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082	0		_a291 Martin
100	1		_aMartin, Luther H., _d1937-
245	1	0	_aHellenistic religions : _ban introduction / _cLuther H. Martin.
264		1	_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c1987.
300			_axv, 170 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aAbbreviations of classical sources cited -- Introduction -- The Hellenistic age -- The Hellenistic world -- Religion in the Hellenistic world -- Syncretism or system -- Piety, mystery, gnosis -- 1. The golden ass in a labryrinthian world -- The fictive world of Apuleius -- The cosmic world of Apuleius -- The mythic world of Apuleius -- Fortune -- Wandering -- Salvation -- The social world of apuleius -- Home -- Magic -- The world of Lucius -- 2. Hellenistic piety -- Traditional piety -- Hellenistic philosophy and the rational order of things -- Philosophy in the Hellenistic world -- The epicureans -- The stoics -- Philosophy and piety -- Divination and the cosmic order of things -- Artificial divination -- Astrology -- Alchemy -- Natural divination -- The delphic oracle -- Dreaming -- Asclepius and healing -- Specialization and senility.
505	0		_a4. Reformation and innovations -- Reformations -- Dionysus -- The myth of Dionysus -- The mysteries of Dionysus -- The orgies of the Roman Bacchanalia -- Orpheus -- The Orphic myth of Dionysus -- Orphic Mysteries -- Judaism -- Hellenistic Judaism -- Yahweh and the Feminine -- Innovations -- Alexander of Abonoteichus -- Mithraism -- The origin of Mithraism -- The myth of Mithras -- Mithraic initiation -- Mithraic initiation -- Christianity -- They Christ myth -- Appeal and reaction -- 5. Late Hellenistic gnosis -- Cosmic revaluation -- Gnosticism -- Christian and non-christian gnosis -- Gnostic seeking -- Gnostic cult -- Manichaeism -- The hermetic tradition -- The patria.
505	0		_a3. The mysteries and the sovereignty of the feminine -- Mystery deities -- The mysteries -- The Eleusinian mysteries -- The myth of Demeter -- The rights of Demeter -- The mystery initiation -- Eleusis and Athens -- The Mysteries of Isis -- The myth of Isis and Osiris -- The rites of Isis -- The mysteries of Isis -- The universal goddess -- The Syrian goddess -- The great mother of the gods.
650		0	_aReligion _xHistory.
650		0	_aHellenism.
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