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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Greek Mysteries of the Grain Mother and Daughter, and Related Mysteries Homeric | |
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| Hymn to Demeter Herodotus, History, Book 8 (selection) | |
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| Aristophanes, The Frogs (selection) | |
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| Plutarch of Chaeronea, Progress in Virtue (selection) | |
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| Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Book 5 (selection) | |
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| Herodotus, History, Book 2 (selection) | |
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| Lucian of Samosata, Alexander the False Prophet (selection) | |
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| The Andanian Mysteries of Messenia Pausanias, Description of Greece, Book 4 (selection) | |
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| Rule of the Andanian Mysteries | |
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| The Greek Mysteries of Dionysos Euripides, The Bacchae (selections) | |
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| Livy, History of Rome, Book 39 (selection) | |
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| Achilles Tatius, The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon, Book 2 (selection) | |
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| Pausanias, Description of Greece, Book 6 (selection) | |
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| Rule of the Iobacchoi Plato, Republic, Book 2 (selection) | |
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| Orphic Lamella from Thessaly Orphic Hymns | |
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| The Anatolian Mysteries of the Great Mother and Her Lover, and the Syrian Goddess Arnobius of Sicca | |
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| The Case Against the Pagans, Book 5 (selections) | |
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| Livy, History of Rome, Book 29 (selection) | |
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| Catullus, Poem 63 Prudentius, On the Martyrs' Crowns (selection) | |
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| Lucian of Samosata (?), The Syrian Goddess (selections) | |
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| Apuleius of Madauros, The Golden Ass, Book 8 (selection) | |
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| Hippolytus of Rome, Refutation of All Heresies (selections) | |
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| The Egyptian Mysteries of Isis and Osiris Plutarch of Chaeronea, On Isis and Osiris (selections) | |
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| Isis Aretalogy from Cyme Isis Love Spell from the Great Magical Papyrus of Paris (selection) | |
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| Apuleius of Madauros, The Golden Ass, Book Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, Book 18(selection) | |
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| The Roman Mysteries of Mithras Lucian of Samosata, Menippus (selection) | |
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| Plutarch of Chaeronea, Life of Pompey (selection) | |
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| Mithraic Inscriptions of Santa Prisca Firmicus Maternus, The Error of the Pagan Religions (selections) | |
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| Origen, Against Celsus (selection) | |
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| Porphyry, On the Cave of the Nymphs (selection) | |
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| The Mithras Liturgy | |
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| The Mysteries within Judaism and Christianity Plutarch of Chaeronea, Table-Talk, Book 4 (selection) | |
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| Philo of Alexandria, On the Contemplative Life (selection) | |
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| Clement of Alexandria, "To Theodore" Gospel of Philip (selections) | |
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| Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Greeks (selections) | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Acknowledgments | |