Mystery Cults in Visual Representation in Graeco-Roman Antiquity /
Mystery Cults in Visual Representation in Graeco-Roman Antiquity aims to fill a gap in the study of mystery cults in Graeco-Roman Antiquity by focusing on images for investigating their ritual praxis. Nicole Belayche and Francesco Massa have gathered experts on visual language in order to illuminate...
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Language: English
Published:
Leiden; Boston :
BRILL,
2021.
Series:
Religions in the Graeco-Roman World ;
194.
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Call Number: BL805
Table of Contents:
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- 1 Mystery Cults and Visual Language in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: an Introduction
- Nicole Belayche and Francesco Massa
- part 1: Do Images Depict Mystery Cults, and If So, How?
- 2 Sub-Introduction
- 3 Comment figurer l'ineffable, comment lire les images?
- Cornelia Isler-Kerényi
- 4 Le phallus qui cache le mystère? Les images dionysiaques dans les décors romains: à propos d'une fresque de la Domus Transitoria
- Stéphanie Wyler
- 5 Échos de la Télétè dionysiaque dans la mosaïque romaine tardive
- Janine Balty
- part 2: Historiography and Images of Mystery Cults
- 6 Sub-Introduction
- 7 'The Seven Grades of Mithraism', or How to Build a Religion
- Philippa Adrych
- 8 Les mystères isiaques et leurs expressions figurées. Des exégèses modernes aux allusions antiques
- Richard Veymiers
- part 3: Depicting Objects to Signify Mystery Cults
- 9 Sub-Introduction
- 10 The Liknon and the Bundle: Does the Ritual 'Initiatory' Object Make the Mystery?
- Anne-Françoise Jaccottet
- 11 The Cista, a Hallmark of Mater Magna's Mysteries in the Roman World?
- Françoise Van Haeperen
- Selected Bibliography
- Index.