Religion
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Heroenkulte in homerischer Zeit [Paperback]
Maria Deoudi (Author)
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ISBN: 9781841710198
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: bar archaeopress
Volume: 806
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The Olympians: Ancient Deities As Archetypes [Paperback]
Joanne H. Stroud (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780826408983
Published by : Continuum International Pub.
Twelve dimensions of human emotion and behavior revealed through the ancient gods, such as Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Artemis, Athena, Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Demeter, Hestia, and Hermes. .... Learn More -
Cults, Territory, and the Origins of the Greek City-State [Hardback]
Francois de Polignac (Author)
$45.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780226673332
Published by : University of Chicago Press
Combining archaeological and textual evidence the author suggests that most of the 8th Century settlements that would become the city-states of classical Greece were defined as much by the boundaries of `civilised' space as by their urban centr... .... Learn More -
Greek Legends and Stories [Paperback]
M. V. Seton-Williams (Author)
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ISBN: 9780948695223
Published by : Stacey International
This book provides a brief description of almost fifty classical and medieval Greek myths and legends, including the beginings of the World and the coming of Man, and the stories of the Argonauts, Perseus, Oedipus, the Trojan War and the Odysse... .... Learn More -
Consolatory Rhetoric: Grief, Symbol and Ritual in the Greco-Roman Era [Hardback]
Donovan J. Ochs (Author)
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ISBN: 9780872498853
Published by : University of South Carolina Press
Consolatory Rhetoric explores Greco-Roman funeral rituals to reveal how opposing symbols functioned rhetorically to comfort communities afflicted by the death of one of their members. While the bulk of rhetorical criticism interprets written te... .... Learn More -
Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth: Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece [Paperback]
Peter W. Rose (Author)
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ISBN: 9780801499838
Published by : Cornell Univ Press
Penetrating new readings of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey , Pindar's Tenth Pythian Ode , Aeschylus' Oresteia , Sophocles' Philoktetes , and Plato's Republic using the insights of Marxist philosophy. .... Learn More -
Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece [Paperback]
Robert A. Brooks (Author)
$24.95Out of stock
ISBN: 9780807865002
Published by : University of North Carolina Press
This beautifully illustrated wallchart (48' x 36') is a comprehensive family tree of the Greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines from the time of Creation through the generation of the Trojan War. In addition to complete genealogical inform... .... Learn More -
Ascetic Behavior in Greco-Roman Antiquity [Hardback]
Vincent Wimbush (Author)
$55.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780800631055
Published by : Continuum International Pub.
In presenting a selection of twenty-eight texts in translation with introductory essays, Vincent L. Wimbush and his co-authors have produced the first book on asceticism that does full justice to the varieties of ascetic behavior in the Greco-R... .... Learn More -
Gods and Heroes in the Athenian Agora [Paperback]
John McK. Camp II (Author)
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ISBN: 9780876616239
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Series: Agora Picture Books
Volume: 19
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The Road to Delphi: The Life and Afterlife of Oracles [Hardback]
Michael Wood (Author)
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ISBN: 9780701165468
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