Knights, Romans, Greeks and God

Knights, Romans, Greeks and God
Author: Brian D. Starr
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2011-08-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1465317767

Lineage of Hercules, Helen, Hector, Greek, Dieties, Zeus with his 28 Wives and 42 Children. Secrets of Galilee ane How Joshua Is an Ancestor of Sir Hector The Hebrew and Greek Pans with the Egyptian Mysteries Explained, the Roman Dieties, The Hebrew God, The Greek Pantheon, Wives of the Kings of Judah and their lineages.

Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?

Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?
Author: Paul Veyne
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 1988-06-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780226854342

An examination of Greek mythology and a discussion about how religion and truth have evolved throughout time.

The Greek and Roman Myths: A Guide to the Classical Stories (Myths)

The Greek and Roman Myths: A Guide to the Classical Stories (Myths)
Author: Philip Matyszak
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2010-11-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0500770697

Full of intriguing facts and diverting stories—the ideal introduction to the myths and tales that lie at the heart of Western culture. Who was Pandora and what was in her famous box? How did Achilles get his Achilles heel? What exactly is a Titan? And why is one computer virus known as a Trojan horse? The myths of ancient Greece and Rome can seem bewilderingly complex, yet they are so much a part of modern life and discourse that most of us know fragments of them. This comprehensive companion takes these fragments and weaves them into an accessible and enjoyable narrative, guiding the reader through the basic stories of classical myth. Philip Matyszak explains the sequences of events and introduces the major plots and characters, from the origins of the world and the labors of Hercules to the Trojan War and the voyages of Odysseus and Aeneas. He brings to life an exotic cast of heroes and monsters, wronged women and frighteningly arbitrary yet powerful gods. He also shows how the stories have survived and greatly influenced later art and culture, from Renaissance painting and sculpture to modern opera, literature, movies, and everyday products.

Gods Behaving Badly

Gods Behaving Badly
Author: Marie Phillips
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2009-02-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307371271

A highly entertaining novel set in North London, where the Greek gods have been living in obscurity since the seventeenth century. Being immortal isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Life’s hard for a Greek god in the twenty-first century: nobody believes in you any more, even your own family doesn’t respect you, and you’re stuck in a dilapidated hovel in North London with too many siblings and not enough hot water. But for Artemis (goddess of hunting, professional dog walker), Aphrodite (goddess of beauty, telephone sex operator) and Apollo (god of the sun, TV psychic) there’s no way out... until a meek cleaner and her would-be boyfriend come into their lives and turn the world upside down. Gods Behaving Badly is that rare thing, a charming, funny, utterly original novel that satisfies the head and the heart.

The Jews among the Greeks and Romans (Illustrated Edition)

The Jews among the Greeks and Romans (Illustrated Edition)
Author: Max Radin
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2018-12-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 8026898702

The Jews, as one of the Mediterranean nations, began to come into close contact with Greek civilization about the time of Alexander the Great. What has been attempted in the foregoing pages is an interpretation of certain facts of Jewish, Roman, and Greek history within a given period. The literature on the subject is enormous. A short bibliography is appended, in which various books of reference are cited. From these all who are interested in the innumerable controversies that the subject has elicited may obtain full information. Contents: Greek Religious Concepts Roman Religious Concepts Greek and Roman Concepts of Race Sketch of Jewish History between Nebuchadnezzar and Constantine Internal Development of the Jews during the Persian Period The First Contact between Greek and Jew Egypt Jews in Ptolemaic Egypt The Struggle against Greek Culture in Palestine Antiochus the Manifest God The Jewish Propaganda The Opposition The Opposition in Its Social Aspect The Philosophic Opposition The Romans Jews in Rome during the Early Empire The Jews of the Empire till the Revolt The Revolt of 68 C.E. The Development of the Roman Jewish Community The Final Revolts of the Jews The Legal Position of the Jews in the Later Empire

Death in Ancient Rome

Death in Ancient Rome
Author: Catharine Edwards
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300112085

For the Romans, the manner of a person's death was the most telling indication of their true character. Death revealed the true patriot, the genuine philosopher, even, perhaps, the great artist--and certainly the faithful Christian. Catharine Edwards draws on the many and richly varied accounts of death in the writings of Roman historians, poets, and philosophers, including Cicero, Lucretius, Virgil, Seneca, Petronius, Tacitus, Tertullian, and Augustine, to investigate the complex significance of dying in the Roman world. Death in the Roman world was largely understood and often literally viewed as a spectacle. Those deaths that figured in recorded history were almost invariably violent--murders, executions, suicides--and yet the most admired figures met their ends with exemplary calm, their last words set down for posterity. From noble deaths in civil war, mortal combat between gladiators, political execution and suicide, to the deathly dinner of Domitian, the harrowing deaths of women such as the mythical Lucretia and Nero's mother Agrippina, as well as instances of Christian martyrdom, Edwards engagingly explores the culture of death in Roman literature and history.

Roman Gods

Roman Gods
Author: Michael Lipka
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2009-04-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 904742848X

Drawing exclusively on the evidence from urban Rome up to the age of Constantine, the book analyzes the pagan, Jewish, and Christian concepts of "god" along the lines of space, time, personnel, function, iconography and ritual.