Leisure, Pleasure and Healing
Title | Leisure, Pleasure and Healing PDF eBook |
Author | Esti Dvorjetski |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 601 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 900415681X |
This book deals with leisure, pleasure and healing at the spas in the eastern Mediterranean basin since the biblical era throughout the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and early Muslim periods focusing on daily life, healing cults, medical recommendations and treatments at the curative spas.
Stesichoros's Geryoneis
Title | Stesichoros's Geryoneis PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Curtis |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2011-09-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004207678 |
This monograph focuses solely on the Stesichoros’s Geryoneis. The main feature to the book is its full-length commentary. As well as providing a detailed analysis on the poet’s language and style, the song is considered in its wider religious context.
Zeus
Title | Zeus PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Bernard Cook |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Pages | 1168 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | Classical antiquities |
ISBN |
Kallirrhoe
Title | Kallirrhoe PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Becker Goetz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 1896 |
Genre | American poetry |
ISBN |
The Sacred Law of Andania
Title | The Sacred Law of Andania PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Gawlinski |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2012-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3110268140 |
The inscribed text referred to as the sacred law of Andania contains almost 200 lines of regulations about a mystery festival and the sanctuary in which it took place. This book presents a new edition of the inscription and examines its rules in the wider context of Greek religious law and the management of sacred space. The regulations touch on a range of issues including finance, pollution, and the role of women, so that this study can be used as a handbook on the daily life of Greek religion.
Aristotle and Poetic Justice
Title | Aristotle and Poetic Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Doody |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2014-03-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 022613203X |
The great Greek philosopher heads to Delphi on the hunt for a kidnapped heiress in this series of “witty, elegant whodunits” (Times Literary Supplement). 330BC: Alexander the Great has sacked Persepolis and won the greatest fortune the world has ever known. The night of the Silent Dinner, when Athens placates the spirits of the dead, passes with a creeping mist accompanied by eerie portents and a strange disappearance. Stephanos and his teacher, the philosopher Aristotle, are about to be drawn into solving the perplexing abduction case of Anthia, the heiress of a prominent silver merchant. All that is known is that the abductor and the heiress are on the road to Delphi and its ancient oracle—whose help may be needed when a murder complicates the case in this follow-up to the “eminently enjoyable” Aristotle Detective (Colin Dexter, author of the Inspector Morse Mysteries). “Why did no one think of this before?”—The Times (UK)
The Building Program of Herod the Great
Title | The Building Program of Herod the Great PDF eBook |
Author | Duane W. Roller |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 1998-02-20 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0520209346 |
Herod, King of Judea from 44 to 4 BC, was a major figure in the politics of the Roman east during the emperor Augustus's ascension to power.