Ancient

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628375480Author Sara Ahbel-RappeFormat HardbackPage Count 574Imprint Society of Biblical LiteraturePublisher Society of Biblical LiteratureWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951897147Author Ryan LandryFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Terror House Press, LLCPublisher Terror House Press, LLCWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm)...

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Stories about dragons, serpents, and their slayers make up a rich and varied tradition within ancient mythology and folklore. In this sourcebook, Daniel Ogden presents a comprehensive and easily accessible collection of dragon myths from Greek, Roman,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633310858Author Arkan LushwalaFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Disruption BooksPublisher Disruption BooksWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

From the dawn of writing in Sumer to the sunset of the Islamic empire, Founding Gods, Inventing Nations traces four thousand years of speculation on the origins of civilization. Investigating a vast range of primary sources, some of which are translated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761037177Author Peter CollinsFormat HardbackPage Count 70Imprint Ingram PublishingPublisher Ingram PublishingWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This is an inspiring, magical and beautifully packaged collection of Celtic poetry compiled by a leading authority on Celtic tradition. Arranged into five thematic chapters, this anthology reflects the uniquely Celtic love of nature, history, love, myth,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995124509Author Mervat NasserFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Rubedo PressPublisher Rubedo PressWeight(grams) 177g

The first anthology to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories-from myths and fairy tales to jokesCaptured centaurs and satyrs, incompetent seers, people who suddenly change sex, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot...

Myths in every culture explain our origins, the earth's creation, gods and monsters, demons, the afterlife and the underworld. This compelling account, newly available in paperback, gathers together themes and stories from every culture, showing how...

The Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Romans born before the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. Edward J. Watts traces their experiences of living through the fourth century's dramatic...

Jan Bremmer presents a provocative picture of the historical development of beliefs regarding the soul in ancient Greece. He argues that before Homer the Greeks distinguished between two types of soul, both identified with the individual: the free soul,...

This is a collection of essays by leading American and European scholars. Its purpose is to remedy the tendency among scholars working in Greek Religion to ignore the evidence for what have traditionally been called "magical" practices in ancient Greece...

What did the Romans know about their gods? Why did they perform the rituals of their religion, and what motivated them to change those rituals? To these questions Clifford Ando proposes simple answers: in contrast to ancient Christians, who had faith,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602067127Author Albert ChurchwardFormat HardbackPage Count 568Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 853gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578636105Author Diana L. PaxsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser

The tales told of Orpheus are legion. He is said to have been an Argonaut--and to have saved Jason's life. Rivers are reported to have stopped their flow to listen to the sounds of his lyre and his voice. Plato cites his poetry and Herodotus refers to...

Early Greek Myth is a much-needed handbook for scholars and others interested in the literary and artistic sources of archaic Greek myths-and the only one of its kind available in English. Timothy Gantz traces the development of each myth in narrative...

Celebrate the seasons and magical holidays-from Samhain to Beltane, Litha to Yule-alongside the lunar cycles of each month, in this beautifully illustrated guide to the wheel of the year, from bestselling author of Practical Magic Nikki Van De Car.The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884564246Author Muata Abhaya AshbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Cruzian Mystic BooksPublisher Cruzian Mystic BooksWeight(grams)...

How many Muses are there? Who were the original twelve Titans? Why is Zeus (Jupiter) associated with power stations, and Poseidon (Neptune) with salt-cellars? Who were Aphrodite's (Venus') handmaidens? In this beautiful little book, packed with helpful...

First English-language edition, with revisions and additions by the author.This classic work by one of the world's most distinguished Egyptologists was first published in German in 1984. The Search for God in Ancient Egypt offers a distillation of Jan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578526300Author Ann Charlotte Margareta ValentinFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Divine Spiritual EssencePublisher Divine Spiritual...

This interdisciplinary edited volume presents twelve papers by Roman historians and archaeologists, discussing the interconnected relationship between religion and the Roman economy over the period c. 500 BC to AD 350. The connection between Roman...

A Church Father's theological citadel.Aurelius Augustine (AD 354-430), one of the most important figures in the development of western Christianity and philosophy, was the son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste, and his Christian wife, Monnica...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838136307Author Neil HagueFormat PaperbackPage Count 686Imprint Quester PublicationsPublisher Quester PublicationsWeight(grams) 943gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910191279Author Sorita D'EsteFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint AvaloniaPublisher AvaloniaWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 10mm

An epic saga of greed, sorcery and one man's heroic sacrifice. Ireland's legendary super hero, Cu Chulainn, stands alone against the thousands of warriors controlled by the enchantress Queen Maeve, who is determined to capture the Brown Bull of...

Long overshadowed by Greek mythology or treated peripherally in gernal texts on the ancient Roman world, Roman religion is finally accorded its due in this unique reference work. While perhaps most familiar in the context of Greek-influenced gods, Roman...

Combining traditional research on folklore and the Eddas with trancework and meditation techniques, Alice Karlsdottirr was able to rediscover the feminine side of the Norse pantheon and assemble working knowledge of 13 Norse goddesses for both group...

Ancient Egyptians held a rich and complex vision of the afterlife and codified their beliefs in books that were to be discovered more than two millennia later in royal tombs. Erik Hornung, the world's leading authority on these religious texts, surveys...

Classifying Christians investigates late antique Christian heresiologies as ethnographies that catalogued and detailed the origins, rituals, doctrines, and customs of the heretics in explicitly polemical and theological terms. Oscillating between ancient...

This is an insightful guide to the history, development and beliefs of this ancient religion, and its continuation as a lived religion today. The history of the development of Zoroastrianism spans over 3000 years, beginning in prehistory as an oral...

For many Christians, the world equates with "worldliness" and it is to be avoided for fear of damage to their spiritual health. Celtic Christianity differs from this in that it sees in all creation the reflection of God's goodness and beauty which sin...

Fairies are a challenging subject, intertwining culture, folklore, and anecdotal accounts across centuries and millennia. Focusing primarily on the Celtic speaking cultures, with some material from adjacent cultures including Anglo-Saxon and Norse, A New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950378715Author Monique Joiner SiedlakFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Oshun Publications, LLCPublisher Oshun Publications, LLCWeight(grams) 140g

In "Stations of the Sun" and "The Triumph of the Moon", Ronald Hutton established himself as a leading authority on the historian of Paganism. His wealth of unusual knowledge, complemented by a deep and sympathetic understanding of past and present...

For over a thousand years, the practice of animal sacrifice held a central place in ancient Graeco-Roman culture as a means of both demonstrating piety to the gods and structuring social relationships. As Christianity took root in Rome in the third...

Oratory and philosophy from a Latin novelist.Apuleius, one of the great stylists of Latin literature, was born ca. AD 125 in Madauros to a politically prominent family and received an elite education in the provincial capital Carthage and at Athens,...