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Download or read book Texting Aphrodite written by Amy Lake and published by Belgrave House. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British-Greek Eleni Whitby works for the British embassy in Athens as a translator, but she has also taken on the task of translating manuscripts for Kent McAllister, an American archeologist. Eleni plans to keep their relationship strictly professional, but all her text-messaging friends, Greek relatives, and her gay ex-husband conspire against her. Then comes their trip to the island of Alonissos . . . Contemporary Women’s Fiction by Amy Lake; originally published by Belgrave House
Book Synopsis The "Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite" and Related Texts by : S. Douglas Olson
Download or read book The "Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite" and Related Texts written by S. Douglas Olson and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-07-04 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (600s BCE?) tells the story of a brief encounter between the goddess of love and the cowherd Anchises, which led to the birth of the Trojan hero Aeneas. Less than 300 lines long, it is among the shortest of the so-called ‘major Homeric Hymns’. However, it is also richly and beautifully conceived and narrated, and of enormous importance for the Greek mythology and the history of Greek religion. Olson offers a complete new text of the poem and of ten related ‘minor Hymns’, based on a fresh examination of the manuscripts; a full critical apparatus; and a translation. The work is completed by a substantial introduction, which treats inter alia the stories of Aeneas, the problem of dating early Greek epic, and the nature of the connections between the Hymn to Aphrodite and the Homeric and Hesiodic poems. Olson furthermore offers a substantial, narratologically-oriented commentary.
Book Synopsis Aphrodite and the Rabbis by : Burton L. Visotzky
Download or read book Aphrodite and the Rabbis written by Burton L. Visotzky and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard to believe but true: - The Passover Seder is a Greco-Roman symposium banquet - The Talmud rabbis presented themselves as Stoic philosophers - Synagogue buildings were Roman basilicas - Hellenistic rhetoric professors educated sons of well-to-do Jews - Zeus-Helios is depicted in synagogue mosaics across ancient Israel - The Jewish courts were named after the Roman political institution, the Sanhedrin - In Israel there were synagogues where the prayers were recited in Greek. Historians have long debated the (re)birth of Judaism in the wake of the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple cult by the Romans in 70 CE. What replaced that sacrificial cult was at once something new–indebted to the very culture of the Roman overlords–even as it also sought to preserve what little it could of the old Israelite religion. The Greco-Roman culture in which rabbinic Judaism grew in the first five centuries of the Common Era nurtured the development of Judaism as we still know and celebrate it today. Arguing that its transformation from a Jerusalem-centered cult to a world religion was made possible by the Roman Empire, Rabbi Burton Visotzky presents Judaism as a distinctly Roman religion. Full of fascinating detail from the daily life and culture of Jewish communities across the Hellenistic world, Aphrodite and the Rabbis will appeal to anyone interested in the development of Judaism, religion, history, art and architecture.
Download or read book Aphrodite's Sister written by Kelly Balch and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Petra Ambrosi is a Goddess with empathic abilities, though she is emotionless herself. She is overconfident and stubborn until she is sent down to Earth to live with mortals. Everything she believed she knew about the world turns upside down when she meets a young woman who unleashes emotions that have remained dormant in her for a century. Petra must now cope with a new vulnerability, as well as learn the hard way that the path to true love isn't always easy. She is challenged at every turn as she discovers her true self and feelings towards a mortal girl.
Book Synopsis Cyprus in Texts from Graeco-Roman Antiquity by :
Download or read book Cyprus in Texts from Graeco-Roman Antiquity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores Cyprus in ancient literature and through contemporary evidence, discussing texts from Greco-Roman antiquity that examine the island, its myths, gods, heroes, and literary output, as well as the way it is perceived in ancient literature.
Download or read book Aphrodite written by Monica S. Cyrino and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aphrodite explores the many myths and meanings of the Greek goddess of love, sex and beauty. One of the most widely worshipped and popular deities in Greek antiquity, Aphrodite emerges from the imaginations of the ancient Greek writers and artists as a multifaceted, powerful and charismatic figure. This volume explores the importance of Aphrodite for the ancient Greeks, as well as her enduring influence as a symbol of beauty, adornment, love and sexuality in contemporary culture. In a wide-ranging investigation of the universality of Aphrodite’s power and significance, this volume illuminates the numerous intricate levels of divinity embodied by the alluring figure of Aphrodite. Aphrodite offers new insights into the ancient texts and artistic representations of the goddess, as well as a comprehensive survey of the current scholarship about the origins and interpretations of Aphrodite, whilst also highlighting her eternal popular appeal across cultures and generations. A goddess of love who is not afraid to enter the battlefield; a goddess of bodily adornment who is the first to appear totally nude; a goddess born of the sea who emerges into the open sky: Aphrodite is a polyvalent deity, plural in nature, function and significance.
Book Synopsis Venus and Aphrodite by : Bettany Hughes
Download or read book Venus and Aphrodite written by Bettany Hughes and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian. Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a froth of white foam. But long before the Ancient Greeks conceived of this voluptuous blonde, she existed as an early spirit of fertility on the shores of Cyprus -- and thousands of years before that, as a ferocious warrior-goddess in the Middle East. Proving that this fabled figure is so much more than an avatar of commercialized romance, historian Bettany Hughes reveals the remarkable lifestory of one of antiquity's most potent myths. Venus and Aphrodite brings together ancient art, mythology, and archaeological revelations to tell the story of human desire. From Mesopotamia to modern-day London, from Botticelli to Beyoncé, Hughes explains why this immortal goddess continues to entrance us today -- and how we trivialize her power at our peril.
