Download or read book The Triumph of the Sea Gods written by Steven Sora and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-06-19 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the geographical incongruities in Homer’s epics locates Troy on the coast of Iberia, in a conflict that changed history • Cites the rise in sea level in 1200 B.C. as leading to the invasion and victory of the Atlantean sea people over the goddess-worshipping Trojans who ruled the coasts • Identifies Troia (Troy) as part of a tri-city area that later became Lisbon, Portugal In The Triumph of the Sea Gods, Steven Sora argues compellingly that Homer’s tales do not describe adventures in the Mediterranean, but are adaptations of Celtic myths that chronicle an Atlantic coastal war that took place off the Iberian Peninsula around 1200 B.C. It was a war between the pro-goddess Celtic culture that presided over what is now Portugal and the patriarchal culture of the sea-faring Atlanteans. The invasion of the Atlantean sea peoples brought destruction to the entire region stretching from Western Europe’s Atlantic border to Egypt, Syria, and Turkey. This was a turning point not only politically but also spiritually. The goddess became demonized, as seen in myths such as Pandora’s Box in which woman was seen as the source of evil, not the origin of life, and Homer’s tale of the epic Greek and Trojan war, which was triggered by the abduction of a woman. The actual historical struggle described in Homer’s stories, Sora explains, occurred during what was the last in a series of rises in sea level that inundated various land masses (Atlantis) and permitted sea passage to areas previously accessible only by land. The “Sea Gods” (Atlanteans) attacked the tri-city region of Troia (Troy), near present-day Lisbon, which, shortly thereafter, fell victim to a devastating series of seaquakes and tsunamis. The war and the subsequent destructive weather broke the power of this seaboard civilization, leading to a wholesale invasion by the sea peoples and the rapid decline of the region’s goddess-worshipping culture that had reigned there since Neolithic times. Sora shows how Homer’s tales allow the modern world to glimpse this ancient conflict, which has been obscured for centuries.

Download or read book A World Full of Gods written by Keith Hopkins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Evokes the sights and sounds of the ancient world with daring and imagination… An intellectual tour-de-force that challenges us to see the history of Christianity through the eyes of those who actually lived it.”—Los Angeles Times In this provocative, irresistibly entertaining book, Keith Hopkins takes readers back in time to explore the roots of Christianity in ancient Rome. Combining exacting scholarship with dazzling invention, Hopkins challenges our perceptions about religion, the historical Jesus, and the way history is written. He puts us in touch with what he calls "empathetic wonder"—imagining what Romans, pagans, Jews, and Christians thought, felt, experienced, and believed-by employing a series of engaging literary devices. These include a TV drama about the Dead Sea Scrolls; the first-person testimony of a pair of time-travelers to Pompeii; a meditation on Jesus' apocryphal twin brother; and an unusual letter on God, demons, and angels.

Download or read book Raphael written by Juliet Mofford and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Raphael is best remembered today for his Madonna and Child paintings, he was in great demand during his lifetime to paint dukes, counts, and fashionable ladies. Popes, cardinals, and noblemen wanted Raphael to paint frescoes on their walls, design their villas, and decorate their chapels. Raphael spent his childhood in a palace surrounded by art, music, and poetry. Called "Prince of Painters," he represented the ideal "Renaissance Man," expressing the beauty, humanism, and culture that defined the age. Less familiar, yet revealed in this book, is Raphael's love of archaeology and his determination to preserve ancient Roman monuments. His life and art display a knowledge of classical architecture and philosophy. Raphael was amazingly productive in his short life and remains one of history's most admired artists.

Download or read book The Ben Jonson Encyclopedia written by D. Heyward Brock and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friend and rival of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson was one of the most learned and interesting men of his age. Throughout his fascinating life, he served not only as a bricklayer but also a soldier, an adventurer, an actor, a poet, and a playwright. The breadth of his experiences, acquaintances, friends, and enemies was legendary, and his literary canon is equally as diverse. The Ben Jonson Encyclopedia covers in detail the works, life, and times of this seminal figure of the English Renaissance. The cross-referenced entries include summaries of all Jonson’s plays, masques, and entertainments, as well as sketches of Jonson’s friends, enemies, patrons, disciples, actors, and fellow writers. In addition, the book identifies historical figures, mythological characters, and classical authors, as well as Jonson’s contemporaries and London place names mentioned in the works. Individuals who danced or participated in the masques and entertainments or tournaments for which Jonson wrote speeches are noted, as are the main actors known to have acted in the plays. All major scholars—from Jonson’s own day until the twenty-first century—who have commented on Jonson or his works are also included. An extensive bibliography completes this invaluable scholarly reference tool. Because of Jonson’s centrality to—and influence in and beyond—his age, this encyclopedia provides a dynamic, unparalleled vision of the English Renaissance literary scene. Capturing the depth and breadth of Jonson’s understanding of early Modern England, The Ben Jonson Encyclopedia will be especially useful for students, librarians, and academics interested in the literary and cultural scene from 1500 to 1650.

Download or read book A New Guide of Florence and its vicinity Illustrated with plates and a map Second edition written by H. C. WILSON and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Guide of Florence and Its Vicinity with Excursions to Fiesole Vallombrosa Alvernia and Camaldoli written by H. C. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Works of Ben Jonson written by Ben Jonson and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Works with Notes Critical and Explanatory and a Biographical Memoir written by Benjamin Jonson and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Villa Farnesina written by James Grantham Turner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The frescoes of Peruzzi, Raphael and Sodoma still dazzle visitors to the Villa Farnesina, but they survive in a stripped-down environment bereft of its landscape, sealed so it cannot breathe. Turner takes you outside that box, restoring these canonical images to their original context, when each element joined in a productive conversation. He is the first to reconstruct the architect-painter Peruzzi's original, well-proportioned, well-appointed building and to re-visualize his lost façade decoration‒erotic scenes and mythological figures who make it come alive and soar upward. More comprehensively than any previous scholar, he reintegrates painting, sculpture, architecture, garden design, topographical prints and drawings, archaeological discoveries and literature from the brilliant circle around the patron Agostino Chigi, the powerful banker who 'loved all virtuosi' and commissioned his villa-palazzo from the best talents in multiple arts. It can now be understood as a Palace of Venus, celebrating aesthetic, social and erotic pleasure.

Download or read book The Works with Notes Critical and Explanatory and a Biographical Memoir by W Gifford written by Benjamin Jonson and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Works written by Ben Jonson and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Works of Ben Jonson in Nine Volumes Masques c Epigrams Underwoods written by Ben Jonson and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Works of Ben Jonson With a Biographical Memoir by William Gifford A New Edition written by Ben Jonson and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Masques and Entertainments written by Ben Jonson and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Works written by Ben Jonson and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Works of B J with a Memoir of His Life and Writings by Barry Cornwall i e B W Procter written by Ben Jonson and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Angel s Daughter written by B. J. Scott and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-11-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco, 1867 A beautiful heiress is kidnapped and put aboard a ship bound for distant lands, a deed with mysterious ties to the building of the transcontinental railroad. . . a ferocious sea battle at Hong Kong . . . an unstoppable warrior . . . a Chinese mistress of unspeakable evil . . a thrilling locomotive chase thru the Sierras . . . a family of steel-spined women who yield to no one. The Connellys are back! The formidable females introduced in 2004s Angel of the Rush return as an old enemy arises again, and allies himself with a new, more deadly foe. Corruption reaching to the highest levels of the building of the new state of California poses a threat to the Connelly empire. The pace never slackens as Kathleen and her daughters Megan and Danielle battle enemies at home and abroad in Book Two of the Angel Trilogy.