Seers, Shrines and Sirens (1965) surveys the history of Greek religion during the great formative and revolutionary era of the sixth century BC. The sixth century was above all a time when prophets, supermen and sibyls flourished and their impact is...Loe edasi...
Ancient Greek Religion (1948) looks at the religious beliefs and practices of classical Greece. The religion of ancient Greece had no code system that worshippers had to adhere to; nor was there a system of authority. These different facets are exam...Loe edasi...
This volume offers the most comprehensive survey available of the philosophical background to the works of early Christian writers and the development of early Christian doctrine....Loe edasi...
This fresh, comprehensive study of ancient Greek atheism aims to dismantle the current consensus that atheism was unthinkable in ancient Greece, taking an interdisciplinary approach to the subject. A fascinating read for students and scholars in C...Loe edasi...
This volume is the first monograph in English dedicated to the study of the Greek mythical hero Pelops, taking a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the study of this obscure figure. Suitable for students and scholars of ancient Greek hi...Loe edasi...
This volume takes an innovative interdisciplinary approach to investigating divination procedures at sanctuaries of Apollo in Classical and Hellenistic Greece, merging neuroscience, psychology, and behavioural studies with archaeology. Suitable for...Loe edasi...
This book provides the first full-length study of personal religious experience in the Greek Archaic and Classical periods through archaeological, epigraphic, and textual evidence. A valuable read for students and scholars of ancient Greek religion,...Loe edasi...
Animals in Ancient Greek Religion will be of interest to students and scholars of Greek religion, Greek myth, and ancient religion more broadly, as well as for anyone interested in human/animal relations in the ancient world....Loe edasi...
This volume presents a case for how and why people in archaic and classical Greece worshipped Underworld gods. Mackin Roberts challenges the view that these gods are manevolent and shows that Underworld gods are, in many cases, approached and befrie...Loe edasi...
Now in its 8th edition, this magisterial work offers a comprehensive survey of the stories of Greek myth, from the Olympian gods, through the lesser gods and deities, to the heroes, adventures, and foundation myths of the ancient Greek world....Loe edasi...
With a focus on Asian traditions, this book examines varieties of thought and self-transformative practice that do not fit neatly on one side or another of the standard Western division between philosophy and religion....Loe edasi...
Kenosis Creativity Architecture locates and explores creativitys grounding in the concept of kenosis, an emptying, that allows the space for creativity to take place. It will be a fascinating enquiry for researchers and postgraduates in architecture...Loe edasi...
Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian war was the arena for a dramatic battle between politics and religion in the hearts and minds of the people. Fear and Loathing in Ancient Athens, originally published in German but now available for the first...Loe edasi...
Theology and Existentialism in Aeschylus revivifies the complex question of fate and freedom in the tragedies of the famous Greek playwright. In this book, author Ric Rader demonstrates that few understood the importance of these questions better th...Loe edasi...
An Ancient Theory of Religion examines a theory of religion put forward by Euhemerus of Messene (late 4th early 3rd century BCE) in his lost work Sacred Inscription, and shows not only how and why euhemerism came about but also how it was - and sti...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Nov-2019, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9780429294129)
Bringing together the study of the Greek Classics and Indology, ArjunaOdysseus provides a comparative analysis of the shared heritage of the Mahbhrata and early Greek traditions presented in the texts of Homer and Hesiod....Loe edasi...
Published in 1987: This posthumous publication (1902) on the important Miscellanies of Clement, includes the complete Greek text of Book Seven with English translation and detailed notes. This is preceded by an extensive introduction based on the ed...Loe edasi...
Artemis is a literary, iconographic, and archaeological study of the ancient Greek goddess of transitions, who presided over virginity and fertility, cruelty and child care, the wilds and the civilized, the hunt and the birth bower....Loe edasi...
Sari: Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2017, Kirjastus: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), ISBN-13: 9781119072034)
A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology presents a collection of essays that explore a wide variety of aspects of Greek and Roman myths and their critical reception from antiquity to the present day....Loe edasi...
