Demeter S Tablet

Author : Ines Johnson
Publisher : Those Johnson Girls
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Demeter's Tablet by Ines Johnson Pdf

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!

Author : Jasmine Walt,Ines Johnson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Cults
ISBN : 1973747111

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Demeter's Tablet by Jasmine Walt,Ines Johnson Pdf

Nia and Loren go head-to-head with Ancient Greek gods in the next installment of this epic urban fantasy adventure series... Nia Rivers knows that immortality comes at a cost. So when she finds out that the Greek gods have devised a way to offer everlasting life to humans, she heads down to Athens to find out more about the mysterious cult of Demeter. What she doesn't expect to learn about is her own involvement in the rituals. With her bestie, Loren, by her side, Nia must determine if the Olympians are the righteous gods they proclaim to be, or the villians in this chapter of history. The broken heart she's still nursing from Zane's betrayal, and the conflicting feelings she has for Tres, aren't helping. 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...

Author : Ronald S. Stroud
Publisher : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781621390138

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The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore by Ronald S. Stroud Pdf

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.

Author : Nancy Bookidis,Ronald S. Stroud
Publisher : ASCSA
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0876616716

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Demeter and Persephone in Ancient Corinth by Nancy Bookidis,Ronald S. Stroud Pdf

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.

Author : Noel Robertson
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195394009

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Religion and Reconciliation in Greek Cities by Noel Robertson Pdf

A lead tablet found at Selinus, and a block of marble from Cyrene, are both inscribed with 'sacred laws' from their city of origin. There has been fierce scholarly debate over how to read and interpret each one, and Noel Robertson advances a new analysis of each.

Author : Jill E. Marshall
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161555031

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Women Praying and Prophesying in Corinth by Jill E. Marshall Pdf

In First Corinthians, Paul makes two conflicting statements about women's speech: He crafts a difficult argument about whether men and women should cover their heads while praying or prophesying (11:2-16) and instructs women to be silent in the assembly (14:34-35). These two statements bracket an extended discussion about inspired modes of speech - prophecy and prayer in tongues. From these exegetical observations, Jill E. Marshall argues that gender is a central issue throughout 1 Corinthians 11-14 and the religious speaking practices that prompted Paul's response. She situates Paul's arguments about prayer and prophecy within their ancient Mediterranean cultural context, using literary and archaeological evidence, and examines the differences in how ancient writers described prophetic speech when voiced by a man or a woman.

Author : Laura Salah Nasrallah
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199699674

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Archaeology and the Letters of Paul by Laura Salah Nasrallah Pdf

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.

Author : Hans Beck,Julia Kindt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009301831

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The Local Horizon of Ancient Greek Religion by Hans Beck,Julia Kindt Pdf

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.

Author : Radcliffe G. Edmonds,Radcliffe G. Edmonds (III)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521518314

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The 'Orphic' Gold Tablets and Greek Religion by Radcliffe G. Edmonds,Radcliffe G. Edmonds (III) Pdf

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

Author : John G. Gager
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199881185

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Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World by John G. Gager Pdf

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.

Author : Matthew Dillon,Esther Eidinow,Lisa Maurizio
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134780525

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Women's Ritual Competence in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean by Matthew Dillon,Esther Eidinow,Lisa Maurizio Pdf

Contributions in this volume demonstrate how, across the ancient Mediterranean and over hundreds of years, women’s rituals intersected with the political, economic, cultural, or religious spheres of their communities in a way that has only recently started to gain sustained academic attention. The volume aims to tease out a number of different approaches and contexts, and to expand existing studies of women in the ancient world as well as scholarship on religious and social history. The contributors face a famously difficult task: ancient authors rarely recorded aspects of women’s lives, including their songs, prophecies, and prayers. Many of the objects women made and used in ritual were perishable and have not survived; certain kinds of ritual objects (lowly undecorated pots, for example) tend not even to be recorded in archaeological reports. However, the broad range of contributions in this volume demonstrates the multiplicity of materials that can be used as evidence – including inscriptions, textiles, ceramics, figurative art, and written sources – and the range of methodologies that can be used, from analysis of texts, images, and material evidence to cognitive and comparative approaches.

Author : Sandra Blakely
Publisher : Lockwood Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781937040802

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Gods, Objects, and Ritual Practice by Sandra Blakely Pdf

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.

Author : Gloria S. Merker,Nancy Bookidis
Publisher : ASCSA
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780876611838

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The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore by Gloria S. Merker,Nancy Bookidis Pdf

Author : Richard Clark Kroeger,Catherine Clark Kroeger
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441206183

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I Suffer Not a Woman by Richard Clark Kroeger,Catherine Clark Kroeger Pdf

Solid scriptural and archaeological evidence refutes the traditional interpretation used to bar women from leadership.

Author : Christopher A. Faraone
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812249354

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The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times by Christopher A. Faraone Pdf

Featuring more than 120 illustrations, The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times is an essential reference for those interested in the religion, culture, and history of the ancient Mediterranean.