Item #66251 The Asiatic Dionysos. Dionysos, Gladys M. N. DAVIS.
The Asiatic Dionysos.

The Asiatic Dionysos.

London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 276pp. Original maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine, bibliography, index. A scholarly study of the origins of the Dionysiac cult by Gladys M. N. Davis, a classical scholar of the Royal University of Ireland. Chapters include: The Dionysiac Cult; Hellas and Mede; Asiatic Influence on Greek Philosophy; Asianism in the Greek Historians and Orators; Asianism in Greek Art and Music; The Dithyramb; Soma and Dionysos; Dionysos Bromios and Soma Kanikradat; The Orphic Dionysos; Osiris; Bibliography, Index. Cloth a bit rubbed with some minor flecking, spine sunned, corners and spine ends bumped and chafed, crease to upper half of rear board with corresponding creasing to cloth and rear pastedown, page edges and endpapers unevenly browned, a bit of scattered foxing and browning but text otherwise clean and unmarked. Overall a tight, clean near VG copy (no dust jacket). Item #66251

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