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Russell D. A.
PLUTARCH
Duckworth. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0715606689 . Very light shelfwear to book. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. DJ spine sunned. DJ is price-clipped. ; More perhaps than any other single writer Plutarch has been responsible for transmitting to Europe the central historical and moral traditions of classical antiquity. His books have been a formative influence in western civilisation; they retain a direct appeal to which it is easy to respond. Mestrius Plutarchus ca. 46- 127 was a Greek historian biographer and essayist. Born in the small town of Chaeronea in the Greek region known as Boeotia probably during the reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius Plutarch travelled widely in the Mediterranean world including twice to Rome. Due to his parents' wealth after 67 Plutarchus was able to study philosophy rhetoric and mathematics at the Academy of Athens. He had a number of influential friends including Soscius Senecio and Fundanus both important Senators to whom some of his later writings were dedicated. He lived most of his life at Chaeronea and was initiated into the mysteries of the Greek god Apollo. However his duties as the senior of the two priests of Apollo at the Oracle of Delphi where he was responsible for interpreting the auguries of the Pythia or priestess/oracle apparently occupied little of his time - he led an active social and civic life and produced an incredible body of writing much of which is still extant. ; Classical Life and Letters; 183 pages . Duckworth hardcover
Bookseller reference : 18489 ISBN : 0715606689 9780715606681
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Vermaseren M. J. Ed.
CORPUS CULTUS CYBELAE ATTIDISQUE CCCA I. Asia Minor; II: Graecia Atque Insulae; III: Italia - Latium; IV: Italia - Aliae Provinciae; V: Aegyptus Africa Hispania Gallia Et Britannia; VI: Germania Raetia Noricum Pannonia Dalmatia MacEdonia Thracia VII: Musea Et Collectiones Privatae
E. J. Brill. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. All volumes are in VG or better condition. Leather bindings with slipcases. Spines sunned and discolored. ; V1: 1987 xxxvii 349 pp 199 pl; V2: 1982 xxxi 278 pp 219 pl; V3: 1977 xxviii 198 pp 302 pl; V4: 1978 xxiii 142 pp 111 pl; V5: 1986 xxiv 226 pp 168 pl; V6: 1989 xxix 224 pp 146 pl; V7: 1977 xv 67 pp 115 pl. ; 7 Volume Set. COMPLETE. �tudes Pr�liminaires Aux Religions Orientales Dans L'Empire Romain; Vol. 2020-01-07 . E. J. Brill hardcover
Bookseller reference : 18545
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West M. L.
THE ORPHIC POEMS
Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0198148542 . Book has light bump to 1 corner. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; A large number of Greek religious poems in hexameter were attributed to Orpheus as they were to similar miracle-man figures like Bakis Musaeus Abaris Aristeas Epimenides and the Sybil. Of this vast literature only two examples survive whole: a set of hymns composed at some point in the 2nd or 3rd century AD and an Orphic Argonautica composed somewhere between the 4th and 6th centuries AD. Earlier Orphic literature which may date back as far as the 6th century BC survives only in papyrus scraps or in quotations by later authors. ; 296 pages; Sandpiper reprint of 1983 Edition. . Oxford University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 18569 ISBN : 0198148542 9780198148548
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Pelissero Alberto A Cura Di
TECNICHE INDIANE DI DIVINAZIONE SIVASVARODAYA
Torino: Promolibri. Very Good. 1991. Softcover. Pages lightly tanned. ; 111pp.; IL Loto. Collana Di Cultura Orientale; 111 pages . Promolibri paperback
Bookseller reference : 21098
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De Carolis Ernesto
GODS AND HEROES IN POMPEII
Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum. Fine. 2001. Hardcover. 0892366303 . 78pp nicely illustrated. The deities and heroes of the ancient Romans were popular subject matter for the frescoes that decorated the elaborate villas of Pompeii's wealthy citizens. This richly illustrated volume highlights various depictions of the heavenly and heroic pantheon of ancient Rome while the text explores both the general characteristics of Pompeiian painting and their specific treatment of gods and heroes. ; 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall; 78 pages . J. Paul Getty Museum hardcover
Bookseller reference : 21556 ISBN : 0892366303 9780892366309
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Robertson Noel
FESTIVALS AND LEGENDS The Formation of Greek Cities in the Light of Public Ritual
University of Toronto Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0802059880 . Very light shelfwear else fine. ; An important contribution to social history linking the life and nature of the polis with its festivals and rituals and the legends which went with them and used for the elucidation of a state's self-identity. ; Phoenix Supplementary Volume; 1 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 287 pages . University of Toronto Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 18372 ISBN : 0802059880 9780802059888
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Toutain J.
