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• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• File Size : 31,8 Mb
• Release Date : 17 May 1993

'...an exciting and meticulously detailed exploration of this most enigmatic of Olympian goddesses'-Richard Martin, Princeton University

• Publisher : Legendary Goddesses
• File Size : 51,7 Mb
• Release Date : 17 May 2024

Empowering, high-interest narrative text tells the story of Hera, the queen goddess from Greek mythology. These core legends show Hera's loving yet jealous personality as she defends her marriage to

• Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
• File Size : 40,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 1993

Woman's Power, Man's Game is a revealing and thoughtful analysis of women in antiquity, as portrayed in classical literature. The book features essays by 12 classicists who provide provocative examinations of

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• File Size : 42,5 Mb
• Release Date : 30 November 2023

This collection of essays from a diverse group of internationally recognized scholars builds on the work of Steven J. Friesen to analyze the material and ideological dimensions of John’s

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• File Size : 50,7 Mb
• Release Date : 22 April 2021

How have the goddesses of ancient myth survived, prevalent even now as literary and cultural icons? How do allegory, symbolic interpretation, and political context transform the goddess from her regional

• Publisher : McFarland
• File Size : 23,7 Mb
• Release Date : 04 April 2014

The story of Jason and the Argonauts is one of the most famous in Greek myth, and its development from the oldest layers of Greek mythology down to the modern

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• File Size : 51,5 Mb
• Release Date : 14 July 2014

In recent years, the topic of ancient Greek hero cult has been the focus of considerable discussion among classicists. Little attention, however, has been paid to female heroized figures. Here

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 51,6 Mb
• Release Date : 19 November 2015

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions is the first comprehensive single-volume reference work offering authoritative coverage of ancient religions in the Mediterranean world. Chronologically, the volume’s scope extends

• Publisher : BRILL
• File Size : 41,7 Mb
• Release Date : 23 October 2012

Either as insider or as sensitive observer, Plutarch provides us with exceptional evidence to reconstruct the spiritual and intellectual atmosphere of the first centuries CE. This collection of articles sheds

• Publisher : BRILL
• File Size : 48,6 Mb
• Release Date : 17 July 2018

In an epic poem narrated by a self-declared opponent of epic poetry, the hero and his 50 Argonauts are thrust aside by the first heroine of third-person narrative and a forerunner