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Apollo's Plague

Author : Derek Hart
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 138733641X
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Apollo's Plague written by Derek Hart and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every civilization has created its tales of cataclysm or apocalypse. We are perhaps the first generation, which by deliberate actions could create our own doom. ItÕs no great stretch of the imagination that humans might disappear from the face of the earth. Still, the instinct to survive is a powerful force and there probably would be some who would indeed make it. Within hours after the unexplained apocalypse unveiled in MinervaÕs Shield, lights would start going out around the country. More than 70% of power in the United States alone is generated by the burning of fossil fuels. These power plants would only continue to produce electricity as long as the fuel takes to be consumed. As discovered during the journey outlined in NikeÕs Chariot, if there is no one around to provide the new fuel into the generating plants, then it will be quite quick before the lights blink off everywhere.

Apollo's Arrow

Author : Nicholas A. Christakis
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316628220
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Apollo's Arrow written by Nicholas A. Christakis and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A piercing and scientifically grounded look at the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic and how it will change the way we live—"excellent and timely." (The New Yorker) Apollo's Arrow offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in 2020, and of how the recovery will unfold in the coming years. Drawing on momentous (yet dimly remembered) historical epidemics, contemporary analyses, and cutting-edge research from a range of scientific disciplines, bestselling author, physician, sociologist, and public health expert Nicholas A. Christakis explores what it means to live in a time of plague—an experience that is paradoxically uncommon to the vast majority of humans who are alive, yet deeply fundamental to our species. Unleashing new divisions in our society as well as opportunities for cooperation, this 21st-century pandemic has upended our lives in ways that will test, but not vanquish, our already frayed collective culture. Featuring new, provocative arguments and vivid examples ranging across medicine, history, sociology, epidemiology, data science, and genetics, Apollo's Arrow envisions what happens when the great force of a deadly germ meets the enduring reality of our evolved social nature.

Plague-Making and the AIDS Epidemic: A Story of Discrimination

Author : G. Bright
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113701122X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Book Synopsis Plague-Making and the AIDS Epidemic: A Story of Discrimination by : G. Bright

Download or read book Plague-Making and the AIDS Epidemic: A Story of Discrimination written by G. Bright and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the cultural process of making any disease a "plague" results in discrimination against certain groups, as it has for those with AIDS in America. Gina M. Bright here captures the discrimination produced by plague-making in her analysis and her portraits of the people she has cared for with AIDS over the past quarter-century.

Apollo

Author : Fritz Graf
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134372086
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Apollo written by Fritz Graf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fritz Graf here presents a survey of a god once thought of as the most powerful of gods, and capable of great wrath should he be crossed: Apollo the sun god. From his first attestations in Homer, through the complex question of pre-Homeric Apollo, to the opposition between Apollo and Dionysos in nineteenth and twentieth-century thinking, Graf examines Greek religion and myth to provide a full account of Apollo in the ancient world. For students of Greek religion and culture, of myth and legend, and in the fields of art and literature, Apollo will provide an informative and enlightening introduction to this powerful figure from the past.

Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory and Film

Author : J. Cooke
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230235425
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory and Film written by J. Cooke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an account of the history and continuation of plague as a potent metaphor since the disease ceased to be an epidemic threat in Western Europe, engaging with twentieth-century critiques of fascism, anti-Semitic rhetoric, the Oedipal legacy of psychoanalysis and its reception, and film spectatorship and the zombie genre.

Oedipus at Thebes

Author : Bernard Knox
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300074239
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Oedipus at Thebes written by Bernard Knox and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the way in which Sophocles' play "Oedipus Tyrannus" and its hero, Oedipus, King of Thebes, were probably received in their own time and place, and relates this to twentieth-century receptions and interpretations, including those of Sigmund Freud.

Apollo God of the Sun, Healing, Music, and Poetry

Author : Teri Temple
Publisher : Weigl Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1489694897
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (896 download)

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Book Synopsis Apollo God of the Sun, Healing, Music, and Poetry by : Teri Temple

Download or read book Apollo God of the Sun, Healing, Music, and Poetry written by Teri Temple and published by Weigl Publishers. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey to ancient Rome and learn about some of the most exciting figures in Roman mythology. Full-color illustrations bring each god or goddess to life while readers discover their characteristics, responsibilities, and tales of triumph and defeat. A detailed family tree at the back of the book helps young readers see the connections and relationships Roman gods and goddesses have with each other, while an introductory chart with phonetic spellings helps readers learn to pronounce the characters’ names. The Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Rome series is sure to inspire both an interest in mythology and a love of reading. Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Rome is a series of AV2 media enhanced books. Each title in the series features easy-to-read text, stunning visuals, and a challenging educational activity. A unique book code printed on page 2 unlocks multimedia content. These books come alive with video, audio, weblinks, slide shows, activities, hands-on experiments, and much more.

