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Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). 2 corners lightly bumped and along upper edge of front board. ; Xii, 354pp. ; 272 pages
DJ spine sunned. ; We often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality and order. Yet as Walter Burkert demonstrates in these influential essays on the history of Greek religion, there were archaic, savage forces surging beneath the outwardly calm face of classical Greece, whose potentially violent and destructive energies, Burkert argues, were harnessed to constructive ends through the interlinked uses of myth and ritual. For example, in a much-cited essay on the Athenian religious festival of the Arrephoria, Burkert uncovers deep connections between this strange nocturnal ritual, in which two virgin girls carried sacred offerings into a cave and later returned with something given to them there, and tribal puberty initiations by linking the festival with the myth of the daughters of Kekrops. Other chapters explore the origins of tragedy in blood sacrifice; the role of myth in the ritual of the new fire on Lemnos; the ties between violence, the Athenian courts, and the annual purification of the divine image; and how failed political propaganda entered the realm of myth at the time of the Persian Wars. ; 0.63 x 9.32 x 6.3 Inches; 152 pages
Faint creasing to wraps. Minor shelfwear. ; Heavy book ; 302 pages
Very faint dustsoiling to top of textblock. Else book is fine. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; In Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society, Margo Kitts focuses on oath-making narratives found in the Iliad through which she articulates a theory of ritualized violence. She analyzes ritual paradigms, metaphors, fictions, and poetic registers as oath-making principles, which she then traces through Homeric references and texts from the ancient New East. Discussing ritual features that are common to acts of religious violence throughout the world, Kitts makes use of the theory of ritual performance as communication. ; 258 pages
New English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 136 p., ills. Samanlar ve semboller. Kaya resmi ve göstergebilim. Shamans and symbols: Rock pictures and semiology.
New English Paperback. Pbo. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 272 p. Saman gözü: Yaratanin teni dogadir. A study on shamanic rituals.
Complet en 2 tomes: vii,404 + 383 [ii] pp., 23cm., br.orig., tome 2 non coupé, rousseurs, bon état, R77338
Sections of wraps and spine are sunned and a little discolored. Small tear to top of spine (2 cm). Faint creasing to wraps. ; Xii, 145 p. , 75 p. Of plates; Istituto Universitario Orientale. Annali. Sezione Di Archeologia E Storia Antica. N. 3.; 145 pages
Gift inscription from Grottanelli to ffep to scholar. Back endpaper is torn along foreedge and creased (likely closed improperly) else Fine. DJ has chipping with a few small tears and rubbing. ; Collezione Storica; 307 pages; Signed by One Author
Minor edgewear. Slight yellowing to wraps. ; Alternate ISBN: 2728301107. ; Images à L'Appui, 1; 212 pages
Minor spotting to endpapers and on a couple of pages. Light bumping to top of spine. Foxing to spine. ; Wege Der Forschung 372 (CCCLXXII) ; 556 pages
Very light staining to edges of boards. Minor shelfwear to book. Dustjacket has edgewear with chipping and tears. DJ is browned with some waterstaining. ; Handbuch Der Altertumswissenschaft V. Abt. 4. Teil; 445 pages
Former owner's bookplate and name on ffep. Book has light shelfwear. DJ has edgewear with light chipping. Light browning to DJ spine. ; Handbuch Der Altertumswissenschaft V. Abt. 4. Teil; 445 pages
64pp, illustrated.; Vol. 20; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 64 pages
Scholar's bookplate to ffep (Philippa Goold). DJ spine a bit sunned. ; 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
Book has very light shelfwear. Dustjacket has light shelfwear. DJ spine a bit sunned. ; 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
Book has very light shelfwear. ; 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
Scholar's name to ffep in pencil (R. G. M. Nisbet). Small faint stain to textblock. Light shelfwear. Light pencil markings to margins of a few pages. DJ has a few tears, chipping and rubbing. ; 347 pages
Bumping to upper corners. Faint bump to head of spine. DJ is present but missing rear panel. DJ is in poor condition. Scholar's name to ffep (G. M. Paul). ; Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology XXXIII; 112 pages
Faint staining to lower section of front inner cover and small stain (1cm) to first 2 pages. Staining to lower section of DJ (the reverse section cannot be seen unless DJ is removed). Small scratches to rear panel of DJ. ; Routledge Classical Monographs; 288 pages; Valerius Maximus was an indefatigable collector of historical anecdotes illustrating vice and virtue. His Memorable Deeds and Sayings are unparalleled as a source for the opinions of Romans in the early empire on a vast range of subjects. Mueller focuses on what Valerius can tell us about contemporary Roman attitudes to religion, attacking several orthodoxies along the way. He argues that Roman religion could be deeply emotional. That it was possible to believe passionately in the divinity of the emperor - even when, like Tiberius, he was still alive - and that Rome's gods and religious rituals had an important role in fostering conventional morality. The study further explores elements of ancient rhetoric, Roman historiography, and Tiberian Rome. The fact that Valerius was a contemporary of Jesus means his work is also valuable in reflecting the attitudes and beliefs of the ruling class to which Christ and his followers were politically subject, and which formed the background to the growth and persecution of Christianity.
