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The Sibyls

Author : Mama Zogbé
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0971624569
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book The Sibyls written by Mama Zogbé and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is now currently the 'holy seat of the Vatican' in Italy, was originally the sacerdotal seat of these ancient black Sibyl Queen Mothers. Centuries before for Christ, they were known to heal the sick, restore dignity and strength to the weak, and restore sight to the blind. They were famous for curing lameness, epileptics, deaf mutes and lepers. They were said to 'cast out demons' and even to 'raise-up the dead' Their prophecies are the oldest and most authentic in the world. They were the basis for Greek and Roman tragedies and plays. More astonishing, their prophetic books were later collected by the Roman authorities, who needed a 'western theological' foundation in order to compete with the powerful levitical Jews. These Sibyl prophecies soon became the sole and undisputed precursor to the western, Christian Bible. .

The Sibyl Series of the Fifteenth Century

Author : Robin Raybould
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004332154
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Sibyl Series of the Fifteenth Century written by Robin Raybould and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robin Raybould's The Sibyl Series of the Fifteenth Century examines the startling and sudden change that occurred in the representation of the sibyls throughout Europe during the early Renaissance. Raybould describes how and why during this period the number, names, attributes and prophecies of these archaic prophetesses were selected and stabilized thus providing new witness to the Christian message in sharp contrast to earlier representations where the sibyls had played a minor role in the history of classical and Christian divination and prophecy. The book examines all the fifteenth-century instances of these series, as well as the manuscripts which describe them, identifies the origin of the sibylline prophecies and suggests reasons for the widespread popularity of this new artistic phenomenon.

Rebirth and Renewal

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0791098052
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Rebirth and Renewal written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an examination of the use of rebirth and renewal in classic literary works.

The Sibyl Sanderson Story

Author : Jack Winsor Hansen
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781574670943
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Sibyl Sanderson Story written by Jack Winsor Hansen and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Born in 1864 in Sacramento, California, to a life of wealth and privilege, Sibyl lived in the opulent luxury of the Victorian age. In her youth, famed operetta composers Gilbert and Sullivan were guests in her father's house. She was courted by potentates, noblemen, and millionaires, including William Randolph Hearst, two Russian czars, and the Crown Prince Baudouin of Belgium. But Sibyl's short life was plagued by onstage breakdowns, unscrupulous managers, personal tragedy, and an ill-fated marriage to the handsome, hedonistic Cuban playboy Antonio Terry.".

From Death to Rebirth

Author : Thomas Macy Finn
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809136896
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book From Death to Rebirth written by Thomas Macy Finn and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this fascinating study of antiquity, Thomas Finn explores the role of ritual and conversion in Judaism, Christianity, Greco-Roman Paganism, and the philosophical schools. Finn makes history come alive both by carefully delineating the historical, cultural, and social factors at work in conversion and by drawing on the stories and firsthand accounts of conversion in ancient times."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Uncovering Jewish Creativity in Book III of the Sibylline Oracles

Author : Ashley Bacchi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004426078
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Uncovering Jewish Creativity in Book III of the Sibylline Oracles written by Ashley Bacchi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Uncovering Jewish Creativity in Book III of the Sibylline oracles, Ashley L. Bacchi reclaims the importance of the Sibyl as a female voice of prophecy and reveals new layers of intertextual references that address political, cultural, and religious dialogue in second-century Ptolemaic Egypt. This investigation stands apart from prior examinations by reorienting the discussion around the desirability of the pseudonym to an issue of gender. It questions the impact of identifying the author’s message with a female prophetic figure and challenges the previous identification of paraphrased Greek oracles and their function within the text. Verses previously seen as anomalous are transferred from the role of Greek subterfuge of Jewish identity to offering nuanced support of monotheistic themes.

Prince of the North

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504009479
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Prince of the North written by Harry Turtledove and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great leader rises when forced to defend his troubled lands against an onslaught of monsters in the second book of this remarkable fantasy series featuring Gerin the Fox Peace in the North has been fragile and tentative in the five years since the terrible Werenight, when the light of four full moons transformed men into beasts. Now cut off completely from the Elabon Empire, the land is in violent dispute, squabbled over by minor barons hungry for greater power. Gerin the Fox is one of the few who stand firm against the encroaching chaos, but his own life has been violently shaken, first by a heartless betrayal and then by the kidnapping of his young son. Having angered a vengeful deity, he cannot look to the gods for support. Yet it is Gerin to whom the people must turn when an earthquake tears their land open, undoing an ancient warding spell and releasing a host of ravaging beasts from the dark underground. The stunning sequel to Werenight, Hugo Award–winning author Harry Turtledove’s Prince of the North is a magnificent work of fantasy fiction. The master builder of wondrous worlds and alternate histories works his literary sorcery once again in this richly imagined tale of war, magic, gods, and monsters.

