Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Voices of the Ancients PDF full book. Access full book title Voices of the Ancients by Stephen B. Shaffer. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Stephen B. Shaffer Publisher: Cedar Fort Publishing & Media ISBN: 1462102298 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 165
Book Description
Go Beyond the Same Old Names, Dates, and Facts, with this intriguing look at what really happened in history—the material that never made it into your textbooks. From ancient artifacts to modern cover-ups, you’ll go behind the scenes of history and experience a never-before-seen look at America’s past. After Years of Research, Steve Shaffer has compiled a marvelous collection of true histories that offer a rare glimpse of ancient America and show us all how little we really know about our past. Join Steve in his quest to uncover the truth and discover for yourself that history is still an open book.
Author: Stephen B. Shaffer Publisher: Cedar Fort Publishing & Media ISBN: 1462102298 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 165
Book Description
Go Beyond the Same Old Names, Dates, and Facts, with this intriguing look at what really happened in history—the material that never made it into your textbooks. From ancient artifacts to modern cover-ups, you’ll go behind the scenes of history and experience a never-before-seen look at America’s past. After Years of Research, Steve Shaffer has compiled a marvelous collection of true histories that offer a rare glimpse of ancient America and show us all how little we really know about our past. Join Steve in his quest to uncover the truth and discover for yourself that history is still an open book.
Author: Robert Newcomb Publisher: Del Rey ISBN: 0345478436 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 646
Book Description
“Plenty of adventure and magic . . . continues Robert Newcomb’s tradition of mixing adventure with an interesting and well-realized magical world.”—SF Site Prince Tristan and his twin sister, Shailiha, are the Chosen Ones, prophesied to unite the opposing magics of the dark Vagaries and the benevolent Vigors. But before they can fulfill their destiny, they must search out the mysterious Scrolls of the Ancients which hold the key to unlocking great mystical secrets. They are not the only ones on a dire quest. Krassus, a devoted servant of the Vagaries, has located one of the Scrolls and through it has attained great and ominous powers. Now he needs but one thing: a man who unknowingly possesses magic in his blood almost as potent as that of the Chosen Ones. Tristan and Shailiha must find that man before Krassus’s dark enchantments turn him into the most dangerous weapon of evil the world has ever known—if it’s not already too late. . . .
Author: Shane Butler Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317300424 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 322
Book Description
Sound leaves no ruins and no residues, even though it is experienced constantly. It is ubiquitous but fleeting. Even silence has sound, even absence resonates. Sound and the Ancient Senses aims to hear the lost sounds of antiquity, from the sounds of the human body to those of the gods, from the bathhouse to the Forum, from the chirp of a cicada to the music of the spheres. Sound plays so great a role in shaping our environments as to make it a crucial sounding board for thinking about space and ecology, emotions and experience, mortality and the divine, orality and textuality, and the self and its connection to others. From antiquity to the present day, poets and philosophers have strained to hear the ways that sounds structure our world and identities. This volume looks at theories and practices of hearing and producing sounds in ritual contexts, medicine, mourning, music, poetry, drama, erotics, philosophy, rhetoric, linguistics, vocality, and on the page, and shows how ancient ideas of sound still shape how and what we hear today. As the first comprehensive introduction to the soundscapes of antiquity, this volume makes a significant contribution to the burgeoning fields of sound and voice studies and is the final volume of the series, The Senses in Antiquity.
Author: Stephen B. Shaffer Publisher: Cedar Fort Publishing & Media ISBN: 1462104940 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 275
Book Description
MYSTERIES AND REMNANTS OF A FORGOTTEN PEOPLETremendous information as well as many artifacts and ancient writings have been brought to light during the past one hundred years to prove that the Americas were once populated earlier than first believed. But who were these people? Where did they come from? Why did they suddenly disappear? More important, did they leave any records to tell of their existence and civilization?What about the strange writings of Manti, Fillmore, Cedar City, Pariette Draw, Nephi, and Lake Powell, all in Utah? What about the Aztec copper bowl of Currant Creek, the gold plate of the Wasatch Front, the lead plates of the Myton Bench, the Manti tablets, the Kinderhook plates, and the Soper/Savage collection in LDS Church archives?Best-selling author Stephen Shaffer explores these mysteries and the remnants of a forgotten people in Treasures of the Ancients: Recent Discoveries of Ancient Writings in North America.
