Ancient History, Classical Art And Civilization – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 6

Vered Lev Kenaan, Patricia A Rosenmeyer
Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions

This volume explores how classical antiquity influenced the writings of poets, translators, and scholars emerging from modern Jewish diasporas, Mandatory Palestine, and the State of Israel. The chapters e…

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The Buddha
How to Lose Yourself

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers

Inviting new translations of classical Buddhist texts about why the self is an illusion---and why giving it up can free us from sufferingFrom self-realization and self-promotion to self-help and the selfi…

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Armgard Goo-Grauer
Colors of Nubia

"Colors of Nubia by Armgard Goo Grauer presents house decoration, wall painting, and their cultural context in the Egyptian part of Nubia before 1964. It recalls the astonishing yet relatively little…

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Mallory Matsumoto
The Maya Myths

Maya peoples have long dominated southern Mesoamerica, an area stretching from the lowland coast of the Yucatán Peninsula to the highland mountains of southern Guatemala. While never a unified people, the…

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Joshua Hammer
The Mesopotamian Riddle

An "adventure tale for puzzle lovers and Indiana Jones fans alike" (The Washington Post ) following three free-spirited Victorians on their twenty-year quest to decipher cuneiform, the oldest wr…

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Aristotle,
The Nicomachean Ethics

One of the most important philosophical works of all time, in a new Penguin Classics translation by Adam Beresford 'Right and wrong is a human thing'What does it mean to be a good person? Aristotle's famo…

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Dan Gutman
The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle

From the author of the My Weird School books, an adventure story that spans centuries and continents.In Central Park, New York, stands Cleopatra's Needle. But what do you know about? Did you know that tho…

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Cosmic Cycles of Life: New Perspectives on Mawangdui Tombs

Cosmic Cycles of Life offers a groundbreaking look at the Mawangdui Han tombs in China--one of the twentieth century's most important archaeological finds--through the lens of cutting-edge digital technol…

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A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in Antiquity

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? Spanning chronologically from the third millennium BCE through to the se…

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Tonio Holscher,
The Diver of Paestum

Since its discovery in 1968, the painting of a diver on a tomb in Paestum, originally the Greek colony of Poseidonia in southern Italy, has left viewers spellbound. It depicts a beautiful and enigmatic sc…

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Marjolein Oele
Beyond Elemental Loss

Offers an important and innovative contribution to environmental philosophy by investigating loss in times of anthropogenic climate change through the elements of water, fire, air, and earth.Beyond Elemen…

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Marjolein Oele
Beyond Elemental Loss

Offers an important and innovative contribution to environmental philosophy by investigating loss in times of anthropogenic climate change through the elements of water, fire, air, and earth.Beyond Elemen…

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Steven B Cowan, Graham Oppy, David Apolloni, Shyam Ranganathan
Life After Death

Presents four distinct perspectives on life after death.

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Verity Platt
Epistemic Impressions

Epistemic Impressions advances a new history of image-making and art-text relations in classical antiquity. Moving away from a focus on imitation (mim¿sis) , it looks instead to the concept of the seal-im…

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Niclas Lahmer
Der finanzielle Stoiker

Noch nie zuvor war unsere Gesellschaft so sehr der hedonistischen Philosophie verfallen: Genuss, Lust sowie das Vermeiden von Schmerz und Leid gelten dabei als höchstes Ziel. Maßloser Konsum, steigende Le…

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Carol C Mattusch
Bronze Sculpture in the Classical World

Bronze was a prized medium for sculpture in the classical world, as reflected by the remnants of the thousands of bronze statues of gods, dignitaries, and intellectuals that once filled its cities and san…

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Hermogenes and Hellenistic-Roman Temple Building

Recent major excavations at a variety of sites associated with Hermogenes have refreshed, invigorated, and refined our understanding of this important Hellenistic architect. Here, in the first volume dedi…

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Christopher Insole
If God Is the Answer, What Is the Question?

You can argue about God forever, and not change your mind. Believers and non-believers often talk at cross purposes, both failing to grasp what is really going on when we argue about God. So where do we g…

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Agnes Callard
Open Socrates

There are important questions about your life that you are avoiding, right now, as you read this. You tell yourself that now is not the moment to attempt an answer. Like other people you know, you are tak…

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Wolfram Grajetzki
The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt

"For the ancient Egyptians, the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1700 BC) was a classical period of art, history and literature. The Twelfth Dynasty was one of the strongest ever to rule on the banks of the N…

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