By Giovanni Casadio,Patricia A. Johnston
In Vergil's Aeneid, the poet signifies that those that were initiated into secret cults take pleasure in a blessed scenario either in existence and after demise. This selection of essays brings new perception to the research of mystic cults within the historic global, quite those who flourished in Magna Graecia (essentially the world of present-day Southern Italy and Sicily).
Implementing a number of methodologies, the participants to Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia learn an array of positive aspects linked to such "mystery religions" that have been taken with person salvation via initiation and hidden wisdom instead of civic cults directed towards Olympian deities often linked to Greek faith. participants current modern theories of old faith, box studies from fresh archaeological paintings, and different frameworks for exploring mystic cults generally and person deities particularly, with observations approximately cultural interactions all through. themes comprise Dionysos and Orpheus, the Goddess Cults, Isis in Italy, and Roman Mithras, explored through a world array of students together with Giulia Sfameni Gasparro ("Aspects of the Cult of Demeter in Magna Graecia") and Alberto Bernabé ("Imago Inferorum Orphica"). The ensuing quantity illuminates this usually misunderstood diversity of non secular phenomena.
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