LEADER 03629oam 2200529 450 001 9910794385303321 005 20230119002009.0 010 $a90-04-44014-3 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004440142 035 $a(CKB)4100000011352929 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004440142 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6380544 035 $a(PPN)251657132 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011352929 100 $a20210414d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun####uuuua 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aMystery cults in visual representation in Graeco-Roman antiquity /$fedited by Nicole Belayche, Francesco Massa 210 1$aLeiden ;$aBoston :$cBrill,$d[2021] 210 4$d©2021 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aReligions in the Graeco-Roman World ;$vVolume 194 311 $a90-04-43932-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- 1 Mystery Cults and Visual Language in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: an Introduction -- Nicole Belayche and Francesco Massa -- part 1: Do Images Depict Mystery Cults, and If So, How? -- 2 Sub-Introduction -- 3 Comment figurer l'ineffable, comment lire les images? -- Cornelia Isler-Kerényi -- 4 Le phallus qui cache le mystère? Les images dionysiaques dans les décors romains: à propos d'une fresque de la Domus Transitoria -- Stéphanie Wyler -- 5 Échos de la Télétè dionysiaque dans la mosaïque romaine tardive -- Janine Balty -- part 2: Historiography and Images of Mystery Cults -- 6 Sub-Introduction -- 7 'The Seven Grades of Mithraism', or How to Build a Religion -- Philippa Adrych -- 8 Les mystères isiaques et leurs expressions figurées. Des exégèses modernes aux allusions antiques -- Richard Veymiers -- part 3: Depicting Objects to Signify Mystery Cults -- 9 Sub-Introduction -- 10 The Liknon and the Bundle: Does the Ritual 'Initiatory' Object Make the Mystery? -- Anne-Françoise Jaccottet -- 11 The Cista, a Hallmark of Mater Magna's Mysteries in the Roman World? -- Françoise Van Haeperen -- Selected Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aMystery Cults in Visual Representation in Graeco-Roman Antiquity aims to fill a gap in the study of mystery cults in Graeco-Roman Antiquity by focusing on images for investigating their ritual praxis. Nicole Belayche and Francesco Massa have gathered experts on visual language in order to illuminate cultic rituals renowned for both their "mysteries" and their images. This book tackles three interrelated questions. Focusing on the cult of Dionysus, it analyses whether, and how, images are used to depict mystery cults. The relationship between historiography and images of mystery cults is considered with a focus on the Mithraic and Isiac cults. Finally, turning to the cults of Dionysus and the Mother of the Gods, this work shows how depictions of specific cultic objects succeed in expressing mystery cults. 410 0$aReligions in the Graeco-Roman world ;$vVolume 194. 606 $aCults$zRome 606 $aMysteries, Religious$zRome 606 $aMysteries, Religious, in art 607 $aRome$xReligion 615 0$aCults 615 0$aMysteries, Religious 615 0$aMysteries, Religious, in art. 676 $a292.9 702 $aBelayche$b Nicole 702 $aMassa$b Francesco 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794385303321 996 $aMystery cults in visual representation in Graeco-Roman antiquity$93679025 997 $aUNINA