About the Author

Jaime Alvar, PhD (1980) in Ancient History, Complutense University, is Professor of Ancient History at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He has published extensively on Iberian protohistory and Graeco-Roman religions, and is currently director of the Instituto de Historiografia "Julio Caro Baroja"Translator and editor: Richard Gordon, PhD (1973) Cambridge UK, is honorary professor of Religionsgeschichte der Antike at the University of Erfurt, Thuringen. He has published mainly on religious currents in the Roman Empire and Graeco-Roman magic.

Reviews

"It investigates the reception, transformation, and socioreligious roles of the cults of Mater Magna (Cybele), Isis and Serapis, and Mithras in the complex culture of the Roman Empire and their relationship to emergent Christianity."
New Testament Abstracts 53:2