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As Gods Among Men

Author : Guido Alfani
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691215731
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book As Gods Among Men written by Guido Alfani and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All human societies, from prehistory through to today, have been characterized by some degree of economic inequality. Arguably, complex societies would not have thrived if they had been unable to concentrate and redistribute resources effectively. We frequently talk about the top 5% or 1% today but, as Guido Alfani explains in this book, concerns about the rich and super-rich and their potential to influence contemporary politics and society are nothing new - just take the Medici family and Renaissance Tuscany as one example. The medieval theologian Nicole Oresme's fear of the super-rich individual acting "as God among men" resonates with much of what present-day economist Thomas Piketty cautioned against in his landmark Capital in the Twentieth Century. As Gods Among Men represents the first scholarly attempt to provide a general overview of role and significance of the rich and the super-rich in the long run of history. With a focus on the West, particularly Europe and North America, Alfani's research spans a thousand years of history. He draws from a wealth of comparative data, as well as insights gleaned from the latest research in economic history, sociology, and anthropology, to show how society's problematic relationship with the super-rich cannot be fully understood without a careful analysis of the ways in which they have built their enormous wealth, and how they have used that wealth to gain influence. Alfani highlights important aspects of their behavior, such as their attitudes toward saving and consumption, or their propensity to act as patrons of the arts and of the sciences or as benefactors of the weakest part of society, to build up a profile of the richest members of our society and to trace patterns throughout history, underlining elements of both continuity and change over the period"--

Among Gods and Men

Author : E. A. Stock
Publisher : e a stock Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 098246004X
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Among Gods and Men written by E. A. Stock and published by e a stock Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2009 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jureid, a Brethren boy who possesses an awareness, is led down a path of ancient gods following a cataclysmal event. From the future Mermaina is taken to witness Jureid's odyssey. Though separated by time, Jureid and Mermaina are both chosen to stop the original evil that takes souls and quakes worlds.

Of Gods and Men

Author : Daisy Dunn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788546733
Total Pages : 926 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Of Gods and Men written by Daisy Dunn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rigorously and imaginatively researched anthology of classical literature, bringing together one hundred stories from the rich diversity of the literary canon of ancient Greece and Rome. Striking a balance between the 'classic classic' (such as Dryden's translation of the Aeneid) and the less familiar or expected, Of Gods and Men ranges from the epic poetry of Homer to the histories of Arrian and Diodorus Siculus and the sprawling Theogony of Hesiod; from the tragedies of Aeschylus and Euripides to the biographies of Suetonius and Plutarch and the pen portraits of Theophrastus; and from the comedies of Plautus to the fictions of Petronius and Apuleius. Of Gods and Men is embellished by translations from writers as diverse as Queen Elizabeth I (Boethius), Percy Bysshe Shelley (Plato), Walter Pater (Apuleius's Golden Ass), Lawrence of Arabia (Homer's Odyssey), Louis MacNeice (Aeschylus's Agamemnon) and Ted Hughes (Ovid's Pygmalion), as well as a number of accomplished translations by Daisy Dunn herself.

Gods and Men in Egypt

Author : Françoise Dunand
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801488535
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Gods and Men in Egypt written by Françoise Dunand and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their wide-ranging interpretation of the religion of ancient Egypt, Françoise Dunand and Christiane Zivie-Coche explore how, over a period of roughly 3500 years, the Egyptians conceptualized their relations with the gods. Drawing on the insights of anthropology, the authors discuss such topics as the identities, images, and functions of the gods; rituals and liturgies; personal forms of piety expressing humanity's need to establish a direct relation with the divine; and the afterlife, a central feature of Egyptian religion. That religion, the authors assert, was characterized by the remarkable continuity of its ritual practices and the ideas of which they were an expression.Throughout, Dunand and Zivie-Coche take advantage of the most recent archaeological discoveries and scholarship. Gods and Men in Egypt is unique in its coverage of Egyptian religious expression in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. Written with nonspecialist readers in mind, it is largely concerned with the continuation of Egypt's traditional religion in these periods, but it also includes fascinating accounts of Judaism in Egypt and the appearance and spread of Christianity there.

