Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia

General Index

Abadessa, 204 abrosynē, 40 Abydos, 9 Acheron, 191 Actaeon, 113 Actium, 265; “Actian” Apollo, 266 adyton, 8 Aeacus, 197 Aeneas, 190, 191, 198 Aeneid 6. See Clark, 190–203 Aeschylus, 62, 78, 197; in The Frogs, 197 agathē elpis, 5 Agave, 113 Agnone Tablet, 267–271 Agrai, mysteries of, 6 alabastra, 39 Amasis Painter, 64–68 Ambarvalia, 256 Amor/Eros, 277, 278, 279, 280 Amor and Psyche, 277–289; Amor and Psyche relief, 277, 278, 294. See Martin, 277–289 amphorae, Melian, 62 Anacreontic vases, 39 androgyny, 40–41 Annia Appia Regilla, 168, 172, 179–180 anodos, 211 Antoninus Pius, 293 Anubis, 9, 222, 265, 266; at Cumae, 241, 244; Hermes and, 220, 221, 224; Hermanubis, 220, 221, 222, 225, 246 Aphrodite, 205, 214; “Anadyomene,” 220; Venus, 245 Apis, 9 Apollo, 266; Apollo and Artemis, 263 Apuleius: and cult of Isis in Metamorphoses , 8, 23, 217–220; date of Metamorphoses, 219; and Ostia, 281; Metamorphoses’ Lucius, 217, 218, 232n26 Apulia, 38; Apulia-Calabria, 33, 40 Apulian pottery, 96, 97, 110, 111, 113; from Armento, 118; from Ruvom, 99 Argos, 220, 221, 224 Aricia, battle of (504 BCE), 37 Aristaeus, 260 Aristocles, 206 Aristodemus “Malakos”, 37–41 Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazousai, 140, 145 Aristotle, on beans, 135 Arrhetophoria, 147 Artemis, 207, 208, 209 Arval Brethren, 165 askēsis (ascetism), 50 Asterioi, 83 Athena, birth of, 61 Athens, 68 General Index Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations. Attabokaoi, 8 Attis, 3, 8, 13, 251 Augustus, 6, 165, 252; initiation into Eleusinian mysteries, 254 Aula Isiaca, 219 aulos, 39 Aurelius, Marcus, 6, 293; coin of, 238 Avernus, Gate of Dis, 198 Bacchanalia affair, senatus consultum (186 BCE), 38–40 Bacchanals, 38 Baiae, Venus Lucrina sanctuary, 245 banquets: of Mithras and Helios, 291; Fiano Romano relief, 295; Skt. Mathäus cemetery, 295 barbiton, 39 Bauli, 34 beans, and Hades, 134 Bentham, Jeremy, 136 Biae, 34 Big Dipper, 319 Boeotia, ritual vessels of, 62 Bona Dea, 166 Bononiae Papyrus, 107 Bougonia, 263–264 Brimo, 111 Busiris, 263, 272n38 Caffarella/Pagus Triopius, 162, 164, 169 Callatiae and Darius, 132–133 Callisto, 319 Campania (ager campanus), 24. See Casadio, 33–45, 49 Capreae, 34 Capri, 238 Capua, S. Maria Capua Vetere, 68. See also Mithraeum at Capua Capua Amphitheater, 306. See Gordon, 290–313; Martin, 277–289 Cautes, 291 Cautopates, 291, 294 Cave of the Nymphs, 205–206; Porphyry commentary on, 207; votives of, 207 Cecilia Metella, tomb of, 166, 167 Centaurs, 191 Centre Berard of Naples, 235, 248 Cerberus, 77, 81, 87n16, 97, 118, 191 Cerealia, 255 Ceres, 163, 164, 165, 253, 254, 255, 257; certamen Liberi patris cum Cerere, 35 Chariot of the Sun, 307 Christian martyrdom, 306, 308–310 Chrysippus, 131 cista mystica, 229 Cleopatra, 265 Cocytus, 198 Commodus, 6 consecranei, 11 Corax, 131 Court of Queen’s Bench, London, 131 Cretan Zeus, 134 Crete, 252; gold tablet from, 83n1, 84n4 Croesus, fall of, 88n19 Croton, 33, 133; Hera in Croton, 142 cryptoportici, 292 Cult of Magna Mater, 290; of Isis, 290 Cumae, 33; Aegyptiaca from, 235; Aeneas at, 134; battle of (524 BCE), 37; founding of, 35; Licola (location of original harbor), 235; Samnite invasion of, 36; villae maritimae, 235, 248 Cybele/Mētēr/Magna Mater, 252; and Sabazius, 70 Cyniscus, 194, 195 Cyrene, Sacred Laws from, 207 daimones, winged, 214 Damascius, 48, 57n46, 58n52, 133 Danaids, 120 deiknumena, 5 Delos, 9 Delphi, 213 Demeter, 6, 8, 12–16. See Lucchese, 161–189, and Sfameni Gasparro, 139–160 Demetra Prostasia, 151 Demeter Thesmophoros, 140–142 Dendara, Great Temple of, 319 360 General Index Derveni papyrus 47, 56n34, 57n39, 100, 102 Dikē, 205 dinos (dinoi), 62–63; Etruscan, 62; of Sophilos, 63 Diocletian, 10 Diogenes the Cynic, 101, 131 Dionysus/Bacchus, 1, 7, 15–17, 20– 21, 33, 34, 40, 52, 73, 192–197, 205, 212, 214, 251; Dionysus/Bacchus /Liber, 253; Egyptian origins , 254; “Eubuleus”, 111; in the Homeric world, 112; iconography, 61–72; “Liber-Pater”, 34; and Orphic cults in Locri, 212; teletai of, 214; “Zagreus”, 52 Dionysus/Triptolemos, 165 Dionysus of Halicarnassus, 38 Dis/Pluto, 256 Domitian, 219 drõmenos, 5, 9 dying and rising gods, 11 Edict of Constantine (313 CE), 246; of Theodosius (392 CE), 246 Egeria, 179 Egypt: as gens fortunata, 267; source of rebirth doctrine, 133, 134; in Vergil’s Georgics, 260–267 Egyptomania, in age of Augustus, 219 Ekklesiasterion at Pompeii. See Brenk, 217–227 Elea (Castellamare di Velia), 280; Eleatic tradition, 279, 280 Eleusinian...