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  • The Trojan Horse and Other Stories

    Ten Ancient Creatures That Make Us Human

    by Julia Kindt ...
    What makes us human? What, if anything, sets us apart from all other creatures? Ever since Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the answer to these questions has pointed to our own intrinsic animal nature. Yet the idea that, in one way or another, our humanity is entangled with the non-human has a much longer and more venerable history. In the West, it goes all the way back to classical antiquity ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Personal Religion in the Ancient Greek World

    A Cultural History

    Edited by Julia Kindt ...
    Much is known about the manifold ways in which ancient Greek religious beliefs and practices map onto the social and political structures of the ancient Greek polis. The way in which the individual served as the basic unit of ancient Greek religion, and the personal dimension of ancient Greek religion associated with it, is much less well understood. This book offers the first comprehensive study ... Read more

    $139.99 USD

  • The Local Horizon of Ancient Greek Religion

    Edited by Hans Beck, Julia Kindt ...
    Which dimensions of the religious experience of the ancient Greeks become tangible only if we foreground its local horizons? This book explores the manifold ways in which Greek religious beliefs and practices are encoded in and communicate with various local environments. Its individual chapters explore 'the local' in its different forms and formulations. Besides the polis perspective, they ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Animals in Ancient Greek Religion

    Edited by Julia Kindt ...
    Series series Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
    This book provides the first systematic study of the role of animals in different areas of the ancient Greek religious experience, including in myth and ritual, the literary and the material evidence, the real and the imaginary.An international team of renowned contributors shows that animals had a sustained presence not only in the traditionally well-researched cultural practice of blood ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Rethinking Greek Religion

    by Julia Kindt ...
    Who marched in religious processions and why? How were blood sacrifice and communal feasting related to identities in the ancient Greek city? With questions such as these, current scholarship aims to demonstrate the ways in which religion maps on to the socio-political structures of the Greek polis ('polis religion'). In this book Dr Kindt explores a more comprehensive conception of ancient Greek ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Revisiting Delphi

    Religion and Storytelling in Ancient Greece

    by Julia Kindt ...
    Series series Cambridge Classical Studies
    Revisiting Delphi speaks to all admirers of Delphi and its famous prophecies, be they experts on ancient Greek religion, students of the ancient world, or just lovers of a good story. It invites readers to revisit the famous Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, along with Herodotus, Euripides, Socrates, Pausanias and Athenaeus, offering the first comparative and extended enquiry into the way these and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion

    Edited by Esther Eidinow, Julia Kindt ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This handbook offers both students and teachers of ancient Greek religion a comprehensive overview of the current state of scholarship in the subject, from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. It not only presents key information, but also explores the ways in which such information is gathered and the different approaches that have shaped the area. In doing so, the volume provides a crucial ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion

    Edited by Esther Eidinow, Julia Kindt, Robin Osborne ...
    Series series Cambridge Classical Studies
    Studied for many years by scholars with Christianising assumptions, Greek religion has often been said to be quite unlike Christianity: a matter of particular actions (orthopraxy), rather than particular beliefs (orthodoxies). This volume dares to think that, both in and through religious practices and in and through religious thought and literature, the ancient Greeks engaged in a sustained ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

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  • A Companion to Greek Mythology

    Edited by Ken Dowden, Niall Livingstone ...
    Series series Wiley 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

  • The Greeks

    A Portrait of Self and Others

    by Paul Cartledge ...
    This book provides an original and challenging answer to the question: 'Who were the Classical Greeks?' Paul Cartledge - 'one of the most theoretically alert, widely read and prolific of contemporary ancient historians' (TLS) - here examines the Greeks and their achievements in terms of their own self-image, mainly as it was presented by the supposedly objective historians: Herodotus, Thucydides, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece

    Edited by H. A. Shapiro ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
    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 succinct chapters, leading scholars from around the English-speaking world treat all aspects of the civilization of Archaic Greece, ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Growth and Guilt

    Psychology and the Limits of Development

    by Luigi Zoja ...
    The relentless exploitation of the earth's resources and technologys boundless growth are a matter of urgent concern. When did this race towards the limitless begin? The Greeks, who shaped the basis of Western thinking, lived in mortal fear of humanity's hidden hunger for the infinite and referred to it as hubris, the one true sin in their moral code. Whoever desired or possessed too much was ... Read more

    $62.99 USD