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Book Samothrace  Volume 5

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  • Author : Phyllis Williams Lehmann
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1983-02-21
  • ISBN : 9780691099170
  • Pages : 530 pages

Download or read book Samothrace Volume 5 written by Phyllis Williams Lehmann and published by . This book was released on 1983-02-21 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. edited by K. Lehmann and P.W. Lehmann.

Book Samothrace

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN : 9780691099170
  • Pages : pages

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Book Samothrace

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN : 9780691099170
  • Pages : 435 pages

Download or read book Samothrace written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Samothrace

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 387 pages

Download or read book Samothrace written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Samothrace  V1

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  • Author : Naphtali Lewis
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011-10-01
  • ISBN : 9781258209438
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Samothrace V1 written by Naphtali Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bollingen Series, No. 60. In Ten Volumes. Volume 1, The Ancient Literary Sources; Volume 2, Part 1, The Inscriptions On Stone; Volume 2, Part 2, The Inscriptions On Ceramics And Minor Objects; Volume 3, Part 1, The Hieron, Text; Volume 3, Part 2, The Hieron, Plates; Volume 4, Part 1, The Hall Of Votive Gifts; Volume 4, Part 2, The Altar Court; Volume 5, Part 1, The Temenos, Text; And Volume 5, Part 2, The Temenos, Plates; Volume 7, Part 1, The Rotunda Of Arsinoe Text, Volume 7, Part 2, The Rotunda Of Arsinoe, Plates; Volume 10, Part 1, The Propylon Of Ptolemy II, Text And Volume 10, Part 2, The Propylon Of Ptolemy II, Plates.

Book Tros of Samothrace 2

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  • Author : D M Provost
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1975-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780821703786
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Tros of Samothrace 2 written by D M Provost and published by . This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Helma

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  • Author : Talbot Mundy
  • Publisher : New York : Avon Books
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Helma written by Talbot Mundy and published by New York : Avon Books. This book was released on 1967 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tros of Samothrace 5

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  • Author : Talbot Mundy
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008-06
  • ISBN : 9781846774850
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Tros of Samothrace 5 written by Talbot Mundy and published by . This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tros and the Roman Empire turn to the Egypt of the Pharaohs In this, the fifth volume of the saga of Tros, king of Samothrace, sea captain and adventurer, our hero finds himself once more enmeshed in the web of intrigue that surrounds the machinations of Julius Caesar in his perpetual lust to take and keep power in the turbulent days of Imperial Rome. Tros's relationship with his adversary continues to be ambivalent as by turns he finds himself opposed and allied to his ruthless counterpart. Now another great figure has joined Tros and Caesar on the stage of the ancient world. Cleopatra-Queen of Egypt-is a formidable character ever ready to play the game of intrigue, betrayal and shifting loyalties to suit her own objectives. Blood will surely be spilt and once again Tros finds himself inexorably caught up in monumental events that threaten his life and those he loves.

Book The Winged Victory of Samothrace

Download or read book The Winged Victory of Samothrace written by Marianne Hamiaux and published by Companyédition Somogy/Louvre éditions. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Winged Victory of Samothrace is without doubt one of the most spectacular and accomplished expressions of Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period. Why, then, restore it now? In spite of its intrinsic beauty, the monument has not been immune to the passage of time and its presentation has been called into question by recent developments in archaeological research. Since it first arrived at the Louvre in 1864, it has been the object of three restoration campaigns. Today, the restoration of an ancient sculpture comprises an encounter with the artistic genius of the ancients; the restoration of a Greek sculpture completed during the nineteenth century necessitates taking the work’s second life into account; the restoration of a masterpiece in the Louvre means bearing in mind the deep affection everyone feels for it. Restoring the Winged Victory of Samothrace involved all three considerations. It seemed imperative that an account of this voyage deep into the heart of the work, this most exhilarating of enterprises, should be revealed to the public. The present work does just that, as well as presenting the monument of the Winged Victory in its ancient setting on the island of Samothrace: in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods where it was dedicated. The book also provides the public with the keys necessary for fully appreciating the Winged Victory of Samothrace and thus building on the viewer’s initial intense emotion. Who is this Victory in virtuoso drapery? Why does she stand on an impressive base in the shape of a ship’s prow? Finally, the book reveals a number of well-hidden technical secrets, which cannot but compel our admiration."--Publisher's description.

Book The Great Gods of Samothrace and the Cult of the Little People

Download or read book The Great Gods of Samothrace and the Cult of the Little People written by Carl A. P. Ruck and published by Regent Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deities went by the name of the Great Gods, a mysterious group of numinous powers who presided over religious ceremonies on the northern Aegean island of Samothrace and elsewhere, termed a Mystery because things happened that must never be divulged to outsiders. The importance of the Mystery was second only to the great Eleusinian rite. This investigation into the secret of the Mystery begins with the famous sculptural group of the Winged Victory of Samothrace and leads through a bizarre assemblage of mythological events that includes the drunken sailing of the loon on an amphora filled with wine, the enchained rapture of souls linked to the attractive force of the magnetic stone, the thievery of the infant Hermes, obscenities and ithyphallic creatures, the stench of metallurgy, islands of wanton women and other seductively noisome smells, murder in the fields sown with grain, talking heads that sprout in the path of the plowshare, the founding of Rome, the voyage of the Argonauts and the great sorceress Medea, the riddle about the divinatory liver of Prometheus--finally to the ultimate destination: a magical herbarium at the center of a magnetic fortress in which there is a single giant tree overshadowing the entire expanse of toxic plants, and at its base the tomb of the dwarfish great god Zeus. The final view is the Golden Parchment that was the alchemical formula for transcendence and J.M.W. Turner's depiction of the Vision of Medea, reveling in the full-tide of her witchery.