LES CULTES PAIENS DANS L'EMPIRE ROMAIN Premi�re Partie: Les Provinces Latines. Tome III: Les Cultes Indig�nes Nationaux Et Locaux -- Afrique Du Nord P�ninsule Ib�rique Gaule.
�ditions Ernest Leroux. Fair. 1920. Softcover. Pages unopened. Light foxing. Paper wrappers are tattered chipped and torn with pieces missing from base of spine and rear upper corner. Endpapers browned. Internally VG. ; Biblioth�que De L��cole Des Hautes �tudes XXXI; Vol. 3; 470 pages . �ditions Ernest Leroux paperback
Bookseller reference : 18008
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Plutarch; Johannes Schroetter & Herbertus Holtorf & Bernard Latzarus
PLUTARCH: THREE STUDIES Johannes Schroetter: Plutarchs Sellung Zur Skepsis; Herbertus Holtorf: Plutarchi Chaeronensis Studia in Platone Explicando Posita; Bernard Latzarus: Les Id�es Religieuses De Plutarque
NY: Garland Publishing. Fine. 1987. Hardcover. 0824069293 . Reprint in one volume of the 1911 1913 & 1920 titles. ; Greek & Roman Philosophy Volume 30 . Garland Publishing hardcover
Bookseller reference : 22592 ISBN : 0824069293 9780824069292
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Taylor Henry Osborn
PROPHETS POETS AND PHILOSOPHERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
NY: MacMillan Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1933. Hardcover. Pages a bit tanned else book is fine. DJ has a bit of loss to top of spine and along top edge with some chipping. DJ is rubbed. ; 294pp. Chapters: Chaldaea and Egypt; China: Duty and Detachment; The Indian Annihilation of Individuality; Zarathushtra; The Prophets of Israel; The Heroic Adjustment in Greek Poetry; Greek Philosophers; Intermediaries; Jesus; Paul; Augustine; the arrows are beyond thee. ; 294 pages . MacMillan Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 20933
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Tyrrell William Blake; Frieda S. Brown
ATHENIAN MYTHS AND INSTITUTIONS Words in Action
NY: Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0195067185 . Pages slightly tanned. Else book is fine. DJ has minor shelfwear. ; 229pp. This book analyzes the relationships between Athenian myths and the institutions that informed them. In particular it examines how myths encode thoughts on ritual the code of the warrior marriage and politics. Combining traditional historical and literary criticism with the approaches of anthropologists feminist critics and cultural historians the authors study specific examples of the epic and tragedy as well as funeral orations and the Parthenon marbles to illuminate the ways mythic media exploited the beliefs concepts and practices of fifth-century Athens simultaneously exemplifying and shaping that culture. ; 229 pages . Oxford University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 18208 ISBN : 0195067185 9780195067187
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Lieu Samuel N. C. Ed.
