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Description
CRETAN CULTS AND FESTIVALS
Book Details + Condition: Routledge and Kegan Paul (London). First Edition, 1962. Hardcover with dust jacket. 323 pages with Bibliography and Index. Comprehensive academic survey of the cults and festivals of the ancient civilization. Crete's religious and ceremonial traditions are explored, against the island's political and economic backdrop, with particular attention given to the social needs which the cults and the festivals were intended to satisfy or represent. Chapters include:
- Past Legacies
- Principal Economic and Social Developments
- Initiation Practices and Other Mainland Links with Crete.
Minoan- Mycenaean Cults
- Homer on Crete
Transition and Continuity
- The Cretan Goddesses
- The Birth and Death of a God
- Asklepios
Cretan Olympos
- Zeus, Hera, Apollo, Artemis and Athene
- Cretan Kosmos
- Religion and Law
- The Role of Polis
- Poetry and Music
In very good condition, with firm binding; lightly bumped corner; bookplate to inside front board; 3 pages with minimal yellow highlighting. Dust jacket remains in very good condition, with normal light aging; it is now protected with a mylar cover. All books are carefully packed, and shipped in boxes.
