Gods in Britain. An Island Odyssey from Pagan to Christian, Paperback - Jill Dudley

Intends to explore how, and even why, early Christianity took over. In this book, the author travels from England to Scotland, from Cornwall to Wal...

Reducere. The British Isles have long been seen as a place of mystery & magic. For many thousands of years successive waves of invaders each brought their ow...

In Lap of the Gods Jill Dudley explores the ancient Greek myths and legends of Crete and other Aegean islands, describing the landscape and the ind...

Pabay lies in Skye's Inner Sound, off the crofting village of Breakish and the small adjoining town of Broadford. One of five Hebridean islands of ...

The myth of Asclepius booth (god of healing), the expectations of invalids visiting the centre, and the god's miraculous cures, the buildings and t...

The myth of how Poseidon, God of the sea, was given the island, and how the people angered him and he caused their deaths in the eruption. The Cald...

About Hippocrates and his new approach to medicine and his break with the tradition of treating the sick in the Temple of Asclepius, where his fath...

The king in antiquity. The Birth of Athena, her role as goddess. Early temples, the pantheon. Its marbles, its conversion to a church.

About King Minos, Theseus, the Minotaur, Ariadne, The birth of Zeus in the Diktaon Cave. One of the six 'Put it in your pocket series'.

For anyone interested in Greek antiquity this booklet is as it says on the back cover: "All you need to know about the island's myths, legends and ...

About Theseus and Ariadne, running away together to Maxos from Crete, after Theseus killed the Minotaur. About the God of Wine, Dionysos, falling f...

The myth about the abduction by Hades off Demeter's daughter Kore. How she was allowed back for 8 months of the year but returned to Hades for the ...

Reducere. Who better to describe this book than Wally P Author, A.A. Archivist, and Historian. Original title for Believing in False Gods was. " I Was A Paga...

Reducere. There are many different paths in life that we can choose to follow. There are also circumstances where life imposes the only choice of acceptance....

All you need to know about Greek Myths concerning the Trojan War.

All you need to know about the Island's myths, legends and its gods.

About Helios (The Sun) and the Colossus - why it was put up and what happened to it. About the Temple of Apollo Pythios at Rhodes, and the Temple o...

All you need to know about Greek Myths concerning the Trojan War.

All you need to know about Greek Myths concerning the Trojan War.

Reducere. This is an odyssey about failure, rejection, redemption, and triumph where I had to rise above religion and embrace God's true gift, a relationship...

All you need to know about Greek Myths concerning the Trojan War.

All you need to know about Greek Myths concerning the Trojan War.

The origins of the Olympic Games in honour of Zeus - The formalities - Prize giving - closed down under Christianity.

How Delphi was chosen by Apollo - The centre of the world marked by the Omphalos - similarity between, Apollo killing the dragon and Sir George, De...

All you need to know about Greek Myths concerning the Trojan War.

All you need to know about the island's myths, legends and its godsPublisher: Orpington PublishersAuthor(s): Jill DudleyIllustration(s): 2 black li...

A concise history of the goddess-like figures who evade both Christian and pagan traditions, from the medieval period to the present dayPublisher: ...

All you need to know about the island's myths, legends and its gods.

All you need to know about the island's myths, legends and its gods.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Riley StarWhat is paganism? Is it an heretical faith that stands in opposition to Christianity? It is devil worship? The an...

Explore the oddities of the British psyche with this informative and witty illustrated guide.