Book Lehmann  Phyllis Williams  Spittle  Denys  Samothrace

Download or read book Lehmann Phyllis Williams Spittle Denys Samothrace written by Robert Fleischer and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tros of Samothrace

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  • Author : Talbot Mundy
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2008-02
  • ISBN : 9781434842817
  • Pages : 636 pages

Download or read book Tros of Samothrace written by Talbot Mundy and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tros of Samothrace, the greatest of Talbot Mundy's creations, is a Greek sailor-adventurer in the age of Caesar and Cleopatra. Tros' exploits were initially chronicled in 'Adventure Magazine' during 1925-26.

Book Theoi Megaloi

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  • Author : Susan Guettel Cole
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2015-11-16
  • ISBN : 9004296476
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Theoi Megaloi written by Susan Guettel Cole and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary material -- INTRODUCTION -- HISTORY OF THE SAMOTHRACIAN SANCTUARY -- THE MYSTERIES -- GREEK INITIATES AND THEOROI AT SAMOTHRACE -- THE SAMOTHRACIAN GODS AND THEIR WORSHIPPERS AT OTHER SITES -- ROMANS AT SAMOTHRACE -- NOTES -- INSCRIPTIONS WHICH MENTION -- PAPYRI -- SAMOTHRACIAN MYSTAI AND EPOPTAI -- INDEX -- PLATE I -- Map I. Sites from which Mystai came to Samothrace.

Book On the Divinities of Samothrace

Download or read book On the Divinities of Samothrace written by Frank Scalambrino and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: F.W.J. Schelling (1775-1854) believed he had found, in the ancient initiation rites performed on the Greek island of Samothrace, the information lost to modernity with which to decode the "the original system of belief" celebrated and preserved in the Sacred Mysteries of the ancient Greeks, that is: the Dionysian, the Eleusinian, the Orphic, and the Samo-Thracian. The Sacred Mysteries revered the cosmos as the revelation of divinities communicating through nature. This origin-al revelation illuminates the mystery of the unified spiritual system of nature in which human reality participates. "On the Divinities of Samothrace" (1815) was originally an address delivered to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and is counted by scholars as the beginning of the final "existential" phase of Schelling's philosophy. For, the philosophical ground of the sacred teachings is that we exist (ex-sistare) by "standing-out-of" the primal eternally-cyclical nature of the cosmos and into chronological time: a teaching not completely unlike the Amor Fati of Nietzsche's Eternal Return. Thus, this essay invokes the nature of indeterminate pre-history as more original than rational characterizations of time. And, yet, despite the philosophical depth into which Schelling thinks, his essay is strikingly lucid and concise. This publication includes a new translation of Schelling's essay, along with its exposition and discussion, by Frank Scalambrino (2019).

Book The Best of the Grammarians

Download or read book The Best of the Grammarians written by Francesca Schironi and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark study of the emergence of Alexandrian and classical philology

Book Water and Sacred Architecture

Download or read book Water and Sacred Architecture written by Anat Geva and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book examines architectural representations that tie water, as a physical and symbolic property, with the sacred. The discussion centers on two levels of this relationship: how water influenced the sacredness of buildings across history and different religions; and how sacred architecture expressed the spiritual meaning of water. The volume deliberately offers original material on various unique contextual and design aspects of water and sacred architecture, rather than an attempt to produce a historic chronological analysis on the topic or focusing on a specific geographical region. As such, this unique volume adds a new dimension to the study of sacred architecture. The book’s chapters are compiled by a stellar group of scholars and practitioners from the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Africa. It addresses major aspects of water in religious buildings, such as, rituals, pilgrimage, water as a cultural material and place-making, hydro systems, modern practices, environmental considerations, the contribution of water to transforming secular into sacred, and future digital/cyber context of water and sacredness. All chapters are based on original archival studies, historical documents, and field visits to the sites and buildings. These examinations show water as an expression of architectural design, its materiality, and its spiritual values. The book will be of interest to architects, historians, environmentalists, archaeologists, religious scholars, and preservationists.

Book Architecture of the Sacred

Download or read book Architecture of the Sacred written by Bonna D. Wescoat and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, a distinguished team of authors explores the way space, place, architecture, and ritual interact to construct sacred experience in the historical cultures of the eastern Mediterranean. Essays address fundamental issues and features that enable buildings to perform as spiritually transformative spaces in ancient Greek, Roman, Jewish, early Christian, and Byzantine civilizations. Collectively they demonstrate the multiple ways in which works of architecture and their settings were active agents in the ritual process. Architecture did not merely host events; rather, it magnified and elevated them, interacting with rituals facilitating the construction of ceremony. This book examines comparatively the ways in which ideas and situations generated by the interaction of place, built environment, ritual action, and memory contributed to the cultural formulation of the sacred experience in different religious faiths.