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2009ref. 37234University of Texas Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Very faint shelfwear. DJ spine sunned.; In Vergil's Aeneid the poet implies that those who have been initiated into mystery cults enjoy a blessed situation both in life and after death. This collection of essays brings new insight to the study of mystic cults in the ancient world particularly those that flourished in Magna Graecia essentially the area of present-day Southern Italy and Sicily. Implementing a variety of methodologies the contributors to Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia examine an array of features associated with such "mystery religions" that were concerned with individual salvation through initiation and hidden knowledge rather than civic cults directed toward Olympian deities usually associated with Greek religion. Contributors present contemporary theories of ancient religion field reports from recent archaeological work and other frameworks for exploring mystic cults in general and individual deities specifically with observations about cultural interactions throughout. Topics include Dionysos and Orpheus the Goddess Cults Isis in Italy and Roman Mithras explored by an international array of scholars including Giulia Sfameni Gasparro "Aspects of the Cult of Demeter in Magna Graecia" and Alberto Bernabé "Imago Inferorum Orphica". The resulting volume illuminates this often misunderstood range of religious phenomena.; 9.0 X 5.9 X 1.0 inches; 390 pages . 2009. 0292719027 . University of Texas Press hardcover
2001ref. 36492Routledge. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Faint shelfwear to book. DJ has light creasing. DJ spine is sunned.; 9.4 X 6.1 X 1.2 inches; 448 pages . 2001. 0415202728 . Routledge hardcover
2001ref. 35660Routledge. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Faint shelfwear and minor pencilling to book. DJ has light creasing along upper edge.; 9.4 X 6.1 X 1.2 inches; 448 pages . 2001. 0415202728 . Routledge hardcover
1900ref. 37053MacMillan Company. Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Original wraps remounted on boards with black pebbled spine. Some chipping and some browning to boards. Lower corner of rear board chipped off. Pages tanned. Scholar's name to ffep D. Gerber. Creasing through lower corner of pages.; Cornell Studies in Classical Philology Volume XII; 166 pages . 1900. MacMillan Company hardcover
2009ref. 37158University of Toronto Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Gift inscription from author to Bonnie MacLachlan on ffep. Else fine. DJ has very minor shelfwear.; The Robson Classical Lectures; 256 pages; Based on Elaine Fantham's 2004 Robson lectures Latin Poets and Italian Gods reconstructs the response of Roman poets in the late republic and Augustan age to the rural cults of central Italy. Study of Roman gods is often limited to the grand equivalents of the Olympian Greek deities such as Jupiter Mars and Juno. However real-life Italians gave a lot of their affection and loyalty to humbler gods with no Greek equivalent: local nymphs who supplied healing waters the great Tiber river and other lesser rivers the lusty garden god Priapus and more. Latin Poets and Italian Gods surveys the representation of these old country gods in poets from Plautus to Statius. Fantham offers historical and epigraphic evidence of worship offered to these colourful lesser spirits and reveals the emotional importance of local Italian deities to the sophisticated poets of the Augustan age.; Signed by Author . 2009. 1442640596 . University of Toronto Press hardcover
2003ref. 33458Cambridge University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Light edgewear along top edge of DJ. Very faint shelfwear to book else fine.; This book deals specifically with sixteenth-century depictions of the Olympian deities the twelve supreme deities of ancient Greece and Rome. As the Renaissance revived several aspects of antiquity some great works of art represented the Olympians in imitation of the classical style. These deities were rendered as autonomous figures in the form of representation adapted for depicting saints and Christian rulers. This form of depicting the Olympians or the pagan gods was not unanimously accepted by sixteenth-century viewers. The book highlights the problematic framework surrounding the creation display and acceptance of such thought-provoking works of art.; 9.7 X 7.2 X 1.0 inches; 318 pages . 2003. 0521815762 . Cambridge University Press hardcover
1968ref. 9375Adolf M. Hakkert. Very Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Scholar's name to ffep and stamp to half-title M. F. Fresco. Spine lightly sunned. Very light tanning to endpapers.; Purpose of this study is to inquire into the exact relation between the cult of Dionysus and the tragedies which were performed as part of this cult.; 358 pages . 1968. Adolf M. Hakkert hardcover
1981ref. 8675Carl Winter Universitätsverlag. Very Good. Softcover. Very light foxing to top of textblock.; Mannheimer Beiträge Zur Sprach- Und Literaturwissenschaft; 278 pages; Das kühne Bild eines griechischen Dichters des frühen vierten Jahrhunderts dient als Rahmen für eine Frage von drängender Aktualität. . 1981. 3533029743 . Carl Winter Universitätsverlag paperback
1981ref. 8809Carl Winter Universitätsverlag. Near Fine. Softcover. Very light shelfwear else Fine.; Mannheimer Beiträge Zur Sprach- Und Literaturwissenschaft; 278 pages; Das kühne Bild eines griechischen Dichters des frühen vierten Jahrhunderts dient als Rahmen für eine Frage von drängender Aktualität. . 1981. 3533029743 . Carl Winter Universitätsverlag paperback
