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Author : Lacy Collison-Morley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Greek and Roman Ghost Stories written by Lacy Collison-Morley and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Debbie Felton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292789246
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Haunted Greece and Rome written by Debbie Felton and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of ghostly spirits who return to this world to warn of danger, to prophesy, to take revenge, to request proper burial, or to comfort the living fascinated people in ancient times just as they do today. In this innovative, interdisciplinary study, the author combines a modern folkloric perspective with literary analysis of ghost stories from classical antiquity to shed new light on the stories' folk roots. The author begins by examining ancient Greek and Roman beliefs about death and the departed and the various kinds of ghost stories which arose from these beliefs. She then focuses on the longer stories of Plautus, Pliny, and Lucian, which concern haunted houses. Her analysis illuminates the oral and literary transmission and adaptation of folkloric motifs and the development of the ghost story as a literary form. In her concluding chapter, the author also traces the influence of ancient ghost stories on modern ghost story writers, a topic that will interest all readers and scholars of tales of hauntings.
Author : Daniel Ogden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195151237
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds written by Daniel Ogden and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary mythic tradition and in ritual practice. In this book, Daniel Ogden presents 300 texts in new translations, along with brief but explicit commentaries. Authors include the well known (Sophocles, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Pliny) and the less familiar, and extend across the whole of Graeco-Roman antiquity.
Author : William Hansen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691195927
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths written by William Hansen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first anthology to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories- from myths and fairy tales to jokes Captured centaurs and satyrs, talking animals, people who suddenly change sex, men who give birth, the temporarily insane and the permanently thick-witted, delicate sensualists, incompetent seers, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot laugh-these are just some of the colorful characters who feature in the unforgettable stories that ancient Greeks and Romans told in their daily lives. Together they created an incredibly rich body of popular oral stories that include, but range well beyond, mythology-from heroic legends, fairy tales, and fables to ghost stories, urban legends, and jokes.
Author : B. P. Reardon
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520305590
Total Pages : 982 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Collected Ancient Greek Novels written by B. P. Reardon and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, flourished in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but also and indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure. Enormously popular in the Renaissance, these stories have been less familiar in later centuries. Translations of the Greek stories were not readily available in English before B.P. Reardon’s first appeared in 1989.Nine complete stories are included here as well as ten others, encompassing the whole range of classical themes: romance, travel, adventure, historical fiction, and comic parody. A foreword by J.R. Morgan examines the enormous impact this groundbreaking collection has had on our understanding of classical thought and our concept of the novel.
Author : Rick Chillot
Publisher : White Wolf Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781588464835
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Ghost Stories written by Rick Chillot and published by White Wolf Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I see you You go about your life like nothing ever happened. You think you're safe now that it's done, like a problem that you've solved once and for all. You're wrong. I remember what you did. You might have killed me, but I'm not gone. I stayed behind and I won't go until you've paid." This book includes: * Your first opportunity to play mortals as characters with the Storytelling System * The mystery of the World of Darkness grows with five ghost stories to play around your gaming table * A great prequel to Vampire, Werewolf and Mage chronicles.
Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241381282
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (413 download)
Download or read book Japanese Ghost Stories written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dead wreak revenge on the living, paintings come alive, spectral brides possess mortal men and a priest devours human flesh in these chilling Japanese ghost stories retold by a master of the supernatural. Lafcadio Hearn drew on the phantoms and ghouls of traditional Japanese folklore - including the headless 'rokuro-kubi', the monstrous goblins 'jikininki' or the faceless 'mujina' who stalk lonely neighbourhoods - and infused them with his own memories of his haunted childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland to create these terrifying tales of striking and eerie power. Today they are regarded in Japan as classics in their own right. Edited with an introduction by Paul Murray
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Classic Ghost Stories written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers ghost stories that have long been considered classical: stories that have served as prototypes for other work, and stories that are in themselves uniquely great.
Author : David Gemmell
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0307797457
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Ghost King written by David Gemmell and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “David Gemmell tells a tale of very real adventure, the stuff of true epic fantasy.”—R.A. Salvatore, New York Times bestselling author Chaos and terror stalked the realm. The king had been slain by traitors, and the sword of power had been lost beyond the Circle of Mist. Armies of Saxons, Angles, Jutes, and Brigantes cut a gory swath across the land, led by puppets of the ruthless Witch Queen—whose minions included dark, bloodthirsty creatures and a savage, undead warrior. All hope lay with young Thuro—in whose veins flowed the blood of kings. He would have to defeat the Witch Queen’s monsters and travel to the land of the Mist, there to seek a ghostly army. And the only one who could prepare Thuro to achieve his birthright was the mountain warrior Culain, the one man who knew the queen’s deadly secret . . . The legend of the mystic Stones of Power begins with a tale of blood and glory, of love and betrayal, as a boy must come of age amidst the seemingly impossible quest to become the High King.
