Ancient

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884564581Author Muata AshbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Sema InstitutePublisher Sema InstituteWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 3mm

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The Sanctuary of Eleusis, near Athens, was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initiates came from all parts of the civilized world. Looking at the tendency to "see visions," C. Kerenyi examines the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910191224Author Lesley JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint AvaloniaPublisher Avalonia

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This book is about the multiplicity of gods and religions that characterized the Roman world before Constantine. It was not the noble gods such as Jove, Apollo and Diana, who were crucial to the lives of the common people in the empire, bur gods of an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692200650Author Olive BrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Adp GauntletPublisher Adp GauntletWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 191mm * 21mm

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Fascinating texts written on small gold tablets that were deposited in graves provide a unique source of information about what some Greeks and Romans believed regarding the fate that awaited them after death, and how they could influence it. These...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939790057Author John Michael GreerFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Lorian PressPublisher Lorian PressWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

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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...

This study raises that difficult and complicated question on a broad front, taking into account the expressions and attitudes of a wide variety of Greek, Roman, Jewish, and early Christian sources, including Herodotus, Polybius, Cicero, Philo, and Paul...

Valentinus, an Egyptian Christian who traveled to Rome to teach his unique brand of theology, and his followers, the Valentinians, formed one of the largest and most influential sects of Christianity in the second and third centuries. But by the fourth...

The Boxford Mosaic has been described as the most spectacular and innovative Roman mosaic ever found in Britain. Yet it lay hidden beneath a Berkshire field for some 1,600 years until it was fully uncovered in the Summer of 2019. Dating from around 350...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615139159Author Raven KalderaFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Asphodel PressPublisher Asphodel PressWeight(grams) 603gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman RepublicMany narrative histories of Rome's transformation from an Italian city-state to a Mediterranean superpower focus on political and military conflicts as the primary agents of social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393002874Author Martin P. NilssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 355gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

This Element is about the creation and curation of social memory in pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt. Ancient, Classical, Medieval, and Ottoman sources attest to the horror that characterized catastrophic famines. Occurring infrequently and rarely...

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...

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Few topics are as broad or as daunting as the God of Israel, that deity of the world's three monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, who has been worshiped over millennia. In the Hebrew Bible, God is characterized variously as militant,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839409561Author Charles SquireFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Melania the Younger: From Rome to Jerusalem explores the richly detailed story of Melania, an early fifth-century Roman Christian aristocrat who renounced her staggering wealth to lead a life of ascetic renunciation. Hers is a tale of "riches to rags."...

Christian communities flourished during late antiquity in a Zoroastrian political system, known as the Iranian Empire, that integrated culturally and geographically disparate territories from Arabia to Afghanistan into its institutions and networks...

For more than a thousand years, Greeks from all walks of life consulted oracles for guidance received directly from the gods. This colorful and wide-ranging survey encompasses the entire history of Greek oracles and focuses fresh attention on...

Jill Dudley writes about the earliest myths regarding the Acropolis, the strange birth of the goddess Athena, and the contest between her and Poseidon, god of the sea, for the patronage of the city. She explains the reason for the Panathenaia festival,...

An important collection of eight essays on Ancient Persia (Iran) in the periods of the Achaemenid Empire (539-330 BC), when the Persians established control over the whole of the Ancient Near East, and later the Sasanian Empire. It will be of interest to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532680359Author Charles F AlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

It is widely believed that the Emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity politicized religious allegiances, dividing the Christian Roman Empire from the Zoroastrian Sasanian Empire and leading to the persecution of Christians in Persia. This...

In ancient Rome, it was believed some humans were transformed into special, empowered beings after death. These deified dead, known as the manes, watched over and protected their surviving family members, possibly even extending those relatives' lives...

Since the mid-twentieth century, religious movements identifying themselves as Paganism, shamanism, native faiths and others have experimented with two forms of indigeneity. One arises from claims to be reviving or re-presenting previously hidden...

After centuries of near silence, Latin poetry underwent a renaissance in the late fourth and fifth centuries CE evidenced in the works of key figures such as Ausonius, Claudian, Prudentius, and Paulinus of Nola. This period of resurgence marked a...

This is the account of Edward Proctor Hunt, a Pueblo Indian Native American member of many secret societies, who in 1928 broke with his people's social and religious codes to recite the origin myth of the Acoma Indians to scholars. Recounting a classic...

This compact book-which appeared earlier in the multivolume series A History of Private Life-is a history of the Roman Empire in pagan times. It is an interpretation setting forth in detail the universal civilization of the Romans-so much of it...