Item #67876 Asklepios: Archetypal Image of the Physician's Existence [ Bollingen series LXV - Volume 3 ]. C. KERÉNYI, Ralph Manheim, Karl Carl, Károly KERÉNYI.

Asklepios: Archetypal Image of the Physician's Existence [ Bollingen series LXV - Volume 3 ].

New York: Pantheon Books for Bollingen Foundation, 1959. First English language edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. xxviii+ 151pp; Brown cloth spine with gilt titling over cream cloth boards with publisher's device in gilt, fifty-eight b&w illustrations, end-notes, list of works cited, index. The first English language edition of this exploration of the sacred sites of the cult of Asklepios (Aesculapius) from which the author branches out into a study of the archetypal significance of "the Divine physician" and the position of the physician in ancient Greek myth and society. Károly Kerényi (1897 – 1973) was a Hungarian scholar in classical philology and a pioneer of the application of psychology to the study of Greek myth. Just a hint of shelf wear, page edges darkened, a little toning to the margins, otherwise a tight, bright and unmarked VG+ copy in better-than VG dust jacket (Dust jacket is a bit rubbed overall, a few small abrasions to upper panel and some light chipping to spine ends, edges and folds, clipped. Now protected in mylar cover). Item #67876

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