CLAS 160B1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Tauroctony, Parallel Universes In Fiction, Hannibal
16 Nov 2016
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Apotropaic images not just in the city. Started out as a sculptor"s apprentice, but eventually went into rhetic. Traveled the roman world as a performing public speaker. Famous as a writer (in greek) of satire. Story of a famous impostor and false oracle. Worked in the roman province of bithynia (in a town called abonoteichus) in the early second century) Coins featuring glykon the snake-god (son of asklepios) Glykon born during reign of antoninus pius (ad 138-161) A mystery religion was a religion that gave full access and privileges only to initiates. Most famous of all: eleusinian mysteries (greece) Three biggies under the roman empire: cult of isi, cybele and mithras. Wife (and mother) of horus (god of the sky) No real centralized cult in her egyptian history. Eventually banned by christians in the 6th century. Ruling classes not totally into her cult. Gaius (caligula) credited with establishing her festival in rome.
