Eternal Life And Ancient Greece – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 6

Emily Hauser
How Women Became Poets

How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of genderWhen Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one---aoidos , or "singer-man." The most fam…

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Karl Kerényi,
Zeus and Hera

A landmark study of the archetypal father, husband, and wife in Greek religion and mythWhat did Zeus mean to the Greeks of antiquity? Who was Hera, archetypally united with Zeus as if they were a human co…

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Social Inequality and Difference in the Ancient Greek World

In this volume, bioarchaeologists, osteologists, archaeologists, and paleopathologists examine the ways social inequalities and differences affected health and wellbeing in ancient Greece.

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John Nash
Rulers of the Sea

This is a study of sea power and maritime strategy in the Classical Greek world. More than just a study of navies and battles, it examines how the sea was used to influence events ashore and how the use o…

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The Senses in Ancient Greek Athletics

An exploration of ancient Greek athletics through the lens of the senses, examining for the first time the performance, social significance and representation in literature.

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Edward Tick
Passage to Poros

A guide to spiritual pilgrimage and the healing powers of immersion in sacred places• Takes you on a mystical journey to the sacred Greek island of Poros, a site of pilgrimage and healing for more than 3,…

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A Companion to Greek Warfare

"The first part of the book, a "Historical Survey," focuses on changing issues in strategy and grand strategy-on Greek motives, goals, and responses to military success and failure, the Mac…

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Nigel Nicholson
Victory and Celebration

Victory and Celebration traces how athletic success was transformed into broader social and political capital in ancient Greece in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE--how being a good boxer or wrestler, or…

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Nicholas Nicastro
Archimedes

A bold reimagining of the Greek mathematician's singular life as a truly modern scientist.Galileo, Leonardo, Newton, and Tesla revered him: Archimedes of Syracuse--an engineer who single-handedly defied t…

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Philip John Victor Davies
Standing Among the Spartans

Conformity, uniformity, institutionality, exceptionality - each of these terms encapsulates an aspect of the common perception of Sparta, both among scholars and in the popular imagination.This volume see…

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Aleks Krotoski
The Immortalists

What does it mean for us all when death is treated as a glitch and Silicon Valley invests in the "science" of eternal life?'A fascinating, deeply reported adventure' Oliver Burkeman 'Riveting' D…

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The War for Anatolia and the Remaking of International Order

This edited volume demonstrates that the Greek-Turkish War of 1919-1922 was a transformative event in the unmaking of imperial order and the making of a new international world.

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Understanding the Greek Revolution (1821-1832)

The Greek Revolution remains a neglected episode in the revolutionary history of the insurrectionary wave of the 1820s. This volume collects the most recent research concerning the social, political and c…

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Gregory R Beabout, Mike Hannis
Ethics

What is a good life, and how is it related to a happy one? What are virtues, and how do they affect the nature of friendships? Is there really an ancient art that develops good character? In this compact …

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Karl Kerényi,
Eleusis

A landmark account of the Eleusinian Mysteries by one of the leading mythologists of the twentieth centuryThe Sanctuary of Eleusis near Athens was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly tw…

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Alison Keith
Sulpicia

This is the first full-length biography of Sulpicia, the earliest extant female author of classical Latin poetry. Unmentioned by her contemporaries, Sulpicia belonged to the pinnacle of the Roman aristocr…

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James Romm
Plato and the Tyrant

Many people know something of Plato's works, yet few are familiar with his life outside of his writings. In Plato and the Tyrant , acclaimed classicist James Romm uses a little-known set of Plato's person…

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William Hickling Prescott
History of the Conquest of Mexico: With a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization and the Life of the Conquerer, Hernando Cortés

Reprint of the original, first published in 1843. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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William Hickling Prescott
History of the Conquest of Mexico, With a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortés

Reprint of the original, first published in 1843. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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William Hickling Prescott
History of the Conquest of Mexico, With a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortés

Reprint of the original, first published in 1843. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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