1877. Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 0766184641. Volume 2 of 2. The principal object of this work is to trace the history of religious thought, as illustrated by mythology, to its most archaic phases in Western Asia; for the purpose of disclosing certain root principles of belief which deliberate human opinion is indeed valuable, be relied on as an embodiment of actual truth. Contents: Dionysiak Nomenclature; Protagonistic Phases of Dionysos; Introduction of the Dionysiak Cult into Hellas; Dionysos Melqarth in the Phoenician Outer World. Illustrated.