ePub Cybele; Attis and Related Cults: Essays in Memory of M.J. Vermaseren (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World) (Social; Economic; and Political Studies of the Middle East a) by From Brill in History

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This is a case study of the Cult of the Sebastoi that was established in the city of Ephesus by the province of Asia during the late first century CE. It served as a prototypical manifestation of socio-religious developments during the late first and early second centuries in the Eastern Mediterranean.