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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

    €30.20

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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

    €6.19

  • 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

    €2.77

  • 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

    €8.39

  • 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

    €7.69

  • 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

    €3.99

  • The Celtic Religion

    by Edward Anwyl ...
    Like other religions, those of the Celtic lands of Europe supplemented the earlier animism by a belief in spirits, who belonged to trees, animals, rocks, mountains, springs, rivers, and other natural phenomena, and in folk-lore there still survives abundant evidence that the Celt regarded spirits as taking upon themselves a variety of forms, animal and human. It was this idea of spirits in animal ... Read more

    €2.99 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

    €0.90

  • The 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

    €6.29 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • THE LIFE, LABOURS AND DOCTRINES OF CONFUCIUS

    by Confucius ...
    The Life, Labours and Doctrines of Confucius provides a comprehensive look into the ancient Chinese philosopher's teachings and principles. Written in a reflective and philosophical style, this book delves into Confucius' views on ethics, morality, and societal values, exploring how they have shaped Chinese culture and influenced generations. Through anecdotes and teachings, Confucius' wisdom is ... Read more

    €0.49 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Goddess

    Reverence of the Divine Feminine from the Paleolithic to the Present

    by Jean Markale ...
    • A study of the primordial figure of the Great Goddess and her continued worship through time as shown by the myths, shrines, and sanctuaries around the world that honor this powerful symbol of creation.• A noted historian on pre-Christian societies provides an extensive worldwide listing of sites and sanctuaries associated with goddess worship.• Explores goddess worship in cultures around the ... Read more

    €9.19

  • The Ionian Islands and Epirus

    by Jim Potts ...
    Series Book 2 - Landscapes of the Imagination
    Scattered off the west coast of mainland Greece are the seven Ionian Islands, celebrated for their spectacular landscapes, olive groves and classical associations. Together with the mountainous mainland region of Epirus, the combined populations of Corfu, Paxos, Lefkas, Ithaca, Kefalonia, Zakynthos and Kythira constitute less than a twentieth of the population of Greece, yet they have made a huge ... Read more

    €9.79 or Free with Kobo Plus