In Search of God the Mother: the Cult of Anatolian Cybele

In Search of God the Mother: the Cult of Anatolian Cybele

Cybele (Goddess) -- Cult
Goddesses
Mediterranean Region -- Antiquities

"This book is the first comprehensive assembly and discussion of the entire extant evidence concerning the worship of this goddess, called Matar Kubileya in Phrygia, Kybele in ancient Greece, and Magna Mater (the Great Mother) in Rome. Lynn E. Roller presents and analyzes literary, historiographic, and archaeological data ranging from the prehistoric record to the early centuries of the Roman Empire. This book will interest classicists, archaeologists, ancient historians, historians of religion and religious ecology, and everyone who has ever been piqued by curiosity about the Great Mother goddess in the ancient Mediterranean world."

Lynn E. Roller

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press

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