- well as of the
Sanctuary of the
Great Gods,
where mysterious rites (
Samothracian Mysteries),
which were open to both
slaves and free
people (similar to...
-
Victory of
Samothrace and the
Aftermath of the
Battle of Pydna", in
Samothracian Connections:
Essays in
Honor of
James R. McCredie,
edited by O. Palagia...
- late,
dating to the ****enistic and
Roman periods), it's
known that the
Samothracian Mysteries significantly borrowed from the ones at
Eleusis (including...
-
interpreted as an
ancestral Theban hero
corresponding to the
Samothracians.
Another Samothracian connection for
Cadmus is
offered via his wife Harmonia, who...
- complex—and at Thebes. In
their distant origins the
Cabeiri and the
Samothracian gods may
include pre-Gr**** elements, or
other non-Gr**** elements, such...
-
figure – the
Great Mother. The
Great Mother, a
goddess often depicted on
Samothracian coinage as a
seated woman, with a lion at her side. Her
original secret...
- Gr**** ****enistic
religion Hero cult
Sacred mysteries Eleusinian Orphic Samothracian Iberian Cantabrian Castro Gallaecian Lusitanian Italic Camunnian Ligurian...
-
Eleusinian Mysteries Imbrian Mysteries Mithraism Mysteries of Isis
Orphism Samothracian Mysteries New
religious movements Discordianism Feraferia Gaianism ****enism...
- Samothrace.
Following the
outbreak of the Gr**** War of Independence, the
Samothracians rose in
revolt against the
local Ottoman authorities. On 1 September...
-
Their youngest son was Illyrius.
Those who
described Harmonia as a
Samothracian related that Cadmus, on his
voyage to Samothrace,
after being initiated...
