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Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) was a pioneer in the academic study of myth in its historical and archaeological context, and was also one of the first women to make a full-time career as an academic. In her introduction to this book (1903), making the point that 'Greek religion' was usually studied using the surviving literary retellings of myths and legends, she states: 'The first preliminary to any scientific understanding of Greek religion is a minute examination of its ritual'. Using the then emerging disciplines of anthropology and ethnology, she demonstrates that the specific mythological tales of the Greeks embody systems of belief or philosophy which are not unique to Greek civilisation but which are widespread among societies both 'primitive' and 'advanced'. Her work was enormously influential not only on subsequent scholars of Greek religion but in the wider fields of literature, anthropology and psychoanalysis.

Mythology, Greek. --- Rites and ceremonies --- Mysteries, Religious. --- Mystery religions --- Religious mysteries --- Religion --- Secret societies --- Greek mythology --- Greece --- Religion.

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Mystères religieux --- Mystères religieux --- Grande-Grèce --- Mysteries, Religious --- Mystery religions --- Religious mysteries --- Religion --- Secret societies --- Rites and ceremonies --- Magna Graecia (Italy) --- Magna Grecia (Italy) --- Greece --- Religion. --- Colonies

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Mithraism --- Mysteries, Religious --- Mystères religieux --- Congresses --- Congrès --- 292.2 --- 299.15 --- Godsdiensten van de Romeinen --- Religion Mithraism --- 292.2 Godsdiensten van de Romeinen --- Mystères religieux --- Congrès --- Mithraism. --- Mysteries, Religious. --- Mystery religions --- Religious mysteries --- Religion --- Secret societies --- Rites and ceremonies --- Mithras (Zoroastrian deity) --- Zoroastrianism --- Mithra

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The inscribed text referred to as the sacred law of Andania contains almost 200 lines of regulations about a mystery festival and the sanctuary in which it took place. Although it concerns one annual festival in Messenia, it imparts information relevant to the general nature of sanctuary activity and the issues that were important in the routine management of cult. This book contributes to the recent shift in scholarship that has sought to view sanctuaries as more than simply settings for temples, but as locations created and affected by people's various needs, activities, and agendas. This examination of the inscription includes a new and accurate edition of its text with full critical apparatus, an English translation, and copious images of the stone. The accompanying introduction and commentary incorporate literary and epigraphical comparanda and on-site topographical research to present a holistic view of the cultic regulations in their historical and geographical context.

Mystères religieux --- Mystères religieux --- Cults --- Inscriptions, Ancient --- Mysteries, Religious --- Mystery religions --- Religious mysteries --- Religion --- Secret societies --- Rites and ceremonies --- Ancient inscriptions --- Greece --- Religion. --- Cultes --- Inscriptions antiques --- Grèce --- Mysteries, Religious - Greece --- Cults - Greece --- Inscriptions, Ancient - Greece --- Greece - Religion --- Epigraphy. --- Greek Religion. --- Sacred Space. --- Religion grecque --- Andania (ville ancienne) --- Grèce --- Textes --- Antiquités --- Antiquités

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The ancient Mysteries have long attracted the interest of scholars, an interest that goes back at least to the time of the Reformation. After a period of interest around the turn of the twentieth century, recent decades have seen an important study of Walter Burkert (1987). Yet his thematic approach makes it hard to see how the actual initiation into the Mysteries took place. To do precisely that is the aim of this book. It gives a 'thick description' of the major Mysteries, not only of the famous Eleusinian Mysteries, but also those located at the interface of Greece and Anatolia: the Mysteries of Samothrace, Imbros and Lemnos as well as those of the Corybants. It then proceeds to look at the Orphic-Bacchic Mysteries, which have become increasingly better understood due to the many discoveries of new texts in the recent times. Having looked at classical Greece we move on to the Roman Empire, where we study not only the lesser Mysteries, which we know especially from Pausanias, but also the new ones of Isis and Mithras. We conclude our book with a discussion of the possible influence of the Mysteries on emerging Christianity. Its detailed references and up-to-date bibliography will make this book indispensable for any scholar interested in the Mysteries and ancient religion, but also for those scholars who work on initiation or esoteric rituals, which were often inspired by the ancient Mysteries.

Mysteries, Religious. --- Civilization, Classical. --- History, Ancient. --- Mystères religieux --- Civilisation ancienne --- Histoire ancienne --- Mysteries, Religious --- Civilization, Classical --- History, Ancient --- Religions à mystères --- --Histoire ancienne --- --European Religions - pre-Christian --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- European Religions - pre-Christian --- 292 --- Ancient history --- Ancient world history --- World history --- Classical civilization --- Civilization, Ancient --- Classicism --- Mystery religions --- Religious mysteries --- Secret societies --- Rites and ceremonies --- Godsdiensten van Grieken en Romeinen. Klassieke mythologie --- --Civilization, Classical. --- Mystères religieux --- --Mysteries, Religious. --- Antiquity. --- cult. --- initiation. --- mysteries. --- --Mysteries, Religious