Ancient History, Classical Art And Civilization – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 6

Sophia Vasalou
Al-Ghazālī And the Ideal of Godlikeness

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

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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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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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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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Kalliopi Nikolopoulou
Hunting for Justice

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

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Ellen Burstyn
Poetry Says It Better

"A generous, heartfelt gift." --- Kirkus(STARRED review)The legendary Academy Award--winning actress reflects on her love affair with poetry and makes us all believers.We all want inspiration. W…

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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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Ryan Denson,
A Zoobiography of the Ancient Sea Monster

Examining a vast corpus of literary references and artistic representations, this volume offers the first comprehensive study of the ketos - the sea monster imagined by the ancient Greeks and Romans.The c…

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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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Dan Gutman
The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle

From the author of the My Weird School books, an adventure story that spans centuries and continents.In Central Park, New York, stands Cleopatra's Needle. But what do you know about? Did you know that tho…

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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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Aristotle,
The Nicomachean Ethics

One of the most important philosophical works of all time, in a new Penguin Classics translation by Adam Beresford 'Right and wrong is a human thing'What does it mean to be a good person? Aristotle's famo…

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Mallory Matsumoto
The Maya Myths

Maya peoples have long dominated southern Mesoamerica, an area stretching from the lowland coast of the Yucatán Peninsula to the highland mountains of southern Guatemala. While never a unified people, the…

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Tonio Holscher,
The Diver of Paestum

Since its discovery in 1968, the painting of a diver on a tomb in Paestum, originally the Greek colony of Poseidonia in southern Italy, has left viewers spellbound. It depicts a beautiful and enigmatic sc…

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A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in Antiquity

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? Spanning chronologically from the third millennium BCE through to the se…

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Marjolein Oele
Beyond Elemental Loss

Offers an important and innovative contribution to environmental philosophy by investigating loss in times of anthropogenic climate change through the elements of water, fire, air, and earth.Beyond Elemen…

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Marjolein Oele
Beyond Elemental Loss

Offers an important and innovative contribution to environmental philosophy by investigating loss in times of anthropogenic climate change through the elements of water, fire, air, and earth.Beyond Elemen…

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Steven B Cowan, Graham Oppy, David Apolloni, Shyam Ranganathan
Life After Death

Presents four distinct perspectives on life after death.

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