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Author : Paul Victor Christopher Baur
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Eileithyia written by Paul Victor Christopher Baur and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gunther Holbl
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1623034396
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Shrine of Eileithyia Minoan Goddess of Childbirth and Motherhood at the Inatos Cave in Southern Crete Volume I The Egyptian-Type Artifacts written by Gunther Holbl and published by INSTAP Academic Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a catalog of the ancient Egyptian imports and Egyptianizing artifacts found in 1962 during the excavation of a cave near Tsoutsouros (ancient Inatos), Crete, Greece. The cave was a sanctuary dedicated to the Minoan and Greek goddess Eileithyia. The Aegyptiaca of the Minoan and Mycenaean eras on Crete signify the political and economic relations between the Aegean rulers and the Egyptian royal court. Several of the objects are Egyptian scarabs, and they certainly represent official Egyptian-Cretan affairs, especially those dating from the reign of Amenophis III to the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Much of the cataloged objects come from the 10th to 7th centuries B.C., and they are appropriate for venerating the goddess of childbirth and motherhood. The statuettes, seals, and vessels are lavishly illustrated with plates of color photographs.
Author : Perry L. Westmoreland
Publisher : LEE AND VANCE PUBLISHING CO
ISBN 13 : 0979324815
Total Pages : 829 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (793 download)
Download or read book Ancient Greek Beliefs written by Perry L. Westmoreland and published by LEE AND VANCE PUBLISHING CO. This book was released on 2007 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Greek Beliefs explores the mysteries of the ancient myths and religious beliefs of a great people. The text is divided into three sections, Greek mythology, the ancient Greeks, and conclusions. A brief history and lengthy glossary are included. The book is designed as a basic text for the introduction to ancient Greek mythology and beliefs, and the text muses about the religious lessons we might learn from them. It contains abridged stories of Greek mythology, including the extant Greek plays, and considers portions of the works of the great writers, including Aeschylus, Euripides Hesiod, Homer, Plato, and Sophocles. It opens a comprehensive window into the lives of these great ancient people.
Author : Tobias Fischer-Hansen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 8763507889
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (635 download)
Download or read book From Artemis to Diana written by Tobias Fischer-Hansen and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is presented in English and German. This book contains 19 articles dealing with various aspects of the Greek goddess Artemis and the Roman goddess Diana. The themes presented in the volume deal with the Near Eastern equivalents of Artemis, the Bronze Age Linear B testimonies, and Artemis in Homer and in the Greek tragedies. Sanctuaries and cult, and regional aspects are also dealt with - encompassing Cyprus, the Black Sea region, Greece and Italy. Pedimental sculpture, mosaics and sculpture form the basis of investigations of the iconography of the Roman Diana; the role of the cult of Diana in a dynastic setting is also examined. There is a single section that deals with the reception of the iconography of the Ephesian Artemis during the Renaissance and later periods.
Author : Martin Bernal
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813536553
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Black Athena: The linguistic evidence written by Martin Bernal and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421408813
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Orphic Hymns written by and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling English translation of the mysterious and cosmic Greek poetry known as the Orphic Hymns. At the very beginnings of the Archaic Age, the great singer Orpheus taught a new religion that centered around the immortality of the human soul and its journey after death. He felt that achieving purity by avoiding meat and refraining from committing harm further promoted the pursuit of a peaceful life. Elements of the worship of Dionysus, such as shape-shifting and ritualistic ecstasy, were fused with Orphic beliefs to produce a powerful and illuminating new religion that found expression in the mystery cults. Practitioners of this new religion composed a great body of poetry, much of which is translated in The Orphic Hymns. The hymns presented in this book were anonymously composed somewhere in Asia Minor, most likely in the middle of the third century AD. At this turbulent time, the Hellenic past was fighting for its survival, while the new Christian faith was spreading everywhere. The Orphic Hymns thus reflect a pious spirituality in the form of traditional literary conventions. The hymns themselves are devoted to specific divinities as well as to cosmic elements. Prefaced with offerings, strings of epithets invoke the various attributes of the divinity and prayers ask for peace and health to the initiate. Apostolos N. Athanassakis and Benjamin M. Wolkow have produced an accurate and elegant translation accompanied by rich commentary.
Author : Sir John Gardner Wilkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians written by Sir John Gardner Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Parker
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780199216116
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Polytheism and Society at Athens written by Robert Parker and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-11-24 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first attempt that has ever been made to give a comprehensive account of the religious life of ancient Athens. The city's many festivals are discussed in detail, with attention to recent anthropological theory; so too, for instance, are the cults of households and of smaller groups, the role of religious practice and argumentation in public life, the authority of priests, the activities of religious professionals such as seers and priestesses, magic, the place of theatrical representations of the gods within public attitudes to the divine. A long final section considers the sphere of activity of the various gods, and takes Athens as a uniquely detailed test case for the structuralist approach to polytheism. The work is a synchronic, thematically organized complement (though designed to be read independently) to the same author's Athenian Religion: A History (Oxford 1996).