THE EMPEROR JULIAN Panegyric and Polemic
Liverpool University Press. Very Good. 1989. Second Edition. Softcover. 0853233764 . Light corner creasing to a few pages and wraps. ; 2nd ed. 146pp. This collection makes available in English for the first time the panegyric of Claudius Mamertinus Panegyrici Latini XI/3 a substantial part of the treatise of John Chrysostom on St Babylas and against Julian de S. Babyla c. Julianum et gentiles XIV-XIX and Emphrem Syrus' Hymns Against Julian. ; Translated Texts for Historians; 146 pages . Liverpool University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 22009 ISBN : 0853233764 9780853233763
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Latte Kurt
HEILIGES RECHT Untersuchungen Zur Geschichte Der Sakralen Rechtsformen in Griechenland
Aalen: Scientia Verlag. Very Good-. 1964. Softcover. Wraps sun-faded to spine and top edges of wraps. Hard bump to lower corner with creasing through pages. ; Viii 116pp. ; 116 pages . Scientia Verlag paperback
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Evans Nancy
CIVIC RITES Democracy and Religion in Ancient Athens
University of California Press. Very Good. 2010. Softcover. 0520262034 . Bottom edge stamped "Review Copy Not for Resale" else Fine. ; This book makes a strong case for the importance of religious practices in Classical Athens showing how thoroughly ritual was integrated into the city's democratic institutions and civic life. To this end Nancy Evans takes an in depth look at the cults of Athena Demeter and Dionysus and the festivals and games associated with them. Writing for the general reader as well as the scholar she reconstructs the rhythms of Athenian life and the omnipresence of ritual sacrifice and incantation in both public and private spheres. Building on this picture of the broad institutional importance of religion she goes on to provide detail of the religious backdrop to many of the key events of the Athenian Classical age including Alcibiades' profaning of the Eleusinian Mysteries and most notoriously the trial of Socrates. ; 272 pages . University of California Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 21696 ISBN : 0520262034 9780520262034
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Kyle Donald G.
SPECTACLES OF DEATH IN ANCIENT ROME
London: Routledge. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0415096782 . DJ in mylar. ; Xii 288pp. The elaborate and inventive slaughter of humans and animals in the arena fed an insatiable desire for violent spectacle among the Roman people. Donald G. Kyle combines the words of ancient authors with current scholarly research and cross-cultural perspectives as he explores the origins and historical development of the games who the victims were and why they were chosen how the Romans disposed of the thousands of resulting corpses the complex religious and ritual aspects of institutionalised violence the particularly savage treatment given to defiant Christians. This lively and original work provides compelling sometimes controversial perspectives on the bloody entertainments of ancient Rome which continue to fascinate us to this day. ; 288 pages . Routledge hardcover
Bookseller reference : 21640 ISBN : 0415096782 9780415096782
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Balsdon J. P.
ROMANS AND ALIENS
University of North Carolina Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0807813834 . Book has very light shelfwear else fine. Dustjacket has light shelfwear now in mylar. ; This book brings together a wealth of out-of-the-way information both on the national peculiarities of the Romans and on their views of the peculiarities of others; the topics range from food and sex habits to astrology and the seven day week from slavery snobbery and the problems of exile to ritual murder euthanasia and suicide. ; 10.25 x 1.25 x 6.5 Inches; 310 pages . University of North Carolina Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 18324 ISBN : 0807813834 9780807813836
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Norden Eduard
AUS ALTR�MISCHEN PRIESTERB�CHERN
C. W. K. Gleerup. Good with no dust jacket. 1939. First Edition. Softcover. Tears to spine ends. Corner piece from lower rear wrap torn off. Corner crease to last few pages. Else internally VG. ; Skrifter Utgivna Av Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet I Lund XXIX; 300 pages . C. W. K. Gleerup paperback
Bookseller reference : 18356
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Goar R. J.
CICERO AND THE STATE RELIGION
Adolf M Hakkert. Very Good. 1978. Softcover. 9025605842 . Some sun fading along the spine and outer edges of wraps. ; Defines Cicero's attitude toward the Roman state Religion. ; 0.5 x 9 x 6.1 Inches; 141 pages . Adolf M Hakkert paperback
Bookseller reference : 17755 ISBN : 9025605842 9789025605841
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Galinsky G. Karl
THE HERAKLES THEME The Adaptations of the Hero in Literature from Homer to the Twentieth Century
Blackwell Publishers. Good with no dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0631140204 . Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers. ; Galinsky's "Herakles Theme" provides a survey both descriptive and analytical of the most significant adaptations of Herakles in western literature from Homer to present day with particular emphasis upon the more original and creative portraits of the hero. ; 330 pages . Blackwell Publishers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 17775 ISBN : 0631140204 9780631140207
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Wilson Peter
THE ATHENIAN INSTITUTION OF THE KHOREGIA The Chorus the City and the Stage
Cambridge University Press. Very Good. 2003. Paperback. 0521542138 . Scholars' name to half-title Mark Golden. Else very minor shelfwear. ; This book is the first major study of the means by which the classical Athenians organised and funded their many festival choruses. It explores the mechanics of the institution by which a minority of rich citizens were required to arrange and pay for a festival chorus including choruses for tragic and comic drama and situates this duty within the range of occasions for elite leadership in Athens' elaborate festival calendar. Peter Wilson goes on to show the importance of the khoregia to our understanding of the workings of Athenian democracy itself and to demonstrate the degree to which the institution was itself a highly performative occasion an opportunity for elite display in the democratic environment. The post-classical history of the khoregia and its appearance in a wide range of other Greek communities are also examined. ; 452 pages . Cambridge University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 17789 ISBN : 0521542138 9780521542135
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Jeanmaire H.
DIONYSOS Histoire Du Culte De Bacchus
Payot. Very Good. 1951. First Edition. Paperback. Scholars' name to ffep Mark Golden. Initials in pen to titlepage. Browning to covers and pages. Some pages unopened. ; Biblioth�que Historique; 510 pages . Payot paperback
Bookseller reference : 17843
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Hamdorf Friedrich Wilhelm
GRIECHISCHE KULTPERSONIFIKATIONEN DER VORHELLENISTISCHEN ZEIT
Philipp Von Zabern. Very Good. 1964. Softcover. Light wear to corners of wraps. Faint stain to textblock. Wraps a bit browned. ; 134 pages . Philipp Von Zabern paperback
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Tomlinson R. A.
GREEK SANCTUARIES
St. Martin's Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. Scholars' name to ffep Mark Golden. Light shelfwear to boards. ; 150 pages . St. Martin's Press hardcover
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Hatzopoulos M. B. & Preface De Pierre Vidal Naquet
CULTES ET RITES DE PASSAGE EN MACEDOINE
Diffusion De Boccard. Very Good. 1994. Softcover. 9607094867 . Gift inscription from author to ffep. Light creasing along upper edge and corners of wraps. ; CONTENTS: Preface par Pierre Vidal-Naquet - Introduction - De Thessalie en Macedoine - Demeter et la Belle deesse a Lete - Le dromos en Macedoine - Dionysos Agrios Ertayptos Pseudanor - Imberbe et travesti - La guerre et la chasse - Initiations consecrations et affranchissements - En guisse d' epilogue - APPENDICE: Le sanctuaire de Demeter et de Kore pres de. ; Meletemata 19; Centre De Recherches De L'Antiquite Grecque Et Romaine. Fondation Nationale De La Recherche Scientifique; 171 pages; 26 pl. & 2 maps. ; Signed by Author . Diffusion De Boccard paperback
Bookseller reference : 17970 ISBN : 9607094867 9789607094865
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Richardson N. J. Ed.
THE HOMERIC HYMN TO DEMETER
Oxford Clarendon Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. 0198141998 . Light shelfwear to book ; Introduction deals with the Hymn's nature date and circumstances of composition; development and significance of the Mysteries; language style and metre; and the relationship of the Hymn both to the other early epic and also to later classical literature. Includes revised greek text and extensive commentary. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 380 pages . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 17572 ISBN : 0198141998 9780198141990
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Keuls Eva C.
THE WATER CARRIERS IN HADES: A Study of Catharsis through Toil in Classical Antiquity
Adolf M. Hakkert. Very Good. 1974. Softcover. 9025606997 . Spine and parts of wraps are sunned. Scholar's name to titlepage in pen Mark Golden. Else minor shelfwear. ; XXXIV plates at end. ; 189 pages . Adolf M. Hakkert paperback
Bookseller reference : 17601 ISBN : 9025606997 9789025606992
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Richardson N. J. Ed.
