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Homer's hero: human excellence in the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Publication Type: Review
Source(s): Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries; May2020, Vol. 57 Issue 9, p974-974, 16p
Abstract: A review of the book "Homer's Hero: Human Excellence in the Iliad and the Odyssey," by Michelle M. Kundmueller, is presented.
Homer's Hero: Human Excellence in the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey".
Publication Type: Review
Source(s): Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy. Summer2020, Vol. 46 Issue 3, p607-611. 5p.
Late Sophocles : The Hero’s Evolution in Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: Only a few plays by Sophocles—one of the great tragic playwrights from Classical Athens—have survived, and each of them dramatizes events from the rich store of myths that framed literature and art. Sophocles'treatment evokes issues that were vividly c...
Socrates, or on Human Knowledge : Bilingual Edition
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: Socrates, Or On Human Knowledge, published in Venice in 1651, is the only work written by a Jew that contains so far the promise of a genuinely sceptical investigation into the validity of human certainties. Simone Luzzatto masterly developed this book...
Visualizing the Invisible with the Human Body : Physiognomy and Ekphrasis in the Ancient World
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: Physiognomy and ekphrasis are two of the most important modes of description in antiquity and represent the necessary precursors of scientific description. The primary way of divining the characteristics and fate of an individual, whether inborn or acq...
Dogs, Past and Present : An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: Dogs, Past and Present: An Interdisciplinary Perspective gathers contributions from scholars from a variety of disciplines to provide a comprehensive assessment of the importance of dogs through history. Over the last decades, countless studies have ex...
Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean : Spaces, Mobilities, Imaginaries
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: Ancient religions are definitely complex systems of gods, which resist our understanding. Divine names provide fundamental keys to gain access to the multiples ways gods were conceived, characterized, and organized. Among the names given to the gods ma...
Animal Kingdom of Heaven : Anthropozoological Aspects in the Late Antique World
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: Zu den Forschungstrends der jüngeren Vergangenheit zählt ohne Zweifel die kulturwissenschaftliche Untersuchung von Tier-Mensch-Beziehungen, doch werden Ansätze aus den Human-Animal Studies (HAS) in den Altertumswissenschaften – und hier insbesondere fü...
- Animals in art
- Animals and civilization--History--To 1500
- Animals--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600
- Animals--Symbolic aspects
- Human-animal relationships--Religious aspects
- Christian art and symbolism--To 500--Themes, motives
- Christian art and symbolism--Medieval, 500-1500--Themes, motives
- Art, Ancient--Themes, motives
- Art, Medieval--Themes, motives
The Last Man Who Knew Everything : Thomas Young
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: No one has given the polymath Thomas Young (1773–1829) the all-round examination he so richly deserves—until now. Celebrated biographer Andrew Robinson portrays a man who solved mystery after mystery in the face of ridicule and rejection, and never sou...
- Discoveries in science--Great Britain--History--18th century
- Science--Great Britain--History--19th century
- Physicians
- Discoveries in science--Great Britain--History--19th century
- Physicians--Great Britain--Biography
- Scientists--Great Britain--Biography
- Science--Great Britain--History--18th century
- Linguists--Great Britain--Biography
Emotions Across Cultures : Ancient China and Greece
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: It is now recognized that emotions have a history. In this book, eleven scholars examine a variety of emotions in ancient China and classical Greece, in their historical and social context. A general introduction presents the major issues in the analys...