Author: William SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
Earinus-Nyx
Author: William SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology: Earinus-Nyx
Author: William SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1328
Book Description
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
Author: A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
Author: William SmithEarinus-Nyx
Author: William SmithA Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
Author: Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology
Author: Theresa BanePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786471115
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Fairies have been revered and feared, sometimes simultaneously, throughout recorded history. This encyclopedia of concise entries, from the A-senee-ki-waku of northeastern North America to the Zips of Central America and Mexico, includes more than 2,500 individual beings and species of fairy and nature spirits from a wide range of mythologies and religions from all over the globe.
Classics from Papyrus to the Internet
Author: Jeffrey M. HuntPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477313044
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
A “valuable and useful” history of the efforts and innovations that have kept ancient literary classics alive through the centuries (New England Classical Journal). Writing down the epic tales of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus in texts that became the Iliad and the Odyssey was a defining moment in the intellectual history of the West, a moment from which many current conventions and attitudes toward books can be traced. But how did texts originally written on papyrus in perhaps the eighth century BC survive across nearly three millennia, so that today people can read them electronically on a smartphone? Classics from Papyrus to the Internet provides a fresh, authoritative overview of the transmission and reception of classical texts from antiquity to the present. The authors begin with a discussion of ancient literacy, book production, papyrology, epigraphy, and scholarship, and then examine how classical texts were transmitted from the medieval period through the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to the modern era. They also address the question of reception, looking at how succeeding generations responded to classical texts, preserving some but not others. This sheds light on the origins of numerous scholarly disciplines that continue to shape our understanding of the past, as well as the determined effort required to keep the literary tradition alive. As a resource for students and scholars in fields such as classics, medieval studies, comparative literature, paleography, papyrology, and Egyptology, Classics from Papyrus to the Internet presents and discusses the major reference works and online professional tools for studying literary transmission.
Reading Romans with Roman Eyes
Author: James R. HarrisonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 197870514X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Paul’s letter to the Romans has a long history in Christian dogmatic battles. But how might the letter have been heard by an audience in Neronian Rome? James R. Harrison answers that question through a reader-response approach grounded in deep investigations of the material and ideological culture of the city, from Augustus to Nero. Inscriptional, archaeological, monumental, and numismatic evidence, in addition to a breadth of literary material, allows him to describe the ideological “value system” of the Julio-Claudian world, which would have shaped the perceptions and expectations of Paul’s readers. Throughout, Harrison sets prominent Pauline themes‒‒his obligation to Greeks and barbarians, newness of life and of creation against the power of death, the body of Christ, “boasting” in “glory” and God’s purpose in and for Israel‒‒in startling juxtaposition with Roman ideological themes. The result is a richer and more complex understanding of the letter’s argument and its possible significance for contemporary readers.
Classified Catalogue of Books in the Punjab Public Library
Author: Panjāb Pablik Lāʼibrerī, LāhaurPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library resources
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description