1987ref. 12896Editions De L'Academie Bulgare Des Sciences. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. Hardcover. Gift inscription to titlepage from T. Ivanov to John Drinkwater on titlepage in pen. Light rubbing to boards. DJ has light edgewear with a few small tears and chipping.; Contents: Der Fortuna Tempel in der Colonia Ulpia Oescensium in Moesia inferior heute VR Bulgarien / Teofil Ivanov --Serdica au Ier-IVe s. De n. ÈRe àLa lumière des dernièRes recherches archéologiques / Magdalina StancEva --Fouilles d'un ensemble architectural à Kostinbrod / Violeta BozIlova --Certains aspects de l'urbanisation de Pautalia / Ljudmila Ruseva-Slokoska --L'ensemble du forum de Augusta Traiana-Beroe / Dimitar Nikolov --Importierte Terra sigillata aus Novae / Alexandra Dimitrova-MilcEva --Pottery lamps from Novae Lower Moesia / Maria Cicikova --Un atelier de Plastes imaginarius à Moetana / Ljuba Ognenova-Marinova --Bronzene Matrizen aus MöSien und Thrakien / Vasil P. Vasilev --Inschriften auf den Bronzenmatrizen aus Moesien und Thrakien / Vasilka Gerasimova-Tomova --Studies on the cult of Mithra in Lower Moesia and Thrace / VaRbinska Najdenova.; Academie Bulgare Des Sciences. Bulletin Del'institut D'Archeologie XXXVII; 200 pages; 200 p. 52 p. Of plates; Signed by Editor . 1987. Editions De L'Academie Bulgare Des Sciences hardcover
1951ref. 17843Payot. Very Good. First Edition. Paperback. Scholars' name to ffep Mark Golden. Initials in pen to titlepage. Browning to covers and pages. Some pages unopened.; Bibliothèque Historique; 510 pages . 1951. Payot paperback
2004ref. 36260Oxford University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Minor scuffing to rear board.; This is a substantially expanded and completely revised edition of a book originally published in 1988 as Maenads Martyrs Matrons Monastics. The book is a collection of translations of primary texts relevant to women's religion in Western antiquity from the fourth century BCE to the fifth century CE. The selections are taken from the plethora of ancient religions including Judaism and Christianity and are translated from the six major languages of the Greco-Roman world: Greek Latin Aramaic Hebrew Syriac and Coptic. The texts are grouped thematically in six sections: Observances Rituals and Festivals; Researching Real Women: Documents to from and by Women; Religious Office; New Religious Affiliation and Conversion; Holy Pious and Exemplary Women; and The Feminine Divine. Women's Religions in the Greco-Roman World provides a unique and invaluable resource for scholars of classical antiquity early Christianity and Judaism and women's religion more generally.; 520 pages . 2004. 0195170652 . Oxford University Press hardcover
1970ref. 11605Latomus. Near Fine. Softcover. Pages unopened. Very light creasing to wraps else fine.; En français.; Collection Latomus Volume 115; 138 pages . 1970. Latomus paperback
1972ref. 34477C. H. Beck. Very Good. Softcover. Minor scuffing to rear wrap. Creasing to 2 corners of wraps. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover Slater & Dunbabin.; Münchener Beiträge Zur Papyrusforschung Und Antiken Rechtsgeschichte. 2. Heft II. Teil; 2; 222 pages . 1972. 3406006027 . C. H. Beck paperback
1994ref. 34771University of Arizona Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Some Foxing to DJ flaps and textblock and boards. A bit of colour loss along top edge of boards.; This volume gathers diverse views of Apollo's origins and his far-reaching influences. It provides a fresh multifaceted portrait of Apollo through essays that explore such topics as the etymology of his name his association with religious cults and sacred groves his appearances in Greco-Roman literature and his iconography in the visual arts. Also included are bibliographies of ancient and modern sources.; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 190 pages . 1994. 0816513899 . University of Arizona Press hardcover
ref. 20596Valence, Jules Céas, 1890. Broché, titre en 2 couleurs illustré, petit manque de 1 cm au bas du dos. in-4 de 1 feuillet de faux-titre illustré et bibliographie de l'auteur, titre en 2 couleurs, 164 pages, bandeaux signés Mayeur, tirage limité à 300 exemplaires, envoi autographe, signé de l'auteur à l'historien dauphinois Ferdinand Gauduel.
1966ref. 1270391966 Editions Berget-Levrault - Collection "Mondes d'Outre-Mer", série "Nations" - 1er trimestre 1966, 1968 affiché au bas de la page de titre - In-8 broché, couverture illustrée - 271 pages - Avec 18 cartes et dessins et 68 photographies en N&B
ref. 116976Jérôme Millon Jérôme Millon, 3 volumes, 1986-1988-1990, 644-701-939 pp, brochés, environ 23x15cm. Quelques frottements d'usage sur les couvertures des tomes 1 et 2, traces de blanc sur la page de titre du tome 1, bon état pour le reste.
1996ref. 061804Cambridge University Press 1996. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Owner name on fly otherwise clean tight copy in mylar-protected dust jacket. 369pp. Cambridge University Press Hardcover
1989ref. 065372Robert Hale Ltd 1989. Book. Good. Hardcover. This is an ex-library copy in library purple cloth binding. Library markings limited to stamps on fly and removed pockets from endpapers text clean dust jacket in new mylar. 220pp. Robert Hale Ltd Hardcover
2008ref. 065869Mirage Publishing 2008. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 166pp. Moderate corner bumps. Mirage Publishing Paperback
1987ref. 066273Fiinbarr International 1987. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 116pp. Original 1987 Finbarr publication. Fiinbarr International Paperback
1976ref. 062199Parker 1976. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 17th printing. Dust jacket in protective mylar. 203pp with uniform age toning. Parker Hardcover
2000ref. 029632Oxford Univ Pr on Demand 2000. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Attractive copy in mylar-protected dust jacket. 486pp. Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Hardcover
1999ref. 024803Oxford Univ Pr on Demand 1999. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Attractive copy in mylar-protected dust jacket. 486pp. Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Hardcover
