Myth Ritual and the Warrior in Roman and Indo European Antiquity Book [PDF] Download

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• Release Date : 03 June 2024

This book examines the figure of the returning warrior as depicted in the myths of several ancient and medieval Indo-European cultures.

• Publisher : Univ of California Press
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• Release Date : 28 July 2023

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice,

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 28 January 2013

This book examines the figure of the returning warrior as depicted in the myths of several ancient and medieval Indo-European cultures. In these cultures, the returning warrior was often portrayed

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 30 April 2023

This book examines the impact of ancient DNA research and scientific evidence on our understanding of the emergence of Indo-European languages in prehistory. Offering cutting-edge contributions from an international team

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 31 May 2021

SENSORIVM publishes the first results of a collective investigation into how Roman rituals smelled, sounded, felt and struck the eye. It brings Roman religious experience into the realm of the

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 24 March 2014

This book argues that when the Greeks first began to use the alphabet, they viewed themselves as participants in a performance phenomenon.

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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• Release Date : 08 October 2018

In spite of the growing amount of important new work being carried out on uses of myth in particular ancient contexts, their appeal and reception beyond the framework of one

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 18 April 2024

Disability and Healing in Greek and Roman Myth takes its readers to stories, in versions known and often unknown. Disabilities and diseases are dealt with from head to toe: from

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 16 October 2017

‘Our greatest blessings come to us by way of mania, provided it is given us by divine gift,’ – says Socrates in Plato’s Phaedrus. Certain forms of alteration of consciousness,

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 31 December 2022

This volume examines the phenomena of ancient Greek prophecy and divination. With contributions from a distinguished, international cast of scholars, it offers fresh perspectives and interpretations of key aspects of