Kypriōn Politeia, the Political and Administrative Systems of the Classical Cypriot City-Kingdoms

Kypriōn Politeia, the Political and Administrative Systems of the Classical Cypriot City-Kingdoms
Title Kypriōn Politeia, the Political and Administrative Systems of the Classical Cypriot City-Kingdoms PDF eBook
Author Beatrice Pestarino
Publisher BRILL
Pages 315
Release 2022-08-08
Genre History
ISBN 9004520430

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What kind of society would you face if you travelled to Cyprus in the 5th-4th cent. BC? This is the first book which analyses in detail the politico-administrative system of Classical Cyprus through the study of inscriptions written in different languages.

The Mycenaean Cult of the Dead

The Mycenaean Cult of the Dead
Title The Mycenaean Cult of the Dead PDF eBook
Author Chrysanthi Gallou
Publisher British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Pages 266
Release 2005
Genre History
ISBN

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Based on the author's PhD thesis, this volume examines the possibility of a cult of the dead among the Mycenaean civilisations.

Siren Songs

Siren Songs
Title Siren Songs PDF eBook
Author Lillian Eileen Doherty
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Pages 238
Release 1995
Genre History
ISBN 9780472105977

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A feminist critique of the Odyssey

Cretan Studies

Cretan Studies
Title Cretan Studies PDF eBook
Author Willem Frederik Bakker
Publisher
Pages 218
Release 1996
Genre Crete (Greece)
ISBN 9789025610951

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Venture To The Interior

Venture To The Interior
Title Venture To The Interior PDF eBook
Author Laurens Van Der Post
Publisher Random House
Pages 258
Release 2010-05-25
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1407073214

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Summoned to Whitehall in 1949, Laurens van der Post was told that in old British Central Africa there were two large tracts of country that London didn't really know anything about, and could he go in there on foot and take a look, please? Venture to the Interior is the account of that journey, a journey filled with adventure and discovery, flying from London across Europe and Africa, and after days in small aircraft, on foot across the mountains to the two lost worlds of central Africa.

Ajaiyi and His Inherited Poverty

Ajaiyi and His Inherited Poverty
Title Ajaiyi and His Inherited Poverty PDF eBook
Author Amos Tutuola
Publisher Faber & Faber
Pages 184
Release 2014-10-14
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0571311369

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This is the story of Ajaiyi, a man born into poverty who is determined to improve his situation. In the hope of finding the money he needs, he travels through unfamiliar lands filled with strange creatures. He meets the Spirit of Fire with its huge feathered head and flaming body, and receives assistance from a wizard and a unicorn. Yet, in the end, the answer to his woes is not far from home.Amos Tutuola was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, in 1920. His first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, was acquired by T. S. Eliot and published by Faber in 1952.

Triomf

Triomf
Title Triomf PDF eBook
Author Marlene Van Niekerk
Publisher ABRAMS
Pages 426
Release 2005-03-29
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1468302221

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“A scatologocial black satire . . . Triomf may be the signal Afrikaans novel of the 1990s . . . A daring, vicious and hilarious flight of imagination” (The Washington Post). This is the story of the four inhabitants of 127 Martha Street in the poor white suburb of Triomf. Living on the ruins of old Sophiatown, the freehold township razed to the ground as a so-called “black spot,” they await with trepidation their country’s first democratic elections. It is a date that coincides fatefully with the fortieth birthday of Lambert, the oversexed misfit son of the house. There is also Treppie, master of misrule and family metaphysician; Pop, the angel of peace teetering on the brink of the grave; and Mol, the materfamilias in her eternal housecoat. Pestered on a daily basis by nosy neighbors, National Party canvassers and Jehovah’s Witnesses, defenseless against the big city towering over them like a vengeful dinosaur, they often resort to quoting to each other the only consolation that they know; we still have each other and a roof over our heads. Triomf relentlessly probes Afrikaner history and politics, revealing the bizarre and tragic effect that apartheid had on exactly the white underclass who were most supposed to benefit. It is also a seriously funny investigation of the human endeavor to make sense of life even under the most abject of circumstances. “South Africa as you’ve never seen it: a tale of incest and white trash. Funny, feisty, ferociously clever.” —Gillian Slovo, author of Ten Days “A world-class tragicomic novel, the kind of book that stabs at your heart while it has you rolling on the floor.” —The New York Times Book Review