Chapter XI

[1] Cumont, _op. cit_. Introd. pp. XX and XXI.

[2] _Thrice-Greatest Hermes_, Vol. I, p. 195.

[3] _Op. cit_. p. 141.

[4] _Op. cit_. p. 142.

[5] _Op. cit_. pp. 146 _et seq_. Reitzenstein, _Die Hellenistischen Mysterien Religionen_, Leipzig, 1910, gives the document in the original. There is also a translation of Hippolytus in the _Ante-Nicene Library_.

[6] Quoted by Mead, _op. cit_. p. 138.

[7] _Op. cit_. pp. 146, 147.

[8] _Op. cit_. p. 151.

[9] _Op. cit_. p. 152. Mr Mead concludes that there is here a lacuna of the original.

[10] _Op. cit_. p. 181. In a note Mr Mead says of the Greater Mysteries, “presumaby the candidate went through some symbolic rite of death and resurrection.”

[11] _Op. cit_. pp. 185, 186. I would draw especial attention to this passage in view of the present controversey as to the Origin of Drama. It looks as if the original writer of the document (and this section is in the Pagan Source) would have inclined to the views of Sir Gilbert Murray, Miss Harrison, and Mr Cornford rather than to those championed by their sarcastic critic, Sir W. Ridgeway.

[12] _Op. cit_. p. 190.

[13] _Vide supra_, p. 137.

[14] Cf. _Legend of Sir Perceval_, Vol. II. Chapters 10 and 11.

[15] Cf. my _Quest of the Holy Grail_, Bell, 1913, Chap. 4, for summary of evidence on this point.

[16] Cf. Heinzel, _Alt-Franz. Gral-Romanen_, p. 72.