Death and Rebirth in Virgil's Arcadia

Author : M. Owen Lee
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791400166
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Death and Rebirth in Virgil's Arcadia written by M. Owen Lee and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death and Rebirth in Virgil's Arcadia is an introduction to the Eclogues, based on sound scholarship but also personally felt and addressed to a popular audience. It outlines clearly the literary and historical background of Virgil's early poems, discusses each eclogue in some detail, and offers a new and challenging interpretation of the collection as a whole. The ten eclogues are shown to be a young poet's attempt at self-understanding. Their symmetrical arrangement is a journey inward toward the central experience of death, and a journey back toward rebirth and the writing of larger and greater works.

The Last Descendant of Aeneas

Author : Marie Tanner
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300054880
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book The Last Descendant of Aeneas written by Marie Tanner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From antiquity to the eve of the modern era, rulers of Western empires inspired hero worship by proclaiming their divine origins. In this fascinating original study, Marie Tanner presents the history of the emperor's mythic image and its continuing influence on Western political thought. She shows that these pretensions to divinity were based on the Trojan legend and the myth of Rome as developed in Vergil's Aeneid and that later Christian emperors expanded these claims by tracing their lineage not only to the pagan gods but also to the priest-kings of the Old Testament. Through this amalgam of heritages each successive Holy Roman emperor proclaimed that he was the last descendant of Aeneas, destined to yield the terrestrial rule of Rome to Christ and thereby inaugurate millennial peace. By examining a wide range of literary, artistic, and historical sources plus a corpus of new illustrations, Tanner discovers remarkable chains of evidence for this process, one that culminates with the Renaissance Hapsburgs who imbued the holiest symbols of the faith with dynastic meaning as they attempted to consolidate all priestly and secular powers in their grip. On these foundations Philip II of Spain, son of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the first monarch to rule the four known continents, created a new concept of absolute monarchy that shaped the principles of modern statecraft and determined the dominant form of government in Europe for the next two centuries.

The Sibylline Oracles

Author : J. L. Lightfoot
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191568775
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Sibylline Oracles written by J. L. Lightfoot and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, J. L. Lightfoot throws a bridge between two mutually ignorant areas: pagan oracles and Judaeo-Christian studies. The Sibyl was a legendary figure in Greco-Roman antiquity who was credited with verse prophecies, often of an apocalyptic character. Lightfoot describes how she was taken over by Jews in the Hellenistic period, and later by Christians, as a vehicle for their own understandings of prophecy. She explores what those understandings were, and describes how the message was then clothed in the very distinctive and mannered pagan idiom that was the hallmark of Sibylline prophecy. The volume contains an edition, translation, and commentary on the undeservedly neglected first and second books of extant oracles. The commentary illustrates some of the ways in which biblical scriptures were represented and recast in an oracular idiom, and pays particular attention to the oracle's most noteworthy feature, its extraordinarily rich description of the Day of Judgement.

Fifty Years at the Sibyl's Heels

Author : Nicholas Horsfall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192609319
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Fifty Years at the Sibyl's Heels written by Nicholas Horsfall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Horsfall was one of the most recognizable and influential Latinists of his generation. His main legacy is his work on Virgil and the five erudite commentaries on the Aeneid, but he was also a prolific writer of papers, both Virgilian and non-Virgilian. A number of Horsfall's papers, including the important 'Camilla', are translated in this volume for the first time. Stretching from 1971 to 2015, the papers are drawn from his entire output demonstrating his unparalleled ability to connect Roman poetry with history, antiquarianism, and Realien. While showcasing his unique analysis of Virgil, it also highlights Horsfall's work as both a Latinist and a Romanist, illuminating the coherence in his approach. This volume includes many Virgilian papers that have become classics--on Aeneas the colonist, and on the Aeneas-legend, for example. This does not detract from the value of the non-Virgilian papers, many of which--on the collegium poetarum, and on discussions of reading and libraries at Rome, for example--have become standard treatments of their subjects. Throughout all these works there is an astonishing degree of connection, with glimpses in many papers of his other research interests. 'Nicholas Horsfall needs to be approached through his short papers, typically fresh, innovative and stimulating, and he has been so productive that nobody can claim to have had a full view of his scholarship. When it comes to placing a literary text in the frames offered by material culture, documents, landscapes, history, and by religious, legal, military and antiquarian studies, he was unrivalled.' Professor Alessandro Barchiesi, Professor of Classics, New York University.