Gods Among Men

Author : John Yates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781632680655
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Gods Among Men written by John Yates and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the planet Eomenra, Prince Thane is tossed into a fight for survival when his father, the king, is forced off the throne of the great city of Ilios. In the violent upheaval, his mother and baby sister are murdered, and his best friend, Kara, is lost to the unknown. Escaping to the forest, Thane and his father hide until the fires in Ilios have calmed. Why is all this happening to him? Before he can unravel this mystery, his father will bestow upon him a great power--a power that can make some believe they are gods. Upon returning to the towering city of Ilios, his is contacted by one who conceals his true identity. Whoever he is, he guides Thane on his journey. When he begins to investigate into the mysteries of his life, he will find what happened to the barren city of Aeceramor, what his family's murderer is trying to accomplish, what it is to love a woman, and what it truly means to fight the gods among men.

World of Gods and Men

Author : Megan Linski
Publisher : Gryfyn Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book World of Gods and Men written by Megan Linski and published by Gryfyn Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am Fliss, and my magic has abandoned me. After suffering a painful defeat and barely escaping with my life, my dragons and I are on the run. My sister will stop at nothing to end my existence and prevent me from taking my rightful place over the realm. A war of gods and men has broken out across the kingdom, and we cannot fight it on our own. I must seek out the city of sirens, and repair the magical community that’s in shambles if we’re to win. The goddess of song will rise to battle the goddess of chaos… and the victor will change the world forever. *** The final book in the Song of Dragonfire series.

Plays of Gods and Men

Author : Edward Plunkett
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Plays of Gods and Men written by Edward Plunkett and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-11 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Plays of Gods and Men" by Edward Plunkett. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The Wars of Gods and Men

Author : Chris Humphreys
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 1473226112
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book The Wars of Gods and Men written by Chris Humphreys and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Coming of the Dark, most immortals in the world have been killed. The religion of the Four Tribes has taken over the world, and any who resist it are crushed. They await the return of their prophesised One, who is both male and female, and neither. They have not been seen for fifteen years, but belief rules all. A few still fight. A handful of surviving immortals, once seen as gods, have hidden away. In each of the four lands of the world, there are mutterings of rebellion. And over the mountains, kept secret from the world, the One has grown into their adulthood. It is time for them to return and see what is being done in their name. And that means going to war.

Plays of Gods and Men

Author : Lord Dunsany
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1776533011
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (765 download)

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Download or read book Plays of Gods and Men written by Lord Dunsany and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish aristocrat Lord Dunsany was a wealthy man of leisure, but when it came to the craft of writing, he was productive and prolific, creating nearly 100 works in his lifetime, many of which are cited as important early influences in the genre of fantasy. This volume brings together a number of Dunsany's most popular works written for the stage.

Plays of Gods and Men

Author : Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Baron Dunsany
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plays of Gods and Men written by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Baron Dunsany and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how to grow many kinds of plants indoors and explains how and why plants grow.

The Sons of the Gods and the Daughters of Men

Author : Modupe Oduyoye
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498235824
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book The Sons of the Gods and the Daughters of Men written by Modupe Oduyoye and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Modupe Oduyoye knows the rules of biblical criticism set down by the scholars of Europe and North America, and he draws upon them to good effect. Yet when he chooses to read the Hebrew Bible through the eyes of African creation myth and with the tongue of the Hamitic language group, the effect is extraordinary. Without attempting to solve the complex riddle of all that Jerusalem of old had to do with Ethiopia and East Africa, Oduyoye persuasively shows that the exquisite sensitivity of African religion to the realm of the spirit is a living witness to a biblical consciousness much richer and more pluralistic than we had realized. We ignore to our impoverishment and even our peril, Oduyoye believes, this biblical sense of human participation in the divine vitality and of spiritual kinship among the creatures." --W. Sibley Towner, Professor of Biblical Interpretation, Union Theological Seminary "Modupe Oduyoye presents a fascinating study in the area of biblical interpretation in drawing upon biblical and West African languages. This is a work that ought to stimulate thought and make African theologians more receptive to the call to take a fresh look at the Bible against the background of African life and thought." --Kwesi A. Dickson, Professor of Old Testament Studies, Director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana "There is much in Modupe Oduyoye's book that is explosive of our Western biblical theological ethnocentricity. This book is another heralding of the West African school, which will have our skills but use them according to ground rules they are working out, a school that will take its place with the Mexican, the Tamil, and many others. As the tide recedes from the West, it is good to hear the surge and thunder of the African shore." --Noel A. King, Professor of History and Comparative Religion, University of California at Santa Cruz Modupe Oduyoye is a Nigerian exegete and philologist. He was William Paton Fellow at the Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham, 1981-82. He presently serves as the Literature Secretary of the Christian Council of Nigeria and as Manager of the Daystar Press in Ibadan.

