An edition of The Syrian Goddess (1913)

The Syrian goddess

being a translation of Lucian's De dea Syria, with a life of Lucian by Herbert A. Strong. Edited with notes and an introd. by John Garstang.

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today



Download Options

Buy this book

Last edited by Open Library Bot
April 14, 2010 | History
An edition of The Syrian Goddess (1913)

The Syrian goddess

being a translation of Lucian's De dea Syria, with a life of Lucian by Herbert A. Strong. Edited with notes and an introd. by John Garstang.

De Dea Syria (Greek: Περὶ τῆς Συρίης Θεοῦ, "Concerning the Syrian Goddess") is the conventional Latin title of a Greek treatise of the 2nd century AD, which describes religious cults practiced at the temple of Hierapolis Bambyce, now Manbij, in Syria. The work is written in a Herodotean-style of Ionic Greek, and has been traditionally ascribed to the Hellenized Syrian essayist Lucian of Samosata.

De Dea Syria describes the worship as being of a phallic character, with votaries offering little male figures of wood and bronze. There were also huge phalli set up like obelisks before the temple, which were ceremoniously climbed once a year and decorated. The treatise begins with a re-telling of the Atrahasis flood myth where floodwaters are drained through a small cleft in the rock under the temple.[2]

Publish Date
Publisher
Constable

Buy this book

Previews available in: English

Book Details


Edition Notes

Published in
London

Classifications

Library of Congress
PA4231 D37 G3

The Physical Object

Pagination
110p.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7111048M
Internet Archive
syriangoddessbei00luciuoft

Source records

Internet Archive item record

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON / OPDS | Wikipedia citation
April 14, 2010 Edited by Open Library Bot Linked existing covers to the edition.
October 19, 2009 Edited by WorkBot add edition to work page
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Imported from Internet Archive item record