‎Paganism‎

‎Bowden, Hugh‎

‎CLASSICAL ATHENS AND THE DELPHIC ORACLE Divination and Democracy‎

‎This book provides an exploration of the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, where the god Apollo was believed to speak to inquirers through his priestesses. In particular, it examines Athens' use of the oracle c. 500-300 BC. Demonstrating the importance of communication with the gods, and doing their will, in classical Athenian society, Hugh Bowden concludes that ancient Athens was not a secular Westernized democracy as we understand the term today. ; 8.4 X 5.4 X 0.6 inches; 206 pages‎

‎Boyce, Mary‎

‎THE MANICHAEAN HYMN-CYCLES IN PARTHIAN‎

‎Minor shelfwear to boards. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. ; Contents: Previous Work on the Hymn-Cycles; The subject-matter of the Hymn-Cycles; The Goal of the Departed Spirit and the Identity of the Saviour; The Manuscripts; The Reconstruction of the Text; Some Remarks on Authorship and Style; Versification; The Texts: List of Fragments; Huwidagman; Angad Rosnan; The Unidentified Fragments; Additional Note on the Manuscripts. ; London Oriental Series Volume 3; 199 pages; Includes 4 photographic plates of the manuscripts at end.‎

‎Branham, R. Bracht & Marie-Odile Goulet-Caze‎

‎THE CYNICS The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy‎

‎Book is fine. DJ has very light shelfwear. ; This collection of essays examines the tradition associated with the ancient Cynics. The contributors to this volume - classicists, comparatists and philosophers - draw on a variety of methodologies to explore the ethical, social and cultural practices inspired by the Cynics. ; Hellenistic Culture and Society; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 465 pages‎

‎Brelich, Angelo‎

‎GLI EROI GRECI Un Problema Storico-Religioso‎

‎Tear to cloth at base of spine (~2cm) . Bottom corners are bumped. DJ has tears and chipping but intact. ; Nuovi Saggi, 21; 409 pages‎

‎Bremmer, Jan N. & Andrew Erskine (Eds. )‎

‎THE GODS OF ANCIENT GREECE Identities and Transformations‎

‎Very minor shelwfear to book. DJ has 1 tiny tear. ; Edinburgh Leventis Studies 5; 448 pages; The Greek gods are still very much present in modern consciousness. Although Apollo and Dionysos, Artemis and Aphrodite, Zeus and Hermes are household names, it is much less clear what these divinities meant and stood for in ancient Greece. In fact, they have been very much neglected in modern scholarship. This book brings together a team of international scholars with the aim of remedying this situation and generating new approaches to the nature and development of the Greek gods in the period from Homer until Late Antiquity. The book looks at individual gods, but also asks to what extent cult, myth and literary genre determine the nature of a divinity. How do the Greek gods function in a polytheistic pantheon and what is their connection to the heroes? What is the influence of philosophy? What does archaeology tell us about the gods? In what way do the gods in Late Antiquity differ from those in classical Greece? This book presents a synchronic and diachronic view of the gods as they functioned in Greek culture until the triumph of Christianity.‎

‎Broise, Pierre‎

‎GENÈVE ET SON TERRITOIRE DANS L’ANTIQUITÉ (2 VOLS) De La Conquête Romaine à L'Occupation Burgonde.‎

‎V1: small chip to fore-edge of front wrap. Very minor shelfwear else fine. Pages unopened. V2: portfolio of maps. Portfolio cover has some edgewear but maps are fine. ; V1: TEXTE: A-Q pages of plates/planches at rear. V2: ATLAS: maps are present and complete. ; Collection Latomus Volume 129. 2 Volume Set COMPLETE; 363 pages‎

‎Brouwer, H. H. J‎

‎BONA DEA De Bronnen En Een Beschrijving Van De Cultus (Bona Dea : the Sources and a Description of the Cult)‎

‎General shelfwear. ; Thesis in Dutch. ; 293 pages‎

‎Bruchmann, C. F. H. & Carter, Iesse Benedictus [Jesse Benedict]‎

‎EPITHETA DEORUM [2 VOLS BOUND IN 1] Quae Apud Poetas Graecos Leguntur + Quae Apud Poetas Latinos Leguntur‎

