Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales

By combining the spirit of fiction with the fabulism of Indian mythology and in-depth academic research, Vanessa R.

Throughout the longue dure of Western culture, how have people represented mountains as landscapes of the imagination and as places of real experience?

Throughout the longue dure of Western culture, how have people represented mountains as landscapes of the imagination and as places of real experience?

By combining the spirit of fiction with the fabulism of Indian mythology and in-depth academic research, Vanessa R.

How should ancient religious ideas be approached?

How should ancient religious ideas be approached?

Parting company with the trend in recent scholarship to treat the subject in abstract, highly theoretical terms, Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome proposes that the magic-working of antiquity was in reality a highly pragmatic business, with very clearly formulated aims - often of an exceedingly malignant kind.

Parting company with the trend in recent scholarship to treat the subject in abstract, highly theoretical terms, Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome proposes that the magic-working of antiquity was in reality a highly pragmatic business, with very clearly formulated aims - often of an exceedingly malignant kind.

A Feminist Mythology takes us on a poetic journey through the canonical myths of femininity, testing them from the point of view of our modern condition.

How should we study religion?

How should we study religion?

A Feminist Mythology takes us on a poetic journey through the canonical myths of femininity, testing them from the point of view of our modern condition.

The figure of Anna Perenna embodies the complexity and richness of the Roman mythological tradition.

The figure of Anna Perenna embodies the complexity and richness of the Roman mythological tradition.

This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017).

This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017).

This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for GCSE Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017).

This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for GCSE Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017).

Canidia is one of the most well-attested witches in Latin literature.

Canidia is one of the most well-attested witches in Latin literature.

In questo mondo, nessuno avrebbe creduto che l'anima del suo corpo provenisse da decine di migliaia di anni nel futuro.

From international sensation Ashok K.

Provides an accessible account of the variety and subtlety of Greek and Roman philosophy of death, from Homer to Marcus Aurelius.

This book shows how depictions of etymology were used by twelfth-century poets, translators, bureaucrats and historians to portray Britain''s past.

An innovative reading of how different authors tell stories about the Delphic Oracle, focusing on the religious views thereby conveyed.

An innovative reading of how different authors tell stories about the Delphic Oracle, focusing on the religious views thereby conveyed.

A non-theistic contribution to the dialogue between religion and secular humanism through the medium of Buddhist spiritual practice.

A new interpretation of sacrifice based on Greek myth and poetics in conjunction with recent research in anthropology.

A new interpretation of sacrifice based on Greek myth and poetics in conjunction with recent research in anthropology.

A non-theistic contribution to the dialogue between religion and secular humanism through the medium of Buddhist spiritual practice.

This book does away once and for all with the assumption that only religions of the book think systematically about god(s).

This book does away once and for all with the assumption that only religions of the book think systematically about god(s).

This book offers a new, theoretically informed framework for the interpretation of ancient visual culture.

This book offers a new, theoretically informed framework for the interpretation of ancient visual culture.

Proposes a new way of understanding themes such as matter, knowledge, human happiness and the gods in Epicurus and Plotinus.

Proposes a new way of understanding themes such as matter, knowledge, human happiness and the gods in Epicurus and Plotinus.

This book sheds new light on the religious and consequently social changes taking place in late antique Rome.

This book sheds new light on the religious and consequently social changes taking place in late antique Rome.

This book explores how festivals of Rome were celebrated in the Greek East and their transformations in the Christian world.

This book explores how festivals of Rome were celebrated in the Greek East and their transformations in the Christian world.

7 Tage zur ErleuchtungNordische Mythologie, Trolle, Formwandler, 8-beinige Pferde und mitten drin,.

This book provides a synthesis of the archaeology of Eleusis during the Bronze Age, reconstructing the origins and early development of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

This book investigates the literary representation of music in the Georgian novel against its musical, aesthetic and cultural background.

This book investigates the literary representation of music in the Georgian novel against its musical, aesthetic and cultural background.

This book provides a synthesis of the archaeology of Eleusis during the Bronze Age, reconstructing the origins and early development of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

This 1999 book describes the religious life of the Greeks from the archaic to the Roman periods.

A broad history of ancient Jewish magic from the Second Temple to the rabbinic period.

In this Korean mythology inspired sapphic fantasy, a young woman with shadow magic is awakened after a thousand years to heal her nation and her own troubled memory, even as she falls for the sister of a saint she killed in her past life.

This study explores Marcion''s ideas through his writings and the writings of early Christian polemicists who shaped the idea of heresy.

This study explores Marcion''s ideas through his writings and the writings of early Christian polemicists who shaped the idea of heresy.