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Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece
Language: en
Pages: 571
Authors: Renaud Gagné
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-22 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Follows the extraordinary record of ancient Greek thought on Hyperborea as a case study of cosmography and anthropological philology.
The Cosmos in Ancient Greek Religious Experience
Language: en
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Authors: Efrosyni Boutsikas
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-29 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Reconstructs ancient rituals in their day/night/season combining them with relevant mythology and astronomical observations to understand the ritual's cosmologi
Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece
Language: en
Pages: 567
Authors: Renaud Gagné
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Ancestral fault is a core idea of Greek literature. 'The guiltless will pay for the deeds later: either the man's children, or his descendants thereafter', said
Cosmos in the Ancient World
Language: en
Pages: 371
Authors: Phillip Sidney Horky
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-04 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Traces the concept of kosmos as order, arrangement, and ornament in ancient philosophy, literature, and aesthetics.
Revisiting Delphi
Language: en
Pages: 233
Authors: Julia Kindt
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-26 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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