Enemies at the Greek Altar
Enemies at the Greek Altar

Author: Jackie Ashenden

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2024-04-23

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 0369745302

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Her burning hatred for her convenient husband soon transforms into desire in this dangerously sexy marriage of convenience by Jackie Ashenden! Marry the woman who hates him… or lose his inheritance! Andromeda Lane will never forgive Poseidon Teras for destroying her family—except he’s just asked for her hand! Knowing all the devastatingly handsome tycoon wants is to secure his inheritance, Andie’s every instinct is to refuse his billion-dollar proposal. But he’s vowing to support her late sister’s charity… Poseidon is sure he’s about to get everything he wants, without any risk. Until they seal their arrangement with an unexpectedly blazing kiss! Now the world’s most legendary playboy realizes the bride-to-be who detests him is what he wants most! From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds. Read all The Teras Wedding Challenge books: Book 1: A Tycoon Too Wild to Wed by Caitlin Crews Book 2: Enemies at the Greek Altar by Jackie Ashenden

Harlequin Presents May 2024 - Box Set 1 of 2
Harlequin Presents May 2024 - Box Set 1 of 2

Author: Lynne Graham

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2024-04-23

Total Pages: 691

ISBN-13: 0369745345

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Harlequin Presents – May 2024 – Box Set 1 of 2 Title: Harlequin Presents – May 2024 – Box Set 1 of 2 BCC Harlequin Presents brings you four full-length stories in one collection! Experience the glamorous lives of royals and billionaires, where passion knows no bounds. Be swept into a world of luxury, wealth and exotic locations. This box set includes: TWO SECRETS TO SHOCK THE ITALIAN by USA TODAY bestselling author Lynne Graham Discovering she was pregnant with twins changed the course of Scarlett Pearson’s life. Knowing love wasn’t on his agenda, she fled her fling with guarded billionaire Aristide Angelico – her babies deserved more. Aristide can’t forget his blazing chemistry with Scarlett, or that she ended their affair. Reunited two years on, he’s appalled to discover the fire between them still burns. Determined to regain control, Aristide invites her to Italy, only to be floored by Scarlett’s secret twin revelation…and his instant need to claim his family! A WEDDING NEGOTIATION WITH HER BOSS (A Secrets of Billionaires’ Secretaries novel) by USA TODAY bestselling author Cathy Williams It’s tycoon Gabriel’s job to expect the unexpected. But finding himself suddenly attracted to his oh-so-sensible secretary was not on the playboy’s to-do list. Particularly as Gabriel is finalizing a crucial deal. One with a twist: he needs a bride and fast. Used to hiding behind her professional office suits, Helen is completely out of her comfort zone acting the part of devoted fiancée. Especially when their diamond deal is complicated by the heated awareness between her and her infuriatingly handsome boss… ENEMIES AT THE GREEK ALTAR (A The Teras Wedding Challenge novel) by Jackie Ashenden Andromeda Lane will never forgive Poseidon Teras for destroying her family – except he’s just asked for her hand! Knowing all the devastatingly handsome tycoon wants is to secure his inheritance, Andie’s every instinct is to refuse his billion-dollar proposal. But he’s vowing to support her late sister’s charity… Standing at the altar, Poseidon is sure he’s got everything he wants, without any risk. Then their binding kiss as man and wife unleashes an unexpected, dangerous craving! Now, the world’s most legendary playboy realizes the bride who detests him is what he wants most! THE TYCOON’S DIAMOND DEMAND by Joss Wood Self-made CEO Jens Nilson has spent the past decade trying to even the score against the woman who jilted him and her father who almost destroyed him. The best way to do that? Demand Maja Hagen marry him – and leave her the altar. After Maja fled their elopement, she built herself a new life away from her father’s tyranny. She won’t let Jens jeopardize that, even if it means accepting his proposal! But their rekindled desire is already threatening to incinerate her every defense against him… For more stories filled with passion and drama, look for Harlequin Presents May 2024 Box Set – 2 of 2

The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period
The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period

