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Demeter's Tablet

Author : Ines Johnson

Publisher : Those Johnson Girls

Page : 334 pages

File Size : 16,40 MB

Release : 2020-08-30

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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The love of my life has betrayed me. A past love I forgot has returned. And they both want me back. So, what do I do? Run off to solve a brand-new ancient mystery, of course! Nia Rivers knows better than anyone that immortality comes at a terrible cost. After all, she’s lost entire centuries—and a past relationship—from her memory. So when she hears the Greek gods have found a way to give eternal life to mortals, she heads to Athens to investigate the rumors of a cult of Demeter. What she finds are clues that suggest her own past is entwined in the rituals. Now, with the help of her bestie Loren, Nia must once again unearth the truth. Are the Olympians the villains of this chapter in history or the benevolent benefactors they claim to be? Her anguish over Zane’s betrayal and her conflicting feelings for Tres prove a painful distraction. But if Nia can't get her head in the game, the Titans will rise again, and the souls of all humans on Earth will be at risk… And that’s a little more important than Nia’s love life. For now, at least. Get this hot urban fantasy featuring spine-tingling adventure, twists on historical mysteries, and thrilling romance, where Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones—and they live forever!



The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore

Author : Ronald S. Stroud

Publisher : American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Page : 209 pages

File Size : 28,57 MB

Release : 2013-09-30

Category : History

ISBN : 1621390136

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Excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore on Acrocorinth, 1961-1975, produced more than 170 inscribed objects of stone, bronze, bone, lead weights, pottery (graffiti and dipinti), clay pinakes, magical lead tablets, and in a mosaic. In this new Corinth volume, Ron Stroud presents all of these inscriptions, and he relates them to an overall interpretation of the activities, secular and religious, attested in this shrine during its long period of use from the 7th century B.C. until the end of the 4th century A.D. Where possible, Stroud also draws out their implications for and contribution to the history of ancient Corinth, the worship of the goddesses Demeter and Kore, and the practice of magic-especially in the Roman period. This is the final publication of the inscribed objects from the sanctuary, excluding loomweights and stamped amphora handles, which will be included in a later publication.



The 'Orphic' Gold Tablets and Greek Religion

Author : Radcliffe G. Edmonds

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 397 pages

File Size : 40,49 MB

Release : 2011-01-06

Category : History

ISBN : 0521518318

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Examines new methodologies used in the study of these tablets. Includes an updated edition and translation of the tablet texts.



Demeter and Persephone in Ancient Corinth

Author : Nancy Bookidis

Publisher : ASCSA

Page : 36 pages

File Size : 23,10 MB

Release : 1987

Category : History

ISBN : 9780876616710

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When the Roman tourist Pausanias visited Corinth around A.D. 160, he saw many shrines and buildings high up to the south of the city, on the slopes of Acrocorinth. This booklet describes excavations at one of these, the Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone (Kore). The details of religious rites revealed are of particular interest since the cult of the two goddesses, also celebrated at Eleusis, is one of the most mysterious in antiquity, and no literary testimony exists to explain what may have happened behind the high walls. Terracotta dolls, ritual meals of pork, and miniature models of food-filled platters hint at a vigorous religious tradition associated with human and agricultural fertility.



Demeter and Persephone

Author : Tamara Agha-Jaffar

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 224 pages

File Size : 49,80 MB

Release : 2002-09-12

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9780786413430

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The classical Greek myth of Demeter and her daughter Persephone as told in Homer's Hymn to Demeter has been used most often to explain the cycle of the seasons. However, a closer examination will reveal insights on living and dying, loss and reconciliation, and suffering and healing. This work demostrates the continued importance and relevance of the myth of Demeter and Persephone to today's society. The first three chapters provide a summary of the Homeric story and examine the myth from the perspectives of the mother and daughter. The following chapters discuss the symbolism of critical objects, the role of female mentoring, the role of Hades and the meaning of the underworld, the subject of rape, and the masculinist perspective presented by Zeus and Helios, and derive lessons useful for healing and knowledge. The Hymn to Demeter as translated by Helene Foley is included as an appendix in order to provide a basis for the discussion in the text. Notes and a bibliography also follow the text.



Archaeology and the Letters of Paul

Author : Laura Salah Nasrallah

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 329 pages

File Size : 24,15 MB

Release : 2019

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0199699674

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This study illuminates the social, political, economic, and religious lives of those to whom the apostle Paul wrote. It articulates a method for bringing together biblical texts with archaeological remains.



Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World

Author : John G. Gager

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 295 pages

File Size : 32,97 MB

Release : 1999-10-28

Category : History

ISBN : 0199881189

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In the ancient Greco-Roman world, it was common practice to curse or bind an enemy or rival by writing an incantation on a tablet and dedicating it to a god or spirit. These curses or binding spells, commonly called defixiones were intended to bring other people under the power and control of those who commissioned them. More than a thousand such texts, written between the 5th Century B.C.E. and the 5th Century C.E., have been discovered from North Africa to England, and from Syria to Spain. Extending into every aspect of ancient life--athletic and theatrical competitions, judicial proceedings, love affairs, business rivalries, and the recovery of stolen property--they shed light on a new dimension of classical study previously inaccessible. Here, for the first time, these texts have been translated into English with a substantial translator's introduction revealing the cultural, social, and historical context for the texts. This book will interest historians, classicists, scholars of religion, and those concerned with ancient magic.



The Local Horizon of Ancient Greek Religion

Author : Hans Beck

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 407 pages

File Size : 47,21 MB

Release : 2023-03-31

Category : History

ISBN : 1009301837

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Which dimensions of the religious experience of the ancient Greeks become tangible only if we foreground its local horizons? This book explores the manifold ways in which Greek religious beliefs and practices are encoded in and communicate with various local environments. Its individual chapters explore 'the local' in its different forms and formulations. Besides the polis perspective, they include numerous other places and locations above and below the polis-level as well as those fully or largely independent of the city-state. Overall, the local emerges as a relational concept that changes together with our understanding of the general or universal forces as they shape ancient Greek religion. The unity and diversity of ancient Greek religion becomes tangible in the manifold ways in which localizing and generalizing forces interact with each other at different times and in different places across the ancient Greek world.



Gods, Objects, and Ritual Practice

Author : Sandra Blakely

Publisher : Lockwood Press

Page : 371 pages

File Size : 37,34 MB

Release : 2017-07-01

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1937040801

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Conversations about materiality have helped forge a common meeting ground for scholars seeking to integrate images, sites, texts and implements in their approach to religion in the ancient Mediterranean. The thirteen chapters in this volume explore the productivity of these approaches, with case studies from Israel, Athens, Rome, Sicily and North Africa. The results foreground the capacity of material approaches to cast light on the cultural creation of the sacred through the integration of rhetorical, material, and iconographic means. They open more nuanced pathways to the uses of text in the study of material evidence. They highlight the potential for material objects to bring political and ethnic boundaries into the sacred realm. And they emphasize the role of ongoing interpretation, debate, and multiple readings in the creation of the sacred, in both ancient contexts and scholarly discussion.



Religion and Reconciliation in Greek Cities

Author : Noel Robertson

Publisher : OUP USA

Page : 427 pages

File Size : 17,5 MB

Release : 2010-08-05

Category : History

ISBN : 0195394003

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The lex sacra of Selinus and of Cyrene are the only two inscribed religious calendars to survive from ancient Greece. These documents are fundamental to understanding Greek religious practice on the civic and personal level, but they have never been studied in conjunction with one another before. Religion and Reconciliation in Greek Cities provides a new edited text with translation, commentary, and interpretive essays on these documents.