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

This assortment demanding situations the tendency between students of historical Greece to work out magical and non secular ritual as together unique and to disregard "magical" practices in Greek faith. The individuals survey particular our bodies of archaeological, epigraphical, and papyrological proof for magical practices within the Greek international, and, in every one case, confirm even if the normal dichotomy among magic and faith is helping in any respect to conceptualize the target positive factors of the proof tested.

Download e-book for kindle: Egypt and Cyprus in Antiquity: Proceedings of the by D. Michaelides,Vasiliki Kassianidou,Robert S. Merrillees

The overseas convention "Egypt and Cyprus in Antiquity" held in Nicosia in April 2003 crammed a tremendous hole in ancient wisdom approximately Cyprus' family members with its neighbours. whereas the island's hyperlinks with the Aegean and the Levant were good documented and stay the topic of a lot archaeological awareness, the exchanges among Cyprus and the Nile Valley are usually not in addition recognized and feature now not ahead of been comprehensively reviewed.

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

First released in 1927, this name offers a well-regarded research of this exciting and sometimes over-looked interval of Egyptian heritage, either for the overall reader and the coed of Hellenism. Edwyn Bevan describes his paintings as ‘an try to inform afresh the tale of an outstanding experience, Greek rule within the land of the Pharaohs…which ends with the spectacular episode of Cleopatra’.

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

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