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Haunted Greece and Rome

Author : Debbie Felton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292789246
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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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.

Haunted Greece and Rome

Author : D. Felton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780292757325
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book Haunted Greece and Rome written by D. Felton and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Greek and Roman Ghost Stories

Author : Lacy Collison-Morley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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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 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Soldiers and Ghosts

Author : J. E. Lendon
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300119794
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Soldiers and Ghosts written by J. E. Lendon and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sparta, Macedonia, and Rome--how did these nations come to dominate the ancient world? Lendon shows readers that the most successful armies were those that made the most effective use of cultural tradition.

Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds

Author : Daniel Ogden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195151237
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (512 download)

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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.

The Secret History of Poltergeists and Haunted Houses

Author : Claude Lecouteux
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594776938
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book The Secret History of Poltergeists and Haunted Houses written by Claude Lecouteux and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What poltergeist accounts through the ages reveal about our own worldviews • Provides a wide array of case studies from ancient Greece and Rome to medieval Europe to the modern world • Explores the relationship between poltergeists and troubled adolescence • Looks beneath the Christian adulteration of pagan practices to reveal the hidden ancestral beliefs tied to poltergeists and haunted houses Stories of poltergeists and their mischievous and sometimes violent actions--knocking, stone or chair throwing, moving objects with invisible hands, and slamming or opening doors--are a constant through the ages. What changes is how we interpret this activity. For our pagan ancestors this phenomenon was caused by helper spirits whose manifestations revealed their unhappiness with a household. The medieval Christian church demonized these once helpful spirits and held exorcisms to expel them from the houses they haunted--which proved effective less than half the time. The Age of Enlightenment cast these incidents as clever hoaxes, and many still believe this today. But poltergeist manifestations continue to appear and often defy attempts to debunk them as pranks. What then is behind this phenomenon? Exploring accounts of poltergeists from ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, and the modern world, Claude Lecouteux finds that while our interpretations of poltergeists may change, the manifestations always follow a similar course and evolution. He shows how modern scientific studies of poltergeist manifestations have found a strong tie between these visitations and the presence of a troubled adolescent in the house. Looking beneath the Christian adulteration of pagan practices to reveal the hidden ancestral beliefs tied to poltergeists and haunted houses, the author shows how these unhappy spirits serve as confirmation of the supernatural beings that share the earth with us and of our relationship with the natural and unseen world, a relationship we must take care to keep in balance.

Greek and Roman Ghost Stories

Author : Lacy Collison-Morley
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781492710721
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Greek and Roman Ghost Stories written by Lacy Collison-Morley and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek and Roman Ghost Stories By Lacy Collison-Morley Greek and Roman Literature Brand New Edition This collection was originally begun at the suggestion of Mr. Marion Crawford, whose wide and continual reading of the classics supplied more than one of the stories. They were put together during a number of years of casual browsing among the classics, and will perhaps interest others who indulge in similar amusements. CONTENTS I.—THE POWER OF THE DEAD TO RETURN TO EARTH II.—THE BELIEF IN GHOSTS IN GREECE AND ROME III.—STORIES OF HAUNTING IV.—NECROMANCY V.—VISIONS OF THE DEAD IN SLEEP VI.—APPARITIONS OF THE DEAD VII.—WARNING APPARITIONS

Stories of Old Greece and Rome

Author : Emilie K. Baker
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Stories of Old Greece and Rome written by Emilie K. Baker and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Stories of Old Greece and Rome" by Emilie K. Baker. 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.

GREEK & ROMAN GHOST STORIES

Author : Lacy 1875 Collison-Morley
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781362816515
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book GREEK & ROMAN GHOST STORIES written by Lacy 1875 Collison-Morley and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Phantom Image

Author : Patrick R. Crowley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022664832X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book The Phantom Image written by Patrick R. Crowley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from a rich corpus of art works, including sarcophagi, tomb paintings, and floor mosaics, Patrick R. Crowley investigates how something as insubstantial as a ghost could be made visible through the material grit of stone and paint. In this fresh and wide-ranging study, he uses the figure of the ghost to offer a new understanding of the status of the image in Roman art and visual culture. Tracing the shifting practices and debates in antiquity about the nature of vision and representation, Crowley shows how images of ghosts make visible structures of beholding and strategies of depiction. Yet the figure of the ghost simultaneously contributes to a broader conceptual history that accounts for how modalities of belief emerged and developed in antiquity. Neither illustrations of ancient beliefs in ghosts nor depictions of afterlife, these images show us something about the visual event of seeing itself. The Phantom Image offers essential insight into ancient art, visual culture, and the history of the image.

Greek and Roman Ghost Stories

Author : Lacy Collison-Morley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Greek and Roman Ghost Stories written by Lacy Collison-Morley and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the haunted history of the Greco-Roman world in this illustrated edition of Lacy Collison-Morley's classic introduction to Greek and Roman ghost stories.

The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths

Author : William Hansen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691195927
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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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.

