This book reveals how sociocultural and political debates today are still heavily influenced by ancient mythology. It explores how ancient stories shape how our modern secular society thinks about the interconnected geopolitical, technological, and...Loe edasi...
This book explores how late antique miracle collections depict Christian saints as subversive, theatrical tricksters who blur the boundaries between sacred and profane, human and divine. Suitable for scholars and students of late antique Christianit...Loe edasi...
Old Norse Mythology is an accessible and multidisciplinary introduction to the field. It surveys the 13 most consequential Eddic poems and Snorri Sturlusons Edda, with a text-by-text approach explaining the content of each, how they represent Old No...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive and systematic rather than historical approach to ancient Greek oracular texts, showing their conceptual and formal unity and patternisation, as well as their meaningful diversity....Loe edasi...
This book explores the role of physical bodies, ritual technologies, healing practices, gender, and visual imagery in creating and sustaining religious meaning in antiquity. It is ideal for students and scholars working on the New Testament and earl...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the element of thresholds makeshift gates, makeshift structures and house doors as concepts of liminality in ancient Near Eastern magical rituals and the idea of transformation they reflect, specifically concentrating on the g...Loe edasi...
The first of its kind, this book presents a wide range of passages exploring many aspects of the Greco-Roman watery world: physics, philosophy, weather, medicine, marine biology, religion and mythology, infrastructure, sailing, and mercantile activi...Loe edasi...
Navigating a diversity of religious myths and worldviews in both conventional and nuanced secular ways, this edited volume explores transdisciplinary common knowledge and global citizenship ideology through the lens of spirituality, depth hermeneuti...Loe edasi...
A Study in Creative History (1932) aims to present the main movements of thought as they emerge clearly into history. The book offers the view that the main developments prior to 500 B.C. were the emergence of the Prophetic school in Israel, of Mazd...Loe edasi...
This book discusses 20th and 21st century literary retellings of biblical texts, focusing on how fiction and poetry fill the extant narrative gaps present in the often sparse biblical accounts and align the narratives with theological and/or cultura...Loe edasi...
This volume by the late Bernd J. Diebner presents an anthology of studies previously published only in German from 1971 to 2020 on a range of topics in biblical studies. Of interest to Anglophone scholars of biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the fate of the twelve disciples of Jesus along with the apostles Paul and James. McDowell assesses the evidence for each apostles martyrdom and offers insightful scholarly analysis to break new ground wi...Loe edasi...
Athens or Jerusalem? (first published in 1965), based on the Minns Lectures of 1963, is unique as it gives a comprehensive survey of Christian thought and is designed to show that it is an amalgam of elements from both Athens and Jerusalem, and othe...Loe edasi...
This multidisciplinary volume examines the ongoing effects of James G. Frazers The Golden Bough in modern Humanities and its wide-ranging influence across studies of ancient religions, literature, historiography and reception studies....Loe edasi...
In the Beginning (1957) represents a series of lectures given by the author at Cornell University, examining the views of the Ancient Greeks on the central foundation myths of their civilisation. From stories of mother earth to later philosophical a...Loe edasi...
The Elements of Greek Philosophy (1922) is an overview of the basic principles of Ancient Greek philosophy, tracing the developments of Greek thought from Thales of Miletus to Socrates, Plato and Aristotle....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1932, this book is based on a series of lectures delivered in Cambridge in 1931. The views of the universe as held by the great teachers of Ancient Alexandria are discussed: Philo, Clement, Origen, Plotinus and the Gnostics a...Loe edasi...
Barbarians and Romans (1983) examines the rise of the barbarian tribes and the consequent decline of the Roman Empire. The book ranges across the Roman world, and from the rulers to the ruled, combining the study of monuments and artefacts with the...Loe edasi...
This book explores figurative images of the womb and the simile of a woman in labor from the Hebrew Bible, problematizing previous interpretations that present these as disparate images and showing how their interconnectivity embodies relationship w...Loe edasi...
This book explores Antigone and her many reconceptualizations from antiquity to the present, examining key themes, modern analysis, and postmodern receptions of the heroine in the arts and society. Suitable for students and scholars of classical lit...Loe edasi...
This book moves beyond the debate on wisdom literature, ongoing in Biblical Studies, demonstrating the productivity of wisdom as a literary category. Featuring work by scholars of Egyptology, Classics, Biblical and Near Eastern Studies, it offers fr...Loe edasi...
This book explores the theological significance of horror elements in the works of Hesiod and in the Homeric Hymns for the characters within these poems, the mortal audience consuming them, and the poet responsible for mythopoesis....Loe edasi...
Gods and Heroes of the Greeks (1957) looks at the chief stories of Ancient Greece and how they influenced European literature for centuries. It accounts the later development of these stories, in and out of the Greek world....Loe edasi...
The Universities of Ancient Greece (1912) examines Greek education in the Classical world, from the pre-Alexandrian times to the last three centuries B.C. Universities are defined as congregations of professors and students, as well as the organized...Loe edasi...
