Chapter 2 Dionysus in Campania: Cumae

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Chapter 1 Introduction 1
6. Part I Dionysus and Orpheus
7. Chapter 2 Dionysus in Campania: Cumae 33
8. Chapter 3 The Meaning of βάκχος and βακχεύειν in Orphism 46
9. Chapter 4 New Contributions of Dionysiac Iconography to the History of Religions in Greece and Italy 61
10. Chapter 5 Who Are You? Mythic Narrative and Identity in the “Orphic” Gold Tablets 73
11. Chapter 6 Imago Inferorum Orphica 95
12. Chapter 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 131
13. Part II Demeter and Isis
14. Chapter 8 Aspects of the Cult of Demeter in Magna Graecia: The “Case” of San Nicola di Albanella 139
15. Chapter 9 Landscape Synchesis: A Demeter Temple in Latium 161
16. Chapter 10 The Eleusinian Mysteries and Vergil’s “Appearance-of-a-Terrifying-Female- Apparition-in-the-Underworld” Motif in Aeneid 6 190
17. Chapter 11 Women and Nymphs at the Grotta Caruso 204
18. Chapter 12 “Great Royal Spouse Who Protects Her Brother Osiris”: Isis in the Isaeum at Pompeii 217
19. Chapter 13 Aegyptiaca from Cumae: New Evidence for Isis Cult in Campania: Site and Materials 235
20. Chapter 14 The Mystery Cults and Vergil’s Georgics 251
21. Part III Mithras
22. Chapter 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? 277
23. Chapter 16 The Mithraic Body: The Example of the Capua Mithraeum 290
24. Chapter 17 Why the Shoulder?: A Study of the Placement of the Wound in the Mithraic Tauroctony 314
25. Bibliography 325
26. General Index 359
27. Index Locorum 367
28. Index of Authors 371