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New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. First Edition. 8vo. Orange cloth covered boards. Spine stamped in metallic blue. 154 pp. Previous owner's name at bottom of free front endpaper. Book is fine./Jacket has one small closed tear at top of front panel. Overall jacket is very good to fine.. Drawings and photo illustrations of ancient artifacts.. The ancient Roman "mystery religion" of Mithraism -- one of the major competitors of early Christianity -- has captured the imaginations of generations of scholars, while frustrating all attempts to penetrate the veil of strict secrecy with which the cult's members surrounded their doctrines and practices. The cult's secret teachings were never recorded in writing. However, the Mithraists filled their temples with a strange and elaborate iconography, an abundance of which has been unearthed by archaeologists. . . . .This book presents a new explanation of one of the most fascinating religious phenomena of antiquity. It will interest students of ancient… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. Stated First Edition. Grey paper covered boards. Black cloth spine. Stamped in silver. Tight, clean, no markings; very good to fine condition./Dust jacket shows light edgewear. One inch and a half closed tear from top edge down the back joint of jacket.. A retelling of the myth of Chiron, the noblest and the wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded and yet unable to die, gave u[p his immortality on behalf of Prometheus. In the retelling, Olympus becomes Olinger High School, Chiron a teacher of general science there, and Prometheus, his fifteen-year-old son.