THE HOMERIC HYMN TO DEMETER
Oxford Clarendon Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0198141998 . Very light shelfwear to book. DJ spine is sunned with small tear to top of spine and 1 tiny tear to base of spine. ; Introduction deals with the Hymn's nature date and circumstances of composition; development and significance of the Mysteries; language style and metre; and the relationship of the Hymn both to the other early epic and also to later classical literature. Includes revised greek text and extensive commentary. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 380 pages . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 17596 ISBN : 0198141998 9780198141990
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Mikalson Jon D.
THE SACRED AND CIVIL CALENDAR OF THE ATHENIAN YEAR
Princeton University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 0691035458 . Scholars' name to ffep Mark Golden. Else book is fine. DJ spine is sunned and discolored. Light rubbing and chipping to DJ. ; From epigraphical archaeological and literary evidence Mikalson has here assembled all relevant data concerning the dates of Athenian festivals religious ceremonies and legislative assemblies. This information has been used to revise and update our knowledge of the calendar as it reflects Athenian life. ; 226 pages . Princeton University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 17609 ISBN : 0691035458 9780691035451
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Martin Luther H.
HELLENISTIC RELIGIONS An Introduction
Oxford University Press. Very Good. 1987. Softcover. 019504391X . Some discoloration to wraps. Scholars' name to halftitle Mark Golden. 1 page corner creased. Minor shelfwear. ; In this comprehensive introduction Martin offers an overview of the religious institutions beliefs and practices in the Graeco-Roman world from the fourth century B. C. E. To the fourth century C. E. ; 192 pages . Oxford University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 17753 ISBN : 019504391X 9780195043914
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Altheim Franz
DER UNBESIEGTE GOTT Heidentum Und Christentum
Hamburg: Rowohlt. Very Good. 1957. Softcover. Minor foxing to spine. Pages tanned. ; 136 pages . Rowohlt paperback
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Avagianou / Abagianou Aphrodite Ed.
LATREIES STEN 'PERIPHEREIA' TOU ARCHAIOU HELLENIKOU KOSMOU
Athens: Ethniko Idruma Ereunon E. I. E. . Very Good. 2002. Softcover. 9607998154 . Gift inscription on half-title. Else unmarked. Laminate slightly lifting to 1 corner. Top corner lightly bumped. ; 171pp illustrated. ; 171 pages . Ethniko Idruma Ereunon (E. I. E. ) paperback
Bookseller reference : 20875 ISBN : 9607998154 9789607998156
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Chaudhuri Pramit
THE WAR WITH GOD Theomachy in Roman Imperial Poetry
Oxford University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2014. Hardcover. 0199993386 . Epic and tragedy from Homer's Achilles and Euripides' Pentheus to Marlowe's Tamburlaine and Milton's Satan are filled with characters challenging and warring against the gods. Nowhere is the theme of theomachy more frequently and powerfully represented however than in the poetry of early imperial Rome from Ovid's Metamorphoses at the beginning of the first century AD to Statius' Thebaid near its end. This book -- the first full-length study of human-divine conflict in Roman literature -- asks why the war against god was so important to the poets of the time and how this understudied period of literary history influenced a larger tradition in Western literature. Drawing on a variety of contexts -- politics religion philosophy and aesthetics -- Pramit Chaudhuri argues for the fundamental importance of battles between humans and gods in representing the Roman world. A cast of tyrants emperors rebels iconoclasts philosophers and ambitious poets brings to life some of the most extraordinary artistic products of classical antiquity. Based on close readings of the major extant epics and selected tragedies the book replaces a traditionally Aeneid-centric view of imperial epic with a richer dialogue between Greek and Roman texts contemporary authors and diverse genres. The renewed sense of a tradition reveals how the conflicts these works represent constitute a distinctive theology informed by other discourses yet peculiar to epic and tragedy. Beginning with the Greek background and ending with a look ahead to developments in the Renaissance this book charts the history of a theme that would find its richest expression in a time when men became gods and impiety threatened the very order of the world. ; 416 pages . Oxford University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 17409 ISBN : 0199993386 9780199993383
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Funke Peter & Matthias Haake Eds.
