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The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts (Hardcover, New Ed): R.O. Faulkner The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts (Hardcover, New Ed)
R.O. Faulkner
R4,037 Discovery Miles 40 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This authoritative English translation of the Middle Kingdom Coffin Texts is an essential resource for all Egyptologists. The new edition reprints Faulkner's whole work in one volume. Filling the gap between the Pyramid Texts and the New Kingdom Book of the Dead, these writings were intended to supply the deceased with the speeches he would need to achieve a secure and important position in the next world. As such they supply valuable insights into Egyptian beliefs and mortuary practices. Concise textual notes are kept to a minimum, allowing the character of the texts to be experienced as a whole. Indexes cover divinities, localities, celestial bodies, selected Egyptian words in translation and also the parts of boats and sailing gear that figure prominently in some spells.

Cannabis in the Ancient Greek and Roman World (Hardcover): Alan Sumler Cannabis in the Ancient Greek and Roman World (Hardcover)
Alan Sumler
R2,299 Discovery Miles 22 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Did the ancient Greeks and Romans use psychoactive cannabis? Scholars say that hemp was commonplace in the ancient world, but there is no consensus on cannabis usage. According to botany, hemp and cannabis are the same plant and thus the ancient Greeks and Romans must have used it in their daily lives. Cultures parallel to the ancient Greeks and Romans, like the Egyptians, Scythians, and Hittites, were known to use cannabis in their medicine, religion and recreational practices. Cannabis in the Ancient Greek and Roman World surveys the primary references to cannabis in ancient Greek and Roman texts and covers emerging scholarship about the plant in the ancient world. Ancient Greek and Latin medical texts from the Roman Empire contain the most mentions of the plant, where it served as an effective ingredient in ancient pharmacy. Cannabis in the Ancient Greek and Roman World focuses on the ancient rationale behind cannabis and how they understood the plant's properties and effects, as well as its different applications. For the first time ever, this book provides a sourcebook with the original ancient Greek and Latin, along with translations, of all references to psychoactive cannabis in the Greek and Roman world. It covers the archaeology of cannabis in the ancient world, including amazing discoveries from Scythian burial sites, ancient proto-Zoroastrian fire temples, Bronze Age Chinese burial sites, as well as evidence in Greece and Rome. Beyond cannabis, Cannabis in the Ancient Greek and Roman World also explores ancient views on medicine, pharmacy, and intoxication.

The Odyssey (Hardcover): Barry B. Powell The Odyssey (Hardcover)
Barry B. Powell
R952 R836 Discovery Miles 8 360 Save R116 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Odysseus-soldier, trickster, and everyman-is one of the most recognizable characters in world literature. His arduous, ten-year journey home after the Trojan War, the subject of Homer's The Odyssey, is the most accessible tale to survive from ancient Greece, and its impact is still felt today across many different cultures. Barry Powell's free verse translation preserves the clarity and simplicity of the original while conveying Odysseus' adventures in an energetic, modern idiom. By avoiding the stylistic formality of earlier translations, and the colloquial and sometimes exaggerated effects of recent attempts, his translation deftly captures the most essential truths of this vital text. Due to his thorough familiarity with the world of Homer and Homeric language, Powell's introduction provides rich historical and literary perspectives on the poem. This translation also includes illustrations from classical artwork, detailed maps, explanatory notes, a timeline, and a glossary. Modern and pleasing to the ear while accurately reflecting the meaning of the Greek, this Odyssey steers a middle path between the most well-known translations and adds something truly unique and contemporary to the canon.

Die Freundesreden des ursprunglichen Hiobdialogs - Eine form- und traditionsgeschichtliche Studie (German, Hardcover): Urmas... Die Freundesreden des ursprunglichen Hiobdialogs - Eine form- und traditionsgeschichtliche Studie (German, Hardcover)
Urmas No~mmik
R5,854 Discovery Miles 58 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world. BZAW welcomes submissions that make an original and significant contribution to the field; demonstrate sophisticated engagement with the relevant secondary literature; and are written in readable, logical, and engaging prose.

Mythos im Alten Testament und seiner Umwelt (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2012 ed.): Armin Lange, Hermann Lichtenberger, Diethard... Mythos im Alten Testament und seiner Umwelt (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2012 ed.)
Armin Lange, Hermann Lichtenberger, Diethard Roemheld
R4,908 Discovery Miles 49 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Hypatia - The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher (Hardcover): Edward J. Watts Hypatia - The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher (Hardcover)
Edward J. Watts
R1,007 Discovery Miles 10 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A philosopher, mathematician, and martyr, Hypatia is one of antiquity's best-known female intellectuals. For the sixteen centuries following her murder by a mob of Christians Hypatia has been remembered in books, poems, plays, paintings, and films as a victim of religious intolerance whose death symbolized the end of the Classical world. But Hypatia was a person before she was a symbol. Her great skill in mathematics and philosophy redefined the intellectual life of her home city of Alexandria. Her talent as a teacher enabled her to assemble a circle of dedicated male students. Her devotion to public service made her a force for peace and good government in a city that struggled to maintain trust and cooperation between pagans and Christians. Despite these successes, Hypatia fought countless small battles to live the public and intellectual life that she wanted. This book rediscovers the life Hypatia led, the unique challenges she faced as a woman who succeeded spectacularly in a man's world, and the tragic story of the events that led to her murder.

The Egyptian Heaven and Hell: Volume II (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback): E. A. Wallis Budge The Egyptian Heaven and Hell: Volume II (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)
E. A. Wallis Budge
R1,709 Discovery Miles 17 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the second of three volumes, first published in 1906, which explore the Egyptian theology of the afterlife. It contains the complete hieroglyphic text of the short form of the Am-Tuat and of the Book of Gates, with translations and reproductions of all the illustrations. In the Book of Gates the doctrines of the sophisticated cult of Osiris are prominent: they affirm that the beatified live for ever in the kingdom of Osiris, and feed daily upon his eternal body. The object of all the Books of the Other World was to provide the dead with a 'guide' or 'handbook,' containing a description of the regions through which their souls would have to pass on their way to the Kingdom of Osiris, and which would supply them with the words of power and magical names necessary for an unimpeded journey from this world to the next.

Religion (Heidentum: Die religioesen Verhaltnisse in den Provinzen [Forts.]) (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2014): Wolfgang Haase Religion (Heidentum: Die religioesen Verhaltnisse in den Provinzen [Forts.]) (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2014)
Wolfgang Haase
R15,140 Discovery Miles 151 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

AUFSTIEG UND NIEDERGANG DER ROEMISCHEN WELT (ANRW) is a work of international cooperation in the field of historical scholarship. Its aim is to present all important aspects of the ancient Roman world, as well as its legacy and continued influence in medieval and modern times. Subjects are dealt with in individual articles written in the light of present day research. The work is divided into three parts: I. From the Origins of Rome to the End of the Republic II. The Principate III. Late Antiquity Each part consists of six systematic sections, which occasionally overlap: 1. Political History, 2. Law, 3. Religion, 4. Language and Literature, 5. Philosophy and the Sciences, 6. The Arts. ANRW is organized as a handbook. It is a survey of Roman Studies in the broadest sense, and includes the history of the reception and influence of Roman Culture up to the present time. The individual contributions are, depending on the nature of the subject, either concise presentations with bibliography, problem and research reports, or representative investigations covering broad areas of subjects. Approximately one thousand scholars from thirty-five nations are collaborating on this work. The articles appear in German, English, French or Italian. As a work for study and reference, ANRW is an indispensable tool for research and academic teaching in the following disciplines: Ancient, Medieval and Modern History; Byzantine and Slavonic Studies; Classical, Medieval Latin Romance and Oriental Philology; Classical, Oriental and Christian Archaeology and History of Art; Legal Studies; Religion and Theology, especially Church History and Patristics. In preparation: Part II, Vol. 26,4: Religion - Vorkonstantinisches Christentum: Neues Testament - Sachthemen, Fortsetzung Part II, Vol. 37,4: Wissenschaften: Medizin und Biologie, Fortsetzung. For further information about the project and to view the table of contents of earlier volumes please visit http://www.bu.edu/ict/anrw/index.html To search key words in the table of contents of all published volumes please refer to the search engine at http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/biblio/anrw.html

