Ancient History, Classical Art And Civilization – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 5

Erin Vearncombe, Brandon Scott, Hal Taussig, The Westar Institute
After Jesus Before Christianity

From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of …

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Karen Valby
The Swans of Harlem

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK • Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterho…

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D T J Bailey
Plato's Phaedo

D.T.J. Bailey here offers a student-friendly guide to Plato's dialogue Phaedo , as part of the Oxford Guides to Philosophy series. In the process of explaining the text, Bailey provides a picture of Plato…

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Peter Meineck
Tony Stark, Odysseus, and the Myths Behind Marvel

"By connecting our modern heroes to the archetypes of ancient myth, Peter Meineck's marvelous book bestows thrilling contemporary resonance upon those bygone legends." ---Christopher Markus, cos…

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D T J Bailey
Plato's Phaedo

D.T.J. Bailey here offers a student-friendly guide to Plato's dialogue Phaedo , as part of the Oxford Guides to Philosophy series. In the process of explaining the text, Bailey provides a picture of Plato…

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Sophia Vasalou
Al-Ghazālī And the Ideal of Godlikeness

What might it mean to take God as a model for virtue? Al-Ghaz¿l¿ and the Ideal of Godlikeness investigates how Muslim thinkers developed the idea of imitating God across diverse cultural channels and how …

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Vitruvius
How to Make a Home

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers

An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient Roman writings about home design and decorationThe idea that our homes can communicate professional as well as personal identities may seem as new as…

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T E Franklinos, Rino Modonutti,
Sicco Polenton, Lives of the Famous Latin Authors

Offering an anthology of the first history of Latin literature, Sicco Polenton's Scriptorum illustrium Latinae linguae libri XVIII is a collection of biographies that spans the period from ancient Rome to…

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Walter Sennhauser
Plato und die Mathematik - Die Mathematik und Plato

Der Schweizer Theologe und Mathematiker Walter Sennhauser beschreibt im ersten Teil des Buches detailliert die Rolle der Mathematik in Platos Philosophie, wobei einige schwer verständliche Texte erklärt w…

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Practical Truth

The sixteen essays in this collection concern the origin of practical truth in Aristotle's ethics, the history of practical truth throughout the intervening centuries, and the role it currently plays in c…

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Ralf Mennekes
Architektur als Mimesis

Studien zur internationalen Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte - Band 202

Über die Räume und Zeiten hinweg haben die Menschen sehr verschiedengestaltige Bauwerke errichtet. Diese Bauwerke sind jeweils spezifisch genug, um ganzen Kulturen ein charakteristisches Gepräge zu verlei…

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Ben Lamm
The Elements of Civilization

By the cofounder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences, which recently gained global headlines for reviving the extinct dire wolf --- the first of many planned "de-extinction" projects, including wool…

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Joshua Hammer
The Mesopotamian Riddle

An "adventure tale for puzzle lovers and Indiana Jones fans alike" (The Washington Post ) following three free-spirited Victorians on their twenty-year quest to decipher cuneiform, the oldest wr…

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Manuel Cojocaru
Der Wille zum Sein

Dieses Buch behandelt Tod und Unsterblichkeit, indem es Platons Philosophie des „Gottähnlichwerdens" durch die Ausübung von Intellekt und Tugenden mit dem archaisch-griechischen und heroischen Weg zu…

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Kalliopi Nikolopoulou
Hunting for Justice

Utilizes Greek tragedy to investigate the fundamentally arbitrary and violent nature of justice.

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Ryan Denson,
A Zoobiography of the Ancient Sea Monster

A comprehensive study of the ketos - the most prominent sea monster of Greco-Roman culture.

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Armgard Goo-Grauer
Colors of Nubia

"Colors of Nubia by Armgard Goo Grauer presents house decoration, wall painting, and their cultural context in the Egyptian part of Nubia before 1964. It recalls the astonishing yet relatively little…

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Vered Lev Kenaan, Patricia A Rosenmeyer
Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions

This volume explores how classical antiquity influenced the writings of poets, translators, and scholars emerging from modern Jewish diasporas, Mandatory Palestine, and the State of Israel. The chapters e…

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The Buddha
How to Lose Yourself

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers

Inviting new translations of classical Buddhist texts about why the self is an illusion---and why giving it up can free us from sufferingFrom self-realization and self-promotion to self-help and the selfi…

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Truth in the Late Foucault

"The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his work on the ancient world and the early church. Each essay features a deep examinatio…

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