Hellenistic religions : an introduction /
Luther, Martin H.
- New York, Oxford : Oxford University Press, c1987.
- xv, 170 p.; 20 cm.
Bibliography: p. 130-133 Includes index
Contents: Abbreviations 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. 3. 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 --