Gift inscription from author to R. E. Fantham on ffep. Top corners lightly bumped. Minor shelfwear to book. Scuffing and light scratches to DJ. Damp-staining and rippling to lower edges of DJ. Light edgewear to DJ. ; 348 pages; The sanctuary dedicated to Diana at Aricia flourished from the Bronze age to the second century CE. From its archaic beginnings in the wooded crater beside the lake known as the 'mirror of Dianea' it grew into a grand Hellenistic-style complex that attracted crowds of pilgrims and the sick. Diana was also believed to confer power on leaders. This 2007 book examines the history of Diana's cult and healing sanctuary, which remained a significant and wealthy religious center for more than a thousand years. It sheds light on Diana herself, on the use of rational as well as ritual healing in the sanctuary, on the subtle distinctions between Latin religious sensibility and the more austere Roman practice, and on the interpenetration of cult and politics in Latin and Roman history.; Signed by Author
Scholar's small bookplate to ffep (R. E. Fantham). DJ has edgewear with creasing along top edge. ; Perhaps no country has ever received a larger stimulus from its myths and legends than ancient Rome. The myths first inventors are still unidentifiable and faceless but we can identify the successive stages in the evolution of these stories in a way that is possible for no other mythology. ; 293 pages
Light foxing to endpapers. Minor shelfwear. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1914 edition. ; Select Biobiographies Reprint Series; 167 pages
Endpapers have some browning. Pages a little tanned. 2 corners bumped hard. Fraying and chipping to spine ends. Spine a little sunned. Boards have rubbing in places. ; Contents: The Latin history of the word religio --The original meaning of the word sacer --Mundus patet --The oak and the thunder-god --The religious meaning of the toga praetexta of Roman children --Was the flaminica dialis priestess of Juno? --The origin of the lar familiaris --Fortuna primigenia --Passing under the yoke --Note on privately dedicated Roman altars --The pontifices and the feriae : the law of rest-days --On the date of the Rhetorica ad Herennium --The Lex frumentaria of Gaius Gracchus --The Carmen saeculare of Horace and its first performance --On the Laudatio turiae and its additional fragments --An unnoticed trait in the character of Julius Caesar --Ancient Italy and modern Borneo --Parallela quaedam : The plague of locusts in 125 and a modern parallel, plagues of field-voles in ancient and modern times, 'armati terram exercent' and a modern parallel, the disappearance of the earliest Latin poetry and a modern parallel, Roman leges datae and English enclosure awards --Vergiliana : the swans in Aen. I.390ff, the harbour in iii. 533-6, note on Dido and Aeneas, Aen. V. 5-6, on the word nefas in v. 197, notes on Aen. Ix, x and xi --Notes on Horace Odes iii. 1-6 --Berthold Georg Niebuhr : a sketch --Theodor Mommsen : his life and works --The tragic element in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. ; 290 pages
Hard Creasing to front wrap. Spine a bit sunned. Scholars' bookplate to ffep (Slater & Dunbabin). ; 320 pages; In his study of the Greek cults of the Roman emperor in Asia minor, Simon Price attempts to discover why the Roman Emperor was treated like a god. He contends that ever since the emergence of Christianity within the Roman Empire the problem has been misinterpreted; a Christianizing distinction between religion and politics has led to the cult being considered simply as a form of political honours. Drawing on anthropology as well as numismatics and archaeology, literary sources and inscriptions, Dr Price offers a fundamentally different perspective. He examines how the Greek cults of the Roman Emperor located the Emperor with their subjection to the external power of Rome. The book falls into two major parts. The first analyses the historical, social and cultural contexts of the Imperial cult, showing that the cult was deeply rooted in the Greek cities. The second focusses on the evocations of the rituals of temples, images and sacrifices. It casts light on the architechural development of Greek Cities, on cult statues in the ancient world and on the vitality and flexibility of the Greek religious system. In his concluding chapter the author draws out some of the general implications of the book; comparative material from Africa and Cambodia help our understanding of the relationship between religious ritual and political power. This book, which assumes no knowledge of Latin or Greek, will appeal to students and teachers of ancient history and archaeology. It will also attract anthropologists, historians and others interested in the interpretation of rituals and in the history of early Christianity.