Initiation into the Mysteries of the Ancient World

• 1. Verfasser: Bremmer, Jan N. (auth)
• Format: Elektronisch Buchkapitel
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlicht: De Gruyter 2014
• Schriftenreihe: Münchner Vorlesungen zu Antiken Welten
• Schlagworte: initiation; cult; Antiquity; mysteries
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The ancient Mysteries have long attracted the interest of scholars, an interest that goes back at least to the time of the Reformation. After a period of interest around the turn of the twentieth century, recent decades have seen an important study of Walter Burkert (1987). Yet his thematic approach...