The Light of the Gods
Subtitle: The Role of Light in Archaic and Classical Greek Cult
Publisher: Duckworth Publishers
Published: February 27, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780715629345
Subjects: Ancient Greek religion; Social history; BCE to c 500 CE; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; Ancient Greece; Ancient - Greece; Religion / General; Archaeology
First sentence: The earliest reference to a lamp in Greek literature (lukhnos) is found in Homer (Od. xix, 34).