Mystery religions, mystery cults, sacred mysteries or simply mysteries, were religious schools of the Greco-Roman world for which participation was reserved...

The Greco-Roman civilization (/ˌɡriːkoʊˈroʊmən, ˌɡrɛkoʊ-/; also Greco-Roman culture or Greco-Latin culture; spelled Graeco-Roman in the Commonwealth),...

as a mystery religion reserved for the initiated, many aspects of the Dionysian cult remain unknown and were lost with the decline of Greco-Roman polytheism;...

The mysteries of Isis were religious initiation rites performed in the cult of the Egyptian goddess Isis in the Greco-Roman world. They were modeled on...

initiation of a bride into a Greco-Roman mystery cult. These are now among the best known of the relatively rare survivals of Ancient Roman painting from the 1st...

god, with early Christianity beginning as a Greco-Roman mystery. The book and its "Jesus Mysteries thesis" have not been accepted by mainstream scholarship...

paganism Gnosticism Greco-Buddhism Greco-Roman mysteries Hellenism Hermeticism Humanism Interpretatio graeca Magic in the Greco-Roman world Neoplatonism...

doi:10.12797/CC.17.2014.17.03. Robertson, Noel. "Orphic Mysteries and Dionysiac Ritual." Greek Mysteries: the Archaeology and Ritual of Ancient Greek Secret...

their mystery cults persisted well into the Principate of the Roman Imperial era. The Bacchanalia were Roman festivals of Bacchus, the Greco-Roman god of...

(Theosis) Esoteric Christianity Gnosticism Greco-Roman mysteries Mystical theology Patristic theology Sacred mysteries Theoria Yarnold 1994, pp. 55–58. Cross...