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Ancient Greek Monsters: Divine and Daemonic by Richard Frost 9781780354774
$27.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780354774Author Richard FrostFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint FastPrint PublishingPublisher Upfront PublishingDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 19mm -
Life and Mortality in Ugaritic: A Lexical and Literary Study by Matthew McAffee 9781575066639
RRP: $235.10$201.75While topics such as death, funerary cult, and the netherworld have received considerable scholarly attention in the context of the Ugaritic textual corpus, the related concept of life has been relatively neglected. Life and Mortality in Ugaritic takes... -
Norse Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook: From Vikings to Valkyries, an Epic Who's Who in Old Norse Mythology by Kelsey A. Fuller-Shafer 9781507220528
RRP: $27.28$19.09Discover the gods, goddesses, and heroes from Norse mythology with this beautiful handbook that captures the ancient stories that captivated the Vikings.Learn more about your favorite Norse gods, goddesses, and heroes with this collection of profiles... -
Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks by Simone Weil 9781032534008
RRP: $273.00$236.27Simone Weil (1909–1943) is one of the most brilliant and unorthodox religious and philosophical minds of the twentieth century. She was also a political activist, worked in the Renault car factory in France in the 1930s and fought briefly as an anarchist... -
Greek and Roman Religions by Rebecca I. Denova 9781118542903
RRP: $176.30$154.08Offers an introduction to the basic beliefs, practices, and major deities of Greek and Roman religions A volume in the Blackwell Ancient Religions, Greek and Roman Religions offers an authoritative overview of the region's ancient religious practices... -
Household and Family Religion in Antiquity by John Bodel 9781118255339
RRP: $79.70$70.06The first book to explore the religious dimensions of the family and the household in ancient Mediterranean and West Asian antiquity. Advances our understanding of household and familial religion, as opposed to state-sponsored or civic temple... -
Synaxarion of the Monastery of Theotokos Evergetis: September - February by Robert H. Jordan 9780992863203
RRP: $115.50$59.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992863203Author Robert H. JordanFormat PaperbackPage Count 595Imprint Colenso BooksPublisher Colenso Books -
The Living Ancestors: Shamanism, Cosmos and Cultural Change among the Yanomami of the Upper Orinoco by Zeljko Jokic 9781789207583
RRP: $58.70$47.42This phenomenologically oriented ethnography focuses on experiential aspects of Yanomami shamanism, including shamanistic activities in the context of cultural change. The author interweaves ethnographic material with theoretical components of a... -
Worth More Than Many Sparrows: Essays in Honour of Willi Braun by Sarah E Rollens 9781800501973
RRP: $52.40$48.78When it comes to the study of religion, Willi Braun is a paragon of what a methodologically rigorous and epistemologically modest academic ought to look like. Braun's career began in the 1990s, when he studied among a cadre of other notable graduate... -
The Religion of the Romans by Jorg Rupke 9780745630144
$126.04The gods were the true heroes of Rome. In this major new contribution to our understanding of ancient history, Jorg Rupke guides the reader through the fascinating world of Roman religion, describing its unique characteristics and bringing its... -
Divination and Knowledge in Greco-Roman Antiquity by Crystal Addey 9781032041728
RRP: $83.98$73.63Addressing 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... -
Prometheus & Pandora's box: Legendary Greek names by Jill Dudley 9780995578173
RRP: $6.91$5.63The trickster whose warnings of Pandora's box evils were ignored.Book InformationISBN 9780995578173Author Jill DudleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 10Imprint Orpington PublishersPublisher Orpington Publishers -
Jason & the Golden Fleece: Legendary Greek names by Jill Dudley 9780995578166
RRP: $6.91$5.63Jason whose efforts to obtain the Golden Fleece embroiled him with the sorceress Medea.Book InformationISBN 9780995578166Author Jill DudleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 14Imprint Orpington PublishersPublisher Orpington Publishers -
Heracles and his Twelve Labours: Legendary Greek names by Jill Dudley 9780995578159
RRP: $6.91$5.63Life and death of Heracles and his twelve labours.Book InformationISBN 9780995578159Author Jill DudleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 14Imprint Orpington PublishersPublisher Orpington Publishers -
Theseus & the Minotaur: Hero & King of Athens by Jill Dudley 9780995578142
