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Cumont, Franz. After Life in Roman Paganism: Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923)
Octavo. xv, [1], 224, [2] pages. Hardcover. Bound in green cloth-covered boards with paper label to spine. Printed paper dust jacket.
Condition: VG in good DJ. Book is clean and tight, DJ is edgeworn and chipped with darkened spine. DJ is price clipped. Corners are lightly bumped.
Franz-Valéry-Marie Cumont (3 January 1868 in Aalst, Belgium – 20 August 1947 in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre near Brussels) was a Belgian archaeologist and historian, a philologist and student of epigraphy, who brought these often isolated specialties to bear on the syncretic mystery religions of Late Antiquity, notably Mithraism. Cumont was a graduate of the University of Ghent (PhD, 1887). After receiving royal travelling fellowships, he undertook archaeology in Pontus and Armenia (published in 1906) and in Syria, but he is best known for his studies on the impact of Eastern mystery religions, particularly Mithraism, on the Roman Empire. – Wikipedia
