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Author : Michael Kerrigan
Publisher : 3c
ISBN 13 : 9781906842000
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Ancients in Their Own Words written by Michael Kerrigan and published by 3c. This book was released on 2009 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancients in Their Own Words brings to life the everyday experience of ancient people.
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Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421408058
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Cut These Words into My Stone written by and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lively ancient epitaphs in this bilingual collection fit together like small mosaic tiles, forming a vivid portrait of Greek society. Cut These Words into My Stone offers evidence that ancient Greek life was not only celebrated in great heroic epics, but was also commemorated in hundreds of artfully composed verse epitaphs. They have been preserved in anthologies and gleaned from weathered headstones. Three-year-old Archianax, playing near a well, Was drawn down by his own silent reflection. His mother, afraid he had no breath left, Hauled him back up wringing wet. He had a little. He didn't taint the nymphs' deep home. He dozed off in her lap. He's sleeping still. These words, translated from the original Greek by poet and filmmaker Michael Wolfe, mark the passing of a child who died roughly 2,000 years ago. Ancient Greek epitaphs honor the lives, and often describe the deaths, of a rich cross section of Greek society, including people of all ages and classes— paupers, fishermen, tyrants, virgins, drunks, foot soldiers, generals—and some non-people—horses, dolphins, and insects. With brief commentary and notes, this bilingual collection of 127 short, witty, and often tender epigrams spans 1,000 years of the written word. Cut These Words into My Stone provides an engaging introduction to this corner of classical literature that continues to speak eloquently in our time.
Author : R. Dean Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816367566
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (675 download)
Download or read book Through the Eyes of the Ancients written by R. Dean Davis and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A comprehensive study on the books of Moses in the Bible"--
Author : Jeremy Mynott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198713657
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Birds in the Ancient World written by Jeremy Mynott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birds played an important role in the ancient world: as indicators of time, weather, and seasons; as a resource for hunting, medicine, and farming; as pets and entertainment; as omens and messengers of the gods. Jeremy Mynott explores the similarities and surprising differences between ancient perceptions of the natural world and our own.
Author : Ronald L. Troxel
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 1575061058
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Seeking Out the Wisdom of the Ancients written by Ronald L. Troxel and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2005 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael V. Fox, long-time professor in the Dept. of Hebrew and Semitic Studies at the University of Wisconsin--Madison, is known both for his scholarship and his teaching. As the editors of this volume in his honor note, the care and sensitivity of his reading of the Hebrew text are well known, and he lavishes equal attention on his own writing, to the benefit of all who read his work, which now includes the first of two volumes in the Anchor Bible commentary on Proverbs (the next volume is in preparation), as well as monographs on wisdom literature in ancient Israel and elsewhere, and many articles. The rigor that he brought to his own work he also inflicted on his students, and they and a number of his colleagues honor him with their contributions to this volume. Contributors include: Menahem Haran, Kelvin G. Friebel, Cynthia L. Miller, Theron Young, Adele Berlin, William P. Brown, James L. Crenshaw, John A. Cook, Robert D. Holmstedt, Shamir Yona, Christine Roy Yoder, Carol R. Fontaine, Nili Shupak, Victor Avigdor Horowitz, Tova Forti, Richard L. Schultz, J. Cheryl Exum, Dennis R. Magary, Theodore J. Lewis, Sidnie White Crawford, Ronald L. Troxel, Karl V. Kutz, Heidi M. Szpek, Claudia V. Camp, Johann Cook, Leonard Greenspoon, Stephen G. Burnett, Carol A. Newsom, Shemaryahu Talmon, and Frederick E. Greenspahn. The book is organized around themes that reflect Prof. Fox's interests and work: Part 1: "Seeking Out Wisdom and Concerned with Prophecies" (Sir 39:1): Studies in Biblical Texts"; Part 2: "Preserving the Sayings of the Famous" (Sir 39:2): Text, Versions, and Method.
Author : Tamarack Song
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472051067
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Whispers of the Ancients written by Tamarack Song and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives inspired by the retelling of Indian stories and legends, with gorgeous artwork
Author : Neil Oliver
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473575265
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Wisdom of the Ancients written by Neil Oliver and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE PERFECT READ FOR TROUBLED TIMES From the bestselling author of The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places comes this inspiring and beautifully written meditation on the wisdom inherited from our ancestors. For all we have gained in the modern world, simple peace of mind is hard to find. In a time that is increasingly fraught with complexity and conflict, we are told that our wellbeing relies on remaining as present as possible. But what if the key to being present lies in the past? In Wisdom of the Ancients, Neil Oliver takes us back in time, to grab hold of the ideas buried in forgotten cultures and early civilizations. From Laetoli footprints in Tanzania to Keralan rituals, stone circles and cave paintings, Oliver takes us on a global journey through antiquity. A master storyteller, drawing on immense knowledge of our ancient past, he distils this wisdom into twelve messages that have endured the test of time, and invites us to consider how these might apply to our lives today. The result is powerful and inspirational, moving and profound.
