Wright - Ancient History 1

This volume adds to the scholarly interpretive discourses surrounding the Gospel of Mark and argues that the author of Mark attempts to re-construct social identity after the Second Temple’s demise.……続きを見る

Much of the modern way of thinking about history and historiography in fact begins with the great Greek historian Thucydides, an Athenian general in the latter half of the fifth century b.c.e. It is……続きを見る

This book consist of an information for tourist purposes and educational reasons and contents as thus-there were seven wonders of the ancient world which refers to remarkable constructions of classi……続きを見る

In that distant age when Nature was still toiling at the foundations of the Eastern Continent, portions of America had become dry land, and mountain-peaks in North Carolina were illuminated by risin……続きを見る

The Eleusinian Mysteries were a set of religious rituals and initiations that took place in ancient Greece, particularly in the city of Eleusis, in honor of the goddesses Demeter and Persephone. The……続きを見る

The Worship of the Generative Powers by Thomas Wright 続きを見る

The popularity of Stephen Hawking's work has put cosmology back in the public eye. The question of how the universe began, and why it hangs together, still puzzles scientists. Their puzzlement began……続きを見る

Is psychiatry a distinctively modern approach to mental difference and distress, or is it a continuation of ancient Greek ideas – in the realm not only of medicine (consider 'melancholia'), but also……続きを見る

Cerebral subjectivityーthe identification of the individual self with the brainーis a belief that has become firmly entrenched in modern science and popular culture. In The Care of the Brain in Earl……続きを見る

This book considers a range of twentieth-century novelists who practise a creative mode of reading the Bible, exploring aspects of the Book of Genesis which more conventional biblical criticism some……続きを見る

Most Bible atlases only feature maps with very few explanationsーwhich means they show where places are, but they don't explain why they matter. Enjoy having an Atlas that not only includes over 120……続きを見る

This interesting essay by Dudley Wright, The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites, was first published in London in 1919 by the Theosophical Publishing House. As a publisher, I decided to give this book a……続きを見る

This study, by author Allen Wright, offers an entertaining, informative, and fresh interpretation of the Bibles first books, Genesis through Kings II. Part One compares two of the Bibles most famili……続きを見る

This study, by author Allen Wright, offers an entertaining, informative, and fresh interpretation of the Bibles first books, Genesis through Kings II. Part One compares two of the Bibles most famili……続きを見る

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation. The Date of Cylon: A Study in Early Athenian History is a history of the first recorded event of Athen……続きを見る

Combined Arms Warfare in Ancient Greece examines the timelines of military developments that led from the hoplite-based armies of the ancient Greeks to the hugely successful and multi-faceted armies……続きを見る

'Women Healing/ Healing Women' begins with a search for women who were healers in the Graeco-Roman world of the late Hellenistic and early Roman period. Women healers were honoured in inscriptions a……続きを見る

The Imperial Women of Rome explores the constraints and activities of the women who were part of Rome's imperial families from 35 BCE to 235 CE, the Roman principate. Boatwright uses coins, inscript……続きを見る

Aimed at students of classics and of philosophy who would like a taste of the subject before being committed to a full course and at those who have already started and need to find their bearings in……続きを見る