Ebook: Mystic cults in Magna Graecia

Introduction / Giovanni Casadio and Patricia A. Johnston -- Dionysus and Orpheus: Dionysus in Campania : Cumae / Giovanni Casadio. The meaning of [Bavkco"] and [Bakceuvein] in orphism / Ana Jiménez San Cristóbal. New contributions of Dionysiac iconography to the history of religions in Greece and Italy / Cornelia Isler-Kerényi. Who are you? : mythic narrative and identity in the "Orphic" gold tablets / Radcliffe G. Edmonds. Imago inferorum orphica / Alberto Bernabé. 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 -- Demeter and Isis: Aspects of the cult of Demeter in Magna Graecia : the "case" of San Nicola di Albanella / Giulia Sfameni Gasparro. Landscape synchesis : a Demeter temple in Latium / Kathryn M. Lucchese. The Eleusinian mysteries and Vergil's "appearance-of-a-terrifying-female-apparition-in-the-underworld" motif in Aeneid 6 / Raymond J. Clark. Women and nymphs at the Grotta Caruso / Bonnie MacLachlan. "Great royal spouse who protects her brother Osiris" : Isis in the Isaeum at Pompeii / Frederick Brenk. Aegyptiaca from Cumae : new evidence for Isis cult in Campania : site and materials / Paolo Caputo. The mystery cults and Vergil's Georgics / Patricia A. Johnston -- Mithras: 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. The Mythraic body : the example of the Capua Mithraeum / Richard Gordon. Why the shoulder? : a study of the placement of the wound in the Mithraic Tauroctony / Glenn Palmer.