The Wars of Gods and Men

Author : Zecharia Sitchin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1591439175
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The Wars of Gods and Men written by Zecharia Sitchin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1992-06-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Earth Chronicles series, in six voumes, deals with the history and prehistory of Earth and humankind. Each book in the series, based upon information written on clay tablets by the ancient civilizations of the Near East, records the fantastic and real battles that occurred between the original creator gods over control of planet Earth. Asserting the premise that mythology is not fanciful but the repository of ancient memories, The Earth Chronicles series suggests that the Bible ought to be read literally as a historic/scientific document, and that ancient civilizations--older and greater than assumed--were the product of knowledge brought to Earth by the Anunnaki, "Those Who from Heaven to Earth Came." The 12th Planet, the first book of the series, presents ancient evidence for the existence of an additional planet in the Solar System: the home planet of the Anunnaki. In confirmation of this evidence, recent data from unmanned spacecraft has led astronomers to actively search for what is being called "Planet X." The subsequent volume, The Stairway to Heaven, traces man's unending search for immortality to a spaceport in the Sinai Peninsula and to the Giza pyramids, which had served as landing beacons for it--refuting the notion that these pyramids were built by human pharaohs. Recently, records by an eye-witness to a forgery of an inscription by the pharaoh Khufu inside the Great Pyramid corroborated the book's conclusions. In The Wars of Gods and Men, the third volume of his series, Zacharia Sitchin recounts events closer to our times, concluding that the Sinai spaceport was destroyed 4,000 years ago with nuclear weapons. Photographs of Earth from space clearly show evidence of such an explosion.The Wars of Gods and Men additionally embraces Canaanite, Hittite, and Hindu sources to include in these investigations the incidents of The Great Flood, the Tower of Babel, and the upheaval of Sodom and Gomorrah. Sitchin's unique reexamination of ancient mysteries explains these past cataclysmic events in the history of humanity, opening insights into our future.

Juventus Mundi. The Gods and Men of the Heroic Age

Author : William Ewart Gladstone
Publisher : London, Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Juventus Mundi. The Gods and Men of the Heroic Age written by William Ewart Gladstone and published by London, Macmillan. This book was released on 1869 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Among Men and Horses

Author : Matthew Horace Hayes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Among Men and Horses written by Matthew Horace Hayes and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is an account of the way in which I gained whatever knowledge I may possess about horses."--Preface, page [vii].

Gods and Men

Author : Brian Walter Sherratt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Gods and Men written by Brian Walter Sherratt and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Apes and Men

Author : Harold Peake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apes and Men written by Harold Peake and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cicero's Tusculan Disputations; Also, Treatises on the Nature of the Gods, and on The Commonwealth

Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528788281
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Cicero's Tusculan Disputations; Also, Treatises on the Nature of the Gods, and on The Commonwealth written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains an English translation of “The Tusculanae Disputations”, a five-book series written around 45 BC by Cicero, a Roman orator, statesman, philosopher and lawyer considered to be one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. The books were originally written as an attempt to introduce Greek philosophy to Ancient Rome, especially stoicism. This volume will appeal to those with an interest in Greek philosophy, and it would make for a fantastic addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: “The Tusculan Disputations”, “The Nature of Gods”, and “On the Commonwealth”. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with an excerpt from W. Lucas Collins' “Cicero”.