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Zeus: a Study in Ancient Religion
Parts I and II
Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter
The Sanctuary of Eleusis, near Athens, was the centre of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initiates came from all parts of the civilized world. Looking at the tendency to 'see visions', the author examines the…
Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life
No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the sensuous tradition of antiquity, as Dionysos. In myth and image, in visionary experience and ritual representation, the Greeks possessed a…
The Gods of the Greeks
A mythology of the Greeks for adults whose primary interest is in the study of human beings.
Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the bacchic Gold Tablets
Fascinating texts written on small gold tablets that were depositedin graves provide a unique source of information about what some Greeksand Romans believed regarding the fate that awaited them after death, and how they could influence it. These…