On the Syrian goddess

by Lucian,, of Samosata

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Title Statements

Full title :On the Syrian goddess / Lucian ; edited with introduction, translation, and commentary by J.L. Lightfoot.

Summary

"This is the first edition of and full-length commentary on On the Syrian Goddess, an ionic ethnography of the Holy City of Hierapolis in northern Syria, where the Syrian goddess, Atargatis was worshipped. This treatise is one of the most important literary sources for a religion of the Roman Near East in its native setting. Traditionally ascribed to Lucian of Samosata, the work has often been viewed as satire. Lightfoot argues for a much subtler reading, for the first time combining a literary and philological approach with the evidence of archaeology to set this complex treatise in the fullest possible context. The result bears on the religious culture of Roman Syria; on the genre of Herodotean ethnography and its revival and reception in the Second Sophistic; and on Lucian of Samosata himself. The edition is based on a collation of all existing manuscripts and an English translation is provided."--BOOK JACKET.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2003.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2003.

The Physical Object

Description:xx, 606 pages : : illustrations, map ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:019925138X, 9780199251384
oclc:ocm50116282
LC Classification:BL1060
Dewey Decimal:299/.275691

Subjects

Cultes -- Syrie Cultos (história) -- Síria Cults Cults -- Syria De dea Syria (Lucian, of Samosata) Hierapolis (Syria : Extinct city) -- Re… Hiérapolis (Syrie : Ville ancienne) -- … Hierapolis (Turkey : Extinct city) -- S… Lucian,, of Samosata Religião (história) -- Síria RELIGION Syria -- Hierapolis (Extinct city)