Studies of the Gods in Greece at Certain Sanctuaries Recently Excavated
by Louis Dyer
Publisher: MacMillan 1891
ISBN/ASIN: 1402193327
Number of pages: 491
Description:
Eight lectures given in 1890 at the Lowell Institute. Contents: introduction; Demeter at Eleusis and Cnidus; Dionysus in Thrace and Old Attica; Dionysus at Athens; gods at Eleusis; Aesculapius at Epidaurus and Athens; Aphrodite at Paphos; Apollo at Delos.
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