‎2 vols Rebound in 1/4 leather boards with green boards and gitl lettering. Spine cover has pieces missing along lower section and some tears and chipping to leather spine. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover (Slater & Dunbabin) along with additional bookplate. A few tears along joints of spine cover. ; 2 books bound in 1 volume. Bruchmann (1893) 226 pp; Carter (1902) 154 pp ; Ausführliches Lexikon Der Griechischen Und Römischen Mythologie: Supplement; 226 pages‎

‎Budge, Sir E. A. Wallis‎

‎FROM FETISH TO GOD IN ANCIENT EGYPT‎

‎Upper corners a bit bumped. Lower corners slightly edgeworn. Minor darkening to boards. Very minor bumping along top edges. ; 545 pages‎

‎Burkert, Walter‎

‎CREATION OF THE SACRED Tracks of Biology in Early Religions‎

‎Dustjacket has edgewear with light chipping and 1 small closed tears. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover else Fine. ; 272 pages; Sacrifice--ranging from the sacrifice of virgins to circumcision to giving up what is most valued--is essential to all religions. Could there be a natural, even biological, reason for these practices? Something that might explain why religions of so many different cultures share so many rituals and concepts? In this extraordinary book, one of the world's leading authorities on ancient religions explores the possibility of natural religion--a religious sense and practice naturally proceeding from biological imperatives. Because they lack later refinements, the earliest religions from the Near East, Israel, Greece, and Rome may tell us a great deal about the basic properties and dynamics of religion, and it is to these cultures that Walter Burkert looks for answers. His book takes us on an intellectual adventure that begins some 5,000 years ago and plunges us into a fascinating world of divine signs and omens, offerings and sacrifices, rituals and beliefs unmitigated by modern science and sophistication. Tracing parallels between animal behavior and human religious activity, Burkert suggests natural foundations for sacrifices and rituals of escape, for the concept of guilt and punishment, for the practice of gift exchange and the notion of a cosmic hierarchy, and for the development of a system of signs for negotiating with an uncertain environment. Again and again, he returns to the present to remind us that, for all our worldliness, we are not so far removed from the first Homo religiosus.‎

‎Burkert, Walter‎

‎HOMO NECANS Interpretationen Altgriechischer Opferriten Und Mythen‎

‎Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). ; Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche Und Vorarbeiten Bd. XXXII; 356 pages‎

‎Byrnes, Robert F. editor‎

‎COMMUNAL FAMILIES IN THE BALKANS: THE ZADRUGA. ESSAYS BY PHILIP E. MOSELY AND ESSAYS IN HIS HONOR‎

‎Original Publisher’s Cloth. 8vo. Xxvii, 285 p. Ages. [1] leaf of plates. Illus. 24 cm. Series: International studies of the Committee on International Relations, University of Notre Dame. Contents: Introduction. ; Philip E. Mosely's contribution to the comparative study of family /; Margaret Mead. ; Philip E. Mosely and his work, analyses of Mosley. ; Philip E. Mosely /; Leonard B. Schapiro --; Mosely on the zadruga /; Stavro Skendi. ; Philip E. Mosely and his work, Mosely on the family, especially the zadruga. ; The peasant family : the zadruga, or, communal joint-family in the Balkans and its recent evolution ; ; Adaptation for survival : the Varzic zadruga ; ; The distribution of the zadruga within southeastern Europe ; ; The Russian family, old style and new /; Philip E. Mosely. ; Philip E. Mosely and his work, the published work of Philip E. Mosely. ; Bibliography of books and articles. ; Historical and sociological studies of the zadruga. ; Some medieval evidence on the Servian zadruga : a preliminary analysis of the chrysobulls of Decani /; Eugene A. Hammel --; The zadruga and the contemporary family in Yugoslavia /; Olivera Buric --; The Romanian communal village : an alternative to the zadruga /; Daniel Chirot. ; The zadruga, past and present : some illustrations. ; A zadruga in Bileca Rudine /; Wayne Vucinich --; The Tomasevic extended family on the peninsula of Peljesac /; Jozo Tomasvich --; The democratice spirit of the Poljica commune /; Ante Kadic --; Time and form : contemporary Macedonian households and the zadruga controversy /; David B. Rheubottom --; The cultural ecology of Albanian extended family households in Yugoslav Macedonia /; C. J. Grossmith --; The last big zadrugas : Albanian extended families in the Kosovo Region /; Vera St. Erlich --; The zadruga community : a phase in the volution of property and family in an Agrarian Milieu /; Emile Sicard. Nice, clean copy in very good condition. (SEF39-13)‎

