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| Author | : Antonio Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Martins |
| Publisher | : 16 Tons |
| Total Pages | : 42 |
| Release | : 2024-01-08 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 6558904853 |
Get to know the History of the biggest organ in the human body, and how it shifted from being the seat of the soul, to becoming the main metabolic organ in our body.
| Author | : Krzysztof Ulanowski |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 588 |
| Release | : 2020-10-20 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 9004429395 |
Neo-Assyrian and Greek Divination in War is about practices which enabled humans contact the divine. These relations, especially in difficult times of military conflict, could be crucial in deciding the fate of individuals, cities, dynasties or even empires.
| Author | : William Furley |
| Publisher | : Mohr Siebeck |
| Total Pages | : 146 |
| Release | : 2015-06-05 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9783161538902 |
"William Furley and Victor Gysembergh present a study of ancient Greek extispicy (a form of prophecy by consulting animal entrails) based on the remains of ancient technical manuals on the subject. The aim is to study the papyrological texts in detail for their meaning and to relate this to similar practices in other parts of the ancient world"--
| Author | : Lisa Raphals |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 499 |
| Release | : 2013-10-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107010756 |
This book compares the intellectual and social history and past and present contexts of mantic practices (divination) in Chinese and Greek antiquity.
| Author | : Gordon Lindsay Campbell |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 657 |
| Release | : 2014-08-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0191035157 |
The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life is the first comprehensive guide to animals in the ancient world, encompassing all aspects of the topic by featuring authoritative chapters on 33 topics by leading scholars in their fields. As well as an introduction to, and a survey of, each topic, it provides guidance on further reading for those who wish to study a particular area in greater depth. Both the realities and the more theoretical aspects of the treatment of animals in ancient times are covered in chapters which explore the domestication of animals, animal husbandry, animals as pets, Aesop's Fables, and animals in classical art and comedy, all of which closely examine the nature of human-animal interaction. More abstract and philosophical topics are also addressed, including animal communication, early ideas on the origin of species, and philosophical vegetarianism and the notion of animal rights.
| Author | : Jean MacIntosh Turfa |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 425 |
| Release | : 2012-07-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1139536400 |
The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar is a rare document of omens foretold by thunder. It long lay hidden, embedded in a Greek translation within a Byzantine treatise from the age of Justinian. The first complete English translation of the Brontoscopic Calendar, this book provides an understanding of Etruscan Iron Age society as revealed through the ancient text, especially the Etruscans' concerns regarding the environment, food, health and disease. Jean MacIntosh Turfa also analyzes the ancient Near Eastern sources of the Calendar and the subjects of its predictions, thereby creating a picture of the complexity of Etruscan society reaching back before the advent of writing and the recording of the calendar.
| Author | : William E. Burns |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2022-12-01 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 144087848X |
This encyclopedia is the perfect guide to the weird, magical, superstitious, and supernatural beliefs of people from all over the world. This book is devoted to those human beliefs that fall in the "gray zone" between science, religion, and everyday life-call them superstitious, supernatural, magical, or just wrong. In an often incomprehensible world where lightning or plague could end life quickly or drought could condemn a poor family to agonizing death, superstitious beliefs gave people a feeling of understanding or even control. They have continued to shape societies and cultures ever since. This book covers a range of superstitious, supernatural, and otherwise unusual beliefs from the ancient world to the early 19th century. More than 100 entries explain beliefs, discuss historical evidence, and explain how each belief differs across cultures. This book is a perfect gateway for anyone curious about superstitious and magical beliefs, with topics ranging from the everyday, such as dogs and iron, to legendary figures, such as Hermes Trismegistus and the Yellow Emperor.
| Author | : Ann Jeffers |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2023-08-14 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004667806 |
Beginning with Deut. 18:9ff and its condemnation of magicians and diviners, this book explores the window that this text gives us into magic and divination in Ancient Palestine and Syria. Investigating the wealth of language combined with the archaeological and historical evidence, it seeks to place the influence of these factors in the emerging Israelite religion. An integral part of Ancient Near Eastern cosmology and culture, magic and divination are never completely eradicated despite the ideological warfare led by the Old Testament writers. The first part examines the function of various magicians and diviners. This is followed by a chapter on dreams and visions. The third chapter looks at the techniques and devices used by the oracular practitioners. Other subjects covered include magic in warfare, in the treatment of diseases, and blessing and cursing.
| Author | : Alan Lenzi |
| Publisher | : Society of Biblical Literature |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2014-06-02 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9781589839960 |
Advance your understanding of divination’s role in supporting or undermining imperial aspirations in the ancient Near East This collection examines the ways that divinatory texts in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East undermined and upheld the empires in which the texts were composed, edited, and read. Nine essays and an introduction engage biblical scholarship on the Prophets, Assyriology, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the critical study of Ancient Empires. Features: Interdisciplinary approaches include propaganda studies Essays examine how biblical and other ancient Near Eastern texts were shaped by political and theological empires Index of ancient sources
| Author | : Michael Flower |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0520259939 |
"Surveying all kinds of evidence—historiographical, literary, dramatic, and visual—Flower provides a comprehensive, readable, and engaging account of the operations of 'seers' during the Classical period."—Mark Griffith, editor of Prometheus Bound and Antigone "In a page-turning tour de force of anthropological reconstruction, classicist Michael Flower revisits hundreds of ancient texts to tease out his case for the absolutely central role of seercraft at all levels of ancient Greek society. Thanks to Flower's invitingly-woven tapestry of their mesmerizing stories and anecdotes, we can now savor, and comprehend through his lucid and persuasive interpretations."—Peter Nabokov, author of Where the Lightning Strikes: American Indian Ways of History
