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Author : Joh H. Croon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (187 download)
Download or read book The herdsman of the dead written by Joh H. Croon and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J.H. Croon
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Herdsman of the Dead: Studies on Some Cults, Myths and Legends of the Ancient Greek Colonization-area written by J.H. Croon and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Johan Harm Croon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (458 download)
Download or read book The Herdsman of the Dead, Studies of Some Cults, Myths and Legends of the Ancient Greek Colonization-area. Academisch Proefschrift... 1952... Door Johan Harm Croon... written by Johan Harm Croon and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nadine Gordimer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101571063
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Conservationist written by Nadine Gordimer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1983-02-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a novel of enormous power' New Statesman 'Gordimer is a great writer ... It is Turgenev that she most brings to mind' -- New York Review of Books The Booker Prize winning political novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Nadine Gordimer Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son, and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm.
Author : Snorri Sturluson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Stories of the Kings of Norway, Called The Round World (Heimskringla) written by Snorri Sturluson and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eiríkr Magnússon
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Total Pages : 476 pages
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Download or read book The Story of the Ere-dwellers (Eyrbyggja Saga) written by Eiríkr Magnússon and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book The Saga Library: The story of the ere-dwellers with the story of the heath-slayings written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Edward Forrest
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
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Download or read book Eight Days written by Robert Edward Forrest and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1082 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of Herodotus Volume 1 written by Herodotus and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in 440 BC in the Ionic dialect of classical Greek, 'The History of Herodotus' serves as a record of the ancient traditions, politics, geography, and clashes of various cultures that were known in Western Asia, Northern Africa and Greece at that time. Although not a fully impartial record, it remains one of West's most important sources regarding these affairs. Moreover, it established the genre and study of history in the Western world, despite the existence of historical records and chronicles beforehand.
Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504061926
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Histories written by Herodotus and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the masterworks of Western civilization from the Ancient Greek author and orator known as the “Father of History.” Written in the fifth century BC, The Histories is a wide-ranging inquiry into the Greco-Persian Wars and beyond. Factual accounts of military matters on land and at sea, commanders, governments, and rulers are juxtaposed with Greek mythology. As inspiring to travel writers and journalists as it is to historians, this epic work includes a wealth of geographical and ethnographical information on the Middle East, Northern Africa, and Greece. It remains one of the West’s most important sources regarding the ancient world. “To transfer the responsibility for events away from heaven and squarely on to mortals may seem, two and half thousand years on, an obvious task, but in so doing Herodotus fundamentally changed the way that humans look at the world—and that is why Cicero called him the father of history.” —The Guardian “We may no longer share Herodotus’ view of the past, yet we delight in the richness of the world he sketched. Its stories, landscapes, characters, and insights into human nature linger long after the reading. What makes the work stand out above all is the Histories’ sense of wonder and discovery. Herodotus’ Histories remain a classic testament to the pleasures of researching and learning.” —The Conversation
Author : James Talboys Wheeler
Publisher : London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Life and Travels of Herodotus in the Fifth Century written by James Talboys Wheeler and published by London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. This book was released on 1856 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hung Wu
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0873658647
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (736 download)
Download or read book Res written by Hung Wu and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Res 61/62 includes “Chinese coffins from the first millennium b.c. and early images of the afterworld” by Alain Thote; “Art and personhood” by Björn Ewald; “Western Han sarcophagi and the transformation of Chinese funerary art” by Zheng Yan; “Reading identity on Roman strigillated sarcophagi” by Janet Huskinson; and other papers.
Author : Edward Pettit
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783748303
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)
Download or read book The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in 'Beowulf' written by Edward Pettit and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of a giant sword melting stands at the structural and thematic heart of the Old English heroic poem Beowulf. This meticulously researched book investigates the nature and significance of this golden-hilted weapon and its likely relatives within Beowulf and beyond, drawing on the fields of Old English and Old Norse language and literature, liturgy, archaeology, astronomy, folklore and comparative mythology. In Part I, Pettit explores the complex of connotations surrounding this image (from icicles to candles and crosses) by examining a range of medieval sources, and argues that the giant sword may function as a visual motif in which pre-Christian Germanic concepts and prominent Christian symbols coalesce. In Part II, Pettit investigates the broader Germanic background to this image, especially in relation to the god Ing/Yngvi-Freyr, and explores the capacity of myths to recur and endure across time. Drawing on an eclectic range of narrative and linguistic evidence from Northern European texts, and on archaeological discoveries, Pettit suggests that the image of the giant sword, and the characters and events associated with it, may reflect an elemental struggle between the sun and the moon, articulated through an underlying myth about the theft and repossession of sunlight. The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in 'Beowulf' is a welcome contribution to the overlapping fields of Beowulf-scholarship, Old Norse-Icelandic literature and Germanic philology. Not only does it present a wealth of new readings that shed light on the craft of the Beowulf-poet and inform our understanding of the poem’s major episodes and themes; it further highlights the merits of adopting an interdisciplinary approach alongside a comparative vantage point. As such, The Waning Sword will be compelling reading for Beowulf-scholars and for a wider audience of medievalists.
Author : Herodotus
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226327752
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The History written by Herodotus and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus, the father of history. Here is the historian, investigating and judging what he has seen, heard, and read, and seeking out the true causes and consequences of the great deeds of the past. In his History, the war between the Greeks and Persians, the origins of their enmity, and all the more general features of the civilizations of the world of his day are seen as a unity and expressed as the vision of one man who as a child lived through the last of the great acts in this universal drama. In Grene's remarkable translation and commentary, we see the historian as a storyteller, combining through his own narration the skeletal "historical" facts and the imaginative reality toward which his story reaches. Herodotus emerges in all his charm and complexity as a writer and the first historian in the Western tradition, perhaps unique in the way he has seen the interrelation of fact and fantasy. "Reading Herodotus in English has never been so much fun. . . . Herodotus crowds his fresco-like pages with all shades of humanity. Whether Herodotus's view is 'tragic,' mythical, or merely common sense, it provided him with a moral salt with which the diversity of mankind could be savored. And savor it we do in David Grene's translation."—Thomas D'Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor "Grene's work is a monument to what translation intends, and to what it is hungry to accomplish. . . . Herodotus gives more sheer pleasure than almost any other writer."—Peter Levi, New York Times Book Review
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3440 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Collected Norse Sagas written by Anonymous and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 3440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Collected Norse Sagas represents a seminal treasury of ancient lore, encapsulating the profound mythical and historical narratives that define the Viking Age. This collection showcases a vast range of literary styles, from the poetic eddas penned by anonymous skalds to the intricately constructed prose of Snorri Sturluson. It spans the gamut of heroic feats, divine machinations, and the fateful interplay between gods and men, all the while emphasizing the diversity, complexity, and depth of Norse literature. The compilation stands as a monument to the rich literary tradition of the North, immortalizing its characters and tales that have influenced countless generations. The contributing figures to this anthology, though largely anonymous save for Snorri Sturluson, collectively embody the essence of Norse literary and cultural heritage. These sagas are rooted in historical events, cultural beliefs, and the vibrant oral storytelling tradition of the Viking and medieval Scandinavian world. They reflect a mosaic of societal values of the time, offering insights into the mindset, spiritual beliefs, and social dynamics of an era defined by exploration, conquest, and a deep reverence for the natural and supernatural worlds. The Collected Norse Sagas presents readers with a unique gateway into the variegated tapestry of Norse mythology and history. For scholars and enthusiasts alike, this anthology is not merely an academic resource but a portal to the imagination of the Norse world. It invites a comprehensive exploration of its themes, promising an enriching experience to those who seek to understand the profound legacy of the Nordic people. This collection is an essential contribution to the fields of mythology, history, and literature, urging readers to delve into its pages and discover the enduring wisdom contained within.
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Total Pages : 1198 pages
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Download or read book The General Stud Book Containing Pedigrees of English Race Horses, &c. &c. from the Earliest Accounts to the Year 1831, Inclusive written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eiríkr Magnússon
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Total Pages : 478 pages
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Download or read book The Saga Library: The story of the Ere-dwellers (Eyrbyggja Saga) with the story of the Heath-slayings (Heiðarvía Saga). written by Eiríkr Magnússon and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
