TY - BOOK ID - 66108075 TI - Mystery cults in visual representation in Graeco-Roman antiquity AU - Belayche, Nicole AU - Massa, Francesco PY - 2021 VL - 194 SN - 09277633 SN - 9789004439320 9789004440142 PB - Boston Leiden Brill DB - UniCat KW - Cults KW - Mysteries, Religious KW - Mysteries, Religious, in art. KW - Rome KW - Religion. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:66108075 AB - "Mystery Cults in Visual Representation in Graeco-Roman Antiquity aims to fill a gap in the study of mystery cults in Graeco-Roman Antiquity by focusing on images for investigating their ritual praxis. N. Belayche and F. Massa have gathered experts on visual language in order to illuminate cultic rituals renowned for both their "mysteries" and their images. This book tackles three interrelated questions. Focusing on the cult of Dionysus, it analyses whether, and how, images are used to depict mystery cults. The relationship between historiography and images of mystery cults is considered with a focus on the Mithraic and Isiac cults. Finally, turning to the cults of Dionysus and the Mother of the Gods, this works shows how depictions of specific cultic objects succeed in expressing mystery cults"-- ER -