Overview
Syllabus
Civic Cults and the World of Mystery Religions
How Athena Earned Her Epithet
How the Goddess Ge Was Conceived
Birth of the Panathenaic Festival
Contests in the Panathenaic Festival
The Procession and Animal Sacrifice
Demeter, Goddess of Grain
The Greatest Example of Exclusively Female Worship
What Are the Eleusinian Mysteries?
What is a Mystagogos?
What is the Highest Grade of Initiation?
The Worship of Dionysus
Depiction of Dionysus in The Bacchae by Euripides
What Are Maenads?
What Was the General Stance toward Polytheism?
Advantages of Joining a Non-State Cult
Why Did the State Sometimes Object to Cults?
Similarities/Differences between Mystery Religions and Christianity
Taught by
Wondrium