Author: Catherine Cavendish
Publisher: Lyrical Underground
ISBN: 1516104889
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
DESTINY IN DEATH Egypt, 1908 Eminent archeologist Dr. Emeryk Quintillus has unearthed the burial chamber of Cleopatra. But this tomb raider’s obsession with the Queen of the Nile has nothing to do with preserving history. Stealing sacred and priceless relics, he murders his expedition crew, and flees—escaping the quake that swallows the site beneath the desert sands . . . Vienna, 1913 Young widow Adeline Ogilvy has accepted employment at the mansion of Dr. Quintillus, transcribing the late professor’s memoirs. Within the pages of his journals, she discovers the ravings of a madman convinced he possessed the ability to reincarnate Cleopatra. Within the walls of his home, she is assailed by unexplained phenomena: strange sounds, shadowy figures, and apparitions of hieroglyphics. Something pursued Dr. Quintillus from Egypt. Something dark, something hungry. Something tied to the fate and future of Adeline Ogilvy . . .
Wrath of the Ancients
Author: Catherine Cavendish
Publisher: Lyrical Underground
ISBN: 1516104889
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
DESTINY IN DEATH Egypt, 1908 Eminent archeologist Dr. Emeryk Quintillus has unearthed the burial chamber of Cleopatra. But this tomb raider’s obsession with the Queen of the Nile has nothing to do with preserving history. Stealing sacred and priceless relics, he murders his expedition crew, and flees—escaping the quake that swallows the site beneath the desert sands . . . Vienna, 1913 Young widow Adeline Ogilvy has accepted employment at the mansion of Dr. Quintillus, transcribing the late professor’s memoirs. Within the pages of his journals, she discovers the ravings of a madman convinced he possessed the ability to reincarnate Cleopatra. Within the walls of his home, she is assailed by unexplained phenomena: strange sounds, shadowy figures, and apparitions of hieroglyphics. Something pursued Dr. Quintillus from Egypt. Something dark, something hungry. Something tied to the fate and future of Adeline Ogilvy . . .
Publisher: Lyrical Underground
ISBN: 1516104889
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
DESTINY IN DEATH Egypt, 1908 Eminent archeologist Dr. Emeryk Quintillus has unearthed the burial chamber of Cleopatra. But this tomb raider’s obsession with the Queen of the Nile has nothing to do with preserving history. Stealing sacred and priceless relics, he murders his expedition crew, and flees—escaping the quake that swallows the site beneath the desert sands . . . Vienna, 1913 Young widow Adeline Ogilvy has accepted employment at the mansion of Dr. Quintillus, transcribing the late professor’s memoirs. Within the pages of his journals, she discovers the ravings of a madman convinced he possessed the ability to reincarnate Cleopatra. Within the walls of his home, she is assailed by unexplained phenomena: strange sounds, shadowy figures, and apparitions of hieroglyphics. Something pursued Dr. Quintillus from Egypt. Something dark, something hungry. Something tied to the fate and future of Adeline Ogilvy . . .
Ancient Anger
Author: Susanna Braund
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113945000X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Anger is found everywhere in the ancient world, starting with the very first word of the Iliad and continuing through all literary genres and every aspect of public and private life. Yet it is only recently, as a variety of disciplines start to devote attention to the history and nature of the emotions, that Classicists, ancient historians and ancient philosophers have begun to study anger in antiquity with the seriousness and attention it deserves. This volume brings together a number of significant studies by authors from different disciplines and countries, on literary, philosophical, medical and political aspects of ancient anger from Homer until the Roman Imperial Period. It studies some of the most important ancient sources and provides a paradigmatic selection of approaches to them, and should stimulate further research on this important subject in a number of fields.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113945000X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Anger is found everywhere in the ancient world, starting with the very first word of the Iliad and continuing through all literary genres and every aspect of public and private life. Yet it is only recently, as a variety of disciplines start to devote attention to the history and nature of the emotions, that Classicists, ancient historians and ancient philosophers have begun to study anger in antiquity with the seriousness and attention it deserves. This volume brings together a number of significant studies by authors from different disciplines and countries, on literary, philosophical, medical and political aspects of ancient anger from Homer until the Roman Imperial Period. It studies some of the most important ancient sources and provides a paradigmatic selection of approaches to them, and should stimulate further research on this important subject in a number of fields.
