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Book Synopsis Theras and His Town by : Caroline Dale Snedeker
Download or read book Theras and His Town written by Caroline Dale Snedeker and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Theras, born an Athenian, is taken to Sparta by a relative when his father is lost at war. He is forced to live like a Spartan, a brutal life with no pity for those who are not physically perfect and totally obedient to Spartan control. After enduring rigorous training and repeated cruel incidents, he escapes with a Perioikoi boy and heads for his beloved Athens. This captures the authentic flavor of ancient Greek culture in a story of adventure and excitement that fully illustrates the differences between the Athenian and Spartan cultures.
Book Synopsis Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean by : Irad Malkin
Download or read book Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean written by Irad Malkin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek attitudes to settlement and territory were often articulated through myths and cults. This book emphasizes less the poetic, timeless qualities of the myths than their historical function in the archaic and Classical periods, covering the spectrum from explicit charter myths legitimating conquest, displacement, and settlement to the 'precedent-setting' and even aetiological myths, rendering new landscapes 'Greek'. This spectrum is broadest in the world of Spartan colonization – the Spartan Mediterranean – where the greater challenges to territorial possession and Sparta's acute self-awareness of its relative national youthfulness elicited explicit responses in the form of charter myths. The concept of a Spartan Mediterranean, in contrast to the image of a land-locked Sparta, is a major contribution of this book. This revised edition contains a substantial new Introduction which engages with critical and scholarly developments on Sparta since the original publication.
Download or read book Thera written by Tseruyah Shaleṿ and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Jerusalem, the novel opens just after archeologist Ella Miller asks her husband, her former mentor, to leave. When her decision is met with condemnation by friends and family, she plunges into depression and anxiety over how their six-year-old son will cope. With dense, beautiful prose, Shalev chips away at Ella's past, digging up resentments and disappointments, and presenting them sliver by sliver. Although Ella observes her son with touching detail, her focus is ultimately inward, making her a hard character to like. When she becomes involved with a lover, for instance, her self-absorption keeps her from recognizing the patterns she's repeating. Ella is known for drawing unsubstantiated parallels between the Israelites' exodus from Egypt and the flight from a major volcanic eruption on the Greek island of Thera (now Santorini); she believes societies glorify their histories, creating art and myth from disaster, leaving the reader to hope that this lovely, troubled woman will someday be able to do the same for herself.
Download or read book Spartans written by Nigel M. Kennell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spartans: A New History chronicles the complete history of ancient Sparta from its origins to the end of antiquity. Helps bridge the gap between the common conceptions of Sparta and what specialists believe and dispute about Spartan history Applies new techniques, perspectives, and archaeological evidence to the question of what it was to be a Spartan Takes into account new specialist scholarship and research published in Greek, which is not readily available elsewhere Places Spartan society into its wider Greek context
Download or read book Translation Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Women in the Footsteps of the Buddha by : Kathryn R. Blackstone
Download or read book Women in the Footsteps of the Buddha written by Kathryn R. Blackstone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed exploration of the quest for liberation on the part of the early bhikkunis. Only text in the Buddhist tradition of known female authorship. Important to anyone investigating women's own perspective on their religion. Also provides a clear statement about how renunciants understand nibbana.
Author :Dr. Alfred R. Scheepers Publisher :Uitgeverij Abraxas / Olive Press ISBN 13 :9079133167 Total Pages :382 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (791 download)
Book Synopsis A survey of buddhist thought by : Dr. Alfred R. Scheepers
Download or read book A survey of buddhist thought written by Dr. Alfred R. Scheepers and published by Uitgeverij Abraxas / Olive Press. This book was released on 2013-12-20 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the development of Buddhist thought from a primarily philosophical and epistemological point of view, this wide-ranging study covers a period of more than 2,000 years, following Buddhism from its homeland, India, through its expansion into China and Japan. The diverse historical and cultural settings of Buddhism are considered, and the significant changes and shifts in Buddhist thought are placed in context with the remarkable degree of continuity that has been maintained. Included are discussions of early Buddhist schools in India and South-East Asia, the differences between the two main branches of Buddhism, and the development of Zen philosophies in Japan.
