Download or read book The Road to Delphi written by Michael Wood and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultures of all epochs have consulted oracles in times of need. This fascinating exploration of the enduring popularity of oracles examines how they are interpreted and why. Taking examples from literature and history, from the oracles at Delphi to those in Macbeth, and further still to the works of Kafka and Bob Dylan, and even in the film The Matrix, Wood combines storytelling and commentary to provide a lively account of humanity's persistent faith in signs, which continues to exert an important influence on the course of civilization.

Download or read book Pausanias s Description of Greece written by Pausanias and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Commentary on books IX X Boeotia Phocis Addenda written by Pausanias and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Counterfactuals written by Christopher Prendergast and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are counterfactuals and what is their point? In many cases, none at all. It may be true that if kangaroos didn't have tails, they would fall over, but they do have tails and if they didn't they wouldn't be kangaroos (or would they?). This is the sort of thing that can give counterfactuals a bad name, as inhabitants of a La La Land of the mind. On the other hand, counterfactuals do useful service across a broad range of disciplines in both the sciences and the humanities, including philosophy, history, cosmology, biology, cognitive psychology, jurisprudence, economics, art history, literary theory. They are also richly, albeit sometimes treacherously, present in the everyday human realm of how our lives are both imagined and lived: in the 'crossroads' scenario of decision-making, the place of regret in retrospective assessments of paths taken and not taken, and, at the outer limit, as the wish not to have been born. Christopher Prendergast take us on a dizzying exploratory journey through some of these intellectual and human landscapes, mobilizing a wide range of reference from antiquity to the present, and sustained by the belief that, whether as help or hindrance, and with many variations across cultures, counterfactual thinking and imagining are fundamental to what it is to be human.

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Download or read book Pausanias s Description of Greece written by Pausanias and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir James Frazer's 1898 six-volume translation of and commentary on Pausanias, the second-century CE traveller and antiquarian.

Download or read book Pausanias s Description of Greece Commentary on books IX X Boeotia Phocis addenda written by Pausanias and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Folds of Parnassos written by Jeremy McInerney and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Independent city-states (poleis) such as Athens have been viewed traditionally as the most advanced stage of state formation in ancient Greece. By contrast, this pioneering book argues that for some Greeks the ethnos, a regionally based ethnic group, and the koinon, or regional confederation, were equally valid units of social and political life and that these ethnic identities were astonishingly durable. Jeremy McInerney sets his study in Phokis, a region in central Greece dominated by Mount Parnassos that shared a border with the panhellenic sanctuary at Delphi. He explores how ecological conditions, land use, and external factors such as invasion contributed to the formation of a Phokian territory. Then, drawing on numerous interdisciplinary sources, he traces the history of the region from the Archaic age down to the Roman period. McInerney shows how shared myths, hero cults, and military alliances created an ethnic identity that held the region together over centuries, despite repeated invasions. He concludes that the Phokian koinon survived because it was founded ultimately on the tenacity of the smaller communities of Greece.

Download or read book Travelers to an Antique Land written by Robert Eisner and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of scholars, writers, artists, and explorers woven together in a narrative of Greek travel

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