" Gospel of Philip (selections) Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Greeks (selections) Glossary Acknowledgments
Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Greek Mysteries of the Grain Mother and Daughter, and Related Mysteries Homeric Hymn to Demeter Herodotus, History, Book 8 (selection) Aristophanes, The Frogs (selection) Plutarch of Chaeronea, Progress in Virtue (selection) Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Book 5 (selection) Herodotus, History, Book 2 (selection) Lucian of Samosata, Alexander the False Prophet (selection) 3. The Andanian Mysteries of Messenia Pausanias, Description of Greece, Book 4 (selection) Rule of the Andanian Mysteries 4. The Greek Mysteries of Dionysos Euripides, The Bacchae (selections) Livy, History of Rome, Book 39 (selection) Achilles Tatius, The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon, Book 2 (selection) Pausanias, Description of Greece, Book 6 (selection) Rule of the Iobacchoi Plato, Republic, Book 2 (selection) Orphic Lamella from Thessaly Orphic Hymns 5. The Anatolian Mysteries of the Great Mother and Her Lover, and the Syrian Goddess Arnobius of Sicca, The Case Against the Pagans, Book 5 (selections) Livy, History of Rome, Book 29 (selection) Catullus, Poem 63 Prudentius, On the Martyrs' Crowns (selection) Lucian of Samosata (?), The Syrian Goddess (selections) Apuleius of Madauros, The Golden Ass, Book 8 (selection) Hippolytus of Rome, Refutation of All Heresies (selections) 6. The Egyptian Mysteries of Isis and Osiris Plutarch of Chaeronea, On Isis and Osiris (selections) Isis Aretalogy from Cyme Isis Love Spell from the Great Magical Papyrus of Paris (selection) Apuleius of Madauros, The Golden Ass, Book Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, Book 18(selection) 7. The Roman Mysteries of Mithras Lucian of Samosata, Menippus (selection) Plutarch of Chaeronea, Life of Pompey (selection) Mithraic Inscriptions of Santa Prisca Firmicus Maternus, The Error of the Pagan Religions (selections) Origen, Against Celsus (selection) Porphyry, On the Cave of the Nymphs (selection) The Mithras Liturgy 8. The Mysteries within Judaism and Christianity Plutarch of Chaeronea, Table-Talk, Book 4 (selection) Philo of Alexandria, On the Contemplative Life (selection) Clement of Alexandria, "To Theodore" Gospel of Philip (selections) Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Greeks (selections) Glossary Acknowledgments
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