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Book Synopsis The Myth of the Phoenix According to Classical and Early Christian Traditions by : Roel B. van den Broek
Download or read book The Myth of the Phoenix According to Classical and Early Christian Traditions written by Roel B. van den Broek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary material -- INTRODUCTION -- THE EGYPTIAN BENU AND THE CLASSICAL PHOENIX -- A COPTIC TEXT ON THE PHOENIX -- THE NAME PHOENIX -- LIFESPAN AND APPEARANCES -- THE DEATH AND REBIRTH OF THE PHOENIX -- THE PHOENIX AS BIRD OF THE SUN -- THE ABODE -- THE FOOD -- THE SEX -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MYTH OF THE PHOENIX SOME CONCLUSIONS -- THE PHOENIX IN CLASSICAL AND EARLY CHRISTIAN ART -- BIBLICAL AND JEWISH TEXTS -- CORRIGENDA ET ADDENDA -- Maps I and II.
Download or read book The Phoenix written by Joseph Nigg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “insightful cultural history of the mythical, self-immolating bird” from Ancient Egypt to contemporary pop culture by the author of The Book of Gryphons (Library Journal). The phoenix, which rises again and again from its own ashes, has been a symbol of resilience and renewal for thousands of years. But how did this mythical bird come to play a part in cultures around the world and throughout human history? Here, mythologist Joseph Nigg presents a comprehensive biography of this legendary creature. Beginning in ancient Egypt, Nigg’s sweeping narrative discusses the many myths and representations of the phoenix, including legends of the Chinese, where it was considered a sacred creature that presided over China’s destiny; classical Greece and Rome, where it appears in the writings of Herodotus and Ovid; medieval Christianity, in which it came to embody the resurrection; and in Europe during the Renaissance, when it was a popular emblem of royals. Nigg examines the various phoenix traditions, the beliefs and tales associated with them, their symbolic and metaphoric use, and their appearance in religion, bestiaries, and even contemporary popular culture, in which the ageless bird of renewal is employed as a mascot and logo. “An exceptional work of scholarship.”—Publishers Weekly
Book Synopsis They Thought They Were Free by : Milton Mayer
Download or read book They Thought They Were Free written by Milton Mayer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist: Never before has the mentality of the average German under the Nazi regime been made as intelligible to the outsider.” —The New York TImes They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Milton Mayer’s book is a study of ten Germans and their lives from 1933-45, based on interviews he conducted after the war when he lived in Germany. Mayer had a position as a research professor at the University of Frankfurt and lived in a nearby small Hessian town which he disguised with the name “Kronenberg.” These ten men were not men of distinction, according to Mayer, but they had been members of the Nazi Party; Mayer wanted to discover what had made them Nazis. His discussions with them of Nazism, the rise of the Reich, and mass complicity with evil became the backbone of this book, an indictment of the ordinary German that is all the more powerful for its refusal to let the rest of us pretend that our moment, our society, our country are fundamentally immune. A new foreword to this edition by eminent historian of the Reich Richard J. Evans puts the book in historical and contemporary context. We live in an age of fervid politics and hyperbolic rhetoric. They Thought They Were Free cuts through that, revealing instead the slow, quiet accretions of change, complicity, and abdication of moral authority that quietly mark the rise of evil.
Book Synopsis Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945 by : Oliver Lubrich
Download or read book Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945 written by Oliver Lubrich and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-05-31 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the eyes of foreign authors, this collection offers a new perspective on the horrifying details of German life under Nazism, in accounts as gripping and well-written as a novel, but bearing all the weight of historical witness.
Download or read book Pioneer Jews written by Harriet Rochlin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions of the Jewish men and women who helped shape the American frontier.
Download or read book Classic Jazz written by Scott Yanow and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A listener's guide to jazz retraces the history of the music, from earliest recordings to the Depression, profiling the people and events behind this truly American art form in a collection of essays, reviews, profiles, and more. Original.
