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Elements in Magic Série de Livres électroniques

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  • The Strix-Witch

    par Daniel Ogden ...
    Collections series Elements in Magic
    The strix was a persistent feature of the folklore of the Roman world and subsequently that of the Latin West and the Greek East. She was a woman that flew by night, either in an owl-like form or in the form of a projected soul, in order to penetrate homes by surreptitious means and thereby devour, blight or steal the new-born babies within them. The motif-set of the ideal narrative of a strix ... En savoir plus

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  • How the Irish Saved Civilization

    par Thomas Cahill ...
    Collections series The Hinges of History
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A book in the best tradition of popular history—the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. • The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift!Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Greek Religion

    Archaic and Classical

    par Walter Burkert ...
    Traduit par John Raffan ...
    Collections series Ancient World
    "Greek Religion . . . already has the standing of a classic, and the publication of an English version, which incorporates new material and is in effect a second edition, demands a toast . . . Anyone who pretends to survey Greek religion must be phenomenally learned. Burkert is. His book is a marvel of professional scholarship."- London Review of Books"This book has established itself as a ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • A Classical Education

    The Stuff You Wish You'd Been Taught At School

    par Caroline Taggart ...
    Collections Livre 6 - I Used to Know That
    How many times have you wished that your history stretched all the way back to Greek and Roman myths and legends? Or that you'd been taught Latin at school? Or perhaps you wish you knew all about the great inventions and medical developments that have made our world what it is today? A Classical Education provides all of these classical facts that modern schooling leaves out and many more. Perfect ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Ancient Greek Literary Letters

    Selections in Translation

    par Patricia A. Rosenmeyer ...
    Collections series Routledge Classical Translations
    The first referenece to letter writing occurs in the first text of western literature, Homer's Iliad. From the very beginning, Greeks were enthusiastic letter writers, and letter writing became a distinct literary genre. Letters were included in the works of historians but they also formed the basis of works of fiction, and the formal substructure for many kinds of poem.Patricia Rosenmeyer, an ... En savoir plus

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  • On Greek Religion

    par Robert C.T. Parker ...
    Collections Livre 60 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
    "There is something of a paradox about our access to ancient Greek religion. We know too much, and too little. The materials that bear on it far outreach an individual's capacity to assimilate: so many casual allusions in so many literary texts over more than a millennium, so many direct or indirect references in so many inscriptions from so many places in the Greek world, such an overwhelming ... En savoir plus

    $33.99 CAD

  • Monuments And Maidens

    The Allegory of the Female Form

    par Marina Warner ...
    'Why should Truth be a woman? Or Nature? Or Justice? Or Liberty? Not, certainly, because women have been more free, just, truthful, nor even (though this one has a double edge) more natural. Marina Warner sets out to breathe some life into the army of petrified personages that litters western cityscapes... As her book shows, these stony ladies can be persuaded to yield surprisingly interesting ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Man Into Wolf - An Anthropological Interpretation of Sadism, Masochism, and Lycanthropy

    par Robert Eisler ...
    This vintage work contains a treatise on an anthropological interpretation of sadism, masochism, and lycanthropy, which has been compiled from the notes of a lecture delivered at a meeting of the 'Royal Society of Medicine'. This fascinating and arresting collection of notes will be of considerable utility to anyone with an interest in psychiatry or the influential work of Robert Eisler. It is a ... En savoir plus

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  • Arcana Mundi: A Collection of Ancient Texts

    Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds

    par Georg Luck ...
    Discover a different way to see classical civilization in this collection of ancient Greek and Roman texts on magic and the occult.Magic, miracles, daemonology, divination, astrology, and alchemy were the arcana mundi, the "secrets of the universe," of the ancient Greeks and Romans. In this path-breaking collection of Greek and Roman writings on magic and the occult, Georg Luck provides a ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Celestial Hunter

    par Roberto Calasso ...
    Traduit par Richard Dixon ...
    In this analysis of human history and myth, "[Calasso's] flow of associations leaves you feeling not out of your depth, but smarter and better read" ( The New York Times Book Review).A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceThere was a time, even before prehistory, when man was simply a defenseless animal. The gods he worshiped took the form of other beasts or were the patterns of the stars he ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD

  • Perseus

    par Daniel Ogden ...
    Collections series Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World
    The son of Zeus, Perseus belongs in the first rank of Greek heroes. Indeed to some he was a greater hero even than Heracles. With the help of Hermes and Athena he slew the Gorgon Medusa, conquered a mighty sea monster and won the hand of the beautiful princess Andromeda. This volume tells of his enduring myth, it's rendering in art and literature, and its reception through the Roman period and up ... En savoir plus

    $81.99 CAD

  • Pure Pagan

    Seven Centuries of Greek Poems and Fragments

    Collections series Modern Library Classics
    *“For there is indeed something we can call the spirit of ancient Greece–a carefully tuned voice that speaks out of the grave with astonishing clarity and grace , a distinctive voice that, taken as a whole, is like no other voice that has ever sung on this earth.”–*BURTON RAFFEL, from his PrefaceFor centuries, the poetry of Homer, Aristophanes, Sophocles, Sappho, and Archilochus has served as one ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD