AUGE, MarcLivre Rare Book
Génie du paganisme
19901259251990 Editions Galliamrd / NRF, collection "Bibliothèque des Sciences Humaines" - 1990 - In-8 broché - 336 pages
Librairie Le Père Pénard · Lyon, France28,00 €
773 résultats
v + 127 + iii pp., br.orig., 19cm.
Originally published in 1912. Contents: The Amazons in Greek Legend; The Great Mother; Ephesian Artemis; Artemis Astrateia and Apollo Amazonius; Ares; conclusion; Bibliography ; 84 pages
Scholar's blindstamp to ffep and bookplate to inner cover (Robert Brown). Staining to top of spine. Some tears to wraps especially at base of spine. Some creasing to wraps. Light pencil marginalia. ; Les Grands Penseurs; 348 pages
General shelfwear. ; Thesis in Dutch. ; 293 pages
Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Reprint of 1911. Chapters Include: Rome and the Etruscans; Rome and Greece: The Religion Of Superstition And The Decline Of Faith; Religion Of The Early Empire; Constantine And Christianity; Julian called the Apostate: Twilight of the Gods; Augustine And The City Of God; Benedict And The Ostrogoths; Gregory And The Lombards: The Preparation For The Holy Roman Empire. ; 270 pages
Foxing to top of textblock. ; Rich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne's landmark book recasts long-standing ideas about the fertility myth of Adonis. The author challenges Sir James Frazer's thesis that the vegetation god Adonis-- whose premature death was mourned by women and whose resurrection marked a joyous occasion--represented the annual cycle of growth and decay in agriculture. Using the analytic tools of structuralism, Detienne shows instead that the festivals of Adonis depict a seductive but impotent and fruitless deity--whose physical ineptitude led to his death in a boar hunt, after which his body was found in a lettuce patch. Contrasting the festivals of Adonis with the solemn ones dedicated to Demeter, the goddess of grain, he reveals the former as a parody and negation of the institution of marriage. Detienne considers the short-lived gardens that Athenian women planted in mockery for Adonis's festival, and explores the function of such vegetal matter as spices, mint, myrrh, cereal, and wet plants in religious practice and in a wide selection of myths. His inquiry exposes, among many things, attitudes toward sexual activities ranging from "perverse" acts to marital relations. ; Mythos: the Princeton/ Bollingen Series in World Mythology; 256 pages
Very light shelfwear. ; The first book to capture a complete picture of the most important of Greek gods in one reliable volume for almost seventy years, this masterly and comprehensive study brings a new-millennium examination of the fascinating god Zeus. Broad in scope, the book looks at myth, art, cult, philosophy, drama, theology and European painting amongst much more, and allows us to take seriously what it was to worship and respect the greatest of Greek gods, and to live through the aftershock of the Middle Ages and modern times. Showing the evidence along the way, Zeus is student-friendly and includes: a range of illustrations and maps translated passages from ancient authors a chronology and excellent indexing. Looking at the ancient Greeks their predecessor and their successors – the Romans and beyond – the book is engagingly written and speaks to a modern audience: this is Zeus from our remote ancestors to Wagner, and into the computer age. ; Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World; 192 pages
Very light shelfwear else fine; Vol. 2; 1.5 x 8.9 x 5.98 Inches; 424 pages; Early Greek Myth is a much-needed handbook for scholars and others interested in the literary and artistic sources of archaic Greek myths -- and the only one of its kind available in English. Timothy Gantz traces the development of each myth in narrative form and summarizes the written and visual evidence in which the specific details of the story appear.
New Persian Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Persian, with a bilingual title in English and Persian on cover. [xi], 291 p., ills., maps. Short history of ancient and primitive religions.= Târîkh-i adyân-i ibtidâ'î va qadîm.