Book Synopsis Pre-Columbian America by : Britannica Educational Publishing
Download or read book Pre-Columbian America written by Britannica Educational Publishing and published by Britannica Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Mayan calendar to the Toltec architecture at Chichén Itzá, the bequests of ancient Mesoamerican civilizations have endured long after the societies that created them declined. The intellectual and cultural achievements of Pre-Columbian America rivaled those of ancient Rome and Egypt, and greatly enriched the landscape of present-day Mexico and Central America. The traditions, social organizations, languages, and ideas that shaped each of these cultures are examined in this fascinating volume.
Book Synopsis The Nature of Classical Collecting by : Alexandra Bounia
Download or read book The Nature of Classical Collecting written by Alexandra Bounia and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- Abbreviations -- General Preface to the Series -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Reading Ancient Texts: methodological approaches to interpretation and appropriation -- Part I: Notions of Collecting in the Ancient World -- 2 Collecting Material Testimonies: antiquarianism and notions of the past -- 3 'Gifts-to-Men and Gifts-to-Gods': defining (collecting) values -- 4 The Concept of the Individual as a Cultural Category: its implications in classical collecting -- 5 Collecting in Time and Space in the Classical World -- Part II: Classical Collectors and Collections -- 6 Visiting Pliny's Collection: reading a 'museum' -- 7 Poet's Gifts, Collector's Words: the epigrams of Martial -- 8 'Luxury is Not for Everybody': collecting as a means of sharing cultural and social identity -- 9 'Furnishing' the Collector's World: Cicero's Epistulae and the Verrine Orations -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index
Book Synopsis Heritage Comics and Comic Art Signature Auction #828 by :
Download or read book Heritage Comics and Comic Art Signature Auction #828 written by and published by Heritage Capital Corporation. This book was released on with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Classica Et Mediaevalia vol.54 by : Ole Thomsen
Download or read book Classica Et Mediaevalia vol.54 written by Ole Thomsen and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classica et Mediaevalia is an international periodical, published annually, with articles written by Danish and international scholars. The articles are mainly written in English, but also in French and German. The periodical deals from a philological point of view on classical antiquity in general and topics such as history of law and philosophy and the medieval ecclesiastic history. Classica et Mediaevalia covers the period from the Greco-Roman Antiquity until the Late Middle Ages. Volume 56 contents include: The Habit of Subsidization in Classical Athens: Toward a Thetic IdeologyA Note on Aristophanes, Clouds 76A Polis as a Part of a Larger Identity Group: Glimpses from the History of LepreonA Monger of Red Herrings: Plato's Method of Dead Ends in Politicus 257a-275cEpicurean GodsThe Contribution of Ars and Remedia to the Development of Autobiographical FictionHow Shall We Comprehend the Roman I-Poet? A Reassessment of the Roman Persona-TheoryJuvenal 3.146: A New Interpretati
Book Synopsis Platonic Patterns by : Holger Thesleff
Download or read book Platonic Patterns written by Holger Thesleff and published by Parmenides Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-07 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Platonic Patterns is a reprint collection of many of Holger Thesleff's studies in Plato-spanning from 1967 to 2003. It includes three books, four articles and a new introduction by the author, which sets the general outline of his interpretation of Plato. Whereas much of the scholarship on Plato has tended to operate within the frame of one language and/or a single school of thought, Thesleff constructively combines several discoveries and theories (philosophical, philological and historical) of various scholars with his own research, focusing on how Plato can be understood in his own context.The work represents small but significant breakthroughs in research on Plato from an internationally inclusive standpoint. Having previously been published mainly in Finland by scholarly societies, availability outside the Nordic countries has, up until now, been minimal.Thesleff employs his singular expertise of Greek language and literature to make innovative contributions to the study and interpretation of Plato. He thematically stresses the significance of the less overt elements found in Plato's dialogues, such as Plato's use of humor and his linguistic expression, while taking into account the chronology and/or the intended audience.
