The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the tyranny of Asia : a study of sovereignty in ancient religion / / Mark Henderson Munn |
Autore | Munn Mark Henderson |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley and Los Angeles, Calif., : University of California Press, Ltd., 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (478 p.) |
Disciplina | 292.2/114 |
Collana | The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature |
Soggetto topico |
Despotism - Religious aspects - History of doctrines
Religion and politics - Greece - Athens - History Religion and politics - Lydia (Kingdom) - History Sovereignty - Religious aspects - History of doctrines |
Soggetto non controllato |
ancient greece
aphrodite asia assyria athens babylon chastity classicism classics democracy divinity empire epic poetry feminine divine femininity gender gods and goddesses greek goddesses greek gods greek pantheon hellenism hesiod hesiodic epics homer homeric epics ishtar lydia maternal maternity mother of the gods motherhood myth mythology nonfiction panteon persian empire philosophy phrygia politics purity religion religious cults sacred marriage sexuality tyranny tyrants war western asia |
ISBN |
1-282-35763-8
9786612357633 0-520-93158-0 1-60129-395-X |
Classificazione | 11.15 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Sovereignty and Divinity in Classical Greek Thought -- 2. The Mother of the Gods and the Sovereignty of Midas -- 3. The Mother of the Gods and the Ideals of Lydian Tyranny -- 4. The Mother of the Gods and the Practices of Lydian Tyranny -- 5. Asia, the Oikoumēn;, and the Map of the World -- 6. The Mother of the Gods and Persian Sovereignty -- 7. Persian Sovereignty and the Gods of the Athenians -- 8. Herodotus and the Gods -- 9. The Mother of the Gods at Athens -- Bibliography -- General index -- Index of select Greek terms -- Index locorum |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810640403321 |
Munn Mark Henderson
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Playing the farmer [[electronic resource] ] : representations of rural life in Vergil's Georgics / / Philip Thibodeau |
Autore | Thibodeau Philip (Philip J.), <1970-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
Disciplina | 871/.01 |
Collana | Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature |
Soggetto topico |
Agriculture in literature
Didactic poetry, Latin - History and criticism Epic poetry, Classical - History and criticism Allusions |
Soggetto non controllato |
aeneid
ancient and classic poetry ancient orators ancient roman poets ancient rome literature ancient rome poems bucolic stories classical poems discussion books epic poems epic poetry epics and sagas epics european literature farm life high school english class homer illiad imperial rome latin poems latin translations literary classics literary criticism literary literature majors literature professors odyssey poets roman agronomists roman orators roman philosophers roman poets |
ISBN |
1-283-27848-0
9786613278487 0-520-95025-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Agricolae -- Playing the farmer -- Nobility in rustication -- A protreptic to agronomy -- To enchant readers -- The reception of the Georgics in early Imperial Rome -- Appendix 1. Vergil's economic status -- Appendix 2. Early readership of The georgics. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781220803321 |
Thibodeau Philip (Philip J.), <1970->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 | ||
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Playing the farmer [[electronic resource] ] : representations of rural life in Vergil's Georgics / / Philip Thibodeau |
Autore | Thibodeau Philip (Philip J.), <1970-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
Disciplina | 871/.01 |
Collana | Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature |
Soggetto topico |
Agriculture in literature
Didactic poetry, Latin - History and criticism Epic poetry, Classical - History and criticism Allusions |
Soggetto non controllato |
aeneid
ancient and classic poetry ancient orators ancient roman poets ancient rome literature ancient rome poems bucolic stories classical poems discussion books epic poems epic poetry epics and sagas epics european literature farm life high school english class homer illiad imperial rome latin poems latin translations literary classics literary criticism literary literature majors literature professors odyssey poets roman agronomists roman orators roman philosophers roman poets |
ISBN |
1-283-27848-0
9786613278487 0-520-95025-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Agricolae -- Playing the farmer -- Nobility in rustication -- A protreptic to agronomy -- To enchant readers -- The reception of the Georgics in early Imperial Rome -- Appendix 1. Vergil's economic status -- Appendix 2. Early readership of The georgics. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818581103321 |
Thibodeau Philip (Philip J.), <1970->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 | ||
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Reading John Milton : how to persist in troubled times / / Stephen B. Dobranski |
Autore | Dobranski Stephen B. |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Stanford, CA : , : Stanford University Press, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | xxiii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Disciplina | 821/.4 |
Soggetto topico | Poets, English - Early modern, 1500-1700 |
Soggetto non controllato |
British civil wars
Charles I. John Milton Oliver Cromwell Paradise Lost early modern England epic poetry free will grit (or resilience) seventeenth century |
ISBN |
9781503633308
1-5036-3330-6 9781503632707 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- The power of language : "These defenseless doors" -- Personal loss : "Weep no more" -- Combating injustice : "Need not Kings to make them happy" -- Physical suffering : "Only stand and wait" -- Free speech : "Precious lifeblood" -- Arrogance : "Pride and worse ambition" -- Forgiveness : "Hand in hand with wand'ring steps" -- Resisting temptation : "He who reigns within himself" -- Doubt : "Strenuous liberty" -- Surviving disaster : "By small / Accomplishing great things" -- Epilogue. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795765903321 |
Dobranski Stephen B.
