ix, 441 pages : 24 cm

"This volume brings together articles on the cult of the mother-goddess Cybele and her consort Attis, from the emergence of the religion in Anatolia through its expansion into Greece and Italy to the latest times of the Roman Empire and its farthest extent west, the Iberian Peninsula. It combines the work of established scholars with that of young researchers in the field, and represents a truly international perspective. The reader will find treatment inter alia of Cybele's emasculated priests, the Galli; the dissemination of Cybele-cult through the harbour city, Miletus; the cult of Cybele in Ephesus; the rock-cut sanctuary of Cybele at Akrai in Sicily; the competition between the Cybele-cult and Christianity; and the role of Attis in Neo-Platonic philosophy."--Jacket

Includes bibliographical references and index

Lydian Mount Karios / Rose Lou Bengisu -- Cybele and Christ / A.T. Fear -- Per la storia del culto di Cibele in Occidente : il santuario rupestre di Akrai / Giulia Sfameni Gasparro -- The presence of the goddess in Harran / Tamara Green -- Cybele and her companions on the Northern Littoral of the Black Sea / Patricia A. Johnston -- The name of Cybele's priests the "Galloi" / Eugene N. Lane -- The goddesss Cybele in funerary banquets and with an equestrian hero / Elpis Metropoulou -- Privater Dank -- Silbervotive aus Nordafrika / Friederike Naumann-Steckner -- L'élément orgiastique dans le culte de Cybèle / Panayotis Pachis -- Phrygian Matar : emergence of an iconographic type / Mary Jane Rein -- The ancient mother of the gods : a missing chapter in the history of Greek religion / Noel Robertson -- Reflections of the mother of the gods in Attic tragedy / Lynn Roller -- The high priests of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus / James O. Smith -- Lucretius' Roman Cybele / Kirk Summers -- Magna deum mater Idaea, Cybele, and Catullus' Attis / Sarolta A. Takács -- Attis Platonicus / Robert Turcan -- Magna mater, Cybele and Attis in Roman Spain / J.F. Ubiña

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