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Prophetess who was never believed.Book InformationISBN 9780995578197Author Jill DudleyFormat PaperbackImprint Orpington PublishersPublisher Orpington Publishers

The divine singer Orpheus and his love for his wife Eurydice.Book InformationISBN 9780995578180Author Jill DudleyFormat PaperbackImprint Orpington PublishersPublisher Orpington Publishers

First published in 1949, Ancient Roman Religion is an introduction to some of the most outstanding features of the complicated religion, or rather series of religions, which flourished in Rome between the earliest recoverable ages of her long history and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398476523Author William AmbroseFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789521013270Author Cynthia JeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectPublisher Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789514590412Author Beate Pongratz-LeistenFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectPublisher Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus...

Well before his entry into the religious life in the spring of 386 C.E., Augustine had embarked on a lengthy comparison between teachings on the self in the philosophical traditions of Platonism and Neoplatonism and the treatment of the topic in the...

What did Zeus mean to the Greeks? And who was Hera, united with Zeus historically and archetypally as if they were a human pair? C. Kerenyi fills a gap in our knowledge of the religious history of Europe by responding to these questions. Examining the...

Most people have heard of Odysseus from Homer's Odyssey, but few know who he was or where he came from, or what part he played in the Trojan War. In this sixth Put it in Your Pocket booklet his cunning and heroism are described, as are the adventures he...

Robert Armour's classic text, long cherished by a generation of readers, is now complemented with more than 50 new photographs and line drawings that show the gods and goddesses in their characteristic forms. Armour maintains a strong narrative thread...

Today we speak of an 'Achilles' heel'. But who was Achilles, and what exactly was the story of his heel? Why was he considered the finest hero in the Trojan War, and what caused him to fall out with King Agamemnon so that he refused to fight? Did he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398419513Author Joseph PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 156g

The proposed book presents the Greek hero Pelops from a variety of perspectives which until now have been treated separately. Previous studies have focused either on his depictions in ancient art or on literary evidence featuring Pelops and his...

First published in 1981, Divination and Oracles analyses the religious practices of the ancient world as they have been witnessed from Scandinavia to Tibet and Japan, from the third millennium BC until the present day. Divination and the consultation of...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

This volume brings together scholars in religion, archaeology, philology and history to explore case studies and theoretical models of converging religions. The twenty-four essays offered in this volume, which derive from Hittite, Cilician, Lydian,...

Early Christian Dress is the first full-length monograph on the subject of dress in early Christianity. It pays attention to the ways in which dress expressed and shaped Christian identity, the role dress played in Christians' rivalries with pagan...

The face of the divine feminine can be found everywhere in Mexico. One of the most striking features of Mexican religious life is the prevalence of images of the Virgin Mother of God. This is partly because the divine feminine played such a prominent...

The Nile is arguably the most famous river in the world. For millennia, the search for its source defeated emperors and explorers. Yet the search for its source also contained a religious quest - a search for the origin of its divine and life-giving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596500228Author Arthur VersluisFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint New Cultures PressPublisher New Cultures PressWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

The field of mythography has grown substantially in the past thirty years, an acknowledgment of the importance of how ancient writers "wrote down the myths" as they systematized, organized and interpreted the vast and contested mythical storyworld. With...

God is unbounded. God became flesh. While these two assertions are equally viable parts of Western Christian religious heritage, they stand in tension with one another. Fearful of reducing God's majesty with shallow anthropomorphisms, philosophy and...

Ephrem the Syrian was one of the founding voices in Syriac literature. While he wrote in a variety of genres, the bulk of his work took the form of madrashe, a Syriac genre of musical poetry or hymns. In Bible and Poetry in Late Antique Mesopotamia,...

Most people have heard of the Celts-the elusive, ancient tribal people who resided in present-day England, Ireland, Scotland and France. Paradoxically characterized as both barbaric and innocent, the Celts appeal to the modern world as a symbol of a...

Addressing the close connections between ancient divination and knowledge, this volume offers an interlinked and detailed set of case studies which examine the epistemic value and significance of divination in ancient Greek and Roman cultures.Focusing on...

This volume provides a reconstruction of the history of Judea and its neighboring regions from 334 BCE, when Alexander's eastward conquests brought Judea into the Greek empire, through 135 CE, when Hadrian re-founded Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina and...

This volume provides a reconstruction of the history of Judea and its neighboring regions from 334 BCE, when Alexander's eastward conquests brought Judea into the Greek empire, through 135 CE, when Hadrian re-founded Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina and...

The volume consists of 21 essays from an international group of scholars. The volume is broken into two parts: Reading Samuel with the Hebrew Bible, and beyond the Hebrew Bible. Each section will offer readings of portions of the Book of Samuel that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398845565Author Jane WildeFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398839441Author Jane SmithsonFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Wedding, Gender, and Performance in Ancient Greece traces the wedding song tradition, its imagery, and its tropes as a genre that gets crystallized throughout the ages. It explores how wedding poetics permeates ancient Greek literature. It first analyzes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398839953Author Joseph JacobsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

This open access book is the first in a groundbreaking series making Babylonian literature accessible. It presents Enuma Elish in transcription and translation, with an introduction for non-specialist readers and essays from leading scholars in the field...

This monograph aims to explore the production of political landscapes in Anatolia under the Hittite rule (1650-1200 BCE). The focus of the research is the geopolitical role played within the Hittite domain by three interconnected regions, located in...

"Enki and the World Order," a Sumerian myth from the early second millennium BCE, depicts the god Enki's reconstitution of the Sumerian world after an unspecified catastrophe. The myth ends with a face-off between Enki and the goddess of love and war,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738774275Author Margit T�thFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Llewellyn Publications,U.S.Publisher Llewellyn Publications,U.S.

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398831650Author W. B. YeatsImprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398846180Author Emilie K. BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd