Author: Theocharis George Paterakis
Publisher: Theocharis George Paterakis
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
In ancient times, Atlantis, ruled by King Atlas, challenged the Olympian gods. In response, a union of cities formed the Sacred Alliance, led by the renowned King Theseus of Athens. Join the epic saga of gods, kings, and heroes in this mythical trilogy.
The Saga of the Olympians-Sacred Alliances
Author: Theocharis George Paterakis
Publisher: Theocharis George Paterakis
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
In ancient times, Atlantis, ruled by King Atlas, challenged the Olympian gods. In response, a union of cities formed the Sacred Alliance, led by the renowned King Theseus of Athens. Join the epic saga of gods, kings, and heroes in this mythical trilogy.
Publisher: Theocharis George Paterakis
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
In ancient times, Atlantis, ruled by King Atlas, challenged the Olympian gods. In response, a union of cities formed the Sacred Alliance, led by the renowned King Theseus of Athens. Join the epic saga of gods, kings, and heroes in this mythical trilogy.
The False Creators - The Children of Chemosh
Author: T.G.P
Publisher: T.G.P
ISBN: 1805173243
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Chemosh had spoken, and his voice was warm and alluring. His pure light was able to heal any wounds in their souls. Thousands of years ago, king Irkal rejoiced in prosperity and wealth. He prepared sacrifices and festivals to the sun god, and the people adored him. The powerful Temple supported him, and the high priest accepted his generous donations. General Sether brings him some bad news, that the kingdom of Osiris moves its troops close to Argania's boundaries, in the oasis of palm trees, they have the help of Giants. Prince Mentra, who is barely twenty years old, is one of the most capable warriors in the holy city. His gift to enter the astral world made him the king's most precious weapon. Mentra dreams about the day when he will sit on the throne and be able to make significant changes in his city. In our time, George awakens in a locked and dusty warehouse. His last memory was of falling of the bank of Thames. Sarah is not there with him. He will do anything to figure out where he is and how to escape.
Publisher: T.G.P
ISBN: 1805173243
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Chemosh had spoken, and his voice was warm and alluring. His pure light was able to heal any wounds in their souls. Thousands of years ago, king Irkal rejoiced in prosperity and wealth. He prepared sacrifices and festivals to the sun god, and the people adored him. The powerful Temple supported him, and the high priest accepted his generous donations. General Sether brings him some bad news, that the kingdom of Osiris moves its troops close to Argania's boundaries, in the oasis of palm trees, they have the help of Giants. Prince Mentra, who is barely twenty years old, is one of the most capable warriors in the holy city. His gift to enter the astral world made him the king's most precious weapon. Mentra dreams about the day when he will sit on the throne and be able to make significant changes in his city. In our time, George awakens in a locked and dusty warehouse. His last memory was of falling of the bank of Thames. Sarah is not there with him. He will do anything to figure out where he is and how to escape.
An Unholy Alliance
Author: Robert J. Higgs
Publisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865549562
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
An Unholy Alliance offers a dissenting view to the claim by a growing number of scholars that Sports are a new religion. The last few years have seen a spate of books that might be classified by a genre called "Sports Apologetics," that is, arguments defending or celebrating in one way or another the familiar and ongoing alliance in America between sports and religion. Recently, claims have been made by scholars that sports are an authentic religion in and of themselves. They make this startling assertion not by showing connections with the teachings of Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, or Moses, but by parallels between the rites of modern games and those of preliterate man that were "religious" in nature because they were designed to propitiate powers and to ward off evil for the tribes employing them. In this evocative book, Higgs and Braswell suggest that while sports may often be good things, they are not inherently divine. They do not focus on wide-spread abuse in sports as evidence for their counterargument. Rather, they question the use of mythological parallels from prehistory as justification for viewing sports as a religion.
Publisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865549562
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
An Unholy Alliance offers a dissenting view to the claim by a growing number of scholars that Sports are a new religion. The last few years have seen a spate of books that might be classified by a genre called "Sports Apologetics," that is, arguments defending or celebrating in one way or another the familiar and ongoing alliance in America between sports and religion. Recently, claims have been made by scholars that sports are an authentic religion in and of themselves. They make this startling assertion not by showing connections with the teachings of Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, or Moses, but by parallels between the rites of modern games and those of preliterate man that were "religious" in nature because they were designed to propitiate powers and to ward off evil for the tribes employing them. In this evocative book, Higgs and Braswell suggest that while sports may often be good things, they are not inherently divine. They do not focus on wide-spread abuse in sports as evidence for their counterargument. Rather, they question the use of mythological parallels from prehistory as justification for viewing sports as a religion.
Olympias
Author: Elizabeth Carney
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134318197
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Presenting a critical assessment of a fascinating and wholly misunderstood figure, this is the definitive guide to the life of the first woman to play a major role in Greek political history, and the first modern biography of Olympias.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134318197
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Presenting a critical assessment of a fascinating and wholly misunderstood figure, this is the definitive guide to the life of the first woman to play a major role in Greek political history, and the first modern biography of Olympias.
Greek Gods & Goddesses
Author: Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher: Britannica Educational Publishing
ISBN: 1622751531
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Giving Western literature and art many of its most enduring themes and archetypes, Greek mythology and the gods and goddesses at its core are a fundamental part of the popular imagination. At the heart of Greek mythology are exciting stories of drama, action, and adventure featuring gods and goddesses, who, while physically superior to humans, share many of their weaknesses. Readers will be introduced to the many figures once believed to populate Mount Olympus as well as related concepts and facts about the Greek mythological tradition.
