La Titanomaquia y la Gigantomaquia, Jasón y los Argonautas, los trabajos de Heracles, los siete contra Tebas, Teseo y los reyes de Atenas, la guerra de Troya… la prodigiosa fusión de mito, epopeya heroica y cuento popular operada en la mitología clásica ha fecundado el imaginario occidental de todas las épocas, y su influjo alcanza hasta la propia cultura popular contemporánea.
Nerval's book is a gripping excursion into the dark recesses of our cultural past, from the malicious spirits of the ancient civilizations to the hellish monsters of current pop culture.
Steeped in honey, Juventius, your golden eyes, and as sweet too when I press my lips to them - three hundred thousand kisses is not close to enoughFor centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world was ignored or suppressed.
Griechische Sagen für KinderVon der Geburt der Athene über Theseus und den Minotaurus bis zur Reise des Odysseus – dieses Sachbuch entführt Kinder ab 8 Jahren in die fantastische Welt der griechischen Mythologie.
The heroic story of the only female Argonaut, told by Jennifer Saint, the bestselling author of ATALANTA (UK, Sunday Times, April 2023) ELEKTRA (UK, Sunday Times, May 2022) and ARIADNE (UK, Sunday Times, April 2021).
En un fascinante viaje en compañía de los héroes de Grecia y Roma en su paso por la pantalla, este libro invita a conocer cómo fueron transformados los personajes míticos e históricos, en un camino de los mitos cinematográfico.
The forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own secular religionIn The Church of Saint Thomas Paine, Leigh Eric Schmidt tells the surprising story of how freethinking liberals in nineteenth-century America promoted a secular religion of humanity centered on the deistic revolutionary Thomas Paine (1737-1809) and how their descendants eventually became embroiled in the culture wars of the late twentieth century.
Embark on a profound intellectual journey with "e;Plato: The Complete Works,"e; a comprehensive collection of the timeless philosophical inquiries by one of the founding figures in Western philosophy.
Embarque en un profundo viaje intelectual con "Platón: Obras Completas", una colección integral de las eternas indagaciones filosóficas de una de las figuras fundadoras de la filosofía occidental.
The stories of the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece are sprawling, dramatic and wonderfully strange; their lives intertwine with mortals and their behaviours fluctuate wildly from benevolent to violent, from didactic to fickle, from loving to enraged.
Tauche ein in die faszinierende Welt der europäischen Schöpfungsmythen und entdecke die vielfältigen Legenden, die die Ursprünge unserer Welt und Menschheit beschreiben.
A compelling history of atheism in American public lifeA much-maligned minority throughout American history, atheists have been cast as a threat to the nation's moral fabric, barred from holding public office, and branded as irreligious misfits in a nation chosen by God.
Aunque alcanza en Platón una formulación magistral, el mito de la caverna es, como estudia Blumenberg, una de las metáforas fundamentales de la historia humana y de su comprensión de la existencia.
La mitología es un legado universal y eterno que representa las experiencias humanas absolutas: el amor, la muerte, el nacimiento, la traición, la soledad o el sexo.
Early Greek philosophy John Burnet - When traditional view of the world & the customary rules of life had broken down, the Greeks began to feel the needs which philosophies of nature & of conduct seek to satisfy.
