Giovanni Casadio

Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia Giovanni Casadio

Commendation Quotes: This book represents the most current state of knowledge about cults in Magna Graecia and will set standards for subsequent discussions of the topic. Table of Contents: Illustrations Abbreviations 1. Introduction (Giovanni Casadio and Patricia A. Johnston) I. Dionysus and Orpheus 2. Dionysus in Campania: Cumae (Giovanni Casadio) 3. The Meaning of bavkco" and bakceuvein in Orphism (Ana Jimenez San Cristobal) 4. New Contributions of Dionysiac Iconography to the History of Religions in Greece and Italy (Cornelia Isler-Kerenyi) 5. Who Are You? Mythic Narrative and Identity in the "Orphic" Gold Tablets (Radcliffe G. Edmonds) 6. Imago Inferorum Orphica (Alberto Bernabe) 7. Putting Your Mouth Where Your Money Is: Eumolpus' Will, Pasta e Fagioli, and the Fate of the Soul in South Italian Thought from Pythagoras to Ennius (R. Drew Griffith) II. Demeter and Isis 8. Aspects of the Cult of Demeter in Magna Graecia: The "Case" of San Nicola di Albanella (Giulia Sfameni Gasparro) 9. Landscape Synchesis: A Demeter Temple in Latium (Kathryn M. Lucchese) 10. The Eleusinian Mysteries and Vergil's "Appearance-of-a-Terrifying-Female-Apparition-in-the-Underworld" Motif in Aeneid 6 (Raymond J. Clark) 11. Women and Nymphs at the Grotta Caruso (Bonnie MacLachlan) 12. "Great Royal Spouse Who Protects Her Brother Osiris": Isis in the Isaeum at Pompeii (Frederick Brenk) 13. Aegyptiaca from Cumae: New Evidence for Isis Cult in Campania: Site and Materials (Paolo Caputo) 14. The Mystery Cults and Vergil's Georgics (Patricia A. Johnston) III. Mithras 15. The Amor and Psyche Relief in the Mithraeum of Capua Vetere: An Exceptional Case of Graeco-Roman Syncretism or an Ordinary Instance of Human Cognition? (Luther H. Martin) 16. The Mythraic Body: The Example of the Capua Mithraeum (Richard Gordon) 17. Why the Shoulder? A Study of the Placement of the Wound in the Mithraic Tauroctony (Glenn Palmer) Bibliography IndexMarc Notes: Originally published: 2009.; Includes bibliographical references and index.; New insights to the study of mystic cults in the ancient world are offered in this collection of essays, which focus on Magna Graecia (Southern Italy & Sicily). Publisher Marketing: New insights to the study of mystic cults in the ancient world are offered in this collection of essays, which focus on Magna Graecia (Southern Italy & Sicily).

Contributor Bio:  Casadio, Giovanni GIOVANNI CASADIO is Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Salerno in Italy. He is the associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Religion and has written more than one hundred articles on various topics of religious history and historiography. Contributor Bio:  Johnston, Patricia A Patricia A. Johnston is Professor of Classics at Brandeis University in Massachusetts.