Publisher: Britannica Educational Publishing
ISBN: 1622751531
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Giving Western literature and art many of its most enduring themes and archetypes, Greek mythology and the gods and goddesses at its core are a fundamental part of the popular imagination. At the heart of Greek mythology are exciting stories of drama, action, and adventure featuring gods and goddesses, who, while physically superior to humans, share many of their weaknesses. Readers will be introduced to the many figures once believed to populate Mount Olympus as well as related concepts and facts about the Greek mythological tradition.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief: The Graphic Novel
Author: Rick Riordan
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
ISBN: 1423147340
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Just in time for the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series on Disney+, a refreshed edition of The Lightning Thief graphic novel If you haven't yet submerged yourself in the graphic novel adaptation of Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, treat yourself to this refreshed edition with an exciting new cover. Four huge talents from the comic book industry contributed to this adaptation of the classic that has sold millions of copies worldwide, has been on the New York Times best-seller list for more than twelve years, and is the basis of an 8-episode series on Disney+. Mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking out of the pages of twelve-year-old Percy Jackson's textbooks and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Now, he and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus's stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. Series creator Rick Riordan joins forces with four of the biggest names in comic books to tell the story of a boy who must unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
ISBN: 1423147340
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Just in time for the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series on Disney+, a refreshed edition of The Lightning Thief graphic novel If you haven't yet submerged yourself in the graphic novel adaptation of Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, treat yourself to this refreshed edition with an exciting new cover. Four huge talents from the comic book industry contributed to this adaptation of the classic that has sold millions of copies worldwide, has been on the New York Times best-seller list for more than twelve years, and is the basis of an 8-episode series on Disney+. Mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking out of the pages of twelve-year-old Percy Jackson's textbooks and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Now, he and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus's stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. Series creator Rick Riordan joins forces with four of the biggest names in comic books to tell the story of a boy who must unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.
Athena's Champion
Author: David Hair
Publisher: Canelo
ISBN: 1788632796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Gods and mortals collide in this spellbinding retelling of a legend from classic Greek mythology, the first in the epic Olympus Trilogy. A prophecy condemns him, a goddess binds him, but wisdom can set Odysseus free . . . Young Prince Odysseus is about to have his world torn apart. He has travelled to the oracle at Pytho to be anointed as heir to his island kingdom, but instead a terrible secret is revealed, one that tears down every pillar of his life and marks him out for death. Outcast by his family and on the run, Odysseus is offered sanctuary by Athena, goddess of wisdom, and thrust headfirst into the secret war between the gods. But can his wits, and his skill as a warrior, keep him ahead of their power games—and alive? “If you like magic and mayhem wrapped around ancient historical legends, this cup of nectar has your name on it. Recommended.” —Historical Novel Society “A refreshing, modern take of Odysseus’ story. It has humor and exciting action.” —Book Rambler
Publisher: Canelo
ISBN: 1788632796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Gods and mortals collide in this spellbinding retelling of a legend from classic Greek mythology, the first in the epic Olympus Trilogy. A prophecy condemns him, a goddess binds him, but wisdom can set Odysseus free . . . Young Prince Odysseus is about to have his world torn apart. He has travelled to the oracle at Pytho to be anointed as heir to his island kingdom, but instead a terrible secret is revealed, one that tears down every pillar of his life and marks him out for death. Outcast by his family and on the run, Odysseus is offered sanctuary by Athena, goddess of wisdom, and thrust headfirst into the secret war between the gods. But can his wits, and his skill as a warrior, keep him ahead of their power games—and alive? “If you like magic and mayhem wrapped around ancient historical legends, this cup of nectar has your name on it. Recommended.” —Historical Novel Society “A refreshing, modern take of Odysseus’ story. It has humor and exciting action.” —Book Rambler
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Author: Julian Jaynes
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547527543
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547527543
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece
Author: Alan H. Sommerstein
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110384876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
The oath was an institution of fundamental importance across a wide range of social interactions throughout the ancient Greek world, making a crucial contribution to social stability and harmony; yet there has been no comprehensive, dedicated scholarly study of the subject for over a century. This volume of a two-volume study explores the nature of oaths as Greeks perceived it, the ways in which they were used (and sometimes abused) in Greek life and literature, and their inherent binding power.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110384876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
The oath was an institution of fundamental importance across a wide range of social interactions throughout the ancient Greek world, making a crucial contribution to social stability and harmony; yet there has been no comprehensive, dedicated scholarly study of the subject for over a century. This volume of a two-volume study explores the nature of oaths as Greeks perceived it, the ways in which they were used (and sometimes abused) in Greek life and literature, and their inherent binding power.
The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths
Author: William Hansen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691195927
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
The first anthology to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories- from myths and fairy tales to jokes Captured centaurs and satyrs, talking animals, people who suddenly change sex, men who give birth, the temporarily insane and the permanently thick-witted, delicate sensualists, incompetent seers, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot laugh-these are just some of the colorful characters who feature in the unforgettable stories that ancient Greeks and Romans told in their daily lives. Together they created an incredibly rich body of popular oral stories that include, but range well beyond, mythology-from heroic legends, fairy tales, and fables to ghost stories, urban legends, and jokes.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691195927
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
The first anthology to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories- from myths and fairy tales to jokes Captured centaurs and satyrs, talking animals, people who suddenly change sex, men who give birth, the temporarily insane and the permanently thick-witted, delicate sensualists, incompetent seers, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot laugh-these are just some of the colorful characters who feature in the unforgettable stories that ancient Greeks and Romans told in their daily lives. Together they created an incredibly rich body of popular oral stories that include, but range well beyond, mythology-from heroic legends, fairy tales, and fables to ghost stories, urban legends, and jokes.