Lares and Penates; or, Cilicia and its Governors; Being a Short Historical Account of That Province From the Earliest Times to the Present Day; Together With a Description of Some Household Gods of the Ancient Cilicians, Broken Up By Them in Their Conversion to Christianity, First Discovered and Brought to This Country by William Burckhardt Barker edited by William Francis Ainsworth
Lares and Penates; or, Cilicia and its Governors; Being a Short Historical Account of That Province From the Earliest Times to the Present Day; Together With a Description of Some Household Gods of the Ancient Cilicians, Broken Up By Them in Their Conversion to Christianity, First Discovered and Brought to This Country by William Burckhardt Barker edited by William Francis Ainsworth - Image 2
Lares and Penates; or, Cilicia and its Governors; Being a Short Historical Account of That Province From the Earliest Times to the Present Day; Together With a Description of Some Household Gods of the Ancient Cilicians, Broken Up By Them in Their Conversion to Christianity, First Discovered and Brought to This Country by William Burckhardt Barker edited by William Francis Ainsworth - Image 3
Lares and Penates; or, Cilicia and its Governors; Being a Short Historical Account of That Province From the Earliest Times to the Present Day; Together With a Description of Some Household Gods of the Ancient Cilicians, Broken Up By Them in Their Conversion to Christianity, First Discovered and Brought to This Country by William Burckhardt Barker edited by William Francis Ainsworth - Image 4

Lares and Penates; or, Cilicia and its Governors; Being a Short Historical Account of That Province From the Earliest Times to the Present Day; Together With a Description of Some Household Gods of the Ancient Cilicians, Broken Up By Them in Their Conversion to Christianity, First Discovered and Brought to This Country by William Burckhardt Barker edited by William Francis Ainsworth

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Lares and Penates; or, Cilicia and its Governors; Being a Short Historical Account of That Province From the Earliest Times to the Present Day; Together With a Description of Some Household Gods of the Ancient Cilicians, Broken Up By Them in Their Conversion to Christianity, First Discovered and Brought to This Country by William Burckhardt Barker edited by William Francis Ainsworth, published in 1853. In ancient Roman religion, Lares and Penates were deities associated with household protection and possessions. They were believed to be guardians of the home and its inhabitants. Sections include: Apollo, Gods, Demigods, and Heroes, Sibyls and Dolphis and Their Riders, Magi and Monks, Monsters and Idiots, Bards, Priests, Deified Children, Female Figures, Lyres, Syrinx, Natural History, Medicinal Plants, etc. etc. Hardcover in gilt and blind stamped boards with light fading to cloth. Light shelfwear and rubbing to corners and ends.

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