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23%OFFRoger Hargreaves - In Search of God the Mother: The Cult of Anatolian Cybele - 9780520210240 - V9780520210240
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In Search of God the Mother: The Cult of Anatolian Cybele

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Description for In Search of God the Mother: The Cult of Anatolian Cybele Hardback. An examination of an intriguing figure 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. The text presents and analyzes literary, historiographic and archaeological data. Num Pages: 400 pages, 76 b/w photographs, 2 line drawings, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDA; DSBB; HBG; HBLA; HDD; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 264 x 188 x 30. Weight in Grams: 940.
This 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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520210240
SKU
V9780520210240
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About Roger Hargreaves
Lynn E. Roller is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Davis. She is author of The Nonverbal Graffiti, Dipinti, and Stamps, Gordion Special Studies 1 (1987).

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