GREEK FEDERAL STATES AND THEIR SANCTUARIES Identity and Integration
Franz Steiner Verlag. Fine with no dust jacket. 2013. Hardcover. 3515103074 . In ancient Greece religion and politics were inextricably linked. This symbiosis manifests itself particularly clearly in Greek sanctuaries as locations of both cult practices and political activities. A colloquium held at Munster aimed at analysing the formative function of trans-regional sanctuaries in mainland Greece and on the Greek islands in the genesis and legitimisation of political order in Greek tribal alliances and federal states from the Archaic down to the Hellenistic period. Religion und Politik waren im antiken Griechenland auf das Engste miteinander verwoben. Besonders deutlich manifestiert sich diese Symbiose in griechischen Heiligtumern als Orten kultischer Handlungen und zugleich politischen Agierens. Das Munsteraner Kolloquium analysiert die formative Funktion uberregionaler Heiligtumer in Griechenland und der griechischen Inselwelt bei der Genese und Legitimation von politischer Ordnung in griechischen Stammesbunden und Bundesstaaten von der archaischen bis in die hellenistische Zeit. ; 244 pages . Franz Steiner Verlag hardcover
Bookseller reference : 17397 ISBN : 3515103074 9783515103077
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Rotroff Susan I.
INDUSTRIAL RELIGION The Saucer Pyres of the Athenian Agora
American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Fine. 2014. Paperback. 0876615477 . This study focuses on the "saucer pyres" a series of 70 deposits excavated in the residential and industrial areas bordering the Athenian Agora. Each consisted of a shallow pit its floor sometimes marked by heavy burning with a votive deposit of pottery and fragments of burnt bone ash and charcoal. Most of the pots were miniatures including the eponymous saucers but a few larger vessels were found along with offerings associated with funerary cult. The deposits represent a largely Athenian phenomenon with few parallels elsewherre. When first found in the 1930s the deposits were interpreted as baby burials. Recent zooarchaeological analysis of the bones however reveals that they are the remains of sheep and goats and that the deposits were sacrificial rather than funerary. The present study investigates the nature of those sacrifices taking into account the contents of the pyres their spatial distribution and their relationship to buildings around the Agora and elsewhere. In light of a strong correlation between pyres and industrial activity the author argues that the pyres document workplace rituals designed to protect artisans and their enterprises. ; Hesperia Supplement 47; 200 pages . American School of Classical Studies at Athens paperback
Bookseller reference : 17402 ISBN : 0876615477 9780876615478
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Corcoran Lorelei H. & Marie Svoboda
HERAKLEIDES A Portrait Mummy from Roman Egypt
J. Paul Getty Museum. Near Fine. 2010. Softcover. 1606060368 . Very light shelfwear else fine. ; Herakleides was a young man who lived and died in Roman Egypt almost two thousand years ago. This multidisciplinary study of his mummy which is in the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection and on view at the Getty Villa highlights the funerary practices and religious beliefs of his world. Through state-of-the-art technology Getty conservators working with professionals from various other disciplines sought to determine if the portrait over the mummy's face actually depicted the mummified remains if precious jewels or amulets were present within the wrappings and if the age of the mummy could be determined. The investigation was carried out without unwrapping the mummy. The iconographic symbols decorating the red-painted shroud of Herakleides depict gods and goddesses as well as express a desire for an eternal afterlife. Such concepts popularly associated with ancient Egypt remained influential into the time of the Roman Empire. The book concludes by comparing the data from the mummy of Herakleides to similarly decorated red-shrouded portrait mummies in collections worldwide; Getty Publications; 112 pages . J. Paul Getty Museum paperback
Bookseller reference : 21682 ISBN : 1606060368 9781606060360
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Christensen Torben
CHRISTUS ODER JUPITER Der Kampf Um Die Geistigen Grundlagen Des R�mischen Reiches
Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Near Fine. 1981. Softcover. 3525016123 . Very light shelfwear. ; Sammlung Vandenhoeck; 295 pages . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht paperback