Greek and Roman Necromancy

Author : Daniel Ogden
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691207062
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Greek and Roman Necromancy written by Daniel Ogden and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In classical antiquity, there was much interest in necromancy--the consultation of the dead for divination. People could seek knowledge from the dead by sleeping on tombs, visiting oracles, and attempting to reanimate corpses and skulls. Ranging over many of the lands in which Greek and Roman civilizations flourished, including Egypt, from the Greek archaic period through the late Roman empire, this book is the first comprehensive survey of the subject ever published in any language. Daniel Ogden surveys the places, performers, and techniques of necromancy as well as the reasons for turning to it. He investigates the cave-based sites of oracles of the dead at Heracleia Pontica and Tainaron, as well as the oracles at the Acheron and Avernus, which probably consisted of lakeside precincts. He argues that the Acheron oracle has been long misidentified, and considers in detail the traditions attached to each site. Readers meet the personnel--real or imagined--of ancient necromancy: ghosts, zombies, the earliest vampires, evocators, sorcerers, shamans, Persian magi, Chaldaeans, Egyptians, Roman emperors, and witches from Circe to Medea. Ogden explains the technologies used to evocate or reanimate the dead and to compel them to disgorge their secrets. He concludes by examining ancient beliefs about ghosts and their wisdom--beliefs that underpinned and justified the practice of necromancy. The first of its kind and filled with information, this volume will be of central importance to those interested in the rapidly expanding, inherently fascinating, and intellectually exciting subjects of ghosts and magic in antiquity.

Greek and Roman Ghost Stories

Author : Lacey Collison Morley
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781533275035
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Greek and Roman Ghost Stories written by Lacey Collison Morley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to [email protected] This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via [email protected]

Greek and Roman Ghost Stories

Author : Lacy Collison-Morely
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781482691856
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book Greek and Roman Ghost Stories written by Lacy Collison-Morely and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancients strongly believed that those who died without proper burial could not cross the River Styx for at least one hundred years. According to Virgil, they were doomed to wander the banks until the years had elapsed. In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus, in the course of practicing a rite to safely enter Hades, spoke briefly with a ghostly warrior to whom he promised a fitting burial on his way home. Ghosts were tied to murders and violent deaths. Suetonius, in The Twelve Caesars describes how Nero arranged to have his mother killed, yet "often admitted that he was hounded by his mother's ghost..." Suetonius also records that Nero "set Persian magicians at work to conjure up the ghost and entreat its forgiveness." Persians and Egyptians had long reputations for magic, divination, and the ability to deal with the supernatural. Magic and even the assistance of gods and goddess as in the case of Odysseus were often vital. As Daniel Ogden writes, "contact with ghosts...could often be fatal to the living." In Jean-Claude Schmitt's detailed Ghosts in the Middle Ages, a group of ghosts carousing around a church altar suddenly attack and kill a priest who had come late at night to witness the phenomena. Ghosts and Demons Contrasted by the Early Church In the Gospel of Mark (5.1-20) Jesus arrived at Gerasenes and was confronted by a "man from the tombs with an unclean spirit." In the ancient world, it was a common belief that ghosts inhabited tombs. Many of these ancient tombs lay outside the communities of the living, necropoleis containing the sarcophagi of the deceased. The man confronting Jesus was said to have "had his dwelling among the tombs" and was infected with many demons. For many reasons, ghosts could be viewed as "unclean" spirits. The differentiation with the notion of "demon" as a separate evil spirit associated with the legions of Satan is a Christian one.

01 The Thieves of Ostia

Author : Caroline Lawrence
Publisher : Orion Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 1444003518
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book 01 The Thieves of Ostia written by Caroline Lawrence and published by Orion Children's Books. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in Caroline Lawrence's internationally bestselling Roman Mysteries series, re-issued with a fantastic new cover look. Flavia Gemina is a natural at solving mysteries. The daughter of a ship's captain living in Ostia, the port of Rome, in AD79, she and her three friends, Jonathan, a Jewish boy (and secretly a Christian); Nubia, an African slave girl; and Lupus, a mute beggar boy, must work together to discover who is beheading the watchdogs that guard people's homes, and why. A talented storyteller, Caroline Lawrence has created a delightfully readable and accessible series that children will want to read time and time again.

The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome

Author : Chris Scarre
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780140513295
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome written by Chris Scarre and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1995-09-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifteen centuries after its fall, the Roman Empire remains one of the most formative influences on the history of Europe. Its physical remains dot the landscape from Scotland to Syria. Its cities are still the great metropolises of the continent. Its law and institutions have shaped modern practice, and its ideal of a united Europe has haunted politicians ever since. Fully illustrated and featuring more than sixty full- colour maps, this atlas traces the rise and fall of the first great multinational state. It looks at its provinces and cities, its trade and economy, its armies and frontier defences; follows its foreign ward and internecine struggles; and charts its transformation into a Christian theocracy and its fall in 476.