In search of god the mother : the cult of Anatolian Cybele /
Lynn E. Roller Lynn E. Roller.
Bok Engelsk 1999 · Electronic books
| Utgitt | Berkeley, Calif. : : University of California Press, , c1999.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (xx, 380 p. ) : ill., maps ;
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| Opplysninger | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. - Prolegomenon to a study of the Phrygian mother goddess -- The mother goddess in Anatolia ; The evidence from prehistory ; The bronze and early iron ages ; The cult of the mother goddess in Phrygia -- The mother goddess in Greece. The early cult ; The classical period ; The Hellenistic period -- From cult to myth. The myth of Cybele and Attis -- The Roman magna mater. The arrival of the magna mater in Rome ; The republic and early empire ; The Roman goddess in Asia Minor.. - "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.
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| Emner | Cybele (Goddess) - Cult
Goddesses - Mediterranean Region Mediterranean Region - Antiquities Antikken Vis mer... European Religions - pre-Christian
Gudinner Kybele Lilleasia Philosophy & Religion Religion gudemoder ma ammas frygisk religion kybele |
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| ISBN | 0520210247
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