Author: NILSSON, MARTIN P[ERSSON]
Title: The Minoan-Mycenaean Religion and Its Survival in Greek Religion
Description: Lund, Denmark: C.W.K. Gleerup, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. "Martin P. Nilsson is perhaps the greatest of all modern scholars in the field of Greek religion, though his influence extends into many other areas of classical scholarship. No other modern Scandinavian classicist has done more to promote the study of Greco-Roman antiquity." - Jørgen Mejer. "Nilsson (1874–1967) was a Swedish philologist, mythographer, and a scholar of the Greek, Hellenistic and Roman religious systems. In his studies he combined literary evidence with archaeological evidence, linking historic and prehistoric evidence for the evolution of the Greek mythological cycles." - Wikipedia. pp [vii]-xxiii, [1], 582, [4 tissue-protected plates]. Includes 113 figures in the text. Moderate wear to publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt upon backstrip. Former library copy bearing only two internal related markings. Binding intact. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. A sound copy of the rare first edition of this comprehensive study. ; Sm 4to. Good .

Keywords: Minoan Mycenaean History