The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization

Author : Simon Hornblower
Publisher : Oxford Companions
ISBN 13 : 0198706774
Total Pages : 907 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization written by Simon Hornblower and published by Oxford Companions. This book was released on 2014 with total page 907 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with full-color plates and 140 black-and-white pictures, an encyclopedic, exhaustive, and up-to-date guide contains finely detailed articles and short reference notes on the people, places, and events that shaped ancient Western civilization. UP.

Plague and the Athenian Imagination

Author : Robin Mitchell-Boyask
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139468235
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Plague and the Athenian Imagination written by Robin Mitchell-Boyask and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great plague of Athens that began in 430 BCE had an enormous effect on the imagination of its literary artists and on the social imagination of the city as a whole. In this book, Professor Mitchell-Boyask studies the impact of the plague on Athenian tragedy early in the 420s and argues for a significant relationship between drama and the development of the cult of the healing god Asclepius in the next decade, during a period of war and increasing civic strife. The Athenian decision to locate their temple for Asclepius adjacent to the Theater of Dionysus arose from deeper associations between drama, healing and the polis that were engaged actively by the crisis of the plague. The book also considers the representation of the plague in Thucydides' History as well as the metaphors generated by that representation which recur later in the same work.

The Plague of War

Author : Jennifer T. Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199996660
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Plague of War written by Jennifer T. Roberts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 431 BC, the long simmering rivalry between the city-states of Athens and Sparta erupted into open warfare, and for more than a generation the two were locked in a life-and-death struggle. The war embroiled the entire Greek world, provoking years of butchery previously unparalleled in ancient Greece. Whole cities were exterminated, their men killed, their women and children enslaved. While the war is commonly believed to have ended with the capture of the Athenian navy in 405 and the subsequent starvation of Athens, fighting in Greece would continue for several decades. Sparta's authority was challenged in the so-called Corinthian War (395-387) when Persian gold helped unite Athens with Sparta's former allies. The war did not truly end until, in 371, Thebes' crack infantry resoundingly defeated Sparta at Leuctra, forever shattering the myth of Spartan military supremacy. Jennifer Roberts' rich narrative of this famous conflict is the first general history to tell the whole story, from the war's origins down to Sparta's defeat at Leuctra. In her masterful account, this long and bloody war affected every area of life in Athens, exacerbated divisions between rich and poor in Sparta, and sparked civil strife throughout the Greek world. Yet despite the biting sorrows the fighting occasioned, it remains a gripping saga of plots and counter-plots, murders and lies, thrilling sea chases and desperate overland marches, missed opportunities and last-minute reprieves, and, as the war's first historian Thucydides had hoped, lessons for a less bellicose future. In addition, Roberts considers the impact of the war on Greece's cultural life, including the great masterworks of tragedy and comedy performed at this time and, most infamously, the trial and execution of Socrates. A fast-paced narrative of one of antiquity's most famous clashes, The Plague of War is a must-read for history enthusiasts of all ages.

Ovid's Homer

Author : Barbara Weiden Boyd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190680067
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Ovid's Homer written by Barbara Weiden Boyd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ovid's Homer examines the Latin poet's engagement with the Homeric poems throughout his career. Boyd offers detailed analysis of Ovid's reading and reinterpretation of a range of Homeric episodes and characters from both epics, and demonstrates the pervasive presence of Homer in Ovid's work. The resulting intertextuality, articulated as a poetics of paternity or a poetics of desire, is particularly marked in scenes that have a history of scholiastic interest or critical intervention; Ovid repeatedly asserts his mastery as Homeric reader and critic through his creative response to alternative readings, and in the process renews Homeric narrative for a sophisticated Roman readership. Boyd offers new insight into the dynamics of a literary tradition, illuminating a previously underappreciated aspect of Ovidian intertextuality.

The Iliad of Homer

Author : Homer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3375039131
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Iliad of Homer written by Homer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. Translated into English Verse in the Spenserian Stanza.

