Of all the many thousands of earthworks of various kinds to be found in England those about which anything is known are very few those of which there remains nothing more to be known scarcely exist. Each individual example is in itself a new problem in history chrono... Lees meer.
A History of the Archaic Greek World offers a theme-based approach to the development of the Greek world in the years 1200-479 BCE. Updated and extended in this edition to include two new sections expanded geographical coverage a guide to electronic resources and mo... Lees meer.
The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece provides a wide-ranging synthesis of history society and culture during the formative period of Ancient Greece from the Age of Homer in the late eighth century to the Persian Wars of 490 480 BC. In ten clearly written and su... Lees meer.
A detailed survey of the inscriptions of Greece before 403 BC which attempts to construct a chronological system divided into 25 year periods similar to those used for Greek sculpture and pottery. This revised edition contains additional photographs of the most signif... Lees meer.
Cited by the L.A. Weekly as the culture s foremost spokesman for the psychedelic experience Terrence McKenna is an underground legend as a brilliant raconteur adventurer and expert on the experiential use of mind-altering plants.In these essays interviews and na... Lees meer.
Drudkh deliver black metal poetry at its finest. Previously only available on split EPs with Hades Almighty Grift and Paysage D Hiver the collection of songs gathered on A Few Lines In Archaic Ukrainian is a must hear for any fan of the band s work. Based on Ukraini... Lees meer.
The acclaimed French classicist Marcel Detienne s first book traces the odyssey of truth aletheia from mytho-religious concept to philosophical thought in archaic Greece. Detienne begins by examining how truth in Greek literature first emerges as an enigma. He then lo... Lees meer.
In this ground-breaking work Norman Yoffee shatters the prevailing myths underpinning our understanding of the evolution of early civilisations. He counters the emphasis in traditional scholarship on the rule of godly and despotic male leaders and challenges the conv... Lees meer.
In this book Clemente Marconi provides a new interpretation for the use of figural decoration in Greek temples of the archaic period through a study of the archaic metopes of Selinus. The study of figural decoration on Greek temples has traditionally been identified w... Lees meer.
Art and religion are both well-attested and much-studied aspects of ancient Greek life yet their relationship is not perfectly understood. Religion in the Art of Archaic and Classical Greece presents an important rethinking of these two categories. The book examines no... Lees meer.
This study questions the traditional view of sacrifices in hero-cults during the Archaic to the early Hellenistic periods. The analysis of the epigraphical and literary evidence for sacrifices to heroes in these periods shows contrary to the traditional notion that th... Lees meer.
The Descent of the Soul and the Archaic explores the motif of k tabasis a descent into an imaginal underworld and the importance it held for writers from antiquity to the present with an emphasis on its place in psychoanalytic theory. The Descent of the Soul a... Lees meer.