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What Is Religion? - European Thought From Antiquity To The Present

by Philippe (Universite De Geneve) Borgeaud

~~33,80€~~ 30,42€ 10% OFF

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 An ambitious and learned, yet at the same time engaging, account of the complex and often contradictory European attempts to define what is meant by 'religion', which were rooted in stories, ideas and debates going back deep into antiquity and made urgent by encounters with non-Christian religions and cultures.
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Japan And Ancient Greece - Culture And Possession

by Michael (Institut National Des Langues Et Civilisations Orientales, Paris) Lucken

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 Ancient Greek culture has permeated all aspects of Japanese public and cultural life since the Meiji restoration. This groundbreaking book explores the relationship between two seemingly distant cultures, thereby providing a formidable model for thinking about the wider problem of Classical reception and cultural appropriation.
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Choral Tragedy - Greek Poetics And Musical Ritual

by Claude (Ecole Des Hautes Etudes En Sciences Sociales, Paris) Calame

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 Re-examines the chorus in Greek tragedy and argues for the fundamentally poetic and musical nature of the genre, and its deep connection to the cultic and ritual contexts in which it was performed.
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The Greeks And Their Histories - Myth, History, And Society

by Hans-Joachim (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Germany) Gehrke

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 Like every society, the Greek communities needed a unifying concept of their past, an 'intentional history'. In direct interaction with poets, they formed an aesthetic network in which myths were considered as historical events. This volume considers how Greeks' histories were consciously employed to help shape political and social realities.
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Choral Tragedy - Greek Poetics And Musical Ritual

by Claude Calame

~~33,11€~~ 29,80€ 10% OFF

 Re-examines the chorus in Greek tragedy and argues for the fundamentally poetic and musical nature of the genre, and its deep connection to the cultic and ritual contexts in which it was performed.
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The Names Of The Gods In Ancient Mediterranean Religions

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 From Greece to Palmyra, Tyre to Babylon, the names of the gods reveal their fields of competence and action. Through the study of divine names, the twelve chapters of this book unfold a gallery of portraits that reveal the changing aspects of the divine throughout the ancient Mediterranean.
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Choral Tragedy - Greek Poetics And Musical Ritual

by Claude (Ecole Des Hautes Etudes En Sciences Sociales, Paris) Calame

~~114,91€~~ 103,42€ 10% OFF

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 Re-examines the chorus in Greek tragedy and argues for the fundamentally poetic and musical nature of the genre, and its deep connection to the cultic and ritual contexts in which it was performed.
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The Hera Of Zeus - Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse

by Gabriella Pironti e Vinciane (College De France, Paris) Pirenne-Delforge

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 Rethinks the configuration of power and the workings of polytheism in ancient Greece through exploring the tensions inhabiting the figure of the goddess Hera, who was the intimate but hostile wife of Zeus and the queen on Olympus as well as in the cities inhabited by her worshippers.
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The Early Christians - From The Beginnings To Constantine

by Hartmut (Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt Am Main) Leppin

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 Ancient Christians are closely connected to today's world through a living memory and a common textual heritage - the Bible - even for non-Christians. However, as this engrossing new account shows, much about the early Christians is foreign to us and far removed from what passes for Christianity today.
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Platonism - A Concise History From The Early Academy To Late Antiquity

by Mauro (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands) Bonazzi

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 This is the first comprehensive account of Platonism in antiquity, from the foundation of Plato's Academy in the fourth century BC to late antiquity. Clearly and accessibly written, Mauro Bonazzi reveals the depths of Platonism's philosophical engagement and influence on the history of philosophy.
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Greeks And Their Histories - Myth, History, And Society

by Hans-Joachim Gehrke

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Greeks And Their Histories - Myth, History, And Society

by Hans-Joachim Gehrke

30,46€ + 10% CARD

 In this concise but stimulating book on history and Greek culture, Hans-Joachim Gehrke continues to refine his work on ''intentional history'', which he defines as a history in the self-understanding of social groups and communities - connected to a corresponding understanding of the other - which is important, even essential, for the collective identity, social cohesion, political behaviour and the cultural orientation of such units. In a series of four chapters Gehrke illustrates how Greeks'' histories were consciously employed to help shape political and social realities. In particular, he argues that poets were initially the masters of the past and that this dominance of the aesthetic in the view of the past led to an indissoluble amalgamation of myth and history and lasting tension between poetry and truth in the genre of historiography. The book reveals a more sophisticated picture of Greek historiography, its intellectual foundations, and its wider social-political contexts.
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The Greeks And Their Histories - Myth, History, And Society

by Hans-Joachim (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Germany) Gehrke

124,37€ + 10% CARD

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 Like every society, the Greek communities needed a unifying concept of their past, an 'intentional history'. In direct interaction with poets, they formed an aesthetic network in which myths were considered as historical events. This volume considers how Greeks' histories were consciously employed to help shape political and social realities.
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Hera Of Zeus - Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse

by Gabriella Pironti e Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge

38,43€ + 10% CARD

 Rethinks the configuration of power and the workings of polytheism in ancient Greece through exploring the tensions inhabiting the figure of the goddess Hera, who was the intimate but hostile wife of Zeus and the queen on Olympus as well as in the cities inhabited by her worshippers.
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Hera Of Zeus - Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse

by Gabriella Pironti e Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge

38,43€ + 10% CARD

 Rethinks the configuration of power and the workings of polytheism in ancient Greece through exploring the tensions inhabiting the figure of the goddess Hera, who was the intimate but hostile wife of Zeus and the queen on Olympus as well as in the cities inhabited by her worshippers.
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The Hera Of Zeus - Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse

by Gabriella Pironti e Vinciane (College De France, Paris) Pirenne-Delforge

133,84€ + 10% CARD

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 Rethinks the configuration of power and the workings of polytheism in ancient Greece through exploring the tensions inhabiting the figure of the goddess Hera, who was the intimate but hostile wife of Zeus and the queen on Olympus as well as in the cities inhabited by her worshippers.
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Athens, 403 Bc - A Democracy In Crisis?

by Paulin (Universite D'Aix-Marseille) Ismard e Vincent (Ecole Des Hautes Etudes En Sciences Sociales, Paris) Azoulay

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 Tells the gripping stories of ten individuals, from Socrates to the priestess Lysimakhe and the former slave Gerys, to reassess the period when democracy was abolished in Classical Athens and then restored in 403 BC after a bitter civil war. This is a tale with lessons for our tormented present.
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Mycenaean Civilization

by Dora (The Archaeological Society At Athens) Vassilikou

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 The first English edition of a complete introduction to Mycenaean life and archaeology by one of Greece's most distinguished archaeologists, the Greek editions of which have been widely acclaimed. Discusses the main Mycenaean centres, the palaces and kingship, social structure, writing, religion, foreign relations, art, and architecture.
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The Roman Republic And Political Culture - German Scholarship In Translation

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 Makes available in English translation a series of hugely influential articles about Roman Republican politics which were all originally published in German. Three new essays discuss the history of German scholarship on the Republic and its interactions with Anglophone research, and each piece is situated in its intellectual context.

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