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  • From: "Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 AT mailhost.chi.ameritech.net>
  • To: Corpus-paul <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Cabirus cult in Thessalonika
  • Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 09:55:24 -0500


Edgar Krentz wrote:

> >What, if anything, can List members tell me about the Cabirus cult in
> >Thessalonika in the Hellenistic period?
> >
> >Yours,
> >
> >Jeffrey
> >--
> >Jeffrey B. Gibson
> >7423 N. Sheridan Road #2A
> >Chicago, Illinois 60626
> >e-mail jgibson000 AT ameritech.net
>
> First of all, the cult is centered on the island of Samothrace. It is in
> many ways the most obscure mystery cult in ancient Greecde. See Walter
> Burkert on Greek Mysteries.
>
> There is a long article on religions at Thessalonica in the HTR in the 30s.
> My Thess bibliography is at home, so I cannot give you exact data.
>

Are you referring to the articles by Charles Edson entitled Macedonia, II.
State Cults
in Thessalonica" and "Macedonia, III. Cults in Thessalonica"?

Yours.

Jeffrey
--
Jeffrey B. Gibson
7423 N. Sheridan Road #2A
Chicago, Illinois 60626
e-mail jgibson000 AT ameritech.net






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