PAGAN PRIESTS: Religion and Power in the Ancient World.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout in black and white, with photographs, tables, maps and diagrams. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm with bumping at the base of the spine. The contents, with an old price on the front endpaper and a light mark on the front pastedown, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed, nicked and creased, price-clipped dustwrapper, that has a touch of fading to the panel edges and spine and a 4cm tear to the upper front flap fold.

A collection of essays originating from a series of seminars given at the Institute of Classical Studies, exploring the roles and functions of priests in Mediterranean and Near Eastern societies before Christianity.