BIBLIOGRAPHY: Jean Réville, _La religion à Rome sous les Sévères_, pp. 62
ff.--Drexler in Roscher, _Lexikon der Mythol._, s. v. "_Meter_," II,
2932.--Wissowa, _Religion und Cultus der Römer_, pp. 263 ff., where the
earlier bibliography will be found, {224} p. 271.--Showerman, "The Great
Mother of the Gods" (_Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin_, No. 43),
Madison, 1901.--Hepding, _Attis, seine Mythen und sein Kult_, Giessen,
1903.--Dill, _Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius_, London, 1905,
pp. 547 ff.--Gruppe, _Griech. Mythologie_, 1906, pp. 1521 ff. Eisele, "Die
phrygischen Kulte," _Neue Jahrb. für das klass. Altertum_, XXIII, 1909, pp.
620 ff.
For a number of years Henri Graillot has been collecting the monuments of
the religion of Cybele with a view to publishing them in their
entirety.--Numerous remarks on the Phrygian religion will be found in the
works and articles of Ramsay, especially in _Cities and Bishoprics of
Phrygia_, 1895, and _Studies in the Eastern Roman Provinces_, 1906.
1. Arrien, fr. 30 (_FGH_, III, p. 592). Cf. our _Studio Pontica_, 1905, pp.
172 ff., and Statius, Achill., II, 345: "Phrygas lucos ... vetitasque solo,
procumbere pinus"; Virg., _Aen., IX_, 85.
2. Lion; cf. S. Reinach, _Mythes, cultes_, I, p. 293. The lion, represented
in Asia Minor at a very remote period as devouring a bull or other animals,
might possibly represent the sacred animal of Lydia or Phrygia vanquishing
the protecting _totem_ of the tribes of Cappadocia or the neighboring
countries (I am using the term _totem_ in its broadest meaning). This at
least is the interpretation given to similar groups in Egypt. Cf. Foucart,
_La méthode comparat. et l'histoire des religions_, 1909, p. 49, p. 70.
3. [Greek: Potnia thêrôn]. On this title, cf. Radet, _Revue des études
anciennes_, X, 1908, pp. 110 ff. The most ancient type of the goddess, a
winged figure leading lions, is known from monuments dating back to the
period of the Mermnadi (687-546 B. C.).