Title Page : p. i THE ORIENTAL RELIGIONS IN ROMAN PAGANISM By FRANZ CUMONT With An Introductory Essay By Grant Showerman Authorized Translation Chicago: Open Court London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trbner. [1911] Translation Of "Les Religions Orientales Dans Le Paganisme Romain". Scanned , July 2004. John Bruno Hare...
V. Syria : p. 103 SYRIA. THE religions of Syria never had the same solidarity in the Occident as those from Egypt or Asia Minor. From the coasts of Phnicia and the valleys of Lebanon, from the borders of the Euphrates and the oases of the desert, they came at various periods, like the successive waves...
Viii. The Transformation Of Roman Paganism : p. 196 THE TRANSFORMATION OF ROMAN PAGANISM. ABOUT the time of the Severi the religion of Europe must have presented an aspect of surprising variety. Although dethroned, the old native Italian, Celtic and Iberian divinities were still alive. Though eclipsed by foreign rivals, they lived ...
Notes. Vii. Astrology And Magic : VII. ASTROLOGY AND MAGIC. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Bouch-Leclercq's book "L'astrologie grecque" (Paris, 1899) makes it unnecessary to refer to the earlier works of Saumaise ("De annis climactericis", 1648), of Seiffarth ("Beitrge zur Lit. des alten Aegypten", II, 1883), etc. Most of the facts cited by us are...
Notes. Preface : p. 213 NOTES. PREFACE. 0 1. We are indebted for more than one useful suggestion to our colleagues Messrs. Charles Michel and Joseph Bidez, who were kind enough to read the proofs of the French edition. 0 2. An outline of the present state of the subject will be found in a recent volume by Gruppe...
Untitled : This is a very detailed review of what is known about the eastern religions which were absorbed into Roman Paganism during the late Republic and Imperial periods. Cumont, who also wrote The Mysteries of Mithra was a Belgian scholar who specialized in the study of ancient religion. Topics include...
Notes. I. Rome And The Orient : I. ROME AND THE ORIENT. 1 1. Renan, "L'Antchrist", p. 130. 1 2. M. Krumbacher ("Byzant. Zeitschr.", XVI, 1907, p. 710) notes, in connection with the idea that I am defending here: "In hnlicher Weise war dieser Gedanke (der Ueberflgelung des Abendlandes durch die auf alien Kulturgebieten...
Iv. Egypt : p. 73 EGYPT. WE know more about the religion of the early Egyptians than about any other ancient religion. Its development can be traced back three or four thousand years; we can read its sacred texts, mythical narratives, hymns, rituals, and the Book of the Dead in the original, and we c...
Notes. Ii. Why The Oriental Religions Spread : II. WHY THE ORIENTAL RELIGIONS SPREAD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Boissier, "La religion romaine d'Auguste aux Antonins", especially Bk. II, ch. II.--Jean Rville, "La religion a Rome sous les Svres", Paris, 1886.--Wissowa, "Religion und Cultus der Rmer", Munich, 1902, pp. 71 ff., 289 ff.--Samuel Dill, "Rom...
Notes. Viii. The Transformation Of Paganism : VIII. THE TRANSFORMATION OF PAGANISM. BIBLIOGRAPHY: The history of the destruction of paganism is a subject that has tempted many historians. Beugnot (1835), Lasaulx (1854), Schulze (Jena, 1887-1892) have tried it with varying success (see Wissowa, "Religion der Rmer", pp. 84 ff.). But hardly any...
Introduction. The Significance Of Franz Cumont's : p. v INTRODUCTION. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF FRANZ CUMONT'S WORK. FRANZ CUMONT, born January 3, 1868, and educated at Ghent, Bonn, Berlin, and Paris, resides in Brussels, and has been Professor in the University of Ghent since 1892. His monumental work, "Textes et monuments figurs relatifs aux mystres...
Notes. V. Syria : V. SYRIA. BIBLIOGRAPHY: The Syrian religions have been studied with especial attention to their relation with Judaism: Baudissin, "Studien zur semitischen Religionsgeschichte", 2 vols., Leipsic, 1876. The same author has published veritable monographs on certain divinities (Astarte, Baal, Sonne...
Notes. Vi. Persia : VI. PERSIA. BIBLIOGRAPHY: We shall not attempt here to give a bibliography of the works devoted to Mazdaism. We shall merely refer the reader to that of Lehmann in Chantepie de la Saussaye, "Lehrbuch der Religionsgeschichte", II, p. 150. We should mention, in the first place, Darmesteter, "Le Zend...
Ii. Why The Oriental Religions Spread : p. 20 WHY THE ORIENTAL RELIGIONS SPREAD. WHEN, during the fourth century, the weakened empire split asunder like an overburdened scale whose beam is broken, this political divorce perpetuated a moral separation that had existed for a long time. The opposition between the Greco-Oriental...
Iii. Asia Minor : p. 46 ASIA MINOR. THE first Oriental religion adopted by the Romans was that of the goddess of Phrygia, whom the people of Pessinus and Mount Ida worshiped, and who received the name of "Magna Mater deum Idea" in the Occident. Its history in Italy covers six centuries, and we can trace each phase...
Notes. Iv. Egypt : IV. EGYPT. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Lafaye, "Histoire du culte des divinits d'Alexandrie hors de l'Egypte", Paris, 1884, and, article "Isis" in Daremberg and Saglio, "Dictionn. des antiquits", III, 1899, p. 229 where may be found (p. 586) an index of the earlier works. Drexler, art. "Isis" in Roscher...
Preface To The Second Edition : p. xxv PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. IN this second edition the eight lectures forming the reading matter of this book have suffered scarcely any change, and, excepting the chapter on Syria, the additions are insignificant. It would have been an easy matter to expand them, but I did not want...
Vi. Persia : p. 135 PERSIA. THE dominant historical fact in western Asia in ancient times was the opposition between the Greco-Roman and Persian civilizations, which was itself only an episode in the great struggle that was constantly in progress between the Orient and the Occident in those countries...
I. Rome And The Orient : p. 1 ROME AND THE ORIENT. WE are fond of regarding ourselves as the heirs of Rome, and we like to think that the Latin genius, after having absorbed the genius of Greece, held an intellectual and moral supremacy in the ancient world similar to the one Europe now maintains, and that the culture...
Notes. Iii. Asia Minor : III. ASIA MINOR. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Jean Rville, "La religion Rome sous les Svres", pp. 62 ff.--Drexler in Roscher, "Lexikon der Mythol." s. v. "Meter," II, 2932.--Wissowa, "Religion und Cultus der Rmer", pp. 263 ff., where the earlier bibliography will be found, p. 224 [paragraph continues] p. 271...
Preface : p. xv PREFACE. IN November, 1905, the Collge de France honored the writer by asking him to succeed M. Naville in opening the series of lectures instituted by the Michonis foundation. A few months later the "Hibbert Trust" invited him to Oxford to develop certain subjects which he had touched up...
Vii. Astrology And Magic : p. 162 ASTROLOGY AND MAGIC. WHEN we consider the absolute authority that astrology exercised under the Roman empire, we find it hard to escape a feeling of surprise. It is difficult to think that people could ever consider astrology as the most valuable of all arts and the queen of sciences, 7 1...
