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 |
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 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.
Ascending and descending the Acropolis
Title | Ascending and descending the Acropolis PDF eBook |
Author | Wiebke Friese |
Publisher | Aarhus Universitetsforlag |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2019-01-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 8771848622 |
Ascending and Descending the Acropolis - Mobility in Athenian Religion provides new perspectives on religious mobilities within the geographically limited region of Attica in Greece from the Late Bronze Age to the second century AD. Attica is a particularly fruitful region to study these forms of mobility, as it provides rich evidence across a range of material and textual sources for a variety of different mobile situations - both inside the city of Athens itself (such as on and circumnavigating the Acropolis) and to sanctuaries in its hinterland (for example, those of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis and that of Artemis at Brauron), as well to as more distant sanctuaries, such as Delphi.