Author: CUMONT, FRANZ
Title: ORIENTAL RELIGIONS IN ROMAN PAGANISM.
Description: New York, Dover Publications, 1956. 1st edition. Paperback, 20cmx13,5cm, Good condition /Cover illustrated, This Dover edition is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the first English translation of 'Les religions dans le paganisme romain', as originally published in 1911 by G. Routledge & Sons. Contents: Introduction: Grant Showerman: The sinificance of Franz Cumont's work. Prefaces to the first and the second edition. I). Rome and the Orient. II). Why the Oriental religions spread. III). Asia minor. IV). Egypt. V). Syria. VI). Persia. VII). Astrology and magic. VIII). The transformation of Roman paganism. With 55 pag. notes and index. Franz-Valéry-Marie Cumont (1868 - 1947) was a Belgian archaeologist and historian, a philologist and student of epigraphy, who brought these often isolated specialties to bear on the syncretic mystery religions of Late Antiquity, notably Mithraism. XXIV + 298 pag.

Keywords: italia showeman phrygia serapis isis osiris mithra sabazios isthar astarte hermes trismegistos


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