The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (Paperback): Roberto Calasso The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (Paperback)
Roberto Calasso 1
R347 R316 Discovery Miles 3 160 Save R31 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'It will be read and re-read not as a treatise but as a story: one of the most extraordinary that has ever been written of the origins of Western self-consciousness' Simon Schama The marriage of Cadmus and Harmony was the last time the gods of Olympus feasted alongside mortals. What happened in the distant ages preceding it, and in the generations that followed, form the timeless tales of ancient Greek mythology. In this masterful retelling of the myths we think we know, Roberto Calasso illuminates the deepest questions of our existence. 'The kind of book one comes across only once or twice in one's lifetime' Joseph Brodsky 'A perfect work like no other' Gore Vidal

Pindar and the Cult of Heroes (Hardcover): Bruno Currie Pindar and the Cult of Heroes (Hardcover)
Bruno Currie
R6,641 Discovery Miles 66 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Pindar and the Cult of Heroes combines a study of Greek culture and religion (hero cult) with a literary-critical study of Pindar's epinician poetry. It looks at hero cult generally, but focuses especially on heroization in the 5th century BC. There are individual chapters on the heroization of war dead, of athletes, and on the religious treatment of the living in the 5th century. Hero cult, Bruno Currie argues, could be anticipated, in different ways, in a person's lifetime. Epinician poetry too should be interpreted in the light of this cultural context; fundamentally, this genre explores the patron's religious status. The book features extensive studies of Pindar's Pythians 2, 3, 5, Isthmian 7, and Nemean 7.

Epiphanius of Cyprus - A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity (Paperback): Andrew S. Jacobs Epiphanius of Cyprus - A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity (Paperback)
Andrew S. Jacobs
R1,013 R816 Discovery Miles 8 160 Save R197 (19%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Epiphanius, Bishop of Constantia on Cyprus from 367 to 403 CE, was incredibly influential in the last decades of the fourth century. Whereas his major surviving text-the Panarion, an encyclopedia of heresies-is studied for lost sources, Epiphanius himself is often dismissed as an anti-intellectual eccentric, a marginal figure of late antiquity. In this book, Andrew S. Jacobs moves Epiphanius from the margin back toward the center and proposes we view major cultural themes of late antiquity in a new light altogether. Through an examination of the key cultural concepts of celebrity, conversion, discipline, scripture, and salvation, Jacobs shifts our understanding of late antiquity from a transformational period open to new ideas and peoples toward a Christian Empire that posited a troubling, but ever-present, otherness at the center of its cultural production.

Grimoire (Paperback): Robin Robertson Grimoire (Paperback)
Robin Robertson
R335 R303 Discovery Miles 3 030 Save R32 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2020 From the author of The Long Take, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of both the Walter Scott Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize. 'I've long admired Robin Robertson's narrative gift . . . If you love stories, you will love this book.' Val McDermid Like some lost chapters from the Celtic folk tradition, Grimoire tells stories of ordinary people caught up, suddenly, in the extraordinary: tales of violence, madness and retribution, of second sight, witches, ghosts, selkies, changelings and doubles, all bound within a larger mythology, narrated by a doomed shape-changer - a man, beast or god. A grimoire is a manual for invoking spirits. Here, Robin Robertson and his brother Tim Robertson - whose accompanying images are as unforgettable as cave-paintings - raise strange new forms which speak not only of the potency of our myths and superstitions, but how they were used to balance and explain the world and its predicaments. From one of our most powerful lyric poets, this is a book of curses and visions, gifts both desired and unwelcome, characters on the cusp of their transformation - whether women seeking revenge or saving their broken children, or men trying to save themselves. Haunting and elemental, Grimoire is full of the same charged beauty as the Scottish landscape - a beauty that can switch, with a mere change in the weather, to hostility and terror.

The Cloud of Longing - A New Translation and Eco-Aesthetic Study of Kalidasa's Meghaduta (Hardcover): E. H. Rick Jarow The Cloud of Longing - A New Translation and Eco-Aesthetic Study of Kalidasa's Meghaduta (Hardcover)
E. H. Rick Jarow
R2,659 Discovery Miles 26 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A full-length study and new translation of the great Sanskrit poet Kalidasa's famed Meghaduta (literally "The Cloud Messenger,") The Cloud of Longing focuses on the poem's interfacing of nature, feeling, figuration, and mythic memory. This work is unique in its attention given to the natural world in light of the nexus of language and love that is the chief characteristic (lakshana) of the poem. Along with a scrupulous study of the approximately 111 verses of the poem, The Cloud of Longing offers an extended look at how nature was envisioned by classical India's supreme poet as he portrays a cloud's imagined voyage over the fields, valleys, rivers, mountains, and towns of classical India. This sustained, close reading of the Meghaduta will speak to contemporary readers as well as to those committed to developing a more in-depth experience of the natural world. The Cloud of Longing fills a gap in the translation of classical Indian texts, as well as in studies of world literature, religion, and into an emerging integrative environmental discipline.

