Voices of the Ancients

Voices of the Ancients
Author: Stephen B. Shaffer
Publisher: Cedar Fort Publishing & Media
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2023-02-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1462102298

Go Beyond the Same Old Names, Dates, and Facts, with this intriguing look at what really happened in history—the material that never made it into your textbooks. From ancient artifacts to modern cover-ups, you’ll go behind the scenes of history and experience a never-before-seen look at America’s past. After Years of Research, Steve Shaffer has compiled a marvelous collection of true histories that offer a rare glimpse of ancient America and show us all how little we really know about our past. Join Steve in his quest to uncover the truth and discover for yourself that history is still an open book.

Voices of Ancient Egypt

Voices of Ancient Egypt
Author: Kay Winters
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2009
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781426304002

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Voice and Voices in Antiquity

Voice and Voices in Antiquity
Author: Niall Slater
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2016-10-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004329730

Voice and Voices in Antiquity draws together 18 studies of the changing concept of voice and voices in the oral traditions and subsequent literate genres of the ancient world. Ranging from the poet's voice to those of characters as well as historically embodied communities, and from the interface between the Greek and Near Eastern worlds to the western reaches of the Roman Empire, the scholars assembled here offer a methodologically rich and diverse series of approaches to locating the power of voice as both poetic construct and communal memory. The results not only enrich our understanding of the strategies of epic, lyric, and dramatic voices but also illuminate the rhetorical claims given voice by historians, orators, philosophers, and novelists in the ancient world.

Voice of the Ancients

Voice of the Ancients
Author: Cha Rnacircle
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2012-03
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1770972285

Listen as I tell you what the voices of the ancients say, they keep whispering to me... the story continues in Beringia where the Arctic Ocean meets the Bering Sea. During the ice age twenty thousand years ago, ice formed over the land which lowered the sea level. It briefly exposed a passageway between the two continents, it was unpredictable and dangerous......

Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome

Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome
Author: C. B. R. Pelling
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2014
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0199597367

Introduction to twelve authors from classical antiquity, whose works still address some of our most fundamental concerns in the world today.

Treasures of the Ancients: Recent Discoveries of Ancient Writings in North America

Treasures of the Ancients: Recent Discoveries of Ancient Writings in North America
Author: Stephen B. Shaffer
Publisher: Cedar Fort Publishing & Media
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2023-02-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1462104940

MYSTERIES AND REMNANTS OF A FORGOTTEN PEOPLETremendous information as well as many artifacts and ancient writings have been brought to light during the past one hundred years to prove that the Americas were once populated earlier than first believed. But who were these people? Where did they come from? Why did they suddenly disappear? More important, did they leave any records to tell of their existence and civilization?What about the strange writings of Manti, Fillmore, Cedar City, Pariette Draw, Nephi, and Lake Powell, all in Utah? What about the Aztec copper bowl of Currant Creek, the gold plate of the Wasatch Front, the lead plates of the Myton Bench, the Manti tablets, the Kinderhook plates, and the Soper/Savage collection in LDS Church archives?Best-selling author Stephen Shaffer explores these mysteries and the remnants of a forgotten people in Treasures of the Ancients: Recent Discoveries of Ancient Writings in North America.

Sound and the Ancient Senses

Sound and the Ancient Senses
Author: Shane Butler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2018-10-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317300424

Sound leaves no ruins and no residues, even though it is experienced constantly. It is ubiquitous but fleeting. Even silence has sound, even absence resonates. Sound and the Ancient Senses aims to hear the lost sounds of antiquity, from the sounds of the human body to those of the gods, from the bathhouse to the Forum, from the chirp of a cicada to the music of the spheres. Sound plays so great a role in shaping our environments as to make it a crucial sounding board for thinking about space and ecology, emotions and experience, mortality and the divine, orality and textuality, and the self and its connection to others. From antiquity to the present day, poets and philosophers have strained to hear the ways that sounds structure our world and identities. This volume looks at theories and practices of hearing and producing sounds in ritual contexts, medicine, mourning, music, poetry, drama, erotics, philosophy, rhetoric, linguistics, vocality, and on the page, and shows how ancient ideas of sound still shape how and what we hear today. As the first comprehensive introduction to the soundscapes of antiquity, this volume makes a significant contribution to the burgeoning fields of sound and voice studies and is the final volume of the series, The Senses in Antiquity.

The Scrolls of the Ancients

The Scrolls of the Ancients
Author: Robert Newcomb
Publisher: Del Rey
Total Pages: 631
Release: 2004-06-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0345478436

“Plenty of adventure and magic . . . continues Robert Newcomb’s tradition of mixing adventure with an interesting and well-realized magical world.”—SF Site Prince Tristan and his twin sister, Shailiha, are the Chosen Ones, prophesied to unite the opposing magics of the dark Vagaries and the benevolent Vigors. But before they can fulfill their destiny, they must search out the mysterious Scrolls of the Ancients which hold the key to unlocking great mystical secrets. They are not the only ones on a dire quest. Krassus, a devoted servant of the Vagaries, has located one of the Scrolls and through it has attained great and ominous powers. Now he needs but one thing: a man who unknowingly possesses magic in his blood almost as potent as that of the Chosen Ones. Tristan and Shailiha must find that man before Krassus’s dark enchantments turn him into the most dangerous weapon of evil the world has ever known—if it’s not already too late. . . .

Voices from the Other World

Voices from the Other World
Author: Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 61
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307430073

Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz reaches back millennia to his homeland’s majestic past in this enchanting collection of early tales that brings the world of ancient Egypt face to face with our own times. From the Predynastic Period, where a cabal of entrenched rulers banish virtue in jealous defense of their status, to the Fifth Dynasty, where a Pharaoh returns from an extended leave to find that only his dog has remained loyal, to the twentieth century, where a mummy from the Eighteenth Dynasty awakens in fury to reproach a modern Egyptian nobleman for his arrogance, these five stories conduct timeless truths over the course of thousands of years. Summoning the power and mystery of a legendary civilization, they examplify the artistry that has made Mahfouz among the most revered writers in world literature. Translated by Raymond Stock