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Cretan Quests

Author : Davina Huxley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Cretan Quests written by Davina Huxley and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays celebrates British scholarly achievements in Crete, from the early British pilgrims and travellers to the island, to the work of the first antiquarians and archaeologists. Seven essays focus on key figures and events from pre-1900, 1900-1914, during the First and Second World Wars, 1945-1990 and the present and future of exploration on Crete. Subsequent contributions take a more thematic approach, discussing the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, Linear A and B, Minoan religion, Greek, Hellenistic and Roman Crete, Byzantine and Arab Crete and the role of the British School at Knossos.

Cretan Sanctuaries and Cults

Author : Mieke Prent
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047406907
Total Pages : 813 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Cretan Sanctuaries and Cults written by Mieke Prent and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume documents the development of Cretan sanctuaries and associated cults from the end of the Late Bronze Age into the Archaic Period (c.1200–600 BC). The book supplies up-to-date site catalogues and discusses recurring types of sanctuaries, the history of their use and their religious and social functions, offering new insights into the period as a whole. Ancient Crete is known as an island whose religion displays a strong continuity with ‘Minoan’ traditions. The period of 1200–600 BC in general, however, is considered as one of profound socio-political and cultural change. This study explores the idea of ‘continuity’ by detailing the different processes and mechanisms involved in the maintenance of older cult traditions and provides balance by placing the observed changes in cult customs and the use of sanctuaries in the broader context of societal change.

A Cretan Healer's Handbook in the Byzantine Tradition

Author : Patricia Ann Clark
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317188594
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Book Synopsis A Cretan Healer's Handbook in the Byzantine Tradition by : Patricia Ann Clark

Download or read book A Cretan Healer's Handbook in the Byzantine Tradition written by Patricia Ann Clark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1930 the Cretan healer Nikolaos Konstantinos Theodorakis of Meronas re-copied a notebook containing medical lore passed down through his family over generations. The present volume offers an edition of this notebook together with an English translation, the first of its kind. It belongs to the genre of iatrosophia, practical handbooks dating mainly to the 17th to 19th centuries which compiled healing wisdom, along with snippets of agricultural, meteorological and veterinary advice, and admixtures of religion, astrology and magic. Both fascinating and of critical importance, iatrosophia allow glimpses of classical and Byzantine medical sources and illustrate the vitality and resilience of Greek traditional medical and botanical knowledge. From years spent exploring local healing customs in Crete's Amari region, Patricia Clark is able to present Theodorakis' iatrosophion against a rich historical, geographical and social background. Introductory essays and explanatory notes to the translation give context to the iatrosophion and provide the specialized information necessary for a good understanding of the text. The abundant materia medica of the notebook is treated in a substantial appendix. Each animal, mineral, plant or product is provided with an overview of its various names through the millennia. Such entries are not only a key to understanding the Greek medical legacy, but also a vivid illustration of its usage from antiquity to the present day.

A Cretan Healer's Handbook in the Byzantine Tradition

Author : Professor Patricia Ann Clark
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409482561
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book A Cretan Healer's Handbook in the Byzantine Tradition written by Professor Patricia Ann Clark and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1930 the Cretan healer Nikolaos Konstantinos Theodorakis of Meronas re-copied a notebook containing medical lore passed down through his family over generations. The present volume offers an edition of this notebook together with an English translation, the first of its kind. It belongs to the genre of iatrosophia, practical handbooks dating mainly to the 17th to 19th centuries which compiled healing wisdom, along with snippets of agricultural, meteorological and veterinary advice, and admixtures of religion, astrology and magic. Both fascinating and of critical importance, iatrosophia allow glimpses of classical and Byzantine medical sources and illustrate the vitality and resilience of Greek traditional medical and botanical knowledge. From years spent exploring local healing customs in Crete's Amari region, Patricia Clark is able to present Theodorakis' iatrosophion against a rich historical, geographical and social background. Introductory essays and explanatory notes to the translation give context to the iatrosophion and provide the specialized information necessary for a good understanding of the text. The abundant materia medica of the notebook is treated in a substantial appendix. Each animal, mineral, plant or product is provided with an overview of its various names through the millennia. Such entries are not only a key to understanding the Greek medical legacy, but also a vivid illustration of its usage from antiquity to the present day.

