Download or read book The Mystery Sphere of Athens written by Alan V. Gordon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When is a mystery truly mysterious? This was the thought that ran through my puzzled mind, when I first saw the magic sphere of Helios, exhibited at the new Acropolis Museum in Athens. Why is this antiquity so terribly understated? Were the museum authorities trying to tell the visitor to move on and not to waste their valuable time looking at this particular exhibit? I was completely fascinated by the strange symbols and inscriptions, together with the statue of liberty lookalike, all covering the entire surface of the marble sphere. My fingers had automatically reached into my camera bag, pulling out my trusty old camera. Within less than a minute I had taken more than a dozen shots of this truly magical globe, covered with what I perceived to be sacred geometric symbolism.
Download or read book The Mysterious Spheres on Greek and Roman Ancient Coins written by Raymond V. Sidrys and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not a standard coin catalogue, but it focuses on quantities and percentages of the mysterious 5950 sphere images on Roman coin reverses, and a few Greek coins. This research identifies political, cultural, religious and propaganda trends associated with the coin sphere images, and offers a variety of new findings.
Download or read book The Mystery of the Seven Spheres written by Giovanni F. Bignami and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Giovanni Bignami, the outstanding Italian scientist and astronomer, takes the reader on a journey through the “seven spheres”, from our own planet to neighboring stars. The author offers a gripping account of the evolution of Homo Sapiens to the stage where our species is developing capabilities, in the form of new energy propulsion systems, that will enable us to conquer space. The reader will learn how we first expanded our activities to reach beyond our planet, to the Moon, and how nuclear energy, nuclear fusion, and matter–antimatter annihilation will enable us to extend our exploration. After Mars and Jupiter we shall finally reach the nearest stars, which we now know are surrounded by numerous planets, some of which are bound to be habitable. The book includes enticing descriptions of such newly discovered planets and also brings alive key historical characters in our story, such as Jules Verne and Werner von Braun.
Download or read book The Mystery of the Golden Spheres written by Tracy Harrison and published by Medusa. This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sonja Makarova and Marina Golikova are two tempestuous private investigators. Sonja is intelligent, gorgeous (more accurately--voluptuous), physically tough, street-smart (former cop), somewhat lascivious, slightly sadistic, and compulsively competitive with men. Marina is sweet, considerate, naive (an only child), intelligent, vivacious, and beautiful. Sonja and Marina constitute the S & M Detective Agency. S & M, incidentally, stands for Sonja and Marina according to Marina; but, the Professor--a semi-retired physicist, a neighbor, a good friend and mentor--maintains that the street-vernacular construal of S & M is entirely appropriate for the Agency... considering Sonja's temperament. In this futuristic mystery novel, the Las Vegas detective agency spares the world from a colossal and diabolical terrorist-plot. The situations in which Marina and Sonja become involved, the kinky antics and outrageous solutions they contrive, make Dirty Harry's exploits look like a Mother-Teresa tea party.
Download or read book Fear and Loathing in Ancient Athens written by Alexander Rubel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian war was the arena for a dramatic battle between politics and religion in the hearts and minds of the people. Fear and Loathing in Ancient Athens, originally published in German but now available for the first time in an expanded and revised English edition, sheds new light on this dramatic period of history and offers a new approach to the study of Greek religion. The book explores an extraordinary range of events and topics, and will be an indispensable study for students and scholars studying Athenian religion and politics.
Download or read book The Messenger of Athens written by Anne Zouroudi and published by Reagan Arthur Books. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idyllic but remote, the Greek island of Thiminos seems untouched and untroubled by the modern world. So when the battered body of a young woman is discovered at the foot of a cliff, the local police - governed more by archaic rules of honor than by the law - are quick to close the case, dismissing her death as an accident. Then a stranger arrives, uninvited, from Athens, announcing his intention to investigate further into the crime he believes has been committed. Refusing to accept the woman's death as an accident or suicide, Hermes Diaktoros sets out to uncover the truths that skulk beneath this small community's exterior. Hermes's methods of investigation are unorthodox, and his message to the islanders is plain - tell the truth or face the consequences. Before long, he's uncovering a tale of passion, corruption and murder that entangles many of the island's residents. But Hermes brings his own mystery into the web of dark secrets and lies - and as he travels the rugged island landscape to investigate, questions and suspicions arise amongst the locals. Who has sent him to Thiminos, and on whose authority is he acting? And how does he know of dramas played out decades ago? Rich in images of Greece's beautiful islands and evoking a life unknown to most outsiders, this wonderful novel leads the reader into a world where the myths of the past are not forgotten and forbidden passion still has dangerous consequences.
Download or read book The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece written by Richard Gotshalk and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy arose in Greece in a three-fold birth, first in 6th century Ionia, then in 6th century south Italy, and finally in 5th century Athens. This triple-birth, together with the character and differences of these three beginnings, becomes intelligible when the historical background and matrix involved are recalled. Richard Gotshalk begins this work with an extended sketch of that background, emphasizing the emergence of poetry as a truth-revealer beyond myth and the role of Homer and Hesiod in shaping by their poetic achievements, the matrix within which philosophy arose. From that background, Gotshalk then offers an understanding of the origins and initial shapes of philosophy in Greece, taking Heraclitus as exemplifying the Ionian beginning, Parmenides the south Italian, and Plato and Aristotle the Athenian. The work concludes with a brief sketch of the features and emphases which mark the Greek realization of philosophical thought, and distinguish philosophy in its beginnings in Greece from philosophy in its beginnings in India and China.
