Comedy and Religion in Classical Athens. Narratives of Religious Experiences in Aristophanes' Wealth, Hardback - Francisco Barrenechea

A detailed study of how Aristophanes manipulates traditional narratives of important religious experiences (oracles, healings, epiphanies) to engag...

The first assessment of religious violence throughout the whole of Antiquity, with a particular focus on Late Antiquity where a much more nuanced p...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Joshua BillingsNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 165 x 242 x 31Cover type: Hard...

Offers scholars of Greek literature new evidence of Aristophanes' polemical use of philosophy in poetic competition; ancient philosophers new evide...

DescriptionFor two centuries classical Athens enjoyed almost uninterrupted democratic government. This was not a parliamentary democracy of the mod...

Based on records from Nikolaos Balanos' dismantling and reerection of the temple of Athena Nike on the Athenian Acropolis (between 1935 and 1939), ...

The Asia-Pacific region is considered the world's religious core with the greatest number of pilgrims and travellers for religious events, for both...

Reducere. Scholarly investigations of the rich field of verbal and extraverbal Athenian insults have typically been undertaken piecemeal. Deborah Kamen provi...

Publisher: Lexington BooksIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecified; TablesNumber of pages: 254Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 162 x 237 x 23Co...

Contends that our search for communal justice must start with self-examination. The realization that there are things that we cannot know about our...

By mingling images on well-preserved Greek vases with the more fragmentary ceramics recovered during excavations at the Agora, the authors show how...

Reducere. Rude Talk in Athens is brave, brilliant, and incredibly funny. There are loads of very specific characters, including Mark himself. It's the Mark H...

Discover a different side of Athens with this new guide. The 'Soul of' collection is a new approach to the art of travelling that consists of vagab...

Reducere. How does the funeral oration relate to democracy in ancient Greece? How did the death of an individual citizen-soldier become an occasion to praise...

A gripping exploration of thirty notable travel memoirs, each recounting a journey to a Buddhist culture. These Western travel narratives, the best...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. In these three raucous comedies, mortals outwit and even replace Zeus and other Olympian deities of the Greek Pantheon. As Aristophanes provokes la...

About 24, 000 figurines and fragments have been found on Acrocorinth, and this study greatly increases our understanding of the way in which this a...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Nathan T. ArringtonIllustration(s): 138 b/w illus., 16 color illus. (8-page insert)Number of pages:...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This collection of essays opens a new perspective on the interplay of religious conflict and literary culture in early modern England. Focusing on ...

During a day we meet 24 ancient Athenians from all levels of society and get to know what the real Athens was like by spending an hour in their com...

DescriptionSacred Knowledge is the first well-documented, sophisticated account of the effect of psychedelics on biological processes, human consci...

The focus of the global economy has increasingly shifted toward China and emerging countries. However, despite their high growth prospects, emergin...

Published in the year that The Olympics returns to Athens, this is the illuminating story of the making of the modern games, the multinational grou...

Reducere. Divine Comedy, Spiritual Musings & Hysterical Religious Cartoons Volume One is filled with hysterical cartoons and spiritual musings, dealing with ...

Reducere. In his other books for Advent, Christmas, and Lent published by The Liturgical Press, Father Brown has made the rich insights of modern biblical ex...

Essays provide evidence for the vigour and involvement of religious orders in the years immediately prior to the reformation.Publisher: Boydell & B...

Reducere. Drawing on biblical, historical, and contemporary narratives, as well as Christ's four-fold mission identity (Savior, Sanctifier, Healer, and Comin...

This spellbinding, ground-breaking translation reenergises Aeschylus' enduring saga of split loyalties, bloody sacrifice and the efforts to bring p...

This study of the intellectual culture of the women's monasteries of the Main Valley during the eighth century, based on analysis of the manuscript...

Demonstrates how, far from being peripheral, the stable communities of conventual religious in mainland Europe acted as important centres of religi...

Reducere. The following pages are the result of a series of notes collected and set down in the form of a story and a system of practice, which accounts for ...

Reducere. Eight-year-old Encarnación Castro embarked on a life-altering journey that challenged her endurance and resolve. Her life would never be the same. ...

Reducere. Eight-year-old Encarnación Castro embarked on a life-altering journey that challenged her endurance and resolve. Her life would never be the same. ...

Reducere. The purpose of this research is to create a comprehensive historical work on the Church of God in Christ, while highlighting the formation, develop...

Classical Athens boasted one of the most impressive flowerings of civilisation ever known, with original and influential achievements in literature...

The pastor in print is the first book-length analysis of the phenomenon of early modern pastors who intentionally pursued print authorship. With ca...

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons IncAuthor(s): A AlroyNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 237 x 25Cover type: HardbackRedescope...

Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag AGAuthor(s): Vasileios I AnastasiadisNumber of pages: 239Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 212 x 156 x 17Cover type: P...

An investigation into texts specifically addressed to women sheds new light on female literary cultures.Illustrations: No