Cultural Identity in Minoan Crete

Author : Ellen Adams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108190766
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Identity in Minoan Crete written by Ellen Adams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neopalatial Crete - the 'Golden Age' of the Minoan Civilization - possessed palaces, exquisite artefacts, and iconography with pre-eminent females. While lacking in fortifications, ritual symbolism cloaked the island, an elaborate bureaucracy logged transactions, and massive storage areas enabled the redistribution of goods. We cannot read the Linear A script, but the libation formulae suggest an island-wide koine. Within this cultural identity, there is considerable variation in how the Minoan elites organized themselves and others on an intra-site and regional basis. This book explores and celebrates this rich, diverse and dynamic culture through analyses of important sites, as well as Minoan administration, writing, economy and ritual. Key themes include the role of Knossos in wider Minoan culture and politics, the variable modes of centralization and power relations detectable across the island, and the role of ritual and cult in defining and articulating elite control.

Ancient Crete: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199802831
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Crete: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide written by Oxford University Press and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In classics, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is just one of many articles from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics, a continuously updated and growing online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through the scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of classics. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.

Cretomania

Author : Alexandre Farnoux
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135157079X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Cretomania written by Alexandre Farnoux and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its rediscovery in the early 20th century, through spectacular finds such as those by Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos, Minoan Crete has captured the imagination not only of archaeologists but also of a wider public. This is shown, among other things, by its appearance and uses in a variety of modern cultural practices: from the innovative dances of Sergei Diaghilev and Ted Shawn, to public and vernacular architecture, psychoanalysis, literature, sculpture, fashion designs, and even neo-pagan movements, to mention a few examples.Cretomania is the first volume entirely devoted to such modern responses to (and uses of) the Minoan past. Although not an exhaustive and systematic study of the reception of Minoan Crete, it offers a wide range of intriguing examples and represents an original contribution to a thus far underexplored aspect of Minoan studies: the remarkable effects of Minoan Crete beyond the narrow boundaries of recondite archaeological research.The volume is organised in three main sections: the first deals with the conscious, unconscious, and coincidental allusions to Minoan Crete in modern architecture, and also discusses archaeological reconstructions; the second presents examples from the visual and performing arts (as well as other cultural practices) illustrating how Minoan Crete has been enlisted to explore and challenge questions of Orientalism, religion, sexuality, and gender relations; the third focuses on literature, and shows how the distant Minoan past has been used to interrogate critically more recent Greek history.

Crete in Transition

Author : Brice L. Erickson
Publisher : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
ISBN 13 : 1621390047
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (213 download)

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Book Synopsis Crete in Transition by : Brice L. Erickson

Download or read book Crete in Transition written by Brice L. Erickson and published by American School of Classical Studies at Athens. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a classification system and absolute chronology for black-gloss wares from Crete, establishing the first local and regional ceramic sequences during the period from 600 to 400 B.C. This new chronological foundation of datable pottery from excavated sites fills in the so-called 6th-/5th-century gap and dispels the prevailing view that this was a period of decline in population and one of artistic and cultural impoverishment. The 6th century heralded important changes in Cretan society, reflected in the reorganization of burial grounds, new patterns of sanctuary dedication, and the circulation of exotica among the elite. The study reveals unsuspected connections with mainland Greece, especially Sparta and Athens. Historians and archaeologists will find the author's conclusions, and their implications, to be of considerable interest.

Knossos

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780749632809
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Knossos written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the discovery and excavation of Knossos by the archaelogist Sir Arthur Evans and what the site revealed about the Minoan civilization that flourished on the island of Crete from about 3000 to 1150 B.C.