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Stanford, CA : , : Stanford University Press, , [2022] | ||
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Reading John Milton : how to persist in troubled times / / Stephen B. Dobranski |
Autore | Dobranski Stephen B. |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Stanford, CA : , : Stanford University Press, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | xxiii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Disciplina | 821/.4 |
Soggetto topico | Poets, English - Early modern, 1500-1700 |
Soggetto non controllato |
British civil wars
Charles I. John Milton Oliver Cromwell Paradise Lost early modern England epic poetry free will grit (or resilience) seventeenth century |
ISBN |
9781503633308
1-5036-3330-6 9781503632707 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- The power of language : "These defenseless doors" -- Personal loss : "Weep no more" -- Combating injustice : "Need not Kings to make them happy" -- Physical suffering : "Only stand and wait" -- Free speech : "Precious lifeblood" -- Arrogance : "Pride and worse ambition" -- Forgiveness : "Hand in hand with wand'ring steps" -- Resisting temptation : "He who reigns within himself" -- Doubt : "Strenuous liberty" -- Surviving disaster : "By small / Accomplishing great things" -- Epilogue. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910829071903321 |
Dobranski Stephen B.
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Stanford, CA : , : Stanford University Press, , [2022] | ||
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Warrior dreams : Playing Scotsmen in mainland Europe / / David Hesse |
Autore | Hesse David |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
Disciplina | 941.1 |
Soggetto topico |
Schotten
Kulturelle Identität Brauchtum Scots - Europe - Ethnic identity Scots - Europe - Social life and customs Scots - Europe - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
American popular culture
British Empire European Romanticism Highland regiments Highlandism Hollywood films Scottish dreams athletes commemorators epic poetry historical re-enactors music hall entertainment musicians romance novels twenty-first-century Scottish play-acting |
ISBN |
1-84779-916-7
1-84779-917-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover ; Warrior dreams; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the Scots of Europe; 1 Context: playing the past; 2 The Scottish dreamscape: formation; 3 The Scottish dreamscape: spread; 4 Marching Scots: pipe bands; 5 Only the strong: Highland Games; 6 Our Scottish past: commemorations; 7 Régiments du passé: re-enactment; 8 Homecomings: finding neverland; 9 Who's like us? Scotland as a site of memory; Conclusion: warrior dreams; Appendix A: Tables; Appendix B: Sample questionnaire; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797712903321 |
Hesse David
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Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2014 | ||
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Warrior dreams : Playing Scotsmen in mainland Europe / / David Hesse |
Autore | Hesse David |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
Disciplina | 941.1 |
Soggetto topico |
Schotten
Kulturelle Identität Brauchtum Scots - Europe - Ethnic identity Scots - Europe - Social life and customs Scots - Europe - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
American popular culture
British Empire European Romanticism Highland regiments Highlandism Hollywood films Scottish dreams athletes commemorators epic poetry historical re-enactors music hall entertainment musicians romance novels twenty-first-century Scottish play-acting |
ISBN |
1-84779-916-7
1-84779-917-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover ; Warrior dreams; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the Scots of Europe; 1 Context: playing the past; 2 The Scottish dreamscape: formation; 3 The Scottish dreamscape: spread; 4 Marching Scots: pipe bands; 5 Only the strong: Highland Games; 6 Our Scottish past: commemorations; 7 Régiments du passé: re-enactment; 8 Homecomings: finding neverland; 9 Who's like us? Scotland as a site of memory; Conclusion: warrior dreams; Appendix A: Tables; Appendix B: Sample questionnaire; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811219603321 |
Hesse David
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Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2014 | ||
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‘Fágote de tanto sabidor’. La construcción del motivo profético en la literatura medieval hispánica (siglos XIII-XV) / / Pénélope Cartelet |
Autore | Cartelet Pénélope |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Paris, : e-Spania Books, 2016 |
Soggetto topico |
Arts & Humanities
Literature, Romance Profecía Biblia Merlín épica Libro de caballerías Poema de mio Cid Mocedades de Rodrigo Poema de Fernán González Crónica de Castilla Alfonso X Libro del caballero Zifar Poema de Alfonso XI Rodrigo Yáñez Gran Crónica de Alfonso XI Crónica del rey don Pedro Pero López de Ayala Cancionero de Baena Baladro del Sabio Merlín Bible Merlin épopée estoria de España littérature arthurienne Alphonse X prophétie Arthurian Literature Chivalric Romance epic poetry hagiography historiography |
Soggetto non controllato |
epic poetry
Alfonso X Bible Pero López de Ayala Baladro del Sabio Merlín historiography Gran Crónica de Alfonso XI Cancionero de Baena Mocedades de Rodrigo Poema de Fernán González Arthurian Literature hagiography Rodrigo Yáñez Poema de Alfonso XI Libro del caballero Zifar Chivalric Romance Merlin Crónica del rey don Pedro |
ISBN | 2-919448-11-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | spa |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910353335703321 |
Cartelet Pénélope
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Paris, : e-Spania Books, 2016 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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