Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality; The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of St.Andrews in the Year 1920

Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality; The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of St.Andrews in the Year 1920

Author: Lewis Richard Farnell

Publisher: Franklin Classics

Published: 2018-10-13

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9780342806003

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Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality; the Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of St. Andrews in the Year 1920

Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality; the Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of St. Andrews in the Year 1920

Author: Lewis Richard Farnell

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 9781290676762

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Republics Ancient and Modern, Volume I

Republics Ancient and Modern, Volume I

Author: Paul A. Rahe

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2017-11-01

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1469621517

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An assessment of the ancient Greek city and its subsequent influence. A masterwork of political theory and comparative politics for the classroom. "In a series of sketches touching on everything from the lust for honor to the suspicion of commerce and philosophy, from the role of homoerotic bonds in maintaining military formations to the distrust of technological innovation, Rahe brilliantly reminds us how utterly committed the Greeks were to a politics in which the distribution of honors, education and culture in all their forms, and economic activity were all designed to preserve civic solidarity.--Jack N. Rakove, American Historical Review "[An] extraordinary book. . . . It is a great achievement and will stay as a landmark.--Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Spectator (London) "A work of magisterial erudition.--Journal of American History


Saints and Their Cults

Saints and Their Cults

Author: Stephen Wilson

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 9780521311816

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This is a paperback edition of a collection of ten papers by different authors on the cult of saints, first published in hard covers in 1983. Six have been translated from French including a pioneering study by Robert Hertz, one of Durkheim's most eminent pupils. The editor provides a wide-ranging general and historical introduction, and a 100- page annotated bibliography covering material on the subject in all disciplines and in four main languages.