Reshma Dhillon Kramer graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History. Rapidshare Realspeak Torrent. She trained in mammalian osteology at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Her interests include parallels between the myths of ancient Greece and the East, Greek and Latin literature, Greek cultural identity, cultural diaspora during the Hellenistic period, classical reception, translation studies, interbreeding of Neanderthals, 18th and 19th century English literature, and the Georgian era.

In by The Dionysian Mysteries were a of and which used and other trance-inducing techniques (like dance and music) to remove inhibitions and social constraints, liberating the individual to return to a natural state. It also provided some liberation for those marginalized by Greek society: women, slaves, outlaws, and non-citizens. In their final phase the Mysteries shifted their emphasis from a, underworld orientation to a transcendental, mystical one, with changing his nature accordingly. By its nature as a reserved for the initiated, many aspects of the Dionysian cult remain unknown and were lost with the; modern knowledge is derived from descriptions, imagery and cross-cultural studies. The, height: 90.5 cm (35 ½ in.), 4th century BC The Dionysian Mysteries of mainland Greece and the Roman Empire are thought to have evolved from a more primitive initiatory of unknown origin (perhaps or ) which had spread throughout the by the start of the.