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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Illustrations
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
I. Dionysus and Orpheus
2. Dionysus in Campania: Cumae
3. The Meaning of βάκχος and βακχεύειν in Orphism
4. New Contributions of Dionysiac Iconography to the History of Religions in Greece and Italy
5. Who Are You? Mythic Narrative and Identity in the “Orphic” Gold Tablets
6. Imago Inferorum Orphica
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
II. Demeter and Isis
8. Aspects of the Cult of Demeter in Magna Graecia: The “Case” of San Nicola di Albanella
9. Landscape Synchesis: A Demeter Temple in Latium
10. The Eleusinian Mysteries and Vergil’s “Appearance-of-a-Terrifying-Female-Apparition-in-the-Underworld” Motif in Aeneid6
11. Women and Nymphs at the Grotta Caruso
12. “Great Royal Spouse Who Protects Her Brother Osiris”: Isis in the Isaeum at Pompeii
13. Aegyptiaca from Cumae: New Evidence for Isis Cult in Campania: Site and Materials
14. The Mystery Cults and Vergil’s Georgics
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?
16. The Mithraic Body: The Example of the Capua Mithraeum
17. Why the Shoulder? A Study of the Placement of the Wound in the Mithraic Tauroctony
Bibliography
General Index
Index Locorum
Index of Authors
About the Contributors
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