About 30 results for ‘Cybele’
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Cybele
Cybele /ˈsɪbəliː/, was an originally Anatolian mother goddess. Little is known of her oldest Anatolian cults, other than her association with mountains, hawks and lions. She was Phrygia's State deity; her Phrygian cult was adopted and adapted by Greek colonists of Asia Minor, and spread from there to mainland Greece and its more distant western colonies from around the 6th century BCE. In Greece, Cybele met with a mixed reception. She was partially assimilated to aspects of the Earth-goddess Gaia, her Minoan equivalent Rhea, and the Corn-Mother goddess Demeter. Some city-states, notably Athens, evoked her as a protector but her most celebrated Greek rites and processions show her as an essentially foreign, exotic mystery-goddess, who arrives in a lion-drawn chariot to the accompaniment of wild music, wine, and a disorderly, ecstatic following. Uniquely in Greek religion, she had a transgendered or eunuch mendicant priesthood. Many of her Greek cults included rites to a divine Phrygian castrate shepherd-consort Attis, who was probably a Greek invention. In Greece, Cybele is associated with mountains, town and city walls, fertile nature, and wild animals, especially lions. In Rome, Cybele was known as Magna Mater ("Great Mother"). The Roman State adopted and developed a particular form of her cult, and claimed her conscription as a key religious component in their success against Carthage during the Punic Wars. Roman mythographers reinvented her as a Trojan goddess, and thus an ancestral goddess of the Roman people by way of the Trojan prince Aeneas. With Rome's eventual hegemony over the Mediterranean world, Romanised forms of Cybele's cults spread throughout the Roman Empire. The meaning and morality of her cults and priesthoods were topics of debate and dispute in Greek and Roman literature, and remain so in modern scholarship.
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- Artist(s):
- Antoine-François Callet
Le printemps ou Zéphyr et Flore couronnant de fleurs Cybèle
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- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Allegory
- Cloud
- Crown (headgear)
- Cybele
- Flora (mythology)
- Flower
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- Date:
- 18th century
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- Artist(s):
- Michel Martin Drolling
LA LOI DESCEND SUR LA TERRE ; ELLE Y ETABLIT SON EMPIRE E...
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Allegory
- Chariot
- Cornucopia
- Cybele
- Mercury (mythology)
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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Cybèle protège contre le Vésuve les villes de Stabiae, He...
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Allegory
- City
- Cybele
- Mount Vesuvius
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
CYBELE OU ETUDE DE FEMME ASSISE ; AUSSI CONNU SOUS LE TIT...
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- Field(s):
- Sculpture
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
Cybèle ; Madame Abruzzezzi assise (autre titre)
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- Field(s):
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cybele
- Sitting
- Upper limb
- Woman
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- Date:
- 20th century
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- Artist(s):
- René-Antoine Houasse
SATURNE ENLEVANT CYBELE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cybele
- Kidnapping
- Lion
- Saturn (mythology)
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- Date:
- 17th century
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Saturne enlevant Cybèle (Allégorie de la Terre)
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- Field(s):
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Ceres (mythology)
- Cybele
- Kidnapping
- Lion
- Saturn (mythology)
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- Date:
- 17th century
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- Field(s):
- Archaeology
- Ceramic
- Epigraphy
- Gallo-Roman culture
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- Designation:
- gourde
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Cybèle, Bacchus et Cérès
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Ceres (mythology)
- Cybele
- Sickle
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- Date:
- 16th century
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- Artist(s):
- Louis de Boullogne
Triomphe de Cybèle, Cérès et Bacchus
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Ceres (mythology)
- Chariot
- Cybele
- Lion
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- Date:
- 17th century
- 18th century
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- Artist(s):
- Antoine Coypel
Cybèle
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Crown (headgear)
- Cybele
- Sitting
- Tower
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- Date:
- 18th century
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- Artist(s):
- Antoine Coypel
Cybèle drapée, assise
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Crown (headgear)
- Cybele
- Sitting
- Tower
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- Date:
- 18th century
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- Artist(s):
- Pierre Mignard
Cybèle : l'Hiver
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- Artist(s):
- Giulio Romano
Scènes de l'histoire de Proserpine et termes de Priape, C...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Ceres (mythology)
- Cybele
- Priapus
- Proserpina
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- Date:
- 16th century
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- Artist(s):
- Giulio Romano
Bacchus et Ariane
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BELLONE BRULANT AVEC SON FLAMBEAU LE VISAGE DE CYBELE ET ...
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bellona (goddess)
- Cloud
- Cybele
- Putto
- Torch
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- Date:
- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Louis de Boullogne
Le triomphe de Cybèle
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- Field(s):
- Ceramic
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- Portrayed subject:
- Allegory
- Ceres (mythology)
- Chimera (mythology)
- Cybele
- Lion
- Nymph
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- Date:
- 19th century
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Les Quatre Eléments : la Terre
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- Portrayed subject:
- Ceres (mythology)
- Chariot
- Cybele
- Earth
- Flora (mythology)
- Landscape
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- Date:
- 18th century
- Qing Dynasty
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- Artist(s):
- Toussaint Dubreuil
Histoire de Diane : Diane implorant Jupiter
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- Field(s):
- Tapestry
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- Portrayed subject:
- Apollo
- Ariadne
- Classical mythology
- Cupid
- Cybele
- Diana (mythology)
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- Date:
- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Charles Le Brun
- Gobelins Manufactory
Les Eléments (3e tenture à or) : La Terre
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- Field(s):
- Tapestry
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- Date:
- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Charles Le Brun
- Gobelins Manufactory
Les Eléments (6e tenture à or) : La Terre
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- Field(s):
- Tapestry
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- Date:
- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Gobelins Manufactory
- Pierre Mignard
La galerie de Saint-Cloud (3e tenture à or) : L'Hiver, Sa...
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- Field(s):
- Tapestry
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- Portrayed subject:
- Astrological sign
- Brasero (heater)
- Cloud
- Cybele
- Divinity
- Ice
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- Date:
- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Gobelins Manufactory
- Pierre Mignard
La galerie de Saint-Cloud (1ère tenture à or) : L'Hiver, ...
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- Field(s):
- Tapestry
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- Portrayed subject:
- Astrological sign
- Brasero (heater)
- Cloud
- Cybele
- Divinity
- Ice
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- Date:
- 17th century
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