The Mystery-Religions through Herodotus

through Herodotus

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Both value practice over theory and acknowledge the worth of sense and experience

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Professor Wilson offers lucid and helpful discussions of the design of experiments and apparatus

The Mystery-Religions through HerodotusWhat is the strange fascination of the Mystery Religions for the ancient world and today, some 2,000 years later, for moderns? Why are these colorful ancient cults so little known, all information about them suppressed or distorted by centuries of official religion in Europe? What did these ancient beliefs have that exacted the respect of Socrates, Plato, Virgil, Apuleius, and other great men of the classical age? Was the religion that stamped them