Religion (Heidentum: Roemische Goetterkulte, Orientalische Kulte in Der Roemischen Welt) (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2014 ed.):... Religion (Heidentum: Roemische Goetterkulte, Orientalische Kulte in Der Roemischen Welt) (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2014 ed.)
Wolfgang Haase
R10,006 Discovery Miles 100 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Santeria - The Definitive Guide to Cuban Santeria, Orishas, Yoruba History and the Rules for Becoming Iyawo (Paperback): Danay... Santeria - The Definitive Guide to Cuban Santeria, Orishas, Yoruba History and the Rules for Becoming Iyawo (Paperback)
Danay Donatien Martinez
R570 R517 Discovery Miles 5 170 Save R53 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rituals in Slavic Pre-Christian Religion - Festivals, Banqueting, and Divination (Hardcover, New edition): Juan Antonio... Rituals in Slavic Pre-Christian Religion - Festivals, Banqueting, and Divination (Hardcover, New edition)
Juan Antonio Ãlvarez-Pedrosa, Enrique Santos Marinas
R2,692 Discovery Miles 26 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Roemische Geschichte und Heilsgeschichte (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2013): Dieter Timpe Roemische Geschichte und Heilsgeschichte (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2013)
Dieter Timpe; Foreword by Christoph Markschies
R3,597 Discovery Miles 35 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How did Christians in Classical Antiquity view history? How did they apply and modify traditional biblical options - for example the view of the apocalypse or salvation - in their interpretation of contemporary times? What role did the "Imperial Crisis" in the 3rd century and the changes in the 4th century play for the Christian's interpretation of history? Did Eusebius of Caesarea, the first Christian historian, merely write a "collection of materials" or was he guided by contemporary standards of academic historiography?This study provides answers to these questions and to other controversial issues in the discussion of Christian historiography in Classical Antiquity.

Religion (Judentum: Allgemeines; Palastinisches Judentum) (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2014 ed.): Wolfgang Haase Religion (Judentum: Allgemeines; Palastinisches Judentum) (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2014 ed.)
Wolfgang Haase
R15,768 Discovery Miles 157 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Babylon (German, Hardcover, 2nd 2., Reprint 2012 ed.): Eckhard Unger Babylon (German, Hardcover, 2nd 2., Reprint 2012 ed.)
Eckhard Unger
R3,814 Discovery Miles 38 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
New Antiquities - Transformations of Ancient Religion in the New Age and Beyond (Paperback): Dylan M. Burns, Almut-Barbara... New Antiquities - Transformations of Ancient Religion in the New Age and Beyond (Paperback)
Dylan M. Burns, Almut-Barbara Renger
R1,116 Discovery Miles 11 160 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Just as we speak of "dead" languages, we say that religions "die out." Yet sometimes, people try to revive them, today more than ever. New Antiquities addresses this phenomenon through critical examination of how individuals and groups appeal to, reconceptualize, and reinvent the religious world of the ancient Mediterranean as they attempt to legitimize developments in contemporary religious culture and associated activity. Drawing from the disciplines of religious studies, archaeology, history, philology, and anthropology, New Antiquities explores a diversity of cultic and geographic milieus, ranging from Goddess Spirituality to Neo-Gnosticism, from rural Oregon to the former Yugoslavia. As a survey of the reception of ancient religious works, figures, and ideas in later twentieth-century and contemporary alternative religious practice, New Antiquities will interest classicists, Egyptologists, and historians of religion of many stripes, particularly those focused on modern Theosophy, Gnosticism, Neopaganism, New Religious Movements, Magick, and Occulture. The book is written in a lively and engaging style that will appeal to professional scholars and advanced undergraduates as well as lay scholars.