Author: Christopher Pelling Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191053643 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 289
Book Description
Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome is a book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underpins Western civilization. Chistopher Pelling and Maria Wyke provide a vibrant and distinctive introduction to twelve of the greatest authors from ancient Greece and Rome, writers whose voices still resonate strongly across the centuries: Homer, Sappho, Herodotus, Euripides, Thucydides, Plato, Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Juvenal and Tacitus. To what vital ideas do these authors give voice? And why are we so often drawn to what they say even in modern times? Twelve Voices investigates these tantalizing questions, showing how these great figures from classical antiquity still address some of our most fundamental concerns in the world today (of war and courage, dictatorship and democracy, empire, immigration, city life, art, madness, irrationality, and religious commitment), and express some of our most personal sentiments (about family and friendship, desire and separation, grief and happiness). These twelve classical voices can sound both compellingly familiar and startlingly alien to the twenty-first century reader. Yet they remain suggestive and inspiring, despite being rooted in their own times and places, and have profoundly affected the lives of those prepared to listen to them right up to the present day.
Author: Larry F. Norman Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226591506 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 297
Book Description
The cultural battle known as the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns served as a sly cover for more deeply opposed views about the value of literature and the arts. One of the most public controversies of early modern Europe, the Quarrel has most often been depicted as pitting antiquarian conservatives against the insurgent critics of established authority. The Shock of the Ancient turns the canonical vision of those events on its head by demonstrating how the defenders of Greek literature—rather than clinging to an outmoded tradition—celebrated the radically different practices of the ancient world. At a time when the constraints of decorum and the politics of French absolutism quashed the expression of cultural differences, the ancient world presented a disturbing face of otherness. Larry F. Norman explores how the authoritative status of ancient Greek texts allowed them to justify literary depictions of the scandalous. The Shock of the Ancient surveys the diverse array of aesthetic models presented in these ancient works and considers how they both helped to undermine the rigid codes of neoclassicism and paved the way for the innovative philosophies of the Enlightenment. Broadly appealing to students of European literature, art history, and philosophy, this book is an important contribution to early modern literary and cultural debates.
Author: Julia Annas Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780195126945 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 454
Book Description
This topically organized collection is intended as an introduction to the many varied voices of ancient philosophy that involves the reader directly in the issues. Rather than proceeding chronologically, the student engages with a variety of contributions to issues of continuing relevance.
Author: Matt de la Peña Publisher: Scholastic Inc. ISBN: 0545484596 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 205
Book Description
Fix the past. Save the future. What is the secret history connecting the SQ to the Ancient Maya?Book includes an all-new, full-color Hystorian's Guide - your key to unlocking the fourth episode of the action-packed Infinity Ring game.
Author: Naguib Mahfouz Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0307430073 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 64
Book Description
Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz reaches back millennia to his homeland’s majestic past in this enchanting collection of early tales that brings the world of ancient Egypt face to face with our own times. From the Predynastic Period, where a cabal of entrenched rulers banish virtue in jealous defense of their status, to the Fifth Dynasty, where a Pharaoh returns from an extended leave to find that only his dog has remained loyal, to the twentieth century, where a mummy from the Eighteenth Dynasty awakens in fury to reproach a modern Egyptian nobleman for his arrogance, these five stories conduct timeless truths over the course of thousands of years. Summoning the power and mystery of a legendary civilization, they examplify the artistry that has made Mahfouz among the most revered writers in world literature. Translated by Raymond Stock
Author: Stephen B. Shaffer
Author: Stephen B. Shaffer
Author: Robert Newcomb
Author: Shane Butler
Author: Stephen B. Shaffer
Author: Christopher Pelling
Author: Larry F. Norman
Author: Julia Annas
Author: Michael Kerrigan
Author: Matt de la Peña
Author: Naguib Mahfouz