Bookseller reference : 22112 ISBN : 3525016123 9783525016121
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Solmsen Friedrich
ISIS AMONG THE GREEKS AND ROMANS
Harvard University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0674467752 . Book has minor shelfwear. Old price sticker residue on ffep else unmarked. Dustjacket is a bit tatty with chipping and some small tears. ; Martin Classical Lectures 25; 157 pages . Harvard University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 17452 ISBN : 0674467752 9780674467750
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Zuntz Gunther
AION IM ROMERREICH Die Arch�ologischen Zeugnisse
Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universit�tsverlag. Fine. 1991. Softcover. 3533043878 . Abhandlungen Der Heidelberger Akademie Der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Jahrang 1991 - 3 Abhandlung; 45 pages . Carl Winter Universit�tsverlag paperback
Bookseller reference : 20583 ISBN : 3533043878 9783533043874
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Zuntz Gunther
AION - GOTT DES R�MERREICHS
Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universit�tsverlag. Good. 1989. Softcover. 3533041700 . Neat underlining and marginalia by a scholar else very minor shelfwear. ; Abhandlungen Der Akademie Der Wissenschaften in G�ttingen Philologisch-Historische Klasse. Jahrgang 1989 - 2 Abhandlung; 67 pages . Carl Winter Universit�tsverlag paperback
Bookseller reference : 20584 ISBN : 3533041700 9783533041702
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Rosing Ina
DIE HEIDNISCHEN KATHOLIKEN UND DAS VATERUNSER IM R�CKW�RTSGANG Zum Verh�ltnis Von Christentum Und Andenreligion
Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universit�tsverlag. Fine. 2001. Softcover. 3825311961 . Schriften der Philosophisch-historischen Klasse der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften 21. 95pp.; Schriften Der Philosophisch-Historischen Klasse Der Heidelberger Akademie Der Wissenschaften 21; 95 pages . Carl Winter Universit�tsverlag paperback
Bookseller reference : 20608 ISBN : 3825311961 9783825311964
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Pippidi D. M.
STUDII DE ISTORIE A RELIGIILOR ANTICE Texte Si Interpretari
Bucharest: Editura Stiintifica. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. Inscribed by author to Christian Habicht on ffep. Backstrip sunned. Upper corners bumped. ; 335pp illustrated. ; 335 pages . Editura Stiintifica hardcover
Bookseller reference : 20589
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Vandenberg Philipp
THE MYSTERY OF THE ORACLES
NY: Macmillan Publishing Company Incorporated. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 002621590X . Gift inscription on ffep. Else Fine with price-clipped dustjacket. DJ in mylar. ; 291 pages . Macmillan Publishing Company, Incorporated hardcover
Bookseller reference : 21511 ISBN : 002621590X 9780026215909
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Zafiropulo Jean
APOLLON ET DIONYSOS Un Essai Sur La Notion D'Impermanence
Paris: Soci�t� D'�dition- Les Belles Lettres. Very Good. 1961. Softcover. Faint edgewear to wraps. Pages unopened. ; Collection D'�tudes Anciennes; 329 pages . Soci�t� D'�dition- Les Belles Lettres paperback
Bookseller reference : 22282
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Garland Robert
INTRODUCING NEW GODS The Politics of Athenian Religion
Ithaca New York U.S.A.: Cornell University Press. Very Good. 1992. Hardcover. 0801427665 . Faint foxing to textblock. Boards a bit rubbed. 1 corner lightly bumped. ; The religious imagination of the Greeks Robert Garland observes was populated by divine beings whose goodwill could not be counted upon and worshipers faced a heavy burden of choice among innumerable deities to whom they might offer their devotion. These deities�and Athenian polytheism itself�remained in constant flux as cults successively came into favor and waned. Examining the means through which the Athenians established and marketed cults this handsomely illustrated book is the first to illuminate the full range of motives�political and economic as well as spiritual�that prompted them to introduce new gods. ; 234 pages . Cornell University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 21817 ISBN : 0801427665 9780801427664
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Showerman Grant
THE GREAT MOTHER OF THE GODS
