Mithraism since Franz Cumont
by Roger Beck, Toronto
Contents
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| I. Introduction: CUMONT'S achievement - scope of present survey
- historical perspective and major contributions |
2003 |
| II. Survey of research on monuments and texts |
2008 |
A. General: the effect of twentieth-century discoveries on
the overall picture of the Mysteries |
2008 |
B. Regional survey |
2013 |
1. Syria |
2013 |
2. Commagene |
2017 |
3. Anatolia and the Crimea |
2018 |
4. Egypt and North Africa |
2020 |
5. Italy |
2020 |
6. Spain, Britain, Gaul |
2033 |
7. Germany |
2036 |
8. Raetia, Noricum, Pannonia, Dalmatia |
2039 |
9. Dacia, Moesia, Thrace |
2043 |
10. Greece |
2047 |
C. Gems and Coins |
2048 |
D. Texts |
2049 |
| III. The interpretation of the Mysteries |
2050 |
A. Questions, topics, approaches |
2050 |
B. 1. "La forme romaine du mazdéisme"?
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2063 |
2. Early development and spread of the Mysteries
-evolution of the iconography |
2071 |
3. The nature of the Mysteries |
2078 |
a) General |
2078 |
b) Myth and meaning - the tauroctony and
the banquet |
2079 |
c) Other powers: the torchbearers, the lion-headed
god |
2084 |
4. The life of the Mysteries |
2089 |
a) Mithraic structures: the mithraeum and
the grades |
2089 |
b) Mithraism and society |
2093 |
c) Mithraism and its "rivals" |
2095 |
| IV. Conclusion |
2096 |
| Postscript |
2098 |
| V. Bibliography |
2099 |
| VI. List of Illustrations |
2115 |