The Ancient Explorers (1929) examines the motives of ancient exploration, and looks at the means of travel at their disposal. The book uses both historical records and modern archaeological discoveries to piece together the important journeys that e...Loe edasi...
A History of the Greek World from 479 to 323 B.C. (1957) examines the period of Greek history from the end of the Persian Wars to the death of Alexander the Great into which are crowded such a galaxy of great poets, artists, politicians and thinke...Loe edasi...
Religion in Ancient History (1969) includes 25 essays on comparative religion, studying the religions of the peoples of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece and Iran. It looks at key ideas such as creation, death, time, the soul, and figures l...Loe edasi...
Life and Thought in the Greek and Roman World (1961) provides a comprehensive sketch of Greek and Roman civilization. It describes the geographic, political and social background, and sets forth its main achievements in the fields of language and li...Loe edasi...
Greek and Roman Gold and Silver Plate (1966) examines the history of ancient plate in the period from the Bronze Age to the fifth century A.D. It describes in detail the development of gold and silver plate throughout this long period, and looks at...Loe edasi...
The Roman Villa in Britain (1969) is a comprehensive examination of Roman villas in Romano-Britain in a series of essays by six specialists. It reflects on the social and economic implications of the changing fortunes of the villas, and discusses th...Loe edasi...
Economic Structures of the Ancient Near East (1985) is a political economy of antiquity which applies the universal conclusions of theoretical economics to the interpretation of economic life....Loe edasi...
Patronage in Ancient Society (1989) examines a subject central to the society of the ancient Mediterranean, bringing together the interests of ancient historians and sociologists, using ancient societies, and particularly Roman society, as the focus...Loe edasi...
Town and Country in Roman Britain (1964) is a study of the effects of Roman rule on the lowland zone of Britain and of the relationship between town and country. It places the towns and villas in their economic and political setting and discusses th...Loe edasi...
A History of the Roman World from 146 to 30 B.C. (1963) analyses the workings of the Roman constitution alongside looking at the events in Roman history from the time of the Gracchi to the death of Antony....Loe edasi...
The World of Hesiod (1936) examines the world of the Ancient Greeks before Ionian rationalism and the civilisation of Athens. Lying between the Heroic Age and the Lyric Age, Hesiod and the Geometric potters and painters set the scene for the economi...Loe edasi...
A History of the Greek World from 323 to 146 B.C. (1951) looks at the period of Greek history from the Macedonian to the Roman conquests. It contains a narrative of the political history of the Hellenistic states; a description of their statecraft,...Loe edasi...
In Ancient Cosmologies (1975) nine eminent scholars seek to answer the question, what was the shape of the universe to the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Jews, Indians, Chinese, Arabs, Greeks and Norsemen? How did they see the visible heavens as we...Loe edasi...
The studies collected in Science in the Early Roman Empire (1986) represent key research done on the Elder Pliny an important and difficult figure whose Natural History forms a valuable compendium at a fixed historical point in time of ancient scie...Loe edasi...
The Ionians and Hellenism (1980) presents an assessment of the art, literature and philosophy of the Asia Minor Greeks the Ionians in the eighth to sixth centuries B.C. The Ionians are notable both for what they achieved and for the way in which t...Loe edasi...
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...
Roman Britain (1935) is Franzeros personal but no less well-researched study of the history of Roman Britain, from conquest to withdrawal, and the archaeology that remains to this day some of it a great deal more impressive than many would suppose....Loe edasi...
The Greeks and their Gods (1950) examines the question of what the Greeks thought to be the proper relationship between human and divine. Religion was such an integral part of Ancient Greek life and thought that without a proper study their world ca...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...
A History of the Greek and Roman World (1926) is a single-volume sweeping examination of the Greek and Roman civilisations from 2000 B.C. to the second century A.D. It covers all parts of the Greek and Roman worlds, and all aspects of their societie...Loe edasi...
Athens and the Greek Miracle (1948) is a work of interpretation, poetic in character rather than scientific or historical, that attempts to penetrate some of the primary causes of this unique Athenian culture, to evoke its past spirit in the modern...Loe edasi...
A History of the Roman World from A.D. 138 to 337 (1958) looks at the last centuries of the Roman Empire, from the rule of Hadrian and his policy of consolidation of the Roman Empire, halting its further expansion, to the reign of Constantine and th...Loe edasi...
A comprehensive guide to the contents, historical settings, and social context of the Bible. This new edition is updated with several new chapters as well as a new section on biblical interpretation....Loe edasi...
This book explores the ways in which the origins of time, of the gods, and processes associated with time were conceptualised in antiquity, examining a variety of ancient sources from across the ancient world and addressing issues surrounding the so...Loe edasi...
This book delves into the intricate and, as argued, essential relationship between poetics and religion in Pindar. It explores how performance, cult, and religious attitudes intersect, offering readers a nuanced approach to Pindaric poetry concernin...Loe edasi...