Scholars' bookplate to inner cover (Slater & Dunbabin). Foxing to textblock. Some foxing. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1918 ed. ; 8.5 X 5.8 X 0.4 inches; 136 pages
Scholars' bookplate to inner cover (Slater & Dunbabin). Foxing to textblock. Some foxing. ; 8.4 X 5.8 X 0.2 inches; 83 pages
Book is fine. DJ has minor edgewear. ; In private and in public life, the ancient Greeks danced to express divine adoration and human festivity. They danced at feasts and choral competitions, at weddings and funerals, in observance of the cycles of both nature and human existence. Formal and informal dances marked the rhythms of life and death. In Dance and Ritual Play in Greek Religion, Steven Lonsdale looks at how the Greeks themselves regarded the act of dance, and how dance and related forms of ritual play in Greek religious festivals served a wide variety of functions in Greek society. The act of worship, he explains, often implied engaging in collective rites regulated by playful behavior, the most common forms of which were group hymns and choral dances. ; Ancient Society and History; 384 pages
Foxing to top of textblock. Scholar's name in pencil to ffep (Goold). ; This book applies some of the procedures of modern critical theory to the interpretation of Latin poetry. The author argues for an approach that sees the meaning of a text as always and necessarily involved in the process of "reception," that is the way it has been read and interpreted from the time of its composition down to the present day. A study of its reception-history facilitates novel and more profitable ways of reading. He illustrates his approach with exemplary readings of Virgil, Ovid, Horace and Lucan. ; Roman Literature And Its Contexts; 8.1 X 5.3 X 0.6 inches; 135 pages
Very Good French Paperback. Some markings and underlined sentences on text. Large Roy. 8vo. 19 p. In French. Influence du Chamanisme Turco-Mongol sur les ordres mystiques Musulmans.
Very Good French Paperback. Large Roy. 8vo. (25 x 18 cm). In French. 19 p. Influence of Turco-Mongol Shamanism on Muslim mystical orders.
New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. In publisher's special box. 4to. (28 x 24 cm). Color and b/w ills. 152, [10] p. Metropolis: Ana Tanriça kenti.
New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. In publisher's special box. 4to. (28 x 24 cm). Color and b/w ills. 152, [10] p. Metropolis: Ana Tanriça kenti.
Very light shelfwear. ; 350 pages; The gods were the true heroes of Rome. In this major new contribution to our understanding of ancient history, Jörg Rüpke guides the reader through the fascinating world of Roman religion, describing its unique characteristics and bringing its peculiarities into stark relief. Rüpke gives a thorough and engaging account of the multiplicity of cults worshipped by peasant and aristocrat alike, the many varied rites and rituals daily observed, and the sacrifices and offerings regularly brought to these immortals by the population of Ancient Rome and its imperial colonies.
Light pencilling. Title written to spine in black marker. ; 70 pages
Very minor shelfwear else fine. ; Contents: Pliny and the Panegyricus in Scholarly Context; The Senatorial Perspective in the Panegyricus; The Relationship between the Emperor and the Gods in the Panegyricus; Other Images of the Relationship between Trajan and the Gods. ; Harvard Dissertations in Religion 28; 164 pages
DJ has edgewear to extremities. DJ has 2 closed tears (1 cm). ; Wisconsin Studies in Classics; 122 pages; The festivals of the Athenian sacred calendar constitute a vital key to classical Greek culture and religion. Erika Simon sets out here to explicate those complex and often obscure festivals. By careful marshaling of a variety of proofs from literary, historical, and archaeological sources, she is able to justify some startling conclusions and achieve a comprehensive and truly original synthesis that clarifies, as never before, the probable origins and meanings of the Attic cults.
Scholar's name to half-title. Very faint discoloration to wraps. Very light shelfwear. ; Histoire; 430 pages
Textblock cracked between pp 144-145. Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. ; 238 pages; The Myth of Orpheus, shaman and teacher, musician and lover, is the subject of this study. Contents: Orpheus of Virgil and Ovid: flebile nescio quid. W. S. Anderson; Songs of Orpheus and the New song of Christ (Eleanor Irwin) ; Sparagmos: Orpheus among the Chrisitians (Patricia Vicari) ; Orpheus and Ficino (Warden) ; Myth of Orpheus in Italian Renaissance Art, 1400-1600 (Scavizzi) ; Orfeo and Euridice, the first two operas (Timothy J. McGee) ; Orpheus and the Devil in Calderon's El Divino Orfeo c. 1634 (Pedro Leon) ; Triumph of Art, of Death: Orpheus in Spenser and Milton (Vicari).
Heavily foxed in places. Spine and parts of wraps are sunned and browned. Some minor creasing to spine. Light bump to base of spine. ; Inaugural - Dissertation; 172 pages
19901259251990 Editions Galliamrd / NRF, collection "Bibliothèque des Sciences Humaines" - 1990 - In-8 broché - 336 pages