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From Jewish Magic to Gnosticism

By: Attilio Mastrocinque

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From Jewish Magic to Gnosticism

By: Attilio Mastrocinque

Examines the intriguing link between magic and Gnosticism. There were two main reasons why Christian thinkers identified Gnosticism with magic: the fact that the roots of Gnosticism lay in the Hellenistic Judaism influenced by the Chaldeans and the Magi, and the need felt by orthodox Christians to distinguish themselves from Christian Gnostics by proving that the latter were magicians"--back cover.

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3161485556

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The Mysteries of Mithras

A Different Account

By: Attilio Mastrocinque

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The Mysteries of Mithras

A Different Account

By: Attilio Mastrocinque

Attilio Mastrocinque explains the mysteries of Mithras in a new way, as a transformation of Mazdean elements into an ideological and religious reading of Augustus' story. The author shows that the character of Mithras played the role of Apollo in favoring Augustus' victory and the birth of the Roman Empire.

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392

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161551125

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9783161551123

Bona Dea and the Cults of Roman Women

By: Attilio Mastrocinque

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Bona Dea and the Cults of Roman Women

By: Attilio Mastrocinque

Bona Dea, also known as Fauna, was a very important goddess of female initiations in Rome, and several features of hers were shared by similar goddesses in ancient Italy. This book sheds light on two hitherto unexplored features: the Dionysiac character and the Lydian style of her festivals. The wife of a consul took on the attitude and the attire of Omphale as the president of Dionysiac ceremonies. Faunus was supposed to precede Bacchus and give fecundity to the bride (i.e. Ariadne), whereas Hercules was thought of as an effeminate musician who created harmony. This was the correct ritual behaviour of prenuptial ceremonies, as it was depicted on many Dionysiac sarcophagi. The iconography of these monuments depicts important features of Faunus and Fauna. Believers are depicted on sarcophagi in the attitude of Bacchus or, in case of women, of either Ariadne or Omphale. A final comparison with initiations among native tribes of Oceania clarifies many rituals of the ancients.

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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden gmbh

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3515107525

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9783515107525

Animals in Greek and Roman Religion and Myth

By: Patricia A. Johnston,Attilio Mastrocinque

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Animals in Greek and Roman Religion and Myth

By: Patricia A. Johnston,Attilio Mastrocinque

This volume brings together a variety of approaches to the different ways in which the role of animals was understood in ancient Greco-Roman myth and religion, across a period of several centuries, from Preclassical Greece to Late Antique Rome. Animals in Greco-Roman antiquity were thought to be intermediaries between men and gods, and they played a pivotal role in sacrificial rituals and divination, the foundations of pagan religion. The studies in the first part of the volume examine the role of the animals in sacrifice and divination. The second part explores the similarities between animals, on the one hand, and men and gods, on the other. Indeed, in antiquity, the behaviour of several animals was perceived to mirror human behaviour, while the selection of the various animals as sacrificial victims to specific deities often was determined on account of some peculiar habit that echoed a special attribute of the particular deity. The last part of this volume is devoted to the study of animal metamorphosis, and to this end a number of myths that associate various animals with transformation are examined from a variety of perspectives.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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144389821X

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9781443898218

The Mithraic Prophecy

By: Attilio Mastrocinque

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The Mithraic Prophecy

By: Attilio Mastrocinque

This book presents a new reading of the upper part of Mithraic reliefs which depend on a Mithraic prophecy depicting the Golden Age.

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International

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1407359134

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Book's by Attilio Mastrocinque

From Jewish Magic to Gnosticism

From Jewish Magic to Gnosticism

The Mysteries of Mithras

The Mysteries of Mithras

Bona Dea and the Cults of Roman Women

Bona Dea and the Cults of Roman Women

Animals in Greek and Roman Religion and Myth

Animals in Greek and Roman Religion and Myth

The Mithraic Prophecy

The Mithraic Prophecy

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