Dionysus: Myth and Cult, Paperback/Walter F. Otto

This study of Dionysus... is also a new theogony of Early Greece." --Publishers Weekly An original analysis... of the spiritual significance of the Greek myth and cult of Dionysus." --Theology Digest About the Author: WALTER F. OTTO (1874-1958) was a distinguished philologist and historian of Greek and Roman religion. ROBERT B. PALMER (1919-1977) was Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures at Scripps College. He was translator and editor of Karl Strecker"s Introduction to Medieval Latin and author of numerous scholarly essays. He was also a contributor to the New Catholic Encyclopedia.