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  • The Gardens of Adonis

    Spices in Greek Mythology - Second Edition

    by Marcel Detienne ...
    Translated by Janet Lloyd ...
    Series series Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
    Rich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne's landmark book recasts long-standing ideas about the fertility myth of Adonis. The author challenges Sir James Frazer's thesis that the vegetation god Adonis-- whose premature death was mourned by women and whose resurrection marked a joyous occasion--represented the ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

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  • Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea

    Why the Greeks Matter

    by Thomas Cahill ...
    Series series The Hinges of History
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on a journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago.“A triumph of popularization: extraordinarily knowledgeable, informal in tone, amusing, wide ranging, smartly paced.” —The New York Times Book Review**In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Natural History Of Religion (Mobi Classics)

    by David Hume ...
    Four Dissertations is a collection of four essays by the Scottish enlightenment philosopher David Hume, first published in 1757. The four essays are:The Natural History of Religion Of the Passions Of Tragedy Of the Standard of Taste Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Read more

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  • Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho

    by Sappho ...
    Translated by Aaron Poochigian ...
    'We hear the voice of a great and enduring poet in our ear again' Carol Ann Duffy'Go, girls, pursue the violet Muses' brightGifts and the plangent lyre, lover of hymns'By turns subversive, erotic and poignant, Sappho is one of the most versatile and exquisite poets in Classical literature. Invoking female deities, Sappho summons the Muses for inspiration and beseeches Aphrodite's allegiance in a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Complete Poems of Sappho

    Edited by Willis Barnstone ...
    A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet—with a wealth of materials for understanding her work—by a prize-winning poet and translatorSappho’s thrilling lyric verse has been unremittingly popular for more than 2,600 years—certainly a record for poetry of any kind—and love for her art only increases as time goes on. Though her extant work consists only of a collection of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Companion to Greek Mythology

    Edited by Ken Dowden, Niall Livingstone ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story patterns and the Greeks’ contacts with their Eastern Mediterranean neighbours through its development as a shared language and thought-system for the Greco-Roman world.Features essays from a prestigious international team of literary expertsIncludes ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Greek Religion

    Archaic and Classical

    by Walter Burkert ...
    Translated by John Raffan ...
    Series series Ancient World
    "Greek Religion . . . already has the standing of a classic, and the publication of an English version, which incorporates new material and is in effect a second edition, demands a toast . . . Anyone who pretends to survey Greek religion must be phenomenally learned. Burkert is. His book is a marvel of professional scholarship."- London Review of Books"This book has established itself as a ... Read more

    $41.00 USD

  • On the Nature of the Universe

    by Lucretius ...
    Translated by Ronald Melville ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    `Therefore this terror and darkness of the mind Not by the sun's rays, nor the bright shafts of day, Must be dispersed, as is most necessary, But by the face of nature and her laws.' Lucretius' poem On the Nature of the Universe combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour Lucretius demonstrates to humanity that in death ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • On Greek Religion

    by Robert C.T. Parker ...
    Series Book 60 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
    "There is something of a paradox about our access to ancient Greek religion. We know too much, and too little. The materials that bear on it far outreach an individual's capacity to assimilate: so many casual allusions in so many literary texts over more than a millennium, so many direct or indirect references in so many inscriptions from so many places in the Greek world, such an overwhelming ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Women in Ancient Greece

    by Paul Chrystal ...
    Women in Ancient Greece is a much-needed analysis of how women behaved in Greek society, how they were regarded, and the restrictions imposed on their actions. Given that ancient Greece was very much a man’s world, most books on ancient Greek society tend to focus on men; this book redresses the imbalance by shining the spotlight on that neglected other half. Women had significant roles to play in ... Read more

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  • The Orphic Hymns

    The best-selling English translation of the mysterious and cosmic Greek poetry known as the Orphic Hymns.At the very beginnings of the Archaic Age, the great singer Orpheus taught a new religion that centered around the immortality of the human soul and its journey after death. He felt that achieving purity by avoiding meat and refraining from committing harm further promoted the pursuit of a ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Exploring Greek Myth

    by Matthew Clark ...
    Exploring Greek Myth offers an extensive discussion of variant forms of myths and lesser-known stories, including important local myths and local versions of PanHellenic myths. Clark also discusses approaches to understanding myths, allowing students to gain an appreciation of the variety in one volume.Guides students from an introductory understanding of myths to a wide-ranging exploration of ... Read more

    $32.00 USD