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In Search of God the Mother : The Cult of Anatolian Cybele by Lynn E. Roller (1999, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of California Press

ISBN-100520210247

ISBN-139780520210240

eBay Product ID (ePID)931844

Product Key Features

Number of Pages400 Pages

Publication NameIn Search of God the Mother : the Cult of Anatolian Cybele

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1999

SubjectGender Studies, Antiquities & Archaeology

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaReligion, Social Science

AuthorLynn E. Roller

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight33.7 Oz

Item Length10 in

Item Width7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN98-020627

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal291.2/114/093

SynopsisThis book examines one of the most intriguing figures in the religious life of the ancient Mediterranean world, the Phrygian Mother Goddess, known to the Greeks and Romans as Cybele or Magna Mater, the Great Mother. Her cult was particularly prominent in central Anatolia (modern Turkey), and spread from there through the Greek and Roman world. She was an enormously popular figure, attracting devotion from common people and potentates alike. This book is the first comprehensive assembly and discussion of the entire extant evidence concerning the worship of the Phrygian Mother Goddess, from her earliest appearance in the prehistoric record to the early centuries of the Roman Empire. Lynn E. Roller presents and analyzes literary, historiographic, and archaeological data with equal acuity and flair. While previous studies have tended to emphasize the more outrageous aspects of the Mother Goddess's cult, such as her orgiastic rituals and the eunuch priests who attended her, this book places a special focus on Cybele's position in Anatolia and the ways in which the identity of the goddess changed as her cult was transmitted to Greece and Rome. Roller gives a detailed account of the growth, spread, and evolution of her cult, her ceremonies, and her meaning for her adherents. This book will introduce students of Classical antiquity to many aspects of the Great Mother which have been previously unexamined, and will interest anyone who has ever been piqued by curiosity about the Mother Goddess of the ancient Western world.

LC Classification NumberBL820.C8 R65 1999