Augustus tried to destroy. [1] Contended with Stoicism. [2] Influenced Christianity. [3] Mithras supplanted Phrygian, Egyptian mysteries. [4] Most popular were Cybele and Attis; Osiris and Isis; Mithras. [5] Nonnational, interracial, personal, and fraternal. [6] Offered hopes of personal salvation; provided diversion and excitement. [7] Originated in Egypt and Levant. [8] Orphic brotherhood was the best. [9] Pertained to some god’s life, death, and rebirth. [10] Plunged Greece into intellectual stagnation, moral depravity, spiritual poverty. [11] Prepared way for Jesus, Christianity. [12] Secret rites were sometimes gruesome. [13]