‎Cahiers de l'Association Internationale des Etudes Françaises‎

‎Cahiers de l'Association Internationale des Etudes Françaises La Poésie de la réforme et de la contre-réforme - La poésie d'inspiration paienne au XIXe siècle (Le paganisme de Maurice de Guérin dans le Centaure...)‎

‎N° 10 - Mai 1958 - En dépôt à la Société d'Edition "Les Belles Lettres" - in-8 broché - 252 pages‎

‎assez bon état‎

Bookseller reference : 55705

‎Campanile, Maria Domitilla‎

‎I SACERDOTI DEL KOINON D'ASIA (I SEC. A. C. -III SEC. D. C.) Contributo Allo Studio Della Romanizzazione Delle Élites Provinciali Nell'oriente Greco‎

‎Scholars' bookplate to inner cover (Slater & Dunbabin). Slight creasing to wraps. One small tear to wraps (1 cm). ; Studi Ellenistici VII; 230 pages‎

‎Caton, Richard‎

‎THE TEMPLES AND RITUAL OF ASKLEPIOS At Epidauros and Athens. Two Lectures Delivered At the Royal Institution of Great Britain. with Thirty Four Illustrations‎

‎Bound in black cloth lettered in gilt. Fraying to top of spine. Slight rubbing to boards. Inscribed by author on ffep. ; Fascinating study that looks at the remains of the temple structures and their possible uses with reconstructions. ; 49 pages; Signed by Author‎

‎CERATI Abbé‎

‎DU CELIBAT et du mariage des prêtres chez tous les peuples.‎

‎Paris Goeury 1829. In-8 VIII (table) XLVIII (introduction) 423pp. Demi basane havane à petits coins de vélin ivoire, dos lisse orné de filets dorés, tranches jonquille, reliure de l'époque. Quelques pâles rousseurs par endroits. Bel exemplaire.‎

‎Cet ouvrage rare et très curieux fut composé par un ex-régent des Humanités au Collège d'Ajaccio. L'Abbé Cerati retrace l'histoire du célibat dans la société civile et chez les religieux depuis l'Antiquité jusqu'à son époque. Fervent partisan du mariage des prêtres catholiques, ces informations historiques sont autant d'arguments pour défendre son point de vue.‎

Bookseller reference : GITc181

‎Chance, Jane & Jane Chance Nitzsche‎

‎THE GENIUS FIGURE IN ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES‎

‎Light Fading to letters on spine. Top corner is lightly bumped. ; Genius, appears in major Latin and vernacular works of the late Middle Ages. Originally a spirit or god that survived in Roman religion for at least seven centuries, its history and significance - religious, philosophical, and literary - have not previously been examined in detail; 0.79 x 9.23 x 6.23 Inches; 201 pages‎

‎Chaudhuri, Pramit‎

‎THE WAR WITH GOD Theomachy in Roman Imperial Poetry‎

‎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

‎Christensen, Torben‎

‎CHRISTUS ODER JUPITER Der Kampf Um Die Geistigen Grundlagen Des Römischen Reiches‎

‎Very light shelfwear. ; Sammlung Vandenhoeck; 295 pages‎

‎Christides, A. Ph. & David Jordan‎

‎GLOSSA KAI MAGEIA Keimena Apo Ten Archaioteta‎

‎Light scratches to rear panel with minor edgewear to wraps. Light soiling to ffep. ; Text is Greek with short abstracts in English. ; 200 pages‎

‎Clark, Raymond J.‎

‎CATABASIS Vergil and the Wisdom-Tradition‎

‎Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Spine and part of wraps are taped. Highlighting to about 10 pages. Fair to good condition. ; 246 pages; Traces the development of the theme of "Descent into the Underworld," or what the Greeks called "Catabasis," from the Near East through its long career in Greek and Roman literature and cult as a background of Vergil's cumulative and innovative version of the "Descent of Aeneas" in the Sixth Book of the Aeneid and to pinpoint more fully than hitherto Vergil's originality in his use of the theme.‎

