Ancient Greece was rich with stories of queer love and genderfluid identity—but what can these ancient stories tell us about our contemporary world?Tales as old as antiquity—whether the love affair of Achilles and Patroclus, the gend...Loe edasi...
Argues that Sophoclean tragedy is a distinctive form of religious discourse concerned with exploring the relationship between humans and gods and profoundly engaged with contemporary intellectual culture. Explores key plays in detail as well as gene...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009727808)
Argues that Sophoclean tragedy is a distinctive form of religious discourse concerned with exploring the relationship between humans and gods and profoundly engaged with contemporary intellectual culture. Explores key plays in detail as well as gene...Loe edasi...
Dieser Band versammelt die wichtigsten Aufsätze Robert L. Fowlers über griechische Mythologie, Mythographie und Historiographie (insbesondere Herodot), samt zwei neuen Essays, die speziell für diese Aufsatzsammlung geschrieben worden sind....Loe edasi...
One of the greatest adventure tales in history, The OdysseyOdysseuss journey home after The Trojan Waris still a must-read in this newly designed faux-leather edition....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group), ISBN-13: 9780857507655)
A thoughtful, poetic and compelling novel that quietly stole my heart Jennifer Saint, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ariadne This is a hymn to women - women dismissed as monsters and damsels, who hunger for more than what the world...Loe edasi...
Celebrating the contributions of Panayotis Pachis to the field, this book discusses the past, present, and future of the study of religion in antiquity and modernity. Panayotis Pachis has dedicated his celebrated career at the Aristotle Uni...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009295086)
What was race in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds? How did Classics become the province of dead White men? This book explores the different manifestations of race across Graeco-Roman antiquity as well as how the field of Classics became infu...Loe edasi...
What was race in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds? How did Classics become the province of dead White men? This book explores the different manifestations of race across Graeco-Roman antiquity as well as how the field of Classics became infu...Loe edasi...
Historys greatest adventure story brought to us anew by Americas greatest living classicistthis is fast, fluent, thrilling, and a hugely impressive accomplishment Lee Child This may be the best translation of The Odyssey yet Edith H...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691281834)
A landmark account of the divine physician of the Greeks in myth and archetype To the physicians of classical antiquity, Asklepios was the ideal of their existence as healers. In this book, acclaimed mythologist and historian of religion...Loe edasi...
A landmark study of the archetypal father, husband, and wife in Greek religion and myth What did Zeus mean to the Greeks of antiquity? Who was Hera, archetypally united with Zeus as if they were a human couple? Examining the word Zeus and...Loe edasi...
A landmark account of the divine physician of the Greeks in myth and archetype To the physicians of classical antiquity, Asklepios was the ideal of their existence as healers. In this book, acclaimed mythologist and historian of religion...Loe edasi...
A landmark account of the Eleusinian Mysteries by one of the leading mythologists of the twentieth century The Sanctuary of Eleusis near Athens was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initia...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691281896)
A landmark study of the archetypal father, husband, and wife in Greek religion and myth What did Zeus mean to the Greeks of antiquity? Who was Hera, archetypally united with Zeus as if they were a human couple? Examining the word Zeus and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691281766)
A landmark account of the Prometheus story as myth and archetype The god Prometheus stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver until Herakles...Loe edasi...
A landmark account of the Prometheus story as myth and archetype The god Prometheus stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver until Herakles...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691281780)
A landmark account of the Dionysos myth as an archetypal expression of indestructible life No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and ritual practices of antiquity as Dionysos. In this book, acclaimed mythologist...Loe edasi...
A landmark account of the Dionysos myth as an archetypal expression of indestructible life No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and ritual practices of antiquity as Dionysos. In this book, acclaimed mythologist...Loe edasi...
