- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition (July 13 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0520210247
- ISBN-13: 978-0520210240
- Product Dimensions: 26.2 x 18.6 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 885 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #750,530 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Roller's exceptionally fine book offers a different kind of narrative, one that is focused on the genealogy of a single deity. Her book is a carefully researched, well-organized, lucid, and astute 'biography' of the Phrygian Mother Goddess, better known as Cybele. . . . Roller has produced a textured and nuanced genealogy of ancient Cybele that should be essential reading for anyone interested in the intricate 'biography' of this deity."--Lauren E. Talalay, American Journal of Archaeology
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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 to the early centuries of the Roman Empire.
Lynn E. Roller presents and analyzes literary, historiographic, and archaeological data with equal acuity and flair. While previous studies have tended to emphasize the more outrageous aspects of the Mother Goddess's cult, such as her orgiastic rituals and the eunuch priests who attended her, this book places a special focus on Cybele's position in Anatolia and the ways in which the identity of the goddess changed as her cult was transmitted to Greece and Rome. Roller gives a detailed account of the growth, spread, and evolution of her cult, her ceremonies, and her meaning for her adherents.
This book will introduce students of Classical antiquity to many aspects of the Great Mother which have been previously unexamined, and will interest anyone who has ever been piqued by curiosity about the Mother Goddess of the ancient Western world.
Lynn E. Roller presents and analyzes literary, historiographic, and archaeological data with equal acuity and flair. While previous studies have tended to emphasize the more outrageous aspects of the Mother Goddess's cult, such as her orgiastic rituals and the eunuch priests who attended her, this book places a special focus on Cybele's position in Anatolia and the ways in which the identity of the goddess changed as her cult was transmitted to Greece and Rome. Roller gives a detailed account of the growth, spread, and evolution of her cult, her ceremonies, and her meaning for her adherents.
This book will introduce students of Classical antiquity to many aspects of the Great Mother which have been previously unexamined, and will interest anyone who has ever been piqued by curiosity about the Mother Goddess of the ancient Western world.
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This review is from: In Search of God the Mother: The Cult of Anatolian Cybele (Hardcover)
Prof. Roller's scholarship and research is first rate. She goes further than any prior work on Cybele in the deconstruction of the misunderstandings and poor research that has dominated this subject for more than a hundred years.While I feel she misses many important connections in her effort to undo the poor research of the past, her book stands today as the single best source of accurate information on the subject of Magna Mater, Cybele to date. This book is the place to start a personal inquiry on the subject.
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This review is from: In Search of God the Mother: The Cult of Anatolian Cybele (Hardcover)
Prof. Roller's scholarship and research is first rate. She goes further than any prior work on Cybele in the deconstruction of the misunderstandings and poor research that has dominated this subject for more than a hundred years.While I feel she misses many important connections in her effort to undo the poor research of the past, her book stands today as the single best source of accurate information on the subject of Magna Mater, Cybele to date. This book is the place to start a personal inquiry on the subject. |
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