I. Initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries: A ‘Thin’ Description

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Conventions and Abbreviations xvii
6. I. Initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries: A ‘Thin’ Description 1
7. II. Mysteries at the Interface of Greece and Anatolia: Samothracian Gods, Kabeiroi and Korybantes 21
8. III. Orpheus, Orphism and Orphic-Bacchic Mysteries 55
9. IV. Greek Mysteries in Roman Times 81
10. V. The Mysteries of Isis and Mithras 110
11. VI. Did the Mysteries Influence Early Christianity? 142
12. Appendix 1: Demeter and Eleusis in Megara 166
13. Appendix 2: The Golden Bough: Orphic, Eleusinian and Hellenistic-Jewish Sources of Virgil’s Underworld in Aeneid VI 180
14. Bibliography 205
15. Index of Names, Subjects and Passages 243