Pagan Regeneration

ISBN-13: 9781556357640 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 320 str.

Harold R. Willoughby

Opis

Contents: pagan piety in the Graeco-Roman world; greater mysteries at Eleusis; Dionysian excesses; Orphic reform; regenerative rites of the great mother; death & rebirth in Mithraism; Isiac initiation; new birth experience in Hermeticism; mysticism of Philo; social significance of mystery initiation.