Religion

ISBN: 9780977659845
Published by : Hellenic Museums Shop
This exhibition catalogue, divided into three main sections, is an essential collection of images and descriptions of each of the 155 artifacts of the exhibition, containing also scrutinizing essays on the important role women played in Classic... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781845114022
Published by : Tauris & Co Ltd
Written in a first person "quest for knowledge hidden for thousands of years" style this is an entertaining trip around Greece, ancient and modern in search of "the last secrets of antiquity". There is, to be fair also a surprising amount of detai... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789608818323
Published by : Institute for Philosophical Research
This volume - the first in a new series on The Emergence of Reason from the Spirit of Mystery - addresses the question of the logic of religious awareness, specifically the logic of mystery, the purpose being to try to explain what makes a rel... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781862076532
Published by : Granta Books
This unconventional biography of Hercules charts his life from his dramatic birth in Thebes to his agonizing death on a flaming pyre. Along the way, it recounts many long-forgotten yet revealing adventures and shows Hercules to be much more than j... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905125050
Published by : Classical Press of Wales
Herakles and Hercules: two names for a figure of pervasive appeal in Antiquity. He was a hero of myth and a god with cult associations. He was ancestor of Macedonian kings, patron of Carthaginian generals and of Roman emperors, and a role model... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781844135363
Published by : Pimlico Publishing Ltd
We may think that consulting oracles was an activity that died out many hundreds of years ago but, as Michael Wood demonstrates, there are many different types of oracle, both past and present, existing in many different cultures. This book, now a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781904675310
Published by : Bristol Phoenix Press
Nilsson's seminal work on Minoan-Myceanaean religion had its second edition in 1950 prior to the decipherment of Linear B; yet he found much in the archaeological record of the Bronze Age which he associated with later Greek religion. In that r... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780472113323
Published by : University of Michigan Press
Thanks to the Venus di Milo and Botticelli we are left with a picture of Aphrodite as a nude, alluring, though armless female figure emerging from the sea in a shell. Putting puns and poetics aside, this study reassesses the role of Aphrodite in t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780292702301
Published by : University of Texas Press
This collection of essays represents Peter Green's observations on classical myth and is wide-ranging in the questions it asks, including, what did the Greeks think about myth? what factors were responsible for it? what was the role of magic and w... .... Learn More