Author : Nancy Conner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440502412
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Everything Classical Mythology Book written by Nancy Conner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-01-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romance, betrayal, passion, tragedy, violence, and scandal. No, it's not the latest reality TV search for love--it's classical mythology. For years, people have turned to the ancient Greek and Roman myths for entertaining reading, unbelievable storylines, unique characters, and unparalleled drama. This guide explains the great stories and how they still influence literature, entertainment, and everyday life. From heroes and heroines to monsters and villains, this entertaining guide covers it all. Inside, you will learn how: The Greeks defeated the Titans Odysseus tricked the Cyclops Hercules accomplished the twelve labors Peruses slew Medusa The Greeks bested the Trojans Hades abducted Persephone Bellerophon killed the Chimera With an easy reference chart of the gods and goddesses and their interrelations, this action-packed book helps you bring classical mythology to life!
Author : Matthew Dillon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113436508X
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion written by Matthew Dillon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has often been thought that participation in fertility rituals was women's most important religious activity in classical Greece. Matthew Dillon's wide-ranging study makes it clear that women engaged in numerous other rites and cults, and that their role in Greek religion was actually more important than that of men. Women invoked the gods' help in becoming pregnant, venerated the god of wine, worshipped new and exotic deities, used magic for both erotic and pain-relieving purposes, and far more besides. Clear and comprehensive, this volume challenges many stereotypes of Greek women and offers unexpected insights into their experience of religion. With more than fifty illustrations, and translated extracts from contemporary texts, this is an essential resource for the study of women and religion in classical Greece.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Mythology and Monuments of Ancient Athens Being a Translation of a Portion of The, Attica of Pausanias written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108897622
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Hera of Zeus written by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goddess Hera is represented in mythology as an irascible wife and imperfect mother in the face of a frivolous Zeus. Beginning with the Iliad, many narrative traditions depict her wrath, the infidelities of her royal husband and the persecutions to which she subjects his illegitimate offspring. But how to relate this image to the cults of the sovereign goddess in her sanctuaries across Greece? This book uses the Hera of Zeus to open up new perspectives for understanding the society of the gods, the fate of heroes and the lives of men. As the intimate enemy of Zeus but also the fierce guardian of the legitimacy and integrity of the Olympian family, she takes shape in more subtle and complex ways that make it possible to rethink the configuration of power in ancient Greece, with the tensions that inhabited it, and thus how polytheism works.
Author : Stephanie Lynn Budin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131744888X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Artemis written by Stephanie Lynn Budin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artemis is a literary, iconographic, and archaeological study of the ancient Greek goddess of the hunt, who presided over the transitions and mediations between the wild and the civilized, youth and maturity, life and death. Beginning with a study of the early origins of Artemis and her cult in the Bronze and Archaic Ages, Budin explores the goddess' persona and her role in the lives of her worshippers. This volume examines her birth and childhood, her place in the divine family, her virginity, and her associations with those places where the wilds become the "cities of just men." The focus then turns to Artemis’ role in the lives of children and women, particularly how she helps them navigate the transition to adulthood and, perhaps too often, death. Budin goes on to reconsider some of the more harrowing aspects of Artemis’ mythology, such as plague and bloodshed, while also examining some of her kinder, oft overlooked associations. Finally, the role of Artemis in the Renaissance and modern society is addressed, from the on-going fascination with the "breasts" on the statue of Artemis of Ephesos to the Artemisian aspects of Katniss Everdeen. Written in an accessible style, Artemis is a crucial resource for students not only of Greek myth, religion and cult, but also those seeking to understand the lives and roles of girls and women in ancient Greece, as this goddess presided over their significant milestones, from maiden to wife to mother.
Author : Martin Bernal
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 197880721X
Total Pages : 1018 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)
Download or read book Black Athena written by Martin Bernal and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1990 American Book Award What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the foundation of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasiatic cultures. But these Afroasiatic influences have been systematically ignored, denied or suppressed since the eighteenth century—chiefly for racist reasons. The popular view is that Greek civilization was the result of the conquest of a sophisticated but weak native population by vigorous Indo-European speakers—Aryans—from the North. But the Classical Greeks, Bernal argues, knew nothing of this “Aryan model.” They did not see their institutions as original, but as derived from the East and from Egypt in particular. This long-awaited third and final volume of the series is concerned with the linguistic evidence that contradicts the Aryan Model of ancient Greece. Bernal shows how nearly 40 percent of the Greek vocabulary has been plausibly derived from two Afroasiatic languages – Ancient Egyptian and West Semitic. He also reveals how these derivations are not limited to matters of trade, but extended to the sophisticated language of politics, religion, and philosophy. This evidence, according to Bernal, greatly strengthens the hypothesis that in Greece an Indo-European-speaking population was culturally dominated by Ancient Egyptian and West Semitic speakers. Provocative, passionate, and colossal in scope, this volume caps a thoughtful rewriting of history that has been stirring academic and political controversy since the publication of the first volume.
Author : Pausanias
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mythology & Monuments of Ancient Athens written by Pausanias and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introductory essay and archaeological commentary are by far the greater part of the work. The translation appears in small sections, each followed by its own commentary, well provided with illustrations.
Author : Eleni Marantou
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803277726
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Exploring the Sacred Landscape of the Ancient Peloponnese written by Eleni Marantou and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the origins of the religious system of the Peloponnese to identify the factors behind its subsequent development from the Geometric to the Classical period. Through a presentation of cult places, the deities worshipped, and the epithets used, the book explores preferences for particular deities and the reasons for this.
Author : Theodora Hadzisteliou Price
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004672427
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Kourotrophos written by Theodora Hadzisteliou Price and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
