| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 380 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
List of illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction ; 1. Prolegomenon to a study of the Phrygian mother goddess -- Part 1. The mother goddess in Anatolia ; 2. The evidence from prehistory ; 3. The Bronze and Early Iron Ages ; 4. The cult of the mother goddess in Phrygia -- Part 2. The mother goddess in Greece ; 5. The early cult ; 6. The Classical Period ; 7. The Hellenistic Period -- Part 3. From cult to myth ; 8. The myth of Cybele and Attis -- Part 4. The Roman Magna Mater ; 9. The arrival of the Magna Mater in Rome ; 10. The Republic and Early Empire ; 11. The Roman goddess in Asia Minor -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-365) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Cybele (Goddess) -- Cult
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| SUBJECT |
Cybele (Goddess) fast |
| Subject |
Goddesses.
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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Antiquities
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Cults
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Goddesses
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European Religions - pre-Christian.
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Religion.
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Philosophy & Religion.
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| SUBJECT |
Mediterranean Region -- Antiquities
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| Subject |
Mediterranean Region
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
98020627 |
| ISBN |
9780520919686 |
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0520919688 |
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0585153736 |
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9780585153735 |
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