The foremost historian of Greek religion provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of Ancient religious beliefs and practices.
In defining the mysteries and describing their rituals, membership, organization, and dissemi.
This book is neither a history nor a survey but a comparative phenomenology, concentrating on five major cults.
Secret Mystery Cults flourished within the larger culture of the public religion of Greece and Rome for roughly a thousand years.
The foremost historian of Greek religion provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of Ancient religious beliefs and practices