Initiation into the Mysteries of the Ancient World

• मुख्य लेखक: Bremmer, Jan N. (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: De Gruyter 2014
• श्रृंखला: Münchner Vorlesungen zu Antiken Welten
• विषय: initiation; cult; Antiquity; mysteries
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...