‎Cohen, J. :‎

‎Déicides (Les). Examen de la divinité de Jésus-Christ et de l'Eglise Chrétienne au point de vue du Judaïsme.‎

‎Paris, Michel Lévy Frères, 1861 ; in-8 ; demi-chagrin vert sapin, dos à nerfs, caissons décorés et dorés, titre doré (reliure de l'époque) ; (4), 399 pp.‎

‎Edition originale. Très intéressant travail sur l'origine et les débuts du Christianisme considéré du point de vue du Judaïsme ; dans sa conclusion, l'auteur avance l'idée que le Christianisme est une inspiration divine pour sauver le Judaïsme en créant une sorte de trait d'union entre le Paganisme et le Judaïsme, le Christianisme ayant pour rôle de convertir les païens à la notion de Dieu unique : "Voici en effet ce que la nouvelle formule juive, popularisée par les disciples de Jésus, concéda aux sociétés païennes en échange de la domination universelle".Très bel exemplaire, dans une belle reliure, avec juste les inévitables rousseurs claires éparses.‎

Bookseller reference : 5184

‎Connelly, Joan Breton‎

‎PORTRAIT OF A PRIESTESS Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece‎

‎Some light creasing to DJ. ; In this sumptuously illustrated book, Joan Breton Connelly gives us the first comprehensive cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world. Connelly presents the fullest and most vivid picture yet of how priestesses lived and worked, from the most famous and sacred of them--the Delphic Oracle and the priestess of Athena Polias--to basket bearers and handmaidens. Along the way, she challenges long-held beliefs to show that priestesses played far more significant public roles in ancient Greece than previously acknowledged. Connelly builds this history through a pioneering examination of archaeological evidence in the broader context of literary sources, inscriptions, sculpture, and vase painting. Ranging from southern Italy to Asia Minor, and from the late Bronze Age to the fifth century A. D. , she brings the priestesses to life--their social origins, how they progressed through many sacred roles on the path to priesthood, and even how they dressed. She sheds light on the rituals they performed, the political power they wielded, their systems of patronage and compensation, and how they were honored, including in death. Connelly shows that understanding the complexity of priestesses' lives requires us to look past the simple lines we draw today between public and private, sacred and secular. The remarkable picture that emerges reveals that women in religious office were not as secluded and marginalized as we have thought--that religious office was one arena in ancient Greece where women enjoyed privileges and authority comparable to that of men. Connelly concludes by examining women's roles in early Christianity, taking on the larger issue of the exclusion of women from the Christian priesthood. This paperback edition includes additional maps and a glossary for student use.; 10.1 X 7.4 X 1.3 inches; 415 pages‎

‎Conway, Robert Seymour‎

‎ANCIENT ITALY AND MODERN RELIGION Being the Hibbert Lectures for 1932‎

‎Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Corners are bumped. ; Contents: Pictures of pre-Roman religion; Orpheus in Italy; The Etruscan influence on Roman beliefs; Breaking through the maze; Modern problems in the eyes of an Augustan poet; The road to Christmas. ; 150 pages‎

‎Cook, J.M. & W.H. Plommer‎

‎THE SANCTUARY OF HEMITHEA AT KASTABOS‎

‎DJ is price-clipped. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; 23pp of photos, 78 figures. "This is an account of the excavation of a Greek sanctuary in the south-west corner of the mainland of Asia Minor opposite Rhodes--once known as the Carian Chersonese. The excavations took place in 1959-1960. This is the first Greek temple of any size uncovered in that part of Asia Minor, and the discovery of the site of Kastabos, whose existence was known from book V of Diodorus' world history, has entailed the re-siting of several ancient towns in the region. The sanctuary itself, whose main buildings date from c. 300 B. C. , was dedicated to the Goddess Hemithea. It adds to our knowledge of a special sort of Greek shrine which was popular in the early Hellenistic age and is a perfect instance of a religious gathering place designed for a short, well attended festival. The excavations show that, although it was an Ionic temple, the style of the great contemporary temples in Ionia (such as that at Ephesus) has been modified and the design is somewhat similar, in plan and proportion, to that of the temple of Epidaurus. In particular, the discovery of a decorative screen with little shrines round the temple area throws new light on Greek architectural complexes." ; 180 pages‎