The Oxford Classical Dictionary

Author : Simon Hornblower
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199545561
Total Pages : 1650 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Classical Dictionary written by Simon Hornblower and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 1650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised third edition of the 'Oxford Classical Dictionary' is the ultimate reference on the classical world containing over 6,200 entries. The 2003 revision includes minor corrections and updates and all Latin and Greek words in the text are now translated into English.

Pox Romana

Author : Colin Elliott
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691220697
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Pox Romana written by Colin Elliott and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging and dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacle In the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex. The emperor Marcus Aurelius reigned over a vast territory that stretched from Britain to Egypt. The Roman-made peace, or Pax Romana, seemed to be permanent. Then, apparently out of nowhere, a sudden sickness struck the legions and laid waste to cities, including Rome itself. This fast-spreading disease, now known as the Antonine plague, may have been history’s first pandemic. Soon after its arrival, the Empire began its downward trajectory toward decline and fall. In Pox Romana, historian Colin Elliott offers a comprehensive, wide-ranging account of this pivotal moment in Roman history. Did a single disease—its origins and diagnosis still a mystery—bring Rome to its knees? Carefully examining all the available evidence, Elliott shows that Rome’s problems were more insidious. Years before the pandemic, the thin veneer of Roman peace and prosperity had begun to crack: the economy was sluggish, the military found itself bogged down in the Balkans and the Middle East, food insecurity led to riots and mass migration, and persecution of Christians intensified. The pandemic exposed the crumbling foundations of a doomed Empire. Arguing that the disease was both cause and effect of Rome’s fall, Elliott describes the plague’s “preexisting conditions” (Rome’s multiple economic, social, and environmental susceptibilities); recounts the history of the outbreak itself through the experiences of physician, victim, and political operator; and explores postpandemic crises. The pandemic’s most transformative power, Elliott suggests, may have been its lingering presence as a threat both real and perceived.

Pathogenesis

Author : Jonathan Kennedy
Publisher : Signal
ISBN 13 : 0771096798
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Pathogenesis written by Jonathan Kennedy and published by Signal. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping examination of how germs have played a starring role in the most significant transformations in history, from the rise of Homo sapiens to the creation of world religions and the birth of capitalism. According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, to actions undertaken individually and collectively that have changed the arc of history. In this revelatory book, sociologist and public health professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the peddlers of the exceptionalism myth massively overestimate the role that reason plays in social change. Instead, it is the humble microbe that wins wars and topples empires. Drawing on the latest research in genetics, economics, sociology, and anthropology, Pathogenesis explores eight outbreaks of infectious disease that made the modern world. Take the rise of Christianity. When a wave of deadly pandemics swept through the Roman Empire in the third century, there were only a small number of Christian communities—but they did a much better job tending to the sick. Their more communal approach saved thousands of lives, and helped turn this tiny, obscure sect into one of the world's great religions. Bacteria and viruses were also responsible for the demise of the Neanderthals, the growth of Islam, the transition from feudalism to capitalism, the devastation wrought by European colonialism, and the rise of the United States from an imperial backwater to a global superpower. By centering disease in his wide-ranging, spectacularly illustrated history of humankind, Kennedy challenges our most fundamental assumptions about our collective past—and urges us to view our current moment as another disease-driven inflection point that could change the course of history. Provocative and brimming with insight, Pathogenesis transforms our understanding of the human story.

Bringing God Up to Date

Author : John Hunt
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789048117
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Bringing God Up to Date written by John Hunt and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion is an essential part of our humanity. We all follow some form of religion, in the original meaning of the word. But organized religion establishes definitions, boundaries and hierarchies which the founders would be amazed by. This is perhaps more true of Christianity than most other religions, due to the short life of Jesus, his sudden death, the lack of any contemporary records. His teaching about the kingdom of God is great; it could see us through our time on earth. But his followers watered it down and soon lost it altogether. It became a kingdom in heaven for the few, rather than one here and now for everyone. The Church, or Churches, that resulted became increasingly irrelevant, even a hindrance, to seeing it realized. Many will always find security and truth in the traditions that developed, and good for them. But for those who can't, for those who have given up on religion or never thought it worth considering, the original teachings are worth another look. If we could recover them and live by them, we could change ourselves and the world for the better. We could bring God up to date.

Readings in Western Religious Thought: The ancient world

Author : Patrick Reid
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809128501
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book Readings in Western Religious Thought: The ancient world written by Patrick Reid and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of primary readings in ancient western religious thought from the beginnings of civilization in Mesopotamia and Egypt (c. 3000 B.C.E.) to the collapse of the Roman Empire (c. 450 C.E.). +