Virgil and the Sibyl

Author : John Pollard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Virgil and the Sibyl written by John Pollard and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sacred Divine Mothers (Iyami)

Author : Iyanla Bivinet-Ash Au Bari
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1398445134
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Divine Mothers (Iyami) written by Iyanla Bivinet-Ash Au Bari and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading this book will stretch the boundaries of sacred knowledge as you immerse yourself in a primordial ocean of revelations. Our Mothers (Iyami) are the super powerful cosmological Divine Mothers (Super Goddesses), who throughout the annals of history are known by a thousand names. They are the right-hand counsel to the Supreme Creator, an inextricable force of creation who sustain all life. The name Iyami relates to the Yoruba religion of West Africa, yet their expansiveness is worldwide, having been revered throughout the woman’s mysteries since time immemorial. They were present on Earth before humans arrived here. They are considered cosmic, primordial and ancestral, their essence is multi-layered. Throughout history, we find them in roles of great power, counsels to the ruling elite, or as matrilineal High Priestesses. Their aim is to ensure justice, harmony and balance in the inner and outer realms, guaranteeing the survival of not only this planet, but others in the universal eco-system encompassing every being who fights to maintain the light of the Creator. His-story has committed acts of genocide against the Divine Feminine hierarchy in subduing and usurping her station in favour of a materialistic and violent patriarchal system. Any woman who exhibited her innate feminine magical powers became hunted, tortured, killed and labelled as witches. Yet now it is time, more so than ever, for the Divine Feminine Iyami to return and to rise once more here on Earth, as is the birthright for every female alive today and their children’s children.

The Twentieth Century in Poetry

Author : Peter Childs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134696604
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book The Twentieth Century in Poetry written by Peter Childs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-01-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now, most teaching has focused on the novel as the most useful way of raising issues of gender, ethnicity, theory, nationality, politics and social class. In The Twentieth Century in Poetry Peter Childs places literature in a wider social context and demonstrates that all poetry is historically produced and consumed and is part of our understanding of society and identity. This student-friendly critical survey includes chapters on: * the Georgians * First World War poetry * Eliot * Yeats * the thirties * post-war poetry * contemporary anthologies * women's poetry * Northern Irish and black British poets It builds a narrative not of poetry in the twentieth century, but of the twentieth century in poetry.

Virgil: Aeneid IV

Author : Virgil,
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472538722
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Virgil: Aeneid IV written by Virgil, and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Book IV of Virgil's "Aeneid", one of the most studied books of that epic poem, Dido, queen of Carthage, is inflamed by love for Aeneas. The goddesses Juno and Venus plot to unite them, and their 'marriage' is consummated in a cave during a hunt. However, Jupiter sends Mercury to remind Aeneas of his duty, and the hero departs despite Dido's passionate pleas. At the end of the book, Dido commits suicide. This classic edition of the Latin text of Book IV replaces the long-serving edition by Gould and Whiteley, making this book more accessible to today's students and taking account of the most recent scholarship and critical approaches to Virgil. It includes a substantial introduction, annotation to explain language and content, and a comprehensive vocabulary.

Juno's Aeneid

Author : Joseph Farrell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691221251
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Juno's Aeneid written by Joseph Farrell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric hero This compelling book offers an entirely new way of understanding the Aeneid. Many scholars regard Vergil's poem as an attempt to combine Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey into a single epic. Joseph Farrell challenges this view, revealing how the Aeneid stages an epic contest to determine which kind of story it will tell—and what kind of hero Aeneas will be. Farrell shows how this contest is provoked by the transgressive goddess Juno, who challenges Vergil for the soul of his hero and poem. Her goal is to transform the poem into an Iliad of continuous Trojan persecution instead of an Odyssey of successful homecoming. Farrell discusses how ancient critics considered the flexible Odysseus the model of a good leader but censured the hero of the Iliad, the intransigent Achilles, as a bad one. He describes how the battle over which kind of leader Aeneas will prove to be continues throughout the poem, and explores how this struggle reflects in very different ways on the ethical legitimacy of Rome’s emperor, Caesar Augustus. By reframing the Aeneid in this way, Farrell demonstrates how the purpose of the poem is to confront the reader with an urgent decision between incompatible possibilities and provoke uncertainty about whether the poem is a celebration of Augustus or a melancholy reflection on the discontents of a troubled age.

Olympus

Author : Devdutt Pattanaik
Publisher : Random House India
ISBN 13 : 9385990195
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book Olympus written by Devdutt Pattanaik and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Olympus is the home of the Greek gods, much like Amravati of the Hindu devas. • Zeus, leader of Olympians, wields a thunderbolt like Indra, and rides an eagle like Vishnu. • The feats of the Greek hero Heracles, known to Romans as Hercules, reminded many of Krishna, as did his name, ‘Hari-kula-esha’ or lord of the Hari clan. • The Greek epic of a husband sailing across the sea with a thousand ships to bring his wife, Helen, back from Troy seems strikingly similar to the story of Ram rescuing Sita from Lanka. Is there a connection between Greek and Hindu mythology then? Does it have something to do with a common Indo-European root? Or maybe an exchange of ideas in the centuries that followed the arrival of Alexander the Great, when Greek emissaries travelled to the kingdoms of Mathura and Magadha? In this book, mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik turns his attention to ancient Greek tales, and explores a new world of stories. Long have Europeans and Americans retold Indic mythologies. It is time for Indians to reverse the gaze.