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The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth

The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth presents forty chapters about the unique and terrifying creatures from myths of the long-ago Near East and Mediterranean world, featuring authoritative co…

Lingua Ignota

Sinner Get Ready

Y. Hayter ist Absolventin der School of the Art Institute of Chicago und hat einen MFA in Literarischer Kunst von der Brown University. Ein Großteil ihrer Arbeit dreht sich um Missbrauch. Als Überlebende …

Steven Snape

Sacred Landscapes in Ancient Egypt

Explores the holy landscapes of Egypt, both in the natural world and the built landscape.

Stephen Crimi

Hermes Runs the Game

Hermes Runs the Game views the covid operation in terms of the Archaic Greek animal sacrifice, inverted, moving from the depths of ritual child sacrifice to the light of the ancient mystery traditions.

George C Manning

Anger in the Sagas of Icelanders^

Manning examines the presentation of anger in the Íslendingasögur ('Sagas of Icelanders ') and Íslendingaþættir ('Tales of Icelanders '), a remarkable Old Norse-Icelandic corpus of texts written in the th…

Porphyry Of Tyre,

On Theology and Theurgy

On Theology and Theurgy presents two fragmentary texts by Porphyry of Tyre, "Letter to Anebo" and "Philosophy from Oracles," in which he tries to bring philosophy to bear on religion, …

Whit Dickey (geb. 1954)

Peace Planet & Box Of Light

Huw Twiston Davies

The Transmission of the Book of the Dead in New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara

"This open access book discusses texts and images from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, as well as other prayers and spells, found in tombs at the necropolis of Saqqara dating back to the New Kingdom (…

Thomas Radice

Ritual Performance in Early Chinese Thought

Examines performance as a fundamental feature of ritual in early Chinese thought and the ways in which performer/spectator relationships influenced early Chinese religious, ethical, and political discours…

Yiannis Gabriel

Greek Myths for a Post-Truth World

"This book examines what ancient Greek myths can teach us about the troubles and challenges of our 'post-truth' times: environmental degradation, mass migration, war, inequality, exclusion, authorita…

Ancient Infinity Orchestra

River of Light

Das Ancient Infinity Orchestra ist ein 14-köpfiges Jazz-Ensemble unter der Leitung des Kontrabassisten und Komponisten Ozzy Moysey, das in der pulsierenden, kreativen Stadt Leeds im Norden Englands beheim…

Thomas Kazen

Dirt, Shame, Status

"An examination of same-sex sexuality in the Bible in the context of ancient beliefs about power, honor, and purity"--

Studying Religion, Past and Present

"In this book, renowned scholars discuss the past, present, and future of the study of religion in both antiquity and modernity, celebrating the contributions of Panayotis Pachis to the field. The co…

Jonathan S Burgess

The Travels of Odysseus

The various travels of the hero Odysseus are explored to contextualize Homer's Odyssey and analyze the nature of the hero's character.

Bernardo Ballesteros

Divine Assemblies in Early Greek and Babylonian Epic

This book is the first to chart divine assembly scenes in ancient Babylonian and early Greek epic. It asks why similarities between the two corpora exist, and exploits those similarities to enhance unders…

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…

Lina Hantel

Bildung im Gespräch

Petrus Chrysologus gestaltete seine sermones so, dass sie zu einem Bildungserlebnis werden konnten. Lina Hantel rekonstruiert die Predigttätigkeit des Bischofs von Ravenna (ca. 430-450) und zeichnet dabei…

John Surman & Jack DeJohnette

The Amazing Adventures Of Simon Simon (Touchstones)

John Surman und Jack DeJohnette waren schon seit 1968 musikalische Weggefährten, nahmen jedoch erst 1981 mit The Amazing Adventures Of Simon Simon ihr erstes Duo-Album auf. Die Leser von Jazz Forum wählte…

Harry Sidebottom

Those Who Are about to Die

See ancient Rome, and peer into the Roman mind, through the eyes of a gladiator--from the evening before the games at the Colosseum to the evening after"A grippingly original way of making the alien …