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Classical Inter/Faces eBook Series

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  • Performance and Cure

    Drama and Healing in Ancient Greece and Contemporary America

    by Professor Karelisa V. Hartigan ...
    Series series Classical Inter/Faces
    In this fascinating addition to the Classical Inter/faces series, Karelisa V. Hartigan suggests that drama was regularly performed in the theatres built within or adjacent to the ancient sanctuaries of Asklepios. She argues that a pageant which showed the enactment of the god healing prompted the dream therapy the patient experienced at the sanctuary. Patients who viewed this drama were ready to ... Read more

    $240.19 HKD

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  • Classics: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mary Beard, John Henderson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction to Classics links a haunting temple on a lonely mountainside to the glory of ancient Greece and the grandeur of Rome, and to Classics within modern culture-from Jefferson and Byron to Asterix and Ben-Hur.We are all Classicists - we come into touch with the Classics daily: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true ... Read more

    $62.44 HKD

  • Reclaiming Epicurus: Penguin Special

    Penguin Special

    by Luke Slattery ...
    Epicureanism has been diluted into a byword for gourmet dining, but does the original ancient Greek 'philosophy of the Garden' contain insight that could save the world? Luke Slattery argues that reading Epicurus could help us rethink our materialist ways and challenge the inevitability of man-made climate change. Rather than appealing to altruism, or calling for revolution in the global economy, ... Read more

    $23.24 HKD

  • The Parthenon Enigma

    by Joan Breton Connelly ...
    Built in the fifth century b.c., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West’s ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment, it has also come to represent our political ideals, the lavish temple to the goddess Athena serving as the model for our most hallowed civic architecture. But how much do the values of those who built the Parthenon truly ... Read more

    $91.39 HKD

  • Helen of Troy

    The Story Behind the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

    by Bettany Hughes ...
    For 3,000 years, the woman known as Helen of Troy has been both the ideal symbol of beauty and a reminder of the terrible power beauty can wield.In her search for the identity behind this mythic figure, acclaimed historian Bettany Hughes uses Homer’s account of Helen’s life to frame her own investigation. Tracing the cultural impact that Helen has had on both the ancient world and Western ... Read more

    $83.39 HKD

  • The Parthenon

    by Professor Mary Beard ...
    The ruined silhouette of the Parthenon on its hill above Athens is one of the world's most famous images. Its 'looted' Elgin Marbles are a global cause celebre. But what actually are they? In a revised and updated edition, Mary Beard, award winning writer, reviewer and leading Cambridge classicist, tells the history and explains the significance of the Parthenon, the temple of the virgin goddess ... Read more

    $77.79 HKD

  • Introducing the Ancient Greeks

    From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind

    by Edith Hall ...
    "Wonderful…a thoughtful discussion of what made [the Greeks] so important, in their own time and in ours." —Natalie Haynes, IndependentThe ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient Greeks, ... Read more

    $96.89 HKD

  • Caesar's Vast Ghost

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    Lose yourself in this classic travelogue evoking the idyllic South of France by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu.'Full of stories, landscapes, comedy, history, heresies, animals, food, drink, and songs of the Midi.' Patrick Leigh Fermor'A richly characteristic bouillabaisse by our last great garlicky master of the vanishing Mediterranean, our old ... Read more

    $56.69 HKD

  • A Brief Guide to Classical Civilization

    by Dr Stephen P. Kershaw ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    A general introduction to the classical world from its origins to the fall of the Roman Empire.The book focuses on questions of how we know about Classical civilization from archaeology and history; deals with the Mycenaean era and the world of Myth and Epic in Homer's Iliad & Odyssey; gives an outline of Greek history in the 5th & 4th Centuries BC; looks at Greek social life and the alternative ... Read more

    $115.29 HKD

  • Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times

    by Edward Anwyl ...
    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

    $49.19 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Recovered City of Alexander the Great, 1900. Illustrated

    by A L Frothingham ...
    A description of the lost and recovered city of Priene as the ruins were excavated at the end of the 19th century. ... Read more

    $7.69 HKD

  • Mysteries Of Mithra

    by Franz Cumont ...
    The present work, in which we purpose to treat of the origin and history of the Mithraic religion, does not pretend to offer a picture of the downfall of paganism. We shall not attempt, even in a general way, to seek for the causes which explain the establishment of the Oriental religions in Italy; nor shall we endeavor to show how their doctrines, which were far more active as fermenting agents ... Read more

    $12.32 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus