Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
Title Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography PDF eBook
Author William Smith
Publisher
Pages 1142
Release 1856
Genre
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
Title A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography PDF eBook
Author Sir William Smith
Publisher
Pages 1130
Release 1872
Genre Classical geography
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
Title A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography PDF eBook
Author William Smith
Publisher
Pages 1134
Release 1872
Genre Classical geography
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Singing for the Gods

Singing for the Gods
Title Singing for the Gods PDF eBook
Author Barbara Kowalzig
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 528
Release 2007-12-13
Genre History
ISBN 0191527513

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Singing for the Gods develops a new approach towards an old question in the study of religion - the relationship of myth and ritual. Focusing on ancient Greek religion, Barbara Kowalzig exploits the joint occurrence of myth and ritual in archaic and classical Greek song-culture. She shows how choral performances of myth and ritual, taking place all over the ancient Greek world in the early fifth century BC, help to effect social and political change in their own time. Religious song emerges as integral to a rapidly changing society hovering between local, regional, and panhellenic identities and between aristocratic rule and democracy. Drawing on contemporary debates on myth, ritual, and performance in social anthropology, modern history, and theatre studies, this book establishes Greek religion's dynamic role and gives religious song-culture its deserved place in the study of Greek history.

Katingo & Shukry an American Story

Katingo & Shukry an American Story
Title Katingo & Shukry an American Story PDF eBook
Author Kathy J. Daruty
Publisher Xlibris Corporation
Pages 184
Release 2012-09
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1479716030

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Arabic speaking Christians have left their homelands steadily and in increasing numbers since the last decades of the Ottoman Empire. In the late 19th Century, Christians were 25% of the population in the Levant where this story begins; now they number fewer than 8%. Today, from Egypt to Iraq and throughout the Levant, Christians are a small, often oppressed minority who face an uncertain future. This family memoir collects the stories told by the title characters, Palestinian Orthodox Christians, who left Jerusalem and came to America. The events impacting their lives during the 20th Century are described from their unique and rarely heard perspective.Recounted especially for their descendants and loved ones, Katingo and Shukry’s stories offer lessons for us all, and remind us how lucky we are to live in America.

The Numismatic Chronicle, and Journal of the Numismatic Society

The Numismatic Chronicle, and Journal of the Numismatic Society
Title The Numismatic Chronicle, and Journal of the Numismatic Society PDF eBook
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Pages 376
Release 1864
Genre Numismatic chronicle
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Proceedings of the Numismatic Society form a separately paged section of each vol.

Staging Death

Staging Death
Title Staging Death PDF eBook
Author Anastasia Dakouri-Hild
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 409
Release 2016-12-19
Genre History
ISBN 3110480573

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Places are social, lived, ideational landscapes constructed by people as they inhabit their natural and built environment. An ‘archaeology of place’ attempts to move beyond the understanding of the landscape as inert background or static fossil of human behaviour. From a specifically mortuary perspective, this approach entails a focus on the inherently mutable, transient and performative qualities of 'deathscapes': how they are remembered, obliterated, forgotten, reworked, or revisited over time. Despite latent interest in this line of enquiry, few studies have explored the topic explicitly in Aegean archaeology. This book aims to identify ways in which to think about the deathscape as a cross between landscapes, tombs, bodies, and identities, supplementing and expanding upon well explored themes in the field (e.g. tombs as vehicles for the legitimization of power; funerary landscapes as arenas of social and political competition). The volume recasts a wealth of knowledge about Aegean mortuary cultures against a theoretical background, bringing the field up to date with recent developments in the archaeology of place.