Download e-book for iPad: Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion by Christopher A. Faraone,Dirk Obbink

This assortment demanding situations the tendency between students of historic Greece to determine magical and spiritual ritual as at the same time unique and to disregard "magical" practices in Greek faith. The members survey particular our bodies of archaeological, epigraphical, and papyrological proof for magical practices within the Greek global, and, in each one case, ascertain even if the conventional dichotomy among magic and faith is helping by any means to conceptualize the target positive factors of the proof tested.

Download PDF by D. Michaelides,Vasiliki Kassianidou,Robert S. Merrillees: Egypt and Cyprus in Antiquity: Proceedings of the

The overseas convention "Egypt and Cyprus in Antiquity" held in Nicosia in April 2003 stuffed an incredible hole in historic wisdom approximately Cyprus' relatives with its neighbours. whereas the island's hyperlinks with the Aegean and the Levant were good documented and remain the topic of a lot archaeological realization, the exchanges among Cyprus and the Nile Valley should not to boot recognized and feature now not prior to been comprehensively reviewed.

Download PDF by Edwyn Bevan: A History of Egypt under the Ptolemaic Dynasty (Routledge

First released in 1927, this name provides a well-regarded learn of this interesting and sometimes over-looked interval of Egyptian background, either for the overall reader and the scholar of Hellenism. Edwyn Bevan describes his paintings as ‘an try and inform afresh the tale of an exceptional event, Greek rule within the land of the Pharaohs…which ends with the miraculous episode of Cleopatra’.

Download e-book for kindle: Re-imagining the Past: Antiquity and Modern Greek Culture by Dimitris Tziovas

Antiquity has frequently been perceived because the resource of Greece's glossy achievements, in addition to its frustrations, with the continuity among historic and smooth Greek tradition and the legacy of classical Greece in Europe dominating and shaping present perceptions of the classical earlier. through relocating past the dominant views at the Greek prior, this edited quantity shifts awareness to the methods this earlier has been built, played, (ab)used, Hellenized, canonized, and finally decolonized and re-imagined.