Quest

Author : George Robert Stow Mead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Quest written by George Robert Stow Mead and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Quest

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quest written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In Search of the Labyrinth

Author : Nicoletta Momigliano
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135015671X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book In Search of the Labyrinth written by Nicoletta Momigliano and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the European Association of Archaeologies 2023 book prize In Search of the Labyrinth explores the enduring cultural legacy of Minoan Crete by offering an overview of Minoan archaeology and modern responses to it in literature, the visual and performing arts, and other cultural practices. The focus is on the twentieth century, and on responses that involve a clear engagement with the material culture of Minoan Crete, not just with mythological narratives in Classical sources, as illustrated by the works of novelists, poets, avant-garde artists, couturiers, musicians, philosophers, architects, film directors, and even psychoanalysts – from Sigmund Freud and Marcel Proust to D.H. Lawrence, Cecil Day-Lewis, Oswald Spengler, Nikos Kazantzakis, Robert Graves, André Gide, Mary Renault, Christa Wolf, Don DeLillo, Rhea Galanaki, Léon Bakst, Marc Chagall, Mariano Fortuny, Robert Wise, Martin Heidegger, Karl Lagerfeld, and Harrison Birtwistle, among many others. The volume also explores the fascination with things Minoan in antiquity and in the present millennium: from Minoan-inspired motifs decorating pottery of the Greek Early Iron Age, to uses of the Minoans in twenty-first-century music, poetry, fashion, and other media.

Quest Study Bible

Author : Zondervan,
Publisher : HarperCollins Christian Publishing
ISBN 13 : 031087047X
Total Pages : 15365 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Quest Study Bible written by Zondervan, and published by HarperCollins Christian Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 15365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'With over one million copies sold, the Quest Study Bible is designed for inquisitive readers who desire solid answers to their many questions. With thousands of notes and hundreds of articles by top evangelical scholars, this unique Bible addresses the common, uncommon, and perplexing questions people ask about Scripture. Passages that puzzle will snap into clarity as readers explore God's Word and use the many study helps. Features include: * Over 7,000 sidebar notes that clarify the Bible's most puzzling passages * Nearly 350 articles by top scholars that address the most popular and provocative questions asked by Christians and non-Christians alike * Article index and expanded subject index that help readers quickly find the answers they're looking for * Single-column Scripture text format * Color-keyed verse numbers that supply instant reference to articles and sidebar notes * Book introductions that identify themes, characters, and events in each Bible book * Over 150 two-color in-text charts, timelines, and maps providing background information readers need to understand different passages * Concordance, dictionary, 16-page full-color map section, 7-page full-color timeline section, and reading plans to assist readers' studies of the Bible '

Final Neolithic Crete and the Southeast Aegean

Author : Krzysztof Nowicki
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 161451982X
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Final Neolithic Crete and the Southeast Aegean written by Krzysztof Nowicki and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an archaeological study of Crete in transition from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age (c. 4000 to 3000 BC) within the broader South Aegean context. The study, based on the author’s own fieldwork, contains a gazetteer of over 170 sites. The material from these sites will prompt archaeologists in Greece, Turkey, and the Middle East to reconsider their understanding of the foundation of Bronze Age civilization in the Aegean.

Ladies of the Field

Author : Amanda Adams
Publisher : Greystone Books
ISBN 13 : 1553656415
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (536 download)

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Download or read book Ladies of the Field written by Amanda Adams and published by Greystone Books. This book was released on 2010-09-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first women archaeologists were Victorian era adventurers who felt most at home when farthest from it. Canvas tents were their domains, hot Middle Eastern deserts their gardens of inquiry and labor. Thanks to them, prevailing ideas about feminine nature — soft, nurturing, submissive — were upended. Ladies of the Field tells the story of seven remarkable women, each a pioneering archaeologist, each headstrong, smart, and courageous, who burst into what was then a very young science. Amanda Adams takes us with them as they hack away at underbrush under a blazing sun, battle swarms of biting bugs, travel on camelback for weeks on end, and feel the excitement of unearthing history at an archaeological site. Adams also reveals the dreams of these extraordinary women, their love of the field, their passion for holding the past in their hands, their fascination with human origins, and their utter disregard for convention.

Beauty and the Abject

Author : Corrado Federici
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820488103
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Beauty and the Abject written by Corrado Federici and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original Scholarly Monograph

Renaissance Drama 33

Author : Patricia Parker
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810121999
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Drama 33 written by Patricia Parker and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theatre, and performance.