Book Synopsis The Phoenix Exultant by : John C. Wright
Download or read book The Phoenix Exultant written by John C. Wright and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And now The Phoenix Exultant, a second epic novel of an heroic quest in a far future world of super-science from an important new talent. The Phoenix Exultant is a continuation of the story begun in The Golden Age and, like it, a grand space opera in the tradition of Jack Vance and Roger Zelazny (with a touch of Cordwainer Smith-style invention). At the conclusion of the first book, Phaethon of Radamanthus House, was left an exile from his life of power and privilege. Now he embarks upon a quest across the transformed solar system--Jupiter is a second sun, Mars and Venus terraformed, humanity immortal--among humans, intelligent machines, and bizarre life-forms, to recover his memory, to regain his place in society and to move that society away from stagnation and toward the stars. And most of all Phaethon's quest is to regain ownership of the magnificent starship, the Phoenix Exultant, the most wonderful ship ever built, and to fly her to the stars. It is an astounding story of super-science, a thrilling wonder story that recaptures the verve of SF's Golden Age writers The Phoenix Exultant is a suitably grand and stirring fulfillment of the promise shown in The Golden Age and confirms John C. Wright as a major new talent in the field. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis A Bibliography of D. H. Lawrence by : Warren Roberts
Download or read book A Bibliography of D. H. Lawrence written by Warren Roberts and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-19 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pre-eminent bibliography for D. H. Lawrence was extensively revised, updated and expanded by Paul Poplawski for publication in 2001.
Download or read book Guide to Reprints written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Herodotus and the topography of Xerxes’ invasion by : Jan Zacharias Van Rookhuijzen
Download or read book Herodotus and the topography of Xerxes’ invasion written by Jan Zacharias Van Rookhuijzen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his Histories, Herodotus of Halicarnassus gave an account of Xerxes’ invasion of Greece (480 BCE). Among the information in this work features a rich topography of the places visited by the army, as well as of the battlefields. Apparently there existed a certain demand among the Greeks to behold the exact places where they believed that the Greeks had fallen, gods had appeared, or Xerxes had watched over his men. This book argues that Herodotus’ topography, long taken at face value as if it provided unambiguous access to the historical sites of the war, may partly be a product of Greek imagination in the approximately fifty years between the Xerxes’ invasion and its publication, with the landscape functioning as a catalyst. This innovative approach leads to a new understanding of the topography of the invasion, and of the ways in which Greeks in the late fifth century BCE understood the world around them. It also prompts new suggestions about the real-world locations of various places mentioned in Herodotus’ text.
Download or read book The Roman Family written by Suzanne Dixon and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1992-04 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together what historians, anthropologists, and philologists have learned about the family in ancient Rome. Among the topics: family relations and the law, marriage, children in the Roman family, and the family through the life cycle. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Oxford Classics written by and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford, the home of lost causes, the epitome of the world of medieval and renaissance learning in Britain, has always fascinated at a variety of levels: social, institutional, cultural. Its rival, Cambridge, was long dominated by mathematics, while Oxford's leading study was Classics. In this pioneering book, 16 leading authorities explore a variety of aspects of Oxford Classics in the last two hundred years: curriculum, teaching and learning, scholarly style, publishing, gender and social exclusion and the impact of German scholarship. Greats (Literae Humaniores) is the most celebrated classical course in the world: here its early days in the mid-19th century and its reform in the late 20th are discussed, in the latter case by those intimately involved with the reforms. An opening chapter sets the scene by comparing Oxford with Cambridge Classics, and several old favourites are revisited, including such familiar Oxford products as Liddell and Scott's "Greek-English Lexicon", the "Oxford Classical Texts", and Zimmern's "Greek Commonwealth". The book as a whole offers a pioneering, wide-ranging survey of Classics in Oxford.
