Item #68749 Pagan Priests. Religion and Power in the Ancient World. Pagan Priests, Mary BEARD, John North.

Pagan Priests. Religion and Power in the Ancient World.

Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 1990. First US Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xii + 266pp. Original black cloth gilt-lettered on spine. Illustrations, tables & maps. Bibliography & index. A collection of nine essays exploring "the various functions and activities of priestly officials in Mediterranean and Near Eastern societies - Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and Rome - in the two thousand years before the rise of Christianity" by well-known British scholars Mary Beard, John North and others. Contents are: Priesthood in the Roman republic by Mary Beard; Diviners and Divination at Rome by John North; Priests and Power in Classical Athens by Robert Garland; The High Priests of Memphis under Ptolemaic Rule by Dorothy J. Thompson; Nabonidus and the Babylonian Priesthood by Amélie Kuhrt; Cult-personnel in the Linear B Texts from Pylos by James Hooker; From Republic to Principate: Priesthood, Religion, and Ideology by Richard Gordon; The veil of power: emperors, Sacrificers and Benefactors by Richard Gordon; Religion in the Roman Empire: the civic compromise and its limits, by Richard Gordon. Light bruise to upper corners of boards, otherwise appears as new. A tight, clean near-Fine copy in near-Fine mylar protected dust jacket. Item #68749
ISBN: 0801424011

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