Author: Gunnel Ekroth

Publisher: Presses universitaires de Liège

Published: 2013-05-15

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 2821829000

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This study questions the traditional view of sacrifices in hero-cults during the Archaic to the early Hellenistic periods. The analysis of the epigraphical and literary evidence for sacrifices to heroes in these periods shows, contrary to the traditional notion, that the main ritual in hero-cults was a thysia at which the worshippers consumed the meat from the animal victim. A particular handling of the animal’s blood or a holocaust, rituals previously taken to be typical for heroes, can rarely be documented and must be considered as marginal features in hero-cults. The terms eschara, escharon, bothros, enagizein, enagisma, enagismos and enagisterion, believed to be characteristic for hero-cults, are seldom used in hero-contexts before the Roman period and occur mainly in the Byzantine lexicographers and in the scholia. Since the main kind of sacrifice in hero-cults was a thysia, a ritual intimately connected with the social structure of society, the heroes must have fulfilled the same role as the gods within the Greek religious system. The fact that the heroes were dead seems to have been of little significance for the sacrificial rituals and it is questionable whether the rituals of hero-cults are to be considered as originating in the cult of the dead.

Greek Religion
Greek Religion

Author: Walter Burkert

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 9780674362819

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A survey of the religious beliefs of ancient Greece covers sacrifices, libations, purification, gods, heroes, the priesthood, oracles, festivals, and the afterlife.

Postcolonial Amazons
Postcolonial Amazons

Author: Walter Duvall Penrose Jr.

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-10-20

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 019101950X

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Scholars have long been divided on the question of whether the Amazons of Greek legend actually existed. Notably, Soviet archaeologists' discoveries of the bodies of women warriors in the 1980s appeared to directly contradict western classicists' denial of the veracity of the Amazon myth, and there have been few concessions between the two schools of thought since. Postcolonial Amazons offers a ground-breaking re-evaluation of the place of martial women in the ancient world, bridging the gap between myth and historical reality and expanding our conception of the Amazon archetype. By shifting the center of debate to the periphery of the region known to the Greeks, the startling conclusion emerges that the ancient Athenian conception of women as weak and fearful was not at all typical of the region of that time, even within Greece. Surrounding the Athenians were numerous peoples who held that women could be courageous, able, clever, and daring, suggesting that although Greek stories of Amazons may be exaggerations, they were based upon a real historical understanding of women who fought. While re-examining the sources of the Amazon myth, this compelling volume also resituates the Amazons in the broader context from which they have been extracted, illustrating that although they were the quintessential example of female masculinity in ancient Greek thought, they were not the only instance of this phenomenon: masculine women were masqueraded on the Greek stage, described in the Hippocratic corpus, took part in the struggle to control Alexander the Great's empire after his death, and served as bodyguards in ancient India. Against the backdrop of the ongoing debates surrounding gender norms and fluidity, Postcolonial Amazons breaks new ground as an ancient history of female masculinity and demonstrates that these ideas have a much longer and more durable heritage than we may have supposed.

Murder among Friends
Murder among Friends

Author: Elizabeth S. Belfiore

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2000-01-27

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 019535124X

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Modern scholars have followed Aristotle in noting the importance of philia (kinship or friendship) in Greek tragedy, especially the large number of plots in which kin harm or murder one another. More than half of the thirty-two extant tragedies focus on an act in which harm occurs or is about to occur among philoi who are blood kin. In contrast, Homeric epic tends to avoid the portrayal of harm to kin. It appears, then, that kin killing does not merely occur in what Aristotle calls the "best" Greek tragedies; rather, it is a characteristic of the genre as a whole. In Murder Among Friends, Elizabeth Belfiore supports this thesis with an in-depth examination of the crucial role of philia in Greek tragedy. Drawing on a wealth of evidence, she compares tragedy and epic, discusses the role of philia relationships within Greek literature and society, and analyzes in detail the pattern of violation of philia in five plays: Aeschylus' Suppliants, Sophocles' Philoctetes and Ajax, and Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris and Andromache. Appendixes further document instances of violation of philia in all the extant tragedies as well as in the lost plays of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E.

Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World
Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World

Author: Sarah Hitch

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-08-24

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 110821004X

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This volume brings together studies on Greek animal sacrifice by foremost experts in Greek language, literature and material culture. Readers will benefit from the synthesis of new evidence and approaches with a re-evaluation of twentieth-century theories on sacrifice. The chapters range across the whole of antiquity and go beyond the Greek world to consider possible influences in Hittite Anatolia and Egypt, while an introduction to the burgeoning science of osteo-archaeology is provided. The twentieth-century emphasis on sacrifice as part of the Classical Greek polis system is challenged through consideration of various ancient perspectives on sacrifice as distinct from specific political or even Greek contexts. Many previously unexplored topics are covered, particularly the type of animals sacrificed and the spectrum of sacrificial ritual, from libations to lasting memorials of the ritual in art.