Gods Above

Author : Peter David
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743480154

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Star Trek: New Frontier: Gods Above by Peter David Pdf

Captain Mackenzie Calhoun has often been accused of playing God, but he has never faced off against real gods—until now. As Captain Kirk did before him, Calhoun has encountered beings of unnatural power and abilities verging on godhood, and who claim to be the very individuals who inspired the Greek, Roman, Norse, and, other pantheons from Earth culture. These beings say that all they want is our worship, and in return for it will provide us with a peaceful galaxy-wide paradise of perfect health and endless pleasure. When the Federation, in the person of Captain Calhoun and the crew of the U.S.S. Excalibur, refused their offer, the resulting battle left Morgan Primus dead and Lieutenant Mark McHenry, whose own powers over time and space had proved to be substantial, in a limbo beyond death. Now, with a wounded ship and an injured crew, Captain Calhoun, along with Captain Shelby and the crew of the Trident, must face these god-like beings once again, with the fate of galactic civilization at stake.

Author : Lord Dunsany
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781775459682

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Time and the Gods by Lord Dunsany Pdf

Fall into a beguiling fantasy world in Time and the Gods, a collection of magical short stories from writer Lord Dunsany, whom many critics regard as a central figure in the early development of the fantasy genre. This interlinked series of tales will please fantasy fans who prefer a more literary, lyrical style.

Author : W. Sheldon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1816
Category : Mythology, Classical
ISBN : UGA:32108023530473

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History of the Heathen Gods, and Heroes of Antiquity by W. Sheldon Pdf

Author : Samuel BOYSE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1792
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022925039

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The New Pantheon. The Pantheon: or, Fabulous history of the heathen gods, goddesses, heroes, &c., ... With an appendix, treating of their astrology, prodigies ... &c. ... By William Cooke ... The seventh edition. To which is now first added, a further illustration of the Dii Majores of the Romans, etc. With plates by Samuel BOYSE Pdf

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : COLUMBIA:50232606

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The City of God by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Pdf

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1S4A

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The Twelve books of the Aeneid by Virgil Pdf

Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca,Julius Caesar,Boethius,Horace,Plutarch,Apuleius,Virgil,Persius,Terence,Ammianus Marcellinus,Sallust,Juvenal,Lucan,Suetonius,Tibullus,Tacitus,Petronius,Cornelius Nepos,Lucretius,Martial,Catullus,Cicero,Claudian,Pliny the Younger,Saint Augustine of Hippo,Plautus,Ennius,Propertius,The Metamorphoses,Augustus,Quintilian
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 5587 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : EAN:8596547734574

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Yale Required Reading - Collected Works (Vol. 2) by Lucius Annaeus Seneca,Julius Caesar,Boethius,Horace,Plutarch,Apuleius,Virgil,Persius,Terence,Ammianus Marcellinus,Sallust,Juvenal,Lucan,Suetonius,Tibullus,Tacitus,Petronius,Cornelius Nepos,Lucretius,Martial,Catullus,Cicero,Claudian,Pliny the Younger,Saint Augustine of Hippo,Plautus,Ennius,Propertius,The Metamorphoses,Augustus,Quintilian Pdf

This collection is based on the required reading list of Yale Department of Classics. Originally designed for students, this anthology is meant for everyone eager to know more about the history and literature of this period, interested in poetry, philosophy and rhetoric of Ancient Rome. Latin literature is a natural successor of Ancient Greek literature. The beginning of Classic Roman literature dates to 240 BC. From that point on, Latin literature would flourish for the next six centuries. Latin was the language of the ancient Romans, but it was also the lingua franca of Western Europe throughout the Middle Ages. Consequently, Latin Literature outlived the Roman Empire and it included European writers who followed the fall of the Empire, from religious writers like Aquinas, to secular writers like Francis Bacon, Baruch Spinoza, and Isaac Newton. This collection presents all the major Classic Roman authors, including Cicero, Virgil, Ovid and Horace whose work intrigues and fascinates readers until this day. Content: Plautus: Aulularia Amphitryon Terence: Adelphoe Ennius: Annales Catullus: Poems and Fragments Lucretius: On the Nature of Things Julius Caesar: The Civil War Sallust: History of Catiline's Conspiracy Cicero: De Oratore Brutus Horace: The Odes The Epodes The Satires The Epistles The Art of Poetry Virgil: The Aeneid The Georgics Tibullus: Elegies Propertius: Elegies Cornelius Nepos: Lives of Eminent Commanders Ovid: The Metamorphoses Augustus: Res Gestae Divi Augusti Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Moral Letters to Lucilius Lucan: On the Civil War Persius: Satires Petronius: Satyricon Martial: Epigrams Pliny the Younger: Letters Tacitus: The Annals Quintilian: Institutio Oratoria Juvenal: Satires Suetonius: The Twelve Caesars Apuleius: The Metamorphoses Ammianus Marcellinus: The Roman History Saint Augustine of Hippo: The Confessions Claudian: Against Eutropius Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy Plutarch: The Rise and Fall of Roman Supremacy: Romulus Poplicola Camillus Marcus Cato Lucullus Fabius Crassus Coriolanus Cato the Younger Cicero

Author : Jaime Alvar Ezquerra
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004132931

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Romanising Oriental Gods by Jaime Alvar Ezquerra Pdf

The traditional grand narrative correlating the decline of Graeco-Roman religion with the rise of Christianity has been under pressure for three decades. This book argues that the alternative accounts now emerging significantly underestimate the role of three major cults, of Cybele and Attis, Isis and Serapis, and Mithras. Although their differences are plain, these cults present sufficient common features to justify their being taken typologically as a group. All were selective adaptations of much older cults of the Fertile Crescent. It was their relative sophistication, their combination of the imaginative power of unfamiliar myth with distinctive ritual performance and ethical seriousness, that enabled them both to focus and to articulate a sense of the autonomy of religion from the socio-political order, a sense they shared with Early Christianity. The notion of 'mystery' was central to their ability to navigate the Weberian shift from ritualist to ethical salvation.