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Author : Henry Callaway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Religious System of the Amazulu ... in Their Own Words: Unkulunlulu; or, The tradition of creation as existed among the Amazulu and other tribes of South Africa, p. [1]-126 written by Henry Callaway and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eleanor Robson
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787355942
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Ancient Knowledge Networks written by Eleanor Robson and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Knowledge Networks is a book about how knowledge travels, in minds and bodies as well as in writings. It explores the forms knowledge takes and the meanings it accrues, and how these meanings are shaped by the peoples who use it.Addressing the relationships between political power, family ties, religious commitments and literate scholarship in the ancient Middle East of the first millennium BC, Eleanor Robson focuses on two regions where cuneiform script was the predominant writing medium: Assyria in the north of modern-day Syria and Iraq, and Babylonia to the south of modern-day Baghdad. She investigates how networks of knowledge enabled cuneiform intellectual culture to endure and adapt over the course of five world empires until its eventual demise in the mid-first century BC. In doing so, she also studies Assyriological and historical method, both now and over the past two centuries, asking how the field has shaped and been shaped by the academic concerns and fashions of the day. Above all, Ancient Knowledge Networks is an experiment in writing about ‘Mesopotamian science’, as it has often been known, using geographical and social approaches to bring new insights into the intellectual history of the world’s first empires.
Author : Michelle Belanger
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738717053
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Vampires in Their Own Words written by Michelle Belanger and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2011-01-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There's no book available on the vampire culture today with the range, depth, and diversity of Belanger's Vampires in Their Own Words."—Katherine Ramsland, author of Piercing the Darkness and The Science of Vampires "Belanger gives empathetic access to an emergent new magical-religious community...An important sourcebook for both the scholar and inquiring public."—J. Gordon Melton, Director, Institute for the Study of American Religion, and author of The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead The Code of Silence Has Been Broken For this anthology, vampire Michelle Belanger convinced nearly two dozen real-life vampires to break the code of silence that has kept their fascinating subculture shrouded in secrecy. Sometimes provocative, sometimes surprisingly down-to-earth, these candid firsthand accounts come from both psi vampires who feed on energy and sanguine vampires who drink actual blood. Their true stories shed light on a variety of topics, including awakening to vampirism, the compulsion to feed and feeding practices, donor ethics and etiquette, and vampire traditions and codes of behavior.
Author : John Kenyon Kilbourn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Faiths of Famous Men in Their Own Words written by John Kenyon Kilbourn and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. Lobsang Rampa
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN 13 : 1774643839
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (746 download)
Download or read book Wisdom of the Ancients written by T. Lobsang Rampa and published by Rare Treasure Editions. This book was released on 2021-11-09T10:37:00Z with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a guide to help you clear away the mystery of enlightenment that is very difficult to come by. Have you ever wondered what 'prana' is? Well Dr. Rampa will explain it in Supplement A which consists of valuable breathing exercises that will help clear your mind. He elucidates on what the Kundalini is, the subconscious mind, the devil, Zen, love and so much more; all in easy to understand plain English. Reading Dr. Rampa's books is the first step to understanding the sutras and treatises on enlightenment and well worth reading over and over again to finally 'see the light'. Lobsang Rampa was one of the mystic pioneers, bringing the 'unknown' to the Western worlds. Reading his adventures will enrich any person.
Author : Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
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Download or read book The Lives of the English Poets with Critical Observations on Their Works and Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons written by Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Kerrigan
Publisher : Cavendish Square
ISBN 13 : 9781608700639
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Ancients in Their Own Words written by Michael Kerrigan and published by Cavendish Square. This book was released on 2011-01-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancients in Their Own Words brings to life the everyday experience of ancient people.
Author : Kae Tempest
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632862085
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)
Download or read book Brand New Ancients written by Kae Tempest and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this dazzling modern myth in verse, Kae Tempest became the youngest winner of the prestigious Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. Yes, the gods are on the park bench, the gods are on the bus, / The gods are all here, the gods are in us. / The gods are timeless, fearless, fighting to be bold, / conviction is a heavy hand to hold, / grip it, winged sandals tearing up the pavement -- / you, me, everyone: Brand New Ancients. Kae Tempest's words in Brand New Ancients are written to be read aloud; the book combines poem, rap, and humanist sermon, by turns tender and fierce. Set in Southeast London, Brand New Ancients finds the mythic in the mundane. It is the story of two half-brothers, Thomas and Clive, unknown to each other -- Thomas the result of an affair between his mother and Clive's father. Tempest, with wide-ranging empathy, takes us inside the passionless marriage of Jane and Kevin -- the man who suspects Thomas is not his son, but loves him just the same -- and the neighboring home of Mary and Brian, where betrayal has not been so placidly accepted. The sons of these two households -- quiet, creative Thomas and angry, destructive Clive -- will cross paths in adolescence, their fates converging with mortal fury. These characters' loves, their infidelities, their disappointments and their small comforts -- these, Tempest argues, are timeless. Our lives and our choices are no less important than those of history and myth. Awarded the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, Brand New Ancients insists on our importance as individuals -- and asserts Kae Tempest's importance as a talent impossible to ignore.
Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813217431
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Augustine in His Own Words written by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a comprehensive portrait--or rather, self-portrait, since its words are mostly Augustine's own--drawn from the breadth of his writings and from the long course of his career
Author : Camilla Townsend
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190673060
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Fifth Sun written by Camilla Townsend and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifth Sun offers a comprehensive history of the Aztecs, spanning the period before conquest to a century after the conquest, based on rarely-used Nahuatl-language sources written by the indigenous people.
