AN ECLECTIC LIBRARY.

Classical Pagan Religions.

☛See also the page on Roman-Era Christianity, in which some interesting books on the collision of paganism and Christianity will be found.

Initiation into the Mysteries of the Ancient World. By Jan N. Bremmer. Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2014. —The book is published under a Creative Commons license, so the whole very valuable text is freely available.

The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, in XVII Books. Translated formerly out of the Arabick into Greek, and thence into Latine, and Dutch, and now out of the original into English; by that Learned Divine Doctor Everard. London: Robert White, 1650.

Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus, lately existing at Isernia, in the Kingdom of Naples: In two letters. To which is added, A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus, and its Connexion with the mystic Theology of the Ancients. By R. P. Knight. London: T. Spillsbury, 1786.
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Recherches sur le culte de Bacchus, symbole de la force reproductive de la nature, considéré sous ses rapports généraux dans les mystères d’Éleusis, et sous ses rapports particuliers dans les Dionysiaques et les Triétériques. Par P. N. Rolle. Paris: J. S. Merlin, 1824.

Tome premier.

Tome second.

Du Polythéisme romain, considéré dams ses rapports avec la philosophie grecque et la religion chrétienne; ouvrage posthume de Benjamin Constant. Paris, Chez Béchet Ainé, 1833.

Vol. I.

Vol. II.

Histoire du culte des divinités d’Alexandrie — Sérapis, Isis, Harpocrate et Anubis — hors de l’Égypte depuis les originies jusqu’à la naissance de l’école Néo-Platonicienne. Par Georges Lafaye. Paris: Ernest Thorin, 1884.

The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries. A dissertation. By Thomas Taylor. Edited, with introduction, notes, emendations, and glossary, by Alexander Wilder. With 85 illustrations by A. L. Rawson. Fourth edition. New-York: J. W. Bouton, 1891.

Gaston Boissier.

☛A French scholar whose books on Rome of the imperial period were often translated into English. The following, which we have not found in translation, are particularly relevant to this category.

La Fin du paganisme. Étude sur les dernières luttes religieuses en occident au quatrième siècle. Par Gaston Boissier. Paris: Librairie Hachette et C^ie, 1891.

Tome premier.
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Tome second.
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La Réligion romaine d’Auguste aux Antonins, Par Gaston Boissier. Quatrième édition. Paris : Librairie Hachette et C^ie, 1892.

Tome premier

Tome second

The Mysteries, Pagan and Christian. Being the Hulsean Lectures for 1896–97. By S. Cheetham. London: Macmillan and Co., 1897.

Greek Votive Offerings. An essay in the history of Greek religion. By William Henry Denham Rouse. Cambridge, 1902.

Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion. By Jane Ellen Harrison. Second edition. Cambridge, 1908. —A fat and very useful volume.

Essai sur la diffusion du Manichéisme dans l’empire romain. Par Em. de Stoop. Gand: Librairie Scientifique E. Van Goethem, 1909.

Franz Cumont

Les Mystères de Mithra. Par Franz Cumont. Troisième édition. Bruxelles: H. Lamertin, 1913.
The Mysteries of Mithra. By Franz Cumont. Translated from the Second Revised French Edition by Thomas J. McCormack. Chicago: Open Court, 1903.
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Les Religions orientales dans le paganisme romain. Conférence faites au Collège de France en 1905. Par Franz Cumont. Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1906.
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism. By Franz Cumont. With an introductory essay by Grant Showerman. Chicago: Open Court, 1911.

After Life in Roman Paganism: Lectures delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation. By Franz Cumont. New Haven: Yale, 1922.

St. Paul and the Mystery Religions. By John Franklin Troupe. Boston: Gorham Press, 1917.

The Mystery Religions and the New Testament. By Henry Clay Sheldon. New York and Cincinnati: The Abingdon Press, 1918.

Classical Mythology.

Often these books will say as much about the age in which they were published as they say about the classical gods.

Historia Deorum Fatidicorum, Vatum Sybillarum, Phoebadum, apud Priscos Illustrium : cum eorum iconibus. Praeposita est Disertatio de Divinatione & Oraculis. Francofurti, Sumptibus Ludovicj Bourgea, 1680. —Many engravings.

Iconologia deorum, oder Abbildung der Götter, welche von den alten verehret Worden ; ais dem Welt-berümtesten Antichen der Griechischen und Römischen Statuen, auch in Marmel, Porfido-Stein, Metall, Agat, Onyx, Sardonich und andren Edelsteinen befindlichen Bildereyen, sorgfältig abgesehen, samt dero eigentlicher Beschreibung und Erklärung der Heidnischen Tempel-Ceremonien, auch Vorbildung der thiere und anderer Sachen, die auf hieroglyphische und emblematische Art, nach Weise der Egyptischen Schrifften, schicklich können vorgebracht und auf einen gewissen Verstand gerichtet werden ; deme allem vorgefügt ist, des durchleuchtigen Palm-Ordens der Hochlöbl. fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft auf dem Parnass aufgestellter ehren-Tempel: Durch Joachim von Sandart auf Stockau. Nürnberg, Christian Siegmund Froberger, 1680. —Gorgeous engravings of the Greek and Roman deities, mostly up to no good as usual.
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