Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from De Stellarum Appellatione Et Religione Romana
Mr. Hepding has done his work very thoroughly. He has collected and arranged in chronological order and this order is very valuable and indeed indispensable when we consider the changes which time and the approximation to other cults produced all the information which ancient literature from Herodotus to Gregory of Tours gives us upon the Attis cult. He has also collected the evidence from inscriptions. He has a careful chapter on the various names given to Attis. He trace the changes in the Attis myth, and describes the Attis cult. And he has a suggestive chapter on the relations of the cult to the Mysteries and to the Taurobolia. Altogether the book is a very helpful contribution to our knowledge of what underlay that pagan Syncretism which confronted Christianity from the first to perhaps the fifth century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
