Preface

1. Introduction

2. The Greek Mysteries of the Grain Mother and Daughter, and Related Mysteries

Homeric Hymn to Demeter

Herodotus, History, Book 8 (selection)

Aristophanes, The Frogs (selection)

Plutarch of Chaeronea, Progress in Virtue (selection)

Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Book 5 (selection)

Herodotus, History, Book 2 (selection)

Lucian of Samosata, Alexander the False Prophet (selection)

3. The Andanian Mysteries of Messenia

Pausanias, Description of Greece, Book 4 (selection)

Rule of the Andanian Mysteries

4. The Greek Mysteries of Dionysos

Euripides, The Bacchae (selections)

Livy, History of Rome, Book 39 (selection)

Achilles Tatius, The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon, Book 2 (selection)

Pausanias, Description of Greece, Book 6 (selection)

Rule of the Iobacchoi

Plato, Republic, Book 2 (selection)

Orphic Lamella from Thessaly

Orphic Hymns

5. The Anatolian Mysteries of the Great Mother and Her Lover, and the Syrian Goddess

Arnobius of Sicca, The Case Against the Pagans, Book 5 (selections)

Livy, History of Rome, Book 29 (selection)

Catullus, Poem 63

Prudentius, On the Martyrs' Crowns (selection)

Lucian of Samosata (?), The Syrian Goddess (selections)

Apuleius of Madauros, The Golden Ass, Book 8 (selection)

Hippolytus of Rome, Refutation of All Heresies (selections)

6. The Egyptian Mysteries of Isis and Osiris

Plutarch of Chaeronea, On Isis and Osiris (selections)

Isis Aretalogy from Cyme

Isis Love Spell from the Great Magical Papyrus of Paris (selection)

Apuleius of Madauros, The Golden Ass, Book

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, Book 18(selection)

7. The Roman Mysteries of Mithras

Lucian of Samosata, Menippus (selection)

Plutarch of Chaeronea, Life of Pompey (selection)

Mithraic Inscriptions of Santa Prisca

Firmicus Maternus, The Error of the Pagan Religions (selections)

Origen, Against Celsus (selection)

Porphyry, On the Cave of the Nymphs (selection)

The Mithras Liturgy

8. The Mysteries within Judaism and Christianity

Plutarch of Chaeronea, Table-Talk, Book 4 (selection)

Philo of Alexandria, On the Contemplative Life (selection)

Clement of Alexandria, "To Theodore"

Gospel of Philip (selections)

Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Greeks (selections)

Glossary

Acknowledgments