38 At that time man's fate after death was the one great interest. An interesting example of the power of this idea is furnished by Arnobius. He became converted to Christianity because, according to his peculiar psychology, he feared that his soul might die, and believed that Christ alone could protect him against final annihilation (cf. Bardenhewer, _Gesch. der altkirchlichen Literatur_, II, 1903, p. 470.) 39 Lucretius had expressed this conviction (II, 1170 ff.). It spread to the end of the empire as disasters multiplied; cf. _Rev. de philologie_, 1897, p. 152. 40 Boissier, _Rel. rom._, I^3, p. 359; Friedlaender, _Sittengesch._, I^6, pp. 500 ff. III. ASIA MINOR. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Jean Reville, _La religion a Rome sous les Severes_, pp. 62 ff.--Drexler in Roscher, _Lexikon der Mythol._, s. v. "_Meter_," II, 2932.--Wissowa, _Religion und Cultus der Roemer_, 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. fuer 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 methode comparat. et l'histoire des religions_, 1909, p. 49, p. 70. 3. [Greek: Potnia theron]. On this title, cf. Radet, _Revue des etudes 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.). 4. Cf. Ramsay, _Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia_, I, p. 7, p. 94.