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Code - Course Title Course Type Laboratory + Practice ECTS
ARK514 - The Cult of Earth Goddess in Antique Ages II. SEMESTER 2 +2 6.0
Language of Instruction Türkçe
Course Type Elective Courses
Course Instructor(s) PROF. DR. FERİŞTAH ALANYALI
Mode of Delivery The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face
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Prerequisites There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.
Courses Recomended There is no recommended optional programme component for this course.
Recommended Resources L. E. Roller, In Search of God the Mother, The Cult Anatolian Cybele (1999); L. E. Roller, Ana Tantıça’nın İzinde, Anadolu Kybele Kültü (2004); 2053. M. J. Vermaseren, Mithras, Geschichte eies Kultes (1965); M. J. Vermaseren, Corpus Cultus Cybelae Attidisque, I Asia Minor (1987); M. J. Vermaseren, Corpus Cultus Cybelae Attidisque, II. Graecia Atque Insulae (1982); M. J. Vermaseren, Corpus Cultus Cybelae Attidisque, III. Italia-Latium (1977); M. J. Vermaseren, Corpus Cultus Cybelae Attidisque, IV. Italia – Aliae Provinciae (1978); M. J. Vermaseren, Corpus Cultus Cybelae Attidisque, V. Aegyptus, Africa, Hispania, Gallia et Britania (1986); M. J. Vermaseren, Corpus Cultus Cybelae Attidisque, VI. Germania, Reatia, Noricum, Pannonia, Dalmatia, Macedonia, Tharcia, Moesia, Dacia, Regnum Bospori, Colchis, Scythia et Sarmatia (1989); M. J. Vermaseren, Corpus Cultus Cybelae Attidisque, VII. Musea et Collectiones Privatae (1977); M. J. Vermaseren, Cybele and Attis, The Myth and Cult (1977)
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Weeks Learning Outcomes Topics Teaching Methods
Week - 1 The Mother Goddess Cult in Prehistory Periods in Anatolia
Week - 2 The Mother Goddesses and Cults in Hittites: Hannahanna, Kubaba
Week - 3 The Cult of the Mother Goddess in Phrygians: Epigraphical Documents
Week - 4 The Cult of the Mother Goddess in Phrygians: Archaeologic Documents
Week - 5 The Mother Goddess in Greece: Rhea; Demeter; Meter
Week - 6 Religious rituals and Cult practices; Sacred areas
Week - 7 Meter in Hellenistic Literature and Society
Week - 8 Meter in the Phrygia and Lydia in the Hellenistic Period
Week - 9 Meter in the Centers of West Anatolia in the Hellenistic Period: Ephesos
Week - 10 Meter in the Centers of West Anatolia in the Hellenistic Period:Pergamon, Priene, Smyrna, Kyzikos
Week - 11 Meter Cult in the Hellenistic Period in Greece
Week - 12 The Roman Magna Mater: The Arrival of the cult in Rome; Monuments and Religious rituals; The Magna Mater in Asia Minor

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