Ancient Religions – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 4

Huw Twiston Davies

The Transmission of the Book of the Dead in New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara

"This open access book discusses texts and images from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, as well as other prayers and spells, found in tombs at the necropolis of Saqqara dating back to the New Kingdom (…

Karl Kerényi,

Dionysos

A landmark account of the Dionysos myth as an archetypal expression of indestructible lifeNo other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and ritual practices of antiquity as Dionysos. In…

Karl Kerényi,

Asklepios

A landmark account of the divine physician of the Greeks in myth and archetypeTo the physicians of classical antiquity, Asklepios was the ideal of their existence as healers. In this book, acclaimed mytho…

Karl Kerényi,

Zeus and Hera

A landmark study of the archetypal father, husband, and wife in Greek religion and mythWhat did Zeus mean to the Greeks of antiquity? Who was Hera, archetypally united with Zeus as if they were a human co…

Studying Religion, Past and Present

"In this book, renowned scholars discuss the past, present, and future of the study of religion in both antiquity and modernity, celebrating the contributions of Panayotis Pachis to the field. The co…

Alhena Gadotti, Alexandra Kleinerman

Living and Dying in Mesopotamia

Exploring life, death, and the afterlife in Mesopotamia, Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman examine how life and death experiences continually developed over the course of nearly three millennia of M…

H P R Twiston Davies

The Transmission of the Book of the Dead in New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara

T exts and images from the Book of the Dead were widely used to decorate the walls of tombs during Egypt's New Kingdom (c. 1550-1077 BCE). Prior research has tended to focus on either individual tombs, or…

Karl Kerényi,

Eleusis

A landmark account of the Eleusinian Mysteries by one of the leading mythologists of the twentieth centuryThe Sanctuary of Eleusis near Athens was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly tw…

Hugh Murray, John Crawfurd, Peter Gordon, Thomas Lynn

An Historical and Descriptive Account of China

Reprint of the original, first published in 1836. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

Hugh Murray, John Crawfurd, Peter Gordon, Thomas Lynn

An Historical and Descriptive Account of China

Reprint of the original, first published in 1836. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

Harry Sidebottom

Those Who Are about to Die

See ancient Rome, and peer into the Roman mind, through the eyes of a gladiator--from the evening before the games at the Colosseum to the evening after"A grippingly original way of making the alien …

Thomas Radice

Ritual Performance in Early Chinese Thought

Examines performance as a fundamental feature of ritual in early Chinese thought and the ways in which performer/spectator relationships influenced early Chinese religious, ethical, and political discours…

Jonathan S Burgess

The Travels of Odysseus

The Travels of Odysseus employs the theme of travel to explore the Odyssey and its contexts. After an introductory chapter, Chapter 2 provides analysis of the "wanderings" or Apologos of Odysseu…

Bernardo Ballesteros

Divine Assemblies in Early Greek and Babylonian Epic

This book is the first to chart divine assembly scenes in ancient Babylonian and early Greek epic. It asks why similarities between the two corpora exist, and exploits those similarities to enhance unders…

Whit Dickey (geb. 1954)

Peace Planet & Box Of Light

Eva Mol

Style and Assemblage in Roman Archaeology

Style and Assemblage in Roman Archaeology proposes a rethinking of the way in which objects, styles, concepts, and people relate in archaeological interpretation, using Egyptian and Egyptian-styled object…

Wolfram Grajetzki

The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt

"For the ancient Egyptians, the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1700 BC) was a classical period of art, history and literature. The Twelfth Dynasty was one of the strongest ever to rule on the banks of the N…

Karl Kerényi,

Prometheus

A landmark account of the Prometheus story as myth and archetypeThe god Prometheus stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceas…

Hermeneutik(en) der Weisheit von der hebräischen Bibel bis in die islamische Zeit

Although scriptural discourses in late antiquity are eminently characterized by forms of wisdom thinking, wisdom is not yet an established category in Qur'anic and Islamic studies. The contributors to thi…