Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
In cath catharda, the civil war of the Romans
Author: In cath catharda, the civil war of the Romans
Author: The Strange World of Human Sacrifice
Author: Jan N. BremmerPublisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9789042918436
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The Strange World of Human Sacrifice is the first modern collection of studies on one of the most gruesome and intriguing aspects of religion. The volume starts with a brief introduction, which is followed by studies of Aztec human sacrifice and the literary motif of human sacrifice in medieval Irish literature. Turning to ancient Greece, three cases of human sacrifice are analysed: a ritual example, a mythical case, and one in which myth and ritual are interrelated. The early Christians were the victims of accusations of human sacrifice, but in turn imputed the crime to heterodox Christians, just as the Jews imputed the crime to their neighbours. The ancient Egyptians rarely seem to have practised human sacrifice, but buried the pharaoh's servants with him in order to serve him in the afterlife, albeit only for a brief period at the very beginning of pharaonic civilization. In ancient India we can follow the traditions of human sacrifice from the earliest texts up to modern times, where especially in eastern India goddesses, such as Kali, were long worshipped with human victims. In Japanese tales human sacrifice often takes the form of self-sacrifice, and there may well be a line from these early sacrifices to modern kamikaze. The last study throws a surprising light on human sacrifice in China. The volume is concluded with a detailed index
Irische texte
Author: Ernst WindischPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irish language
Languages : un
Pages : 622
Book Description
In cath catharda, the civil war of the Romans
Author: In Cath Catharda
Author: LucanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epic literature, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
In Cath Catharda : the civil war of the romans ; an irish version of Lucan's Pharsalia
Author: Whitley StokesIn Cath Catharda
Author: Civil Wars
Author: David ArmitagePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300149824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A highly original history, tracing civil war, the least understood and most intractable form of organized human aggression, from Ancient Rome through the centuries to present day.
Celts, Romans, Britons
Author: Francesca Kaminski-JonesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192608150
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This interdisciplinary volume of essays examines the real and imagined role of Classical and Celtic influence in the history of British identity formation, from late antiquity to the present day. In so doing, it makes the case for increased collaboration between the fields of Classical reception and Celtic studies, and opens up new avenues of investigation into the categories Celtic and Classical, which are presented as fundamentally interlinked and frequently interdependent. In a series of chronologically arranged chapters, beginning with the post-Roman Britons and ending with the 2016 Brexit referendum, it draws attention to the constructed and historically contingent nature of the Classical and the Celtic, and explores how notions related to both categories have been continuously combined and contrasted with one another in relation to British identities. Britishness is revealed as a site of significant Celtic-Classical cross-pollination, and a context in which received ideas about Celts, Romans, and Britons can be fruitfully reconsidered, subverted, and reformulated. Responding to important scholarly questions that are best addressed by this interdisciplinary approach, and extending the existing literature on Classical reception and national identity by treating the Celtic as an equally relevant tradition, the volume creates a new and exciting dialogue between subjects that all too often are treated in isolation, and sets the foundations for future cross-disciplinary conversations.