RRP: $6.91$5.63Heroic king of Athens who, when still a prince, volunteered to kill the Minotaur.Book InformationISBN 9780995578142Author Jill DudleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 14Imprint Orpington PublishersPublisher Orpington Publishers -
Cassandra: Princess of Troy by Jill Dudley 9780995578197
RRP: $6.91$5.63Prophetess who was never believed.Book InformationISBN 9780995578197Author Jill DudleyFormat PaperbackImprint Orpington PublishersPublisher Orpington Publishers -
Orpheus & Eurydice: Legendary Greek Names by Jill Dudley 9780995578180
RRP: $6.91$5.63The divine singer Orpheus and his love for his wife Eurydice.Book InformationISBN 9780995578180Author Jill DudleyFormat PaperbackImprint Orpington PublishersPublisher Orpington Publishers -
Ancient Roman Religion by H. Rose 9781032499468
RRP: $182.68$158.63First 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... -
I Found Atlantis by William Ambrose 9781398476523
RRP: $27.28$19.09Apologies 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 -
La Magie neo-assyrienne en Contexte: Recherches sur le metier d'exorciste et le concept d'ashiputu by Cynthia Jean 9789521013270
RRP: $92.30$79.32Apologies 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)... -
Herrschaftswissen in Mesopotamien: Forman der Kommunikation zwischen Gott und Konig im 2 und 1. Jahrtausend v.Chr. by Beate Pongratz-Leisten 9789514590412
RRP: $182.60$158.51Apologies 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... -
The Integrated Self: Augustine, the Bible, and Ancient Thought by Brian Stock 9780812248715
RRP: $132.30$113.06Well 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... -
Archetypal Images in Greek Religion: 5. Zeus and Hera: Archetypal Image of Father, Husband, and Wife by Carl Kerenyi 9780691617565
RRP: $67.20$50.97What 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... -
Odysseus: Greek Myths by Jill Dudley
RRP: $6.28$5.21Most 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... -
Gods and Myths of Ancient Egypt by Robert A. Armour
RRP: $27.28$23.12Robert 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... -
Achilles: Greek Myths by Jill Dudley
RRP: $6.28$5.21Today 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... -
It's Not Necessarily Myth by Joseph Perry
RRP: $18.88$17.45Apologies 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 -
Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Heresiology, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity by Todd S. Berzon
RRP: $63.00$47.92Classifying 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... -
Transformations of Pelops: Myths, Monuments, and Cult Reconsidered by András Patay-Horváth
RRP: $262.50$226.51The 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... -
Religions of Ancient India by Louis Renou
$250.87This book is based on the inaugural Jordan Lecture Comparative Religion in 1951 and offers a survey of religious movements in India, past and present. Renou discusses the Veda, its rise and fall, and the state of studies of Vedic ritual, liturgy,... -
Hercules: The First Superhero by Philip Matyszak
RRP: $61.95$46.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789059973770Author Philip MatyszakFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Primavera PersPublisher Primavera Pers -
Divination and Oracles by Michael Loewe
$223.88First 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... -
Phases in the Religion of Ancient Rome by Cyril Bailey
RRP: $168.00$128.54This 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... -
Epiphanius of Cyprus: A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity by Andrew S. Jacobs
RRP: $63.00$48.76Epiphanius, Bishop of Constantia on Cyprus from 367 to 403 CE, was incredibly influential in the last decades of the fourth century. Whereas his major surviving text-the Panarion, an encyclopedia of heresies-is studied for lost sources, Epiphanius... -
Religious Convergence in the Ancient Mediterranean by Sandra Blakely
RRP: $110.25$102.86This 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: Gender, Virtue, and Authority by Kristi Upson-Saia
RRP: $113.38$98.43Early 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... -
Aztec Goddesses and Christian Madonnas: Images of the Divine Feminine in Mexico by Joseph Kroger
RRP: $92.38$81.56The 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 Religious Nile: Water, Ritual and Society Since Ancient Egypt by Terje Oestigaard
$227.33The 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... -
Entering the Mysteries: The Secret Traditions of Indigenous Europe by Arthur Versluis 9781596500228
RRP: $46.10$29.34Apologies 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... -
Bible and Poetry in Late Antique Mesopotamia: Ephrem's Hymns on Faith by Jeffrey Wickes 9780520302860
RRP: $168.00$127.70Ephrem 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,...