Book Synopsis The Good That Men Do by : Andy Mangels
Download or read book The Good That Men Do written by Andy Mangels and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-02-27 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pax Galactica. Enemies become allies. Old secrets are at last revealed. Long-held beliefs and widely accepted truths are challenged. Man turns to leisurely pursuits. In this golden age, two old friends are drawn together. They seek to understand, and wonder how what they have long believed, what they have been taught, was never so. Over two hundred years ago, the life of one of Starfleet's earliest pioneers came to a tragic end, and Captain Jonathan Archer, the legendary commander of Earth's first warp-five starship, lost a close friend. Or so it seemed for many years. But with the passage of time, and the declassification of certain crucial files, the truth about that fateful day -- the day that Commander Charles "Trip" Tucker III didn't die -- could finally be revealed. Why did Starfleet feel it was necessary to rewrite history? And why only now can the truth be told?
Book Synopsis Collected Wheel Publications Volume VII by : Various
Download or read book Collected Wheel Publications Volume VII written by Various and published by Buddhist Publication Society. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains ten numbers of the renowned Wheel Publication series, dealing with various aspects of the Buddha’s teaching. Wheel Publication 90-92: The Life of Sariputta - Nyanaponika Thera; 93: The Eight Marvellous and Wonderful Truths - Bhikkhu Khantipalo; 94: The Truth of Anatta - Dr. G.P. Malalasekera; 95-97: Sixty Songs of Milarepa - Bhikkhu Khantipalo; 98-99: Apannaka Sutta, Cula Malunkya Sutta, Upali Sutta by Narada Thera & Mahinda Thera: 100: Buddhism in Sri Lanka - H.R. Perera
Book Synopsis The Histories of Herodotus by : Herodotus
Download or read book The Histories of Herodotus written by Herodotus and published by Aegitas. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Histories of Herodotus is now considered the founding work of history in Western literature. Written in 440 BC in the Ionic dialect of classical Greek, The Histories 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.
Book Synopsis The History of Herodotus by : Herodotus
Download or read book The History of Herodotus written by Herodotus and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Vinaya Texts by : Thomas William Rhys Davids
Download or read book Vinaya Texts written by Thomas William Rhys Davids and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1885.
Book Synopsis Vinaya Texts: The Kullavagga, IV-XII by :
Download or read book Vinaya Texts: The Kullavagga, IV-XII written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Sacred Books of the East: Vinaya texts, pt. III by :
Download or read book The Sacred Books of the East: Vinaya texts, pt. III written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vinaya Texts written by and published by Atlantic Publishers & Distri. This book was released on 1881 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mahavamsa by : Thera Mahanama-sthavira
Download or read book The Mahavamsa written by Thera Mahanama-sthavira and published by Jain Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Archaeology of Logic by : Andrew Schumann
Download or read book Archaeology of Logic written by Andrew Schumann and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question arises whether logic was given to us by God or whether it is the result of human evolution. I believe that at least the modus ponens rule ( A and if A then B implies B) is inherent in humans, but probably many other modern systems (e.g., resource logic, non - monotonic logic etc.) are the result of humans adapating to the environment. It is therefore of interest to study and compare the way logic is used in ancient cultures as well as the way logic is going to be used in our 21st century. This welcome book studies and compares the way formation of logic in three cultures: Ancient Greek (4th century B.C.), Judaic (1st century B.C. – 1st century A.D.) and Indo-Buddhist (2nd century A.D.) The book notes that logic became especially popular during the period of late antiquity in countries covered by the international trade of the Silk Road. This study makes a valuable contribution to the history of logic and to the very understanding of the origions and nature of logical thinking. -Prof. Dov Gabbay, King's College London, UK Andrew Schumann in his book demonsrates that logic step-by-step arose in different places and cultural circles. He argues that if we apply a structural-genealogical method, as well as turn to various sources, particularly, religious, philosophical, linguistic, etc., then we can obtain a more general and more adequate picture of emengence and development of logic. This book is a new and very valuable contribution to the history of logic as a manifestation of the human mind. - Prof. Jan Wolenski, Jagiellonian University, Poland The author of the Archaeology of Logic defends the claim, calling it "logic is aftter all", which sees logical competence as a practical skill that people began to learn in antiquity, as soom as they realized that avoiding cognitive biases in their reasoning would make their daily activities more successful. The in-depth reading of the book with its diving into the comparative quotations in the long dead or hardly known to most of us languages like Sumerian-Akkadian, Aramatic, Hebrew and etc, will be rewarded by the response that the logical competence is diverse and it can be trained, despite the inevitabilitiy of the reasoning fallacies; and that critical discussions and agaonal character of the social lide are the necessary tools for that. - Prof. Elena Lisanyuk
