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Ancient world 20rm12Rogers, Guy MacLean. The mysteries of Artemis of Ephesos: cult, polis, and change in the Graeco-Roman world. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012, xii, 500p, bib, index, illus, maps. Like new copy in dust jacket. Hardcover. $25.00 Box 8 Contents: Continuity in change -- Funeral games -- Mysteries and sacrifices -- Mystic sacrifices -- Kouretes eusebeis -- Kouretes eusebeis… Saber más sobre este artículo

Ancient World 1453 Romilly, Jacqueline de. Magic and rhetoric in ancient Greece. (The Carl Newell Jackson Lectures, 1974). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975, v, 108 pages, notes, index. Very good copy in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has few light smudges. A very uncommon book in the first edition. $55.00 Contents: Gorgias and Magic; Plato and… Saber más sobre este artículo

Ancient world 1284Tavenner, Eugene, 1878- Studies in magic from Latin literature. New York: AMS Press, 1966, x, 155p, indexes. Reprint of the Columbia University Press, 1916 edition. Very good, bright, clean copy, no marks. $20.

Ancient world 1097Reitzenstein. Richard. Die hellenistischen Mysterien-religionen, Nach ihre Grundgedanken und Wirkungen. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1956 (1927), 438p, 2 plates, index. Photo reprint of the 1927 third edition. (First edition of 1910 had 222 pages.) Some flaking to label on spine, top paper edge little dusty, else good to very good copy, clean and tight, no marks. $85.00

Ancient world 815Laeuchli, Samuel. Mithraism in Ostia; mystery religion and Christianity in the ancient port of Rome [by] Dennis Groh [and others] Edited by Samuel Laeuchli. With a preface by Giovanni Becatti. [Evanston, Ill.] Northwestern University Press [1967], xii, 116 p. illus., map. Spine is dull with some of the lettering worn off, good, clean, tight copy, no marks. $20.00

RL 1280 Willoughby, W. C. (William Charles), 1857-1938. The soul of the Bantu; a sympathetic study of the magico-religious practices and beliefs of the Bantu tribes of Africa. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928, xxvi, 476 pages, index, bibliography. Has a few minor smudges on bottom of spine (ink?), a handsome copy else. $60.00