Singing for the Gods

Singing for the Gods
Author: Barbara Kowalzig
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2007-12-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0191527513

Singing for the Gods develops a new approach towards an old question in the study of religion - the relationship of myth and ritual. Focusing on ancient Greek religion, Barbara Kowalzig exploits the joint occurrence of myth and ritual in archaic and classical Greek song-culture. She shows how choral performances of myth and ritual, taking place all over the ancient Greek world in the early fifth century BC, help to effect social and political change in their own time. Religious song emerges as integral to a rapidly changing society hovering between local, regional, and panhellenic identities and between aristocratic rule and democracy. Drawing on contemporary debates on myth, ritual, and performance in social anthropology, modern history, and theatre studies, this book establishes Greek religion's dynamic role and gives religious song-culture its deserved place in the study of Greek history.

Katingo & Shukry an American Story

Katingo & Shukry an American Story
Author: Kathy J. Daruty
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2012-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1479716030

Arabic speaking Christians have left their homelands steadily and in increasing numbers since the last decades of the Ottoman Empire. In the late 19th Century, Christians were 25% of the population in the Levant where this story begins; now they number fewer than 8%. Today, from Egypt to Iraq and throughout the Levant, Christians are a small, often oppressed minority who face an uncertain future. This family memoir collects the stories told by the title characters, Palestinian Orthodox Christians, who left Jerusalem and came to America. The events impacting their lives during the 20th Century are described from their unique and rarely heard perspective.Recounted especially for their descendants and loved ones, Katingo and Shukry’s stories offer lessons for us all, and remind us how lucky we are to live in America.

Staging Death

Staging Death
Author: Anastasia Dakouri-Hild
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2016-12-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110480573

Places are social, lived, ideational landscapes constructed by people as they inhabit their natural and built environment. An ‘archaeology of place’ attempts to move beyond the understanding of the landscape as inert background or static fossil of human behaviour. From a specifically mortuary perspective, this approach entails a focus on the inherently mutable, transient and performative qualities of 'deathscapes': how they are remembered, obliterated, forgotten, reworked, or revisited over time. Despite latent interest in this line of enquiry, few studies have explored the topic explicitly in Aegean archaeology. This book aims to identify ways in which to think about the deathscape as a cross between landscapes, tombs, bodies, and identities, supplementing and expanding upon well explored themes in the field (e.g. tombs as vehicles for the legitimization of power; funerary landscapes as arenas of social and political competition). The volume recasts a wealth of knowledge about Aegean mortuary cultures against a theoretical background, bringing the field up to date with recent developments in the archaeology of place.

Explorations with Texas Instruments TI-85

Explorations with Texas Instruments TI-85
Author: John W. Kenelly
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1993-01-05
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0080506143

The TI-85 is the latest and most powerful graphing calculator produced by Texas Instruments. This book describes the use of the TI-85 in courses in precalculus, calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, business mathematics, probability, statistics and advanced engineering mathematics. The book features in-depth coverage of the calculator's use in specific course areas by distinguished experts in each field.

Mortuary differentiation and social structure in the Middle Helladic Argolid, 2000-1500 B.C.

Mortuary differentiation and social structure in the Middle Helladic Argolid, 2000-1500 B.C.
Author: Eleni Milka
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2023-04-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789696267

In this volume the archaeological, anthropological and radiocarbon data from selected sites of the Middle Helladic period are integrated to determine if there was variation between individual burials, groupings and cemeteries and to reconstruct change through time. This work was done for selective Argive sites, namely Lerna, Asine and Aspis.

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 1126
Release: 2023-05-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3382192179

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.