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The mundus Attinis in the Lucanian Consilinum (Campania) as a Metaphor of Death and Re-birth

Pedrucci, Giulia (2018) The mundus Attinis in the Lucanian Consilinum (Campania) as a Metaphor of Death and Re-birth. ACTA ANTIQUA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE, 58 (1-4). pp. 625-639. ISSN 0044-5975 (print); 1588-2543 (online)

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Abstract

This chapter aims to reconsider an inscription from Consilinum (3rd century CE), in which we find the problematic mention of a mundus Attinis. This inscription has been almost neglected by scholars: it has been analyzed in a systematic way only in an article in Latin language back in 1978. It is not easy to explain what mundus exactly represented to the ancient Romans, but we can assert for sure that it was a holy place in connection with the worship of the gods of the underworld. The connection between Cybele, Attis, and the underworld is well known, but this is the only mention we have of a mundus Attinis i.e. Attidis. It might be connected to the (mystic?) rites in honor of the dead Attis, symbolized by a pine, who, during the Hilaria, was carried in an underground chamber for lamentations, before his new life. In my opinion, we might also think of the mundus as a sort of reversed womb, related to the figure of the Magna Mater, in which birth and death come together and overlap.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: MTA KFB támogatási szerződés alapján archiválva
Uncontrolled Keywords: Attis, Cybele, mundus, Neoplatonism, Magna Graecia, Etruria
Subjects: P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PA Classical philology / klasszika-filológia
Depositing User: László Sallai-Tóth
Date Deposited: 05 Dec 2019 14:24
Last Modified: 19 Feb 2024 14:07
URI: https://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/104183

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