University of Wisconsin. Good. 1901. Softcover. Ownership name to ffep. Wraps tattered browned and smudged a few pencil notes. ; Diss. Wisconsin 1900. Pp 221-329 a few plates. A study of religious beliefs in ancient Rome and the genesis of the Great Mother goddess cult during the reign of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus 535-496 BC. ; Diss. Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin No. 43. Philology and Literature Series Vol. 1 No. 3 1901; 108 pages . University of Wisconsin paperback
Bookseller reference : 20915
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Maas Michael
JOHN LYDUS AND THE ROMAN PAST Antiquarianism and Politics in the Age of Justinian
Routledge. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0415060214 . Very light shelfwear to book. DJ has minor creasing and shelfwear. ; 220 pages; John Lydus a retired official at Justinian's court in the mid-6th century is an important neglected source for the study of the fate of the classical legacy in the newly Christianized Roman empire Byzantium.<P>Examining his work <i>On Portents On the Months</i> and <i>On Magistracies</i> Michael Maas establishes Lydus as a credible witness to the political and cultural milieu in the age of Justinian--at the moment when the state re-historicized itself and its Roman legacy in Christian terms. Within a few generations addressing antiquity from a non-Christian viewpoint would have been unthinkable. From his place on the edge of this shifting paradigm Lydus' writings help us to see the emergence of medieval Byzantium through Roman eyes. . Routledge hardcover
Bookseller reference : 17303 ISBN : 0415060214 9780415060219
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Apollodorus; Michael Simpson Trans.
GODS AND HEROES OF THE GREEKS The Library of Apollodorus. Translated with Introduction and Notes
University of Massachusetts Press. Very Good. 1976. Softcover. 0870232061 . Wraps have light rubbing with faint crease to 1 corner. ; Drawings; 0.81 x 9.25 x 5.95 Inches; 311 pages . University of Massachusetts Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 17309 ISBN : 0870232061 9780870232060
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Potter D. S. & D. J. Mattingly eds.
LIFE DEATH AND ENTERTAINMENT IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0472109243 . Life Death and Entertainment gives those with a general interest in Roman antiquity a starting point informed by the latest developments in scholarship for understanding the extraordinary range of Roman society. Family structure slavery gender identity food supply religion and entertainment---all crucial parts of the Roman world---are discussed here in a single volume that offers an approachable guide for readers of all backgrounds. The collection unites a series of general introductions on each of these topics bringing readers in touch with a broad range of evidence as well as with a wide variety of approaches to basic questions about the Roman world. ; 353 pages . University of Michigan Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 21633 ISBN : 0472109243 9780472109241
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Tinh V. Tran Tam
LE CULTE DES DIVINIT�S ORIENTALES EN CAMPANIE En Dehors De Pomp�i De Stabies Et D'Herculanum
Leiden: E. J. Brill. Fine with no dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 9004034331 . 101 ill. 1 map; 261 pages . E. J. Brill hardcover
Bookseller reference : 17107 ISBN : 9004034331 9789004034334
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Parke H. W.
FESTIVALS OF THE ATHENIANS
Cornell University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0801410541 . Former owner's name to ffep. Top of textblock foxed. Light foxing to inner covers. DJ spine is slightly faded. Dustjacket has chipping and small tears with some foxing. ; Parke was an authority on Greek religion and gives an account of the chief ceremonial occasions of ancient Athens in their order in the calendar. The festivals he surveys exhibit an extraordinary variety of activity associated with different religious cults. ; Aspects of Greek & Roman Life; 208 pages . Cornell University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 17108 ISBN : 0801410541 9780801410543
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Tinh V. Tran Tam
LE CULTE DES DIVINIT�S ORIENTALES A HERCULANUM
Leiden: E. J. Brill. Good with no dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. 9004025839 . Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers and pocket. A couple of corners very lightly bumped. Else minor shelfwear. ; Frontispiece 29 pls 43 ill. 1 folding plan. ; 104 pages . E. J. Brill hardcover
Bookseller reference : 17066 ISBN : 9004025839 9789004025837
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