Author : Lacy Collison-Morley
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Greek and Roman Ghost Stories written by Lacy Collison-Morley and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Greek and Roman Ghost Stories" by Lacy Collison-Morley. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1786645084
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)
Download or read book Chilling Ghost Short Stories written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-12 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Authors and collections. A deluxe edition with a chilling selection of original and classic short stories. The new tales, many of them published here for the first time, are written by today's top authors, and they bring a modern twist to the outstanding mix of intrigue that lurks in the furtive imagination of E.F. Benson, Henry James, Wilkie Collins, Washington Irving, Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, and so many more within this outstanding collection. New, contemporary and notable writers featured are: Philip Brian Hall, Annette Siketa, Cathy Smith, Amanda C. Davis, Donna Cuttress, James Dorr, Lesa Pascavis Smith, Luke Murphy, Jonathan Balog, Michael Penkas, Raymond Little, Rhiannon Rasmussen, Tim Foley, Trevor Boelter, Vonnie Winslow Crist, Brian Rappatta, M. Regan, Zach Chapman, Kurt Bachard, and Jeff Parsons.
Author : Graham Anderson
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Greek and Roman Folklore written by Graham Anderson and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2006-08-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an introduction to Greek and Roman folklore, providing general background information, descriptions of traditional forms and prominent themes, overviews of characters, and much more.
Author : Gillian Bradshaw
Publisher : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0312870752
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Island of Ghosts written by Gillian Bradshaw and published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. This book was released on 1999-05-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman Empire sends a barbarian warrior to faraway Britain in this historical novel of love and survival in the ancient world. A Sarmatian warrior-prince, Ariantes is uprooted from his home and thrust into the honorless lands of the Romans. The victims of a wartime pact with the emperor Marcus Aurelius, Ariantes and his troop are sent to watch over Hadrian’s Wall. Unsurprisingly, the Sarmatians hate Britain—an Island of Ghosts, filled with pale faces, stone walls, and an uneasy past. Struggling to command his own people to defend a land they despise, Ariantes is accepted by all, but trusted by none. The Romans fear his barbarian background, and his own men fear his gradual Roman assimilation. When Ariantes uncovers a conspiracy sure to damage both his Roman benefactors and his beloved countrymen, as well as put him and the woman he loves in grave danger, he must make a difficult decision—one that will change his own life forever.
Author : Vicki León
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620402971
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)
Download or read book How to Mellify a Corpse written by Vicki León and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In How to Mellify a Corpse, Vicki León brings her particular hybrid of history and humor to the entwined subjects of science and superstition in the ancient world, from Athens and Rome to Mesopotamia, the Holy Land, Egypt, and Carthage. León covers subjects as diverse as astronomy and astrology, philosophy and practicalities of life and death (including the titular ancient method of embalming), and ancient mechanical engineering. How to Mellify a Corpse of course invokes legendary thinkers (Pythagoras and his discoveries in math and music, Aristotle's books on politics and philosophy, and Archimedes' "Eureka" moment), but it also delves deeply into the lives of everyday people, their understanding and beliefs. A feast for the curious mind, How to Mellify a Corpse is not only for those with an interest in the experimental: it's for anyone who's inspired by the imagination and ingenuity humanity uses to understand our world.
Author : Jane Ellen Harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion written by Jane Ellen Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191518352
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Elder Pliny on the Human Animal written by and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-03-17 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a detailed study of the human animal, described by its author as the raison d'etre of nature, Book Seven of the elder Pliny's Natural History is crucial to the understanding of the work as a whole. In addition, however, it provides a valuable insight into the extraordinary complex of ideas and beliefs current in Pliny's era, many of which have resonances for other eras and cultures. The present study includes a substantial introduction examining the background to Pliny's life, thought, and writing, together with a modern English translation, and a detailed commentary which emphasizes the importance of Book Seven as possibly the most fascinating cultural record surviving from early imperial Rome.
Author : Daniel Ogden
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444334174
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Greek Religion written by Daniel Ogden and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major addition to Blackwell’s Companions to the Ancient World series covers all aspects of religion in the ancient Greek world from the archaic, through the classical and into the Hellenistic period. Written by a panel of international experts Focuses on religious life as it was experienced by Greek men and women at different times and in different places Features major sections on local religious systems, sacred spaces and ritual, and the divine
