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Book Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired

Download or read book Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library  1911 1971

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Classical Review

Download or read book American Classical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Latin Epigraphy

Download or read book Latin Epigraphy written by John Edwin Sandys and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book B H  Blackwell

Download or read book B H Blackwell written by B.H. Blackwell Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 1444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Union Catalog of the Graduate Theological Union

Download or read book Union Catalog of the Graduate Theological Union written by Graduate Theological Union. Library and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to Microforms in Print

Download or read book Guide to Microforms in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Companion to Latin Studies

Download or read book A Companion to Latin Studies written by John Edwin Sandys and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Personal Religion Among the Greeks

Download or read book Personal Religion Among the Greeks written by André Jean Festugière and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1954 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Introduction to the Study of Latin Inscriptions

Download or read book Introduction to the Study of Latin Inscriptions written by James Chidester Egbert and published by London; Longmans, Green & Company. This book was released on 1896 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ancient Mystery Cults

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  • Author : Walter Burkert
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1989-10-15
  • ISBN : 0674253159
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Ancient Mystery Cults written by Walter Burkert and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989-10-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foremost historian of Greek religion provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of ancient religious beliefs and practices. Secret mystery cults flourished within the larger culture of the public religion of Greece and Rome for roughly a thousand years. This book is neither a history nor a survey but a comparative phenomenology, concentrating on five major cults. In defining the mysteries and describing their rituals, membership, organization, and dissemination, Walter Burkert displays the remarkable erudition we have come to expect of him; he also shows great sensitivity and sympathy in interpreting the experiences and motivations of the devotees.

Book Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism

Download or read book Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism written by Walter Burkert and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this first English edition of his distinguished study of Pythagoreanism, Weisheit und Wissenschajt: Studien zu Pythagoras, Philolaos, und Platon, Walter Burkert has carefully revised text and notes, taking account of additional literature on the subject which appeared between 1962 and 1969. By a thorough critical sifting of all the available evidence, the author lays a new foundation for the understanding of ancient Pythagoreanism and in particular of the relationship within it of "lore" and "science." He shows that in the twilight zone when the Greeks were discovering the rational interpretation of the world and quantitative natural science, Pythagoras represented not the origin of the new, but the survival or revival of ancient, pre-scientific lore or wisdom, based on superhuman authority and expressed in ritual obligation.

Book The Orientalizing Revolution

Download or read book The Orientalizing Revolution written by Walter Burkert and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Greek culture is often described as a miracle, owing little to its neighbors. Walter Burkert argues against a distorted view, toward a more balanced picture. "Under the influence of the Semitic East--from writers, craftsmen, merchants, healers--Greek culture began its unique flowering, soon to assume cultural hegemony in the Mediterranean."

Book The Historical Method of Herodotus

Download or read book The Historical Method of Herodotus written by Donald Lateiner and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herodotus was the first writer in the West to conceive the value of creating a record of the recent past. He found a way to co-ordinate the often conflicting data of history, ethnology, and culture. The Historical Method of Herodotus explores the intellectual habits and the literary principles of this pioneer writer of prose. Donald Lateiner argues, against the perception that Herodotus' work seems amorphous and ill organized, that the Histories contain their own definition of historical significance. He examines patterns of presentation and literary structure in narratives, speeches, and direct communications to the reader, in short, the conventions and rhetoric of history as Herodotus created it. This rhetoric includes the use of recurring themes, the relation of speech to reported actions, indications of doubt, stylistic idiosyncrasies, frequent reference to nonverbal behaviours, and strategies of opening and ending. Lateiner shows how Herodotus sometimes suppresses information on principle and sometimes compels the reader to choose among contending versions of events. His inventories of Herodotus' methods allow the reader to focus on typical practice, not misleading exception. In his analysis of the structuring concepts of the Histories, Lateiner scrutinizes Herodotean time and chronology. He considers the historian's admiration for ethnic freedom and autonomy, the rule of law, and the positive values of conflict. Despite these apparent biases, he argues, the text's intellectual and moral preferences present a generally cool and detached account from which an authorial personality rarely emerges. The Historical Method of Herodotus illuminates the idiosyncrasies and ambitious nature of a major text in classics and the Western tradition and touches on aspects of historiography, ancient history, rhetoric, and the history of ideas.

Book Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality

Download or read book Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality written by Lewis Richard Farnell and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: