MYSTAI : Dancing out the Mysteries of Dionysos - Peter Mark Adams (HB, Scarlet Imprint, 2019)

MYSTAI : Dancing out the Mysteries of Dionysos - Peter Mark Adams (Scarlet Imprint, 2019)

Limited edition hardback, 1/900, Out of Print. Large sized, 210 × 290 mm, landscape)
192 pages, 38 images. Bound in purple cloth, blind debossed and stamped in gold, textured Pompeiian red endpapers.

"Peter Mark Adams’ Mystai: Dancing out the Mysteries of Dionysos is the only full length, scholarly study of the ritual process of initiation into the mysteries of Dionysos as depicted in the frescoes of Pompeii’s Villa of the Mysteries.

Uniquely, these newly restored and, here for the first time, stunningly reproduced images guide the reader through the stages of initiation vividly illuminating the ritual activity.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Peter Mark Adams interprets the frescoes through the distinct performative lens of the ritualist drawing on current scholarship across the disparate fields of classical philology; the ritual dress codes of Greco-Roman priestesses; art history; and the comparative ethnography of rites of higher initiation to illumine the significance of the ritual grammar and the phenomenology of ritual participation." - Scarlet Imprint, 2019

Condition : Fine, Unread Copy.