Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds, Hardcover

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Space and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds - Michael Scott

Explores the deep connection between music and memory in Graeco-Roman culture, and how this connection was understood and experienced by ancient au...

Reducere. DescriptionIn a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary and myt...

Magic, miracles, daemonology, divination, astrology, and alchemy were the arcana mundi, the "secrets of the universe, " of the ancient Greeks and R...

An important but neglected aspect of classical warfare. Covers technological, strategic and tactical developments from Alexander to the battle of A...

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...

Reducere. Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Age is a superb introduction to the principal Western religions and their philosophical counterparts from the be...

Large print edition, fully annotated (1 500 footnotes), easy-to-read layout.G.R.S. Mead was a noted and influential member of the Theosophical Soci...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Hellenistic World, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: The Hellenis...

In this volume, Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper investigates the impact of Greek art on the miniature figure sculptures produced in Babylonia after the ...

Twenty papers combining archaeology and bioarchaeology to give a sophisticated picture of life and death in Asia Minor from ca. 200 BC - to AD 1300...

Explore the History and Mythology of the Ancient Greeks There are few things as fascinating and exciting as the world of Ancient Greece, and in the...

Reducere. Large print edition, fully annotated (commentaries and 985 footnotes), easy-to-read layout.G.R.S. Mead was a noted and influential member of the Th...

Providing nearly a hundred pages of additional material, this title offers the English translation of the account of Stoic ethics by Anus Didysmus,...

The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of ...

DescriptionPantheism is the idea that God and the world are identical--that the creator, sustainer, destroyer, and transformer of all things is the...

Why do Christians believe what they believe? The early Christians contested their theology for 300 hundred years in Greek and Roman Hellenistic cul...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Hellenistic World, then keep reading... Two captivating manuscripts in one book: The Helleni...

Proceedings of an international conference held at Tel Aviv University's Institute of Archaeology in 2014, covering Hellenistic history, the archae...

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Reducere. In the last century philosophy has undergone essential transfor-mations. Some spoke of the death of philosophy. Others argued about the absorption ...

DescriptionAncient Greek Philosophy: From the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Philosophers presents a comprehensive introduction to the philosopher...

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Reducere. In the last century philosophy has undergone essential transfor-mations. Some spoke of the death of philosophy. Others argued about the absorption ...

The middle of the second until the middle of the first century BCE is one of the most creative periods in the history of human thought, and an impo...

Reducere. It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.Considered one of the father's of Science Fiction, H. G. Wells was a prominent a...

Reducere. The purpose of this book is to trace the main developments in Greek philosophy during the period which runs from the death of Alexander the Great i...

How did popular and elite beliefs about the next world, and about supernatural forces in this world, change and develop as a result of the Reformat...

What are human beings like? How is knowledge possible? What is truth? Where do moral values come from? Questions like these have stood at the cente...

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Explores power relations in the households, schools, and monasteries of late antiquity in light of social theory, in a way that will be of interest...

Is music just matter of hearing and producing notes? This book explores different ways in which, in the Roman Imperial period, music was rather a f...

Produced on the fringes of philosophy and literary criticism, this book is a pioneering study which aims to explicitly address and thematize what m...

Is music just matter of hearing and producing notes? This book explores different ways in which, in the Roman Imperial period, music was rather a f...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore the History and Mythology of the Ancient Greeks There are few things as fascinating and exciting as the world of Ancient Greece,...

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DescriptionThis book provides a complete and detailed analysis of the organization and equipment employed by the armies of the Hellenistic States. ...

This beautifully designed, full-color textbook introduces the Roman background of the New Testament by immersing students in the life and culture o...

A textbook for teachers that demonstrates how philosophical thinking can be used in teaching children

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ryan BoehmIllustration(s): 6 mapsNumber of pages: 316Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 22...

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Philosophy of the Boudoir follows three aristocrats as they indoctrinate the fifteen-year-old Eugénie de Mistival in 'the principles of the most ou...

Stunningly written and highly engaging, Yates' masterpiece is a must-read for anyone interested in the occult tradition.

Reducere. Tsimtsum (contraction) and hitpashtut (expansion). These two kabbalistic terms aptly describe the thought of Bezalel Naor. Though diametrically opp...