ebooks Warpaint: Colors and Markings of British Army Vehicles 1903-2003; Vol. 2 (Green Series; Vol. 41) by Dick Taylor in History

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This volume brings together articles on the cult of the mother-goddess Cybele and her consort Attis; from the emergence of the religion in Anatolia through its expansion into Greece and Italy to the latest times of the Roman Empire and its farthest extent west; the Iberian Peninsula. It combines the work of established scholars with that of young researchers in the field; and represents a truly international perspective. The reader will find treatment inter alia of Cybele's emasculated priests; the Galli; the dissemination of Cybele-cult through the harbour city; Miletus; the cult of Cybele in Ephesus; the rock-cut sanctuary of Cybele at Akrai in Sicily; the competition between the Cybele-cult and Christianity; and the role of Attis in Neo-Platonic philosophy.