Author : Groningen Work Group for the Study of the History of Religions
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9027934606

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Struggles of Gods by Groningen Work Group for the Study of the History of Religions Pdf

Since its founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.

Author : H.L. Mencken
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307830920

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Treatise on the Gods by H.L. Mencken Pdf

"I am quite convinced that all religions, at bottom, are pretty much alike. On the surface they may seem to differ greatly, but what appears on the surface is not always religion. Go beneath it, and one finds invariably the same sense of helplessness before the cosmic mysteries, and the same pathetic attempt to resolve it by appealing to higher powers."--from Treatise on the Gods H. L. Mencken is perhaps best known for his scathing political satire. But politicians, as far as Mencken was concerned, had no monopoly on self-righteous chest-thumping, deceit, and thievery. He also found religion to be an adversary worthy of his attention and, in Treatise on the Gods, he offers some of his best shots, a choreographed cannonade. Mencken examines religion everywhere, from India to Peru, from the myths of Egypt to the traditional beliefs of America's Bible Belt. He compares Incas and Greeks, examines doctrines, dogmas, sacred texts, heresies, and ceremonies. He ranges far and wide, but returns at last to the subject that most provokes him: Christianity. He reviews the history of the Church and its founders. "It is Tertullian who is credited with the motto, Credo, quia absurdum est: I believe because it is incredible. Needless to say, he began life as a lawyer." Mencken is no less interested in the dissidents: "The Reformers were men of courage, but not many of them were intelligent." Against the old-time religion of fellow countrymen, Mencken posed as a figure of old-time skepticism, and he reaped the whirlwind. Controversial even before it was published in 1930, Treatise on the Gods remains what its author wished it to be: the plain, clear challenge of honest doubt.

Author : William Guthrie
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1971-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807057932

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Greeks and Their Gods by William Guthrie Pdf

Designed to serve as a religious companion to the Greek classics.

Author : Lord Dunsany
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Gods of Pegana by Lord Dunsany Pdf

In the mists before THE BEGINNING, Fate and Chance cast lots to decide whose the Game should be; and he that won strode through the mists to MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI and said: "Now make gods for Me, for I have won the cast and the Game is to be Mine." Who it was that won the cast, and whether it was Fate or whether Chance that went through the mists before THE BEGINNING to MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI—none knoweth.

Author : Ingvild Sælid Gilhus
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415161978

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Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins by Ingvild Sælid Gilhus Pdf

Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins analyses how laughter has been used as a symbol in myths, rituals and festivals of Western religions, and has thus been inscribed in religious discourse. The Mesopotamian Anu, the Israelite Jahweh, the Greek Dionysos, the Gnostic Christ and the late modern Jesus were all laughing gods. Through their laughter, gods prove both their superiority and their proximity to humans. In this comprehensive study, Professor Gilhus examines the relationship between corporeal human laughter and spiritual divine laughter from c`ussical antiquity, to the Christian West and the modern era. She combines the study of the history of religion with social-scientific approaches, to provide an original and pertinent exploration of a universal human phenomenon, and its significance for the development of religions.

Author : Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 5273 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786560841

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Delphi Complete Works of Lord Dunsany (Illustrated) by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany Pdf

A celebrated pioneer of fantasy fiction, the Irish writer and dramatist Lord Dunsany produced seminal works such as ‘The King of Elfland’s Daughter’, noted for their imaginative power and intellectual ingenuity. Dunsany achieved great fame and success with his early short stories and plays, conjuring mysterious kingdoms of fairies and gods in richly coloured prose, while promoting a characteristic element of the macabre. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents Dunsany’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, many rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Dunsany’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All 13 novels, with individual contents tables * Features many rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including THE CHARWOMAN’S SHADOW and THE BLESSING OF PAN * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Includes all of the Jorkens short story collections published during Dunsany’s lifetime – please note: some of the posthumous tales cannot appear due to copyright restrictions. * Rare story collections available in no other eBook, including THE MAN WHO ATE THE PHOENIX * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Dunsany’s scarce poetry collection, FIFTY POEMS, first time in digital print * Includes the two ‘Sirens’ autobiographies * Features a bonus biography – discover Dunsany’s literary life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * UPDATED with improved texts and more images CONTENTS: The Novels Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley (1922) The King of Elfland’s Daughter (1924) The Charwoman’s Shadow (1926) The Blessing of Pan (1927) The Curse of the Wise Woman (1933) Up in the Hills (1935) Rory and Bran (1936) My Talks with Dean Spanley (1936) The Story of Mona Sheehy (1939) Guerrilla (1944) The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders (1950) The Last Revolution (1951) His Fellow Men (1952) The Jorkens Series The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens (1931) Jorkens Remembers Africa (1934) Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey (1940) The Fourth