Under a Greek Spell

Under a Greek Spell
Author: Simone Hubbard
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2019-02-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1789017327

A light hearted romance set on the beautiful islands of Mykonos and Syros. As the chorus of Happy Birthday ends, Pamela can hear daughters, Helen and Stephanie, whispering, ‘Make a wish, mum’. As she blows out the candles her wish is made. Are their fates now sealed? Has she put her daughters under a Greek spell so her birthday wishes will be granted, or will it end up as a Greek tragedy? At thirty-three, Helen is a career woman. She’s worked hard and progressed through the ranks of a local travel company. She had aspirations of becoming a director, but now she’s thinking of a career change, although she’s been ‘distracted’ by her dishy colleague, James. They’ve been seeing each other for a few months but he seems unwilling to commit. She’s caught up in an unexpected chain of events when a work-related Caribbean cruise changes into a working holiday in Mykonos. Will she be enchanted by a Greek Spell or will she anger the Greek Gods and pay the ultimate price? At thirty-one Stephanie has recently separated from her husband Richard of five years. As they can’t compromise it looks as though divorce is their only option. The offer to accompany her sister, Helen, on a free holiday to the Caribbean is just the tonic she needs. As their plans change at the last minute Stephanie just wants some rest and relaxation, so Mykonos should tick the box. Will she end up with more than she expected? After all isn’t Mykonos known as the island of love?

Under the Mummy's Spell

Under the Mummy's Spell
Author: Kate McMullan
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 214
Release: 1992
Genre: Detective and mystery stories
ISBN: 9780374380335

When Peter Harring kisses a mummy mask on a dare, he finds that he has fulfilled an age-old prophecy and must contend with an ancient Egyptian sorceress in order to right a terrible wrong.

Under the Spell of Mother Earth

Under the Spell of Mother Earth
Author: Berit Kjos
Publisher: Victor
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1992
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780896938502

This book alerts readers to the signs of Goddess worship--even in America--and warns against elevating Mother Earth from legend to religion, basing environmental concerns in ancient pagan practices, depersonalizing God and people, and seeking a Goddess Mother as the source of life.

Ancient Greek Love Magic

Ancient Greek Love Magic
Author: Christopher A. FARAONE
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674036700

The ancient Greeks commonly resorted to magic spells to attract and keep lovers. Surveying and analyzing various texts and artifacts, the author reveals that gender is the crucial factor in understanding love spells.

The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells, Volume 1

The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells, Volume 1
Author: Hans Dieter Betz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2022-10-14
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0226826953

"The Greek magical papyri" is a collection of magical spells and formulas, hymns, and rituals from Greco-Roman Egypt, dating from the second century B.C. to the fifth century A.D. Containing a fresh translation of the Greek papyri, as well as Coptic and Demotic texts, this new translation has been brought up to date and is now the most comprehensive collection of this literature, and the first ever in English. The Greek Magical Papyri in Transition is an invaluable resource for scholars in a wide variety of fields, from the history of religions to the classical languages and literatures, and it will fascinate those with a general interest in the occult and the history of magic. "One of the major achievements of classical and related scholarship over the last decade."—Ioan P. Culianu, Journal for the Study of Judaism "The enormous value of this new volume lies in the fact that these texts will now be available to a much wider audience of readers, including historians or religion, anthropologists, and psychologists."—John G. Gager, Journal of Religion "[This book] shows care, skill and zest. . . . Any worker in the field will welcome this sterling performance."—Peter Parsons, Times Literary Supplement

The Quest for Truth

The Quest for Truth
Author: F. Leroy Forlines
Publisher: Randall House Publications
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2001
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780892659623

This invaluable tool seriously discusses profound truths that apply to every facet of life. Biblical truth should be made applicable to the total personality. The "inescapable questions of life" are answered from the standard of God's authoritative Word.

Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
Author: Mary Norris
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1324001283

“One of the most satisfying accounts of a great passion that I have ever read.” —Vivian Gornick, New York Times Book Review Mary Norris, The New Yorker’s Comma Queen and best-selling author of Between You & Me, has had a lifelong love affair with words. In Greek to Me, she delivers a delightful paean to the art of self-expression through accounts of her solo adventures in the land of olive trees and ouzo. Along the way, Norris explains how the alphabet originated in Greece, makes the case for Athena as a feminist icon, and reveals the surprising ways in which Greek helped form English. Greek to Me is filled with Norris’s memorable encounters with Greek words, Greek gods, Greek wine—and more than a few Greek men.

Under Egypt's Spell

Under Egypt's Spell
Author: Mursi Saad El Din
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1991
Genre: Egypt
ISBN:

Egypt has exerted a fascination over writers in English since the eighteenth century and continues to do so. This review of the literature inspired by the country starts from pre-Napoleonic days, referring to writers who have lived, worked, visited and fought there. Three chapters are devoted to the cultural life of Egypt during World War II as seen through the eyes of an Egyptian writer and a British writer, both of whom were there at the time. Their aim is to reveal some of the facts behind fictionalized versions of the period which have tended to obscure its real significance as an epoch in which a cultural life of its own was created during a time of world upheaval. Under Egypt's Spell concludes by showing how the country has cast its spell upon its own people and how Egyptian writers have themselves been influenced by European culture. - Jacket flap.

The Artist-Philosopher and Poetic Hermeneutics

The Artist-Philosopher and Poetic Hermeneutics
Author: George Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2021-12-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1000533751

Focusing on the aesthetic representation of trauma, George Smith outlines the nexus points between poetics and hermeneutics and shows how a particular kind of thinker, the artist-philosopher, practices interpretation in an entirely different way from traditional hermeneutics. Taking a transhistorical and global view, Smith engages artists, writers, and thinkers from Western and non-Western periods, regions, and cultures. Thus, we see that poetic hermeneutics reconstitutes philosophy and art as hybridizations of art and science, the artist and the philosopher, subject and object. In turn, the artist-philosopher's poetic-hermeneutic reconstitution of philosophy and art is meant to transform human consciousness. This book will be of interest to artists and scholars working in studio practice, art history, aesthetics, philosophy, cultural studies, history of ideas, history of consciousness, psychoanalytic studies, myth studies, literary studies, and creative writing.