Book Synopsis Byzantine Commentaries on Ancient Greek Texts, 12th–15th Centuries by : Baukje van den Berg
Download or read book Byzantine Commentaries on Ancient Greek Texts, 12th–15th Centuries written by Baukje van den Berg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume to explore the commentaries on ancient texts produced and circulating in Byzantium. It adopts a broad chronological perspective (from the twelfth to the fifteenth century) and examines different types of commentaries on ancient poetry and prose within the context of the study and teaching of grammar, rhetoric, philosophy and science. By discussing the exegetical literature of the Byzantines as embedded in the socio-cultural context of the Komnenian and Palaiologan periods, the book analyses the frameworks and networks of knowledge transfer, patronage and identity building that motivated the Byzantine engagement with the ancient intellectual and literary tradition.
Download or read book Aphrodite's Stand written by Sandra Scott and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African-American Andra Williams is about to do the craziest thing she has ever done in her characteristically sane, if not monotonous, life. Standing at the altar, she is ready to commit her life forever to her soulmate, her GREEK soulmate, Jayson Theonopilus. The naive newlyweds believe their love can conquer all, but Jaysons older brother Stefano, patriarch to the Theonopilus olive oil fortune, feels otherwise. Possessing a terrible secret, Stefano summons Jayson to Greece hoping to destroy what he believes to be an unholy union and convince his sibling to stay in Athens and run the family business alongside him without Andra. Yet upon meeting Andra, Stefanos prejudice quickly turns to passion. He develops a powerful attraction to her, imagining her as the Greek goddess Aphrodite. Worse, Andra also finds herself drawn to the brooding, charismatic Stefano. But when Andra is kidnapped by a deranged serial killer, the brothers must put aside their differences and work together to rescue the woman they both love before she becomes the kidnappers next corpse. Aphrodites Stand shares the captivating tale of true love, forbidden passion, irrational prejudice and international intrigue where despite the stacking odds, it pays to take a stand for love.
Book Synopsis Sex, Violence, and Early Christian Texts by : Christy Cobb
Download or read book Sex, Violence, and Early Christian Texts written by Christy Cobb and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex, Violence, and Early Christian Texts examines instances of sexual violence within a diversity of early Christian texts carefully, ethically, and with an eye toward shining a light on the scourge of sexual violence that is so often manifest in both ancient and contemporary Christian communities.
Book Synopsis Judaism: Sacred Texts, History, Theology & Philosophy by : Louis Ginzberg
Download or read book Judaism: Sacred Texts, History, Theology & Philosophy written by Louis Ginzberg and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 9774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Press present this meticulously edited collection of the most sacred texts of Judaism, as well as most important historical and theological books about the Jewish faith. Content: Religious Texts: "Tanakh" – The Hebrew Bible "Talmud" – The Central Text of Rabbinic Judaism "Torah – Bilingual (English/Hebrew)" – Five Books of Moses "Tales and Maxims from the Midrash" – Biblical Exegesis by Ancient Judaic Authorities "The Kabbalah Unveiled" – Translations and commentaries of the Books of Zohar "The Sepher Ha-Zohar" – Zohar, or Splendor is the most important text of Kabbalah. "Siddur – The Standard Prayer Book" – The Authorized Daily Prayer Book of the United Hebrew Congregations "The Union Haggadah" – Jewish text that sets forth the order of the Passover Seder. History: The Jewish Wars (Flavius Josephus) Antiquities of the Jews (Flavius Josephus) History of the Jews (Heinrich Graetz) The Legends of the Jews (Louis Ginzberg) Philosophical Works: Kitab al Khazari (Kuzari) (Judah Halevi) The Guide for the Perplexed (Moses Maimonides) Ancient Jewish Proverbs (Abraham Cohen)
Book Synopsis Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts by : Barbara H. Gold
Download or read book Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts written by Barbara H. Gold and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-03-13 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines interrelated topics in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature: the status of women as writers, the status of women as rhetorical figures, and the status of women in society from the fifth to the early seventeenth century.
Book Synopsis The Oxyrhynchus Papyri: Texts (1351-1404) by : Bernard Pyne Grenfell
Download or read book The Oxyrhynchus Papyri: Texts (1351-1404) written by Bernard Pyne Grenfell and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Secret Texts of Hellenic Polytheism by : John Opsopaus
Download or read book The Secret Texts of Hellenic Polytheism written by John Opsopaus and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2022 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Translations and commentary on Plethon's complete system of Neopagan theology and religious practice focused on the Hellenic pantheon and deeply rooted in ancient Greek Paganism. Includes rituals, prayers, invocations, and hymns for holiday and daily use along with Plethon's complete sacred calendar"--
Download or read book Texts and Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aphrodite's Curse written by Kieran Ball and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-01-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic tale of a man searching for the answer to the eternal riddle of love while travelling through the Greek isles.
Book Synopsis Leveled Texts--Golden Mythology Text Set by :
Download or read book Leveled Texts--Golden Mythology Text Set written by and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This leveled text set features mythology with "golden" motifs, including tales about golden hair, golden apples, and a golden touch. Texts are written at four levels to differentiate instruction. Provided comprehension questions complement the texts.
