Contents

Illustrations

Abbreviations

1. Introduction

GIOVANNI CASADIO AND PATRICIA A. JOHNSTON

1. Dionysus and Orpheus

2. Dionysus in Campania: Cumae

GIOVANNI CASADIO

3. The Meaning of βάκχος and βακχεύειν in Orphism

ANA JIMÉNEZ SAN CRISTÓBAL

4. New Contributions of Dionysiac Iconography to the History of Religions in Greece and Italy

CORNELIA ISLER-KERÉNYI

5. Who Are You? Mythic Narrative and Identity in the “Orphic” Gold Tablets

RADCLIFFE G. EDMONDS

6. Imago Inferorum Orphica

ALBERTO BERNABÉ

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

R. DREW GRIFFITH

II. Demeter and Isis

8. Aspects of the Cult of Demeter in Magna Graecia: The “Case” of San Nicola di Albanella

GIULIA SFAMENI GASPARRO

9. Landscape Synchesis: A Demeter Temple in Latium

KATHRYN M. LUCCHESE

10. The Eleusinian Mysteries and Vergil’s “Appearance-of-a-Terrifying-Female-Apparition-in-the-Underworld” Motif in Aeneid 6

RAYMOND J. CLARK

11. Women and Nymphs at the Grotta Caruso

BONNIE MACLACHLAN

12. “Great Royal Spouse Who Protects Her Brother Osiris”: Isis in the Isaeum at Pompeii

FREDERICK BRENK

13. Aegyptiaca from Cumae: New Evidence for Isis Cult in Campania: Site and Materials

PAOLO CAPUTO

14. The Mystery Cults and Vergil’s Georgics

PATRICIA A. JOHNSTON

III. Mithras

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?

LUTHER H. MARTIN

16. The Mithraic Body: The Example of the Capua Mithraeum

RICHARD GORDON

17. Why the Shoulder? A Study of the Placement of the Wound in the Mithraic Tauroctony

GLENN PALMER

Bibliography

General Index

Index Locorum

Index of Authors

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