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The Cure are arguably the biggest alternative rock band in the
world. Their popularity is not limited to any one country, or even
continent. Between 1985 and 2000 every album they released went to
at least Gold in the UK, the US or both. In America they have
earned four Platinum albums, and they are estimated to have sold 30
million albums worldwide. Their iconic status as elder statesmen of
Alternative Rock remains undiminished - if anything, their tireless
touring has ensured that it has grown with every passing year - and
lead singer Robert Smith is an endlessly fascinating figure to
successive generations of fans. The Cure's influence reverberates
through genres including Emo, Goth, Industrial and Indie Rock. The
book is an encyclopaedic A-Z of The Cure examining and riffing on
miscellaneous trivia, biographies of the band members past and
present, summaries of each album and selected songs, details of the
band's various tours and films, and essays on broader topics such
as their image, their politics and their influences. Playful,
eccentric and irreverent - true to the spirit of the band itself -
CUREPEDIA is a comprehensive biography of one of the biggest
alternative rock bands in the world. The hardback edition features
interior pages printed in red and black ink, a ribbon marker, and
bespoke C-U-R-E letter endpapers specially designed by Andy Vella -
celebrated artist and collaborator (as part of Parched Art) with
The Cure on their album artwork for four decades.
An innovative and intriguing look at the foundations of Western
civilization from two leading historians; the first volume in the
Penguin History of Europe The influence of ancient Greece and Rome
can be seen in every aspect of our lives. From calendars to
democracy to the very languages we speak, Western civilization owes
a debt to these classical societies. Yet the Greeks and Romans did
not emerge fully formed; their culture grew from an active
engagement with a deeper past, drawing on ancient myths and figures
to shape vibrant civilizations. In The Birth of Classical Europe,
the latest entry in the much-acclaimed Penguin History of Europe,
historians Simon Price and Peter Thonemann present a fresh
perspective on classical culture in a book full of revelations
about civilizations we thought we knew. In this impeccably
researched and immensely readable history we see the ancient world
unfold before us, with its grand cast of characters stretching from
the great Greeks of myth to the world-shaping Caesars. A landmark
achievement, The Birth of Classical Europe provides insight into an
epoch that is both incredibly foreign and surprisingly familiar.
'The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary
publishing's great projects' New Statesman To an extraordinary
extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At
every level from languages to calendars to political systems, we
are the descendants of a 'classical Europe', using frames of
reference created by ancient Mediterranean cultures. As this
consistently fresh and surprising new book makes clear, however,
this was no less true for the inhabitants of those classical
civilizations themselves, whose myths, history, and buildings were
an elaborate engagement with an already old and revered past filled
with great leaders and writers, emigrations and battles. Indeed,
much of the reason we know so much about the classical past is the
obsessive importance it held for so many generations of Greeks and
Romans, who interpreted and reinterpreted their changing casts of
heroes and villains. Figures such as Alexander the Great and
Augustus Caesar loom large in our imaginations today, but they were
themselves fascinated by what had preceded them. The Birth of
Classical Europe is therefore both an authoritative history, and
also a fascinating attempt to show how our own changing values and
interests have shaped our feelings about an era which is by some
measures very remote but by others startlingly close.
This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life in Rome, from the foundation of the city to its rise to world empire and its conversion to Christianity. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the eighth century BC and the cosmopolitan, multicultural society of the first centuries of the Christian era.
This book contains a wide-ranging discussion of the literature of religious apologetic composed by pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Roman empire up to the time when Constantine declared himself a Christian. The contributors are distinguished specialists from the fields of ancient history, Jewish history, ancient philosophy, New Testament studies, and patristics. Each chapter is devoted to a particular text or group of texts with the aim of identifying the literary milieu and the circumstances that led to this form of writing. When appropriate, contributors have concentrated on whether the notional audience addressed in the text is the real one, and whether apologetics was regarded as a genre in its own right.
This is a book about the religious life of the Greeks from archaic times to the fifth century AD, looked at in the context of a variety of different cities and periods. Simon Price examines local practices and concepts in the light of general Greek ideas, relating them to such issues as gender roles, political life, and the trial of Socrates. He lays emphasis on the reactions to Greek religions of ancient thinkers--Greek, Roman and Christian. The evidence drawn on is of all kinds: literary, inscriptional and archaeological.
This is a book about the religious life of the Greeks from archaic times to the fifth century AD, looked at in the context of a variety of different cities and periods. Simon Price examines local practices and concepts in the light of general Greek ideas, relating them to such issues as gender roles, political life, and the trial of Socrates. He lays emphasis on the reactions to Greek religions of ancient thinkers--Greek, Roman and Christian. The evidence drawn on is of all kinds: literary, inscriptional and archaeological.
This book, the second of the two volumes that make up Religions of Rome, presents a wide range of documents illustrating religious life in the Roman world from the early Republic to the late Empire (both visual evidence and texts in translation). More than just a "sourcebook," it explores some of the major themes and problems of Roman religion (such as sacrifice, the religious calendar, divination and prediction). Each document has an introduction, explanatory notes and bibliography, and is used as the starting point for further discussion.
Heads of state today mark their rites of passage with splendid ceremonial, from Reagan's inaugural to Andropov's funeral. Such spectacles continue to be a prominent part of modern political systems, of varied ideological hue, but their precise meaning and importance often remain unclear. These specially commissioned essays address the central problem in the understanding of royal rituals, the relation between power and ceremonial. These contributions, from historians and anthropologists, examine a wide range of societies.
The Greek city-state or polis is the earliest advanced form of social organization in the western world, and is the starting-point for western political thought. Fourteen new essays by leading scholars from Britain, Denmark, France, Italy, and North America present leading aspects of this phenomenon. The Greek city is placed in the general context of Mediterranean history and its impact on the urbanization of Italy is assessed. Other chapters consider the geography of the polis and the relationship between city and countryside, its political and religious institutions, and the distinction between public and private spheres. The first essay seeks to define the uniqueness of the phenomenon of the polis, and the last assesses the reasons for its decline. The book is written for the general reader and the student of social sciences as much as for professional historians of the ancient world.
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