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Author : Sotheby's Hong Kong, Ltd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:978275056
Author : Matthew P. Martyniuk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0988596520
Author : Sarah Béthune,Paolo Tomassini
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Louvain
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 2390611036
Not satisfied with what nature offered, human beings wanted to go beyond reality and invented mysterious and intriguing creatures populating their world. During Antiquity, every culture had its own strange creatures, that mixed the forms of one or more animal, plant and human species in an infinite number of more-or-less fanciful combinations. Griffins, sphinxes, mermaids, centaurs, satyrs, pygmies, werewolves, winged monsters and unspeakable hybrids, fantastic beasts abound in the imagination of many populations throughout Antiquity. Most of them continue to live, sometimes transformed, through fairy tales, literature, movies and videogames. Faced with the abundance and variety of the ancient fantastic bestiary, the questions that come to mind are: Where do fantastic beasts come from? How do they appear in different cultures? What is their history, how did they survive until now? And above all, what are fantastic beasts? This book will explore these questions through the lens of archaeology, art history, philology and philosophy. The result is a hybrid book, precisely like the fantastic animals that constitute its object, a book which offers different approaches of analysis while being aware that our means are often vain to capture these elusive figures, which ultimately are more like us than they seem. Man, like Oedipus, will often prove to be more monstrous than the Sphinx...
Author : Matthew P. Martyniuk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0988596555
Beasts of Antiquity explores our ever-changing views about the animals of the prehistoric world - how they were related, how they looked, and how they lived. Stem-Birds In the Solnhofen Limestone details the fossil bird-line archosaur species known the Solnhofen Archipelago of Bavaria. From their history of princes, duchesses, and conquring armies, to the diversity of these spectaculrly preserved fossils, Stem-Birds In the Solnhofen Limestone brings the world of these ancient creatures to life. Featuring full-color illustrations of each species as well as photographs and historical reproductions, Stem-Birds In the Solnhofen Limestone offers a complete summary of the history, geology, and state-of-the-art paleontology of the bird lineage in one spectacular Jurassic ecosystem.
Author : John F. Cherry,John Cherry
Publisher : Pomegranate Communications
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015038545151
Born of the imagination, mythical beasts are the subjects of myriad myths, legends, and stories and have been reproduced in art forms ranging from ancient tapestries to modern corporate logos. This richly illustrated book draws on a wide variety of sources to illuminate the roles mythical beasts -- especially the dragon, the unicorn, the griffin, and the sphinx -- have played in many different cultures, showing why they have retained their appeal through the ages. An invaluable resource. -- The Classical Outlook An exciting contribution to any folklore and mythological studies collection. -- Wisconsin Bookwatch
Author : Katarzyna Marciniak
Publisher : Universitatsverlag Winter
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3825369951
Classical Antiquity is strongly present in youth culture globally. It accompanies children during their initiation into adulthood and thereby deepens their knowledge of the cultural code based on the Greek and Roman heritage. It enables intergenerational communication, with the reception of the Classics being able to serve as a marker of transformations underway in societies the world over. 0The team of contributors from Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand focusses on the reception of mythical creatures as the key to these transformations, including the changes in human mentality. The volume gathers the results of a project supported by an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Alumni Award for Innovative Networking Initiatives. Thanks to the multidisciplinary character of its research (Classics, Modern Philologies, Animal Studies) and to the universal importance of the theme of childhood, the volume offers stimulating reading for scholars, students, and educators, as well for a wider audience.
Author : Matthew P. Martyniuk
Publisher : Pan Aves
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780988596504
A field guide to mesozoic birds and other winged dinosaurs is a comprehensive guide to the diverse species comprising the evolutionary transition from the first dinosaurs with true, feathered wings in the mid-Jurassic period, 160 million years ago, to the late Cretaceous period and the first modern birds [...]. --from publisher.
Author : Sian Lewis,Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 771 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351782494
The Culture of Animals in Antiquity provides students and researchers with well-chosen and clearly presented ancient sources in translation, some well-known, others undoubtedly unfamiliar, but all central to a key area of study in ancient history: the part played by animals in the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean. It brings new ideas to bear on the wealth of evidence – literary, historical and archaeological – which we possess for the experiences and roles of animals in the ancient world. Offering a broad picture of ancient cultures in the Mediterranean as part of a wider ecosystem, the volume is on an ambitious scale. It covers a broad span of time, from the sacred animals of dynastic Egypt to the imagery of the lamb in early Christianity, and of region, from the fallow deer introduced and bred in Roman Britain to the Asiatic lioness and her cubs brought as a gift by the Elamites to the Great King of Persia. This sourcebook is essential for anyone wishing to understand the role of animals in the ancient world and support learning for one of the fastest growing disciplines in Classics.
Author : Gerald Peters Gallery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X004585444
Author : Francesco Mezzalira,Guglielmo Cavallo,Danilo Mainardi
Publisher : Allemandi
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015051566696
With essays by Guglielmo Cavello and Danilo Mainardi. Bizarre
Author : James Foster Wadmore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Guilds
ISBN : UIUC:30112070581563
Author : Daniel N. Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015037846055
Daniel Robinson, a distinguished historian of psychology, has pored over centuries of written law, statements by legal commentators, summaries of crimes, and punishments, to glean from these sources an understanding of epochal views of responsibility and competence. From the Greek phrenesis to the Roman notions of furiosus and non compos mentis, from the seventeenth-century witch trials to today's interpretation of mens rea, Robinson takes us through the intricate history of how the insanity defense has been construed as a meeting point of the law and those professions that chart human behavior and conduct, namely, religion, medicine, and psychology. The result is a rare historical account of "insanity" within western civilization.
Author : Willene B. Clark,Meradith T. McMunn
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781512805512
The medieval bestiary, or moralized book of beasts, has enjoyed immense popularity over the centuries and it continues to influence both literature and art. This collection of essays aims to demonstrate the scope and variety of bestiary studies and the ways in which the medieval bestiary can be addressed. The contributors write about the tradition of one of the bestiary's birds, Parisian production of the manuscripts, bestiary animals in a liturgical book, theological as well as secular interpretations of beasts, bestiary creatures in literature, and new perspectives on the bestiary in other genres.
Author : John F. Cherry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000048141125
The work is based entirely on examples of animals depicted in a wide range of objects within the British Museum's collections.
Author : Frederick Guest Tomlins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : History, Ancient
ISBN : UVA:X004614113