Download or read book The Mystery Religions written by S. Angus and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic study explores the Eleusinian mysteries of ancient Greece; Asiatic cults of Cybele, the Magna Mater, and Attis; Dionysian groups; Orphics; Egyptian devotees of Isis and Osiris; Mithraism; and others.
Download or read book Death Comes by Amphora written by Roger Hudson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ancient Athens in 461BC, aristocratic General Kimon has driven back the might of the Persian Empire and forged a new empire for Athens, making his city the commercial centre of the Eastern Mediterranean. Now he is struggling for his political existence against the radical democratic reforms of the demagogue Ephialtes and his ambitious supporter Perikles. Into this political turmoil steps Lysanias, just 18, just reached manhood, and an innocent amidst the deceit and corruption of the big city. Recalled from an Athenian colony by a mysterious message from his wealthy uncle Klereides, he discovers that his uncle has died in suspicious circumstances, that he is the heir, and that his obligations nowinclude marrying his uncle's teenage widow. Convinced that his uncle was murdered and driven by the ancient duty of vengeance, Lysanias sets out to discover the truth, aided by his elderly slave Sindron. Their investigations take them deep into the murky interlocking worlds of Athenian politics, business, finance, religion and even art, where it seems Klereides had many enemies and where even his friends cannot be trusted. With his own loyalties torn between the rival political factions, aristocrats and workers, due to his early training as an artisan, Lysanias himself faces violent death before he and Sindron discover the culprit and Ephialtes' assassin.
Download or read book The curse of the Acropolis written by Carole Marsh and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mystery Girl-Mimi, Papa, Christina and Grant aboard-travels to the historic country of Greece. The wonders of the ancient world soon turn to a wickedly awful mystery!
Download or read book The New Encyclopaedia Britannica Macropaedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mysteries of the Great Cross of Hendaye written by Jay Weidner and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2003-12-10 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decodes the message held by this enigmatic monument, revealing the alchemical secret of time and the fate of humanity.
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature written by M. C. Howatson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature is the complete and authoritative reference guide to the classical world and its literary heritage. It not only presents the reader with all the essential facts about the authors, tales, and characters from ancient myth and literature, but it also places these details in the wider contexts of the history and society of the Greek and Roman worlds. With an extensive web of cross-references and a useful chronological table and location maps (all of which have been brought fully up to date), this volume traces the development of literary forms and the classical allusions which have become embedded in our Western culture. Extensively revised and updated since the second edition was published in 1989, the Companion acknowledges changes in the focus of scholarship over the last twenty years, through the incorporation of a far larger number of thematic entries such as medicine, friendship, science, freedom (concept of), and sexuality. These topical entries provide an excellent starting point to the exploration of their subjects in classical literature; after all, for many aspects of classical society the literature we have inherited is the primary (and sometimes the only) source material. Additions and changes have been made taking into account the advice of teachers and lecturers in Classics, ensuring that current educational needs are catered for. In addition to newly covered topics, the Companion still plays to its traditional strengths, with extensive biographies of classical literary figures from Aeschylus to Zeno; entries on a multitude of literary styles from biography and rhetoric to lyric poetry and epic, encompassing everything in between; and character entries and plot summaries for the major figures and myths in the classical canon. It is the ideal guide for students in Classics, and for all who are passionate about the vast and varied literary tradition bequeathed to us from the classical world.
Download or read book The Place It Was Done written by Šárka Bubíková and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Locations play an important role in every story, but in British and American contemporary crime fiction, they are often inextricable from the narrative. This work examines the city, the countryside and the wilderness as places ripe with literary significance and symbolism. Using works by authors like Robert Galbraith, Ian Rankin, Denise Mina, Chris Brookmyre, John Knox, Peter Robinson, Linda Barnes, Dana Stabenow, Nevada Barr, Les Roberts, Philip R. Craig, and others, this work offers a fresh assessment of how place and space are employed in contemporary crime fiction. Highlighted are similarities and differences among the authors' approaches to setting, and how they relate to the history of crime fiction and to the general literary representation of place. Going beyond mere literary geography, the book engages the sociocultural dimensions of the communities affected by crime. Chapters also analyze the reader's perception, recognition and appreciation of place and community.
Download or read book Excavating Pilgrimage written by Troels Myrup Kristensen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sheds new light on the significance and meaning of material culture for the study of pilgrimage in the ancient world, focusing in particular on Classical and Hellenistic Greece, the Roman Empire and Late Antiquity. It thus discusses how archaeological evidence can be used to advance our understanding of ancient pilgrimage and ritual experience. The volume brings together a group of scholars who explore some of the rich archaeological evidence for sacred travel and movement, such as the material footprint of different activities undertaken by pilgrims, the spatial organization of sanctuaries and the wider catchment of pilgrimage sites, as well as the relationship between architecture, art and ritual. Contributions also tackle both methodological and theoretical issues related to the study of pilgrimage, sacred travel and other types of movement to, from and within sanctuaries through case studies stretching from the first millennium BC to the early medieval period.
Download or read book Academy and Literature written by Charles Edward Cutts Birch Appleton and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Ancient Greek Literature written by Franco Montanari and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-05-09 with total page 1211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of ancient Greek literature from Homer to Late Antiquity. Its clear structure and detailed presentation of Greek authors and their works as well as literary genres and phenomena makes it an indispensable reference work for all those interested in Greek Antiquity, particularly well-suited for use in the classroom.