Myths of the World - An Illustrated Collection of the World's Greatest Stories (Hardcover, 2nd New edition): Tony Allan Myths of the World - An Illustrated Collection of the World's Greatest Stories (Hardcover, 2nd New edition)
Tony Allan; Foreword by Martin Shaw
R615 R544 Discovery Miles 5 440 Save R71 (12%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In this beautifully illustrated gift edition, you'll discover more than 240 mythological tales from around the world, featuring gods, heroes, princesses, villains, magicians and monsters, as well as animals with extraordinary powers. Let this collection guide you through stories from every corner of the globe, from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome through the Vikings to the Slavic East, Japan and China and the Americas. Each culture is rich in folklore and magical tales, and this book offers a fascinating introduction to them all. This is a radical collection of stories, filled with voltage. Whether ninety or nine, there's something in these tales that wants to speak directly to you. From tales of creation and the first humans to apocalyptic battles at the end of time, explore the most thrilling tales in all mythology: thunder god Thor losing his hammer, Theseus callously abandoning Ariadne after defeating the Minotaur, Hindu god Shiva destroying his rival Kama with a blast of flame, Egyptian goddess Isis forcing the sun god to reveal his name ... and much more.

The Anunnaki Connection - Sumerian Gods, Alien DNA, and the Fate of Humanity from Eden to Armageddon (Paperback): Heather Lynn The Anunnaki Connection - Sumerian Gods, Alien DNA, and the Fate of Humanity from Eden to Armageddon (Paperback)
Heather Lynn
R595 R536 Discovery Miles 5 360 Save R59 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Companion to Greek Mythology (Hardcover, New): K. Dowden A Companion to Greek Mythology (Hardcover, New)
K. Dowden
R4,845 Discovery Miles 48 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story patterns and the Greeks contacts with their Eastern Mediterranean neighbours through its development as a shared language and thought-system for the Greco-Roman world. * Features essays from a prestigious international team of literary experts * Includes coverage of Greek myth s intersection with history, philosophy and religion * Introduces readers to topics in mythology that are often inaccessible to non-specialists * Addresses the Hellenistic and Roman periods as well as Archaic and Classical Greece

Christianity and the Ancient Mysteries - Reflections on Rudolf Steiner's Christianity as Mystical Fact (Paperback):... Christianity and the Ancient Mysteries - Reflections on Rudolf Steiner's Christianity as Mystical Fact (Paperback)
Charles Kovacs 1
R520 R470 Discovery Miles 4 700 Save R50 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In 1902 Steiner wrote Christianity as Mystical Fact and the Mysteries of Antiquity, showing the evolutionary development from the ancient mysteries, through the great Greek philosophers, to the events portrayed in the gospels. Steiner saw the Christ event as the turning point in the world's spiritual history -- an incarnation whose significance he saw as transcending all religions. Charles Kovacs brings his deep knowledge of esoteric writings, mythology and Steiner's lectures to give more background and to show how the way for Christianity was prepared in the ancient pre-Christian mysteries of Egypt and Greece. He discusses the symbolic and real events of the gospels, as well as looking at some of the understandings and disputes of the early Christians. The book is illustrated with Kovacs' own colour paintings.

Approaches to Greek Myth (Hardcover, second edition): Lowell Edmunds Approaches to Greek Myth (Hardcover, second edition)
Lowell Edmunds
R1,715 Discovery Miles 17 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Since the first edition of "Approaches to Greek Myth" was published in 1990, interest in Greek mythology has surged. There was no simple agreement on the subject of "myth" in classical antiquity, and there remains none today. Is myth a narrative or a performance? Can myth be separated from its context? What did myths mean to ancient Greeks and what do they mean today?

Here, Lowell Edmunds brings together practitioners of eight of the most important contemporary approaches to the subject. Whether exploring myth from a historical, comparative, or theoretical perspective, each contributor lucidly describes a particular approach, applies it to one or more myths, and reflects on what the approach yields that others do not. Edmunds's new general and chapter-level introductions recontextualize these essays and also touch on recent developments in scholarship in the interpretation of Greek myth.

Contributors are Jordi Pamias, on the reception of Greek myth through history; H. S. Versnel, on the intersections of myth and ritual; Carolina Lopez-Ruiz, on the near Eastern contexts; Joseph Falaky Nagy, on Indo-European structure in Greek myth; William Hansen, on myth and folklore; Claude Calame, on the application of semiotic theory of narrative; Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, on reading visual sources such as vase paintings; and Robert A. Segal, on psychoanalytic interpretations.

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