Wrath of N'kai
Author: Josh Reynolds
Publisher: Aconyte
ISBN: 1839080116
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The first in a new range of novels of eldritch adventure from the wildly popular Arkham Horror; an international thief of esoteric artifacts stumbles onto a nightmarish cult in 1920s New England. Countess Alessandra Zorzi, international adventurer and thief, arrives in Arkham pursuing an ancient body freshly exhumed from a mound in Oklahoma, of curious provenance and peculiar characteristics. But before she can steal it, another party beats her to it. During the resulting gunfight at the Miskatonic Museum, the countess makes eye contact with the petrified corpse and begins an adventure of discovery outside her wildest experiences. Now, caught between her mysterious client, the police, and a society of necrophagic connoisseurs, she finds herself on the trail of a resurrected mummy as well as the star-born terror gestating within it.
Publisher: Aconyte
ISBN: 1839080116
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The first in a new range of novels of eldritch adventure from the wildly popular Arkham Horror; an international thief of esoteric artifacts stumbles onto a nightmarish cult in 1920s New England. Countess Alessandra Zorzi, international adventurer and thief, arrives in Arkham pursuing an ancient body freshly exhumed from a mound in Oklahoma, of curious provenance and peculiar characteristics. But before she can steal it, another party beats her to it. During the resulting gunfight at the Miskatonic Museum, the countess makes eye contact with the petrified corpse and begins an adventure of discovery outside her wildest experiences. Now, caught between her mysterious client, the police, and a society of necrophagic connoisseurs, she finds herself on the trail of a resurrected mummy as well as the star-born terror gestating within it.
Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece
Author: Renaud Gagné
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110743534X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
Ancestral fault is a core idea of Greek literature. 'The guiltless will pay for the deeds later: either the man's children, or his descendants thereafter', said Solon in the sixth century BC, a statement echoed throughout the rest of antiquity. This notion lies at the heart of ancient Greek thinking on theodicy, inheritance and privilege, the meaning of suffering, the links between wealth and morality, individual responsibility, the bonds that unite generations and the grand movements of history. From Homer to Proclus, it played a major role in some of the most critical and pressing reflections of Greek culture on divinity, society and knowledge. The burning modern preoccupation with collective responsibility across generations has a long, deep antecedent in classical Greek literature and its reception. This book retraces the trajectories of Greek ancestral fault and the varieties of its expression through the many genres and centuries where it is found.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110743534X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
Ancestral fault is a core idea of Greek literature. 'The guiltless will pay for the deeds later: either the man's children, or his descendants thereafter', said Solon in the sixth century BC, a statement echoed throughout the rest of antiquity. This notion lies at the heart of ancient Greek thinking on theodicy, inheritance and privilege, the meaning of suffering, the links between wealth and morality, individual responsibility, the bonds that unite generations and the grand movements of history. From Homer to Proclus, it played a major role in some of the most critical and pressing reflections of Greek culture on divinity, society and knowledge. The burning modern preoccupation with collective responsibility across generations has a long, deep antecedent in classical Greek literature and its reception. This book retraces the trajectories of Greek ancestral fault and the varieties of its expression through the many genres and centuries where it is found.
History of Greece
A History of Greece
A History of Greece
Author: George Grote
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368152300
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Reprint of the original.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368152300
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Reprint of the original.
History of Greece
Author: George Grote
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385230691
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385230691
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
The Age of Wrath
Author: Abraham Eraly
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 935118658X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 707
Book Description
Wonderfully well researched . . . engrossing, enlightening' The Hindu The Delhi Sultanate period (1206-1526) is commonly portrayed as an age of chaos and violence-of plundering kings, turbulent dynasties, and the aggressive imposition of Islam on India. But it was also the era that saw the creation of a pan-Indian empire, on the foundations of which the Mughals and the British later built their own Indian empires. The encounter between Islam and Hinduism also transformed, among other things, India's architecture, literature, music and food. Abraham Eraly brings this fascinating period vividly alive, combining erudition with powerful storytelling, and analysis with anecdote.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 935118658X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 707
Book Description
Wonderfully well researched . . . engrossing, enlightening' The Hindu The Delhi Sultanate period (1206-1526) is commonly portrayed as an age of chaos and violence-of plundering kings, turbulent dynasties, and the aggressive imposition of Islam on India. But it was also the era that saw the creation of a pan-Indian empire, on the foundations of which the Mughals and the British later built their own Indian empires. The encounter between Islam and Hinduism also transformed, among other things, India's architecture, literature, music and food. Abraham Eraly brings this fascinating period vividly alive, combining erudition with powerful storytelling, and analysis with anecdote.
History of the United States (Vol. 1-7)
Author: Charles A. Beard
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
The 'History of the United States (Vol. 1-7)' stands as a monumental anthology that explores the intricate tapestry of American history through a diverse lens of narratives and analyses. Crafted with an adept intermingling of literary styles, this collection meticulously traverses the chronological and thematic breadth of the nation's evolution. The Beards' curation brings to light the variances in perception and interpretation, offering readers a comprehensive exploration of socio-political and economic shifts, standout moments, and the undercurrents of public sentiment that have sculpted the American landscape over centuries. The collaborative genius of Charles A. and Mary R. Beard, both revered for their formidable contributions to historical scholarship, anchors this anthology. Their joint effort not only reflects a melding of historiographic methodologies but also symbolizes a significant moment in the academic pursuit of American history. The collection, aligning with the progressive movement of its time, champions a narrative that underscores the importance of economic factors in shaping historical events, thereby enriching readers' understanding with multifaceted perspectives and interpretations. For scholars, students, and enthusiasts of American history, this anthology represents a unique confluence of intellectual rigor and narrative breadth. Delving into the 'History of the United States (Vol. 1-7)' opens a panoramic vista on the complexities of the nation's past, inviting readers to engage with the material in a manner that is both educational and profoundly enriching. This collection not only serves as an essential repository of knowledge but also as a bridge connecting diverse epochs and ideas, fostering a deeper appreciation for the dynamic continuum of American history.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
The 'History of the United States (Vol. 1-7)' stands as a monumental anthology that explores the intricate tapestry of American history through a diverse lens of narratives and analyses. Crafted with an adept intermingling of literary styles, this collection meticulously traverses the chronological and thematic breadth of the nation's evolution. The Beards' curation brings to light the variances in perception and interpretation, offering readers a comprehensive exploration of socio-political and economic shifts, standout moments, and the undercurrents of public sentiment that have sculpted the American landscape over centuries. The collaborative genius of Charles A. and Mary R. Beard, both revered for their formidable contributions to historical scholarship, anchors this anthology. Their joint effort not only reflects a melding of historiographic methodologies but also symbolizes a significant moment in the academic pursuit of American history. The collection, aligning with the progressive movement of its time, champions a narrative that underscores the importance of economic factors in shaping historical events, thereby enriching readers' understanding with multifaceted perspectives and interpretations. For scholars, students, and enthusiasts of American history, this anthology represents a unique confluence of intellectual rigor and narrative breadth. Delving into the 'History of the United States (Vol. 1-7)' opens a panoramic vista on the complexities of the nation's past, inviting readers to engage with the material in a manner that is both educational and profoundly enriching. This collection not only serves as an essential repository of knowledge but also as a bridge connecting diverse epochs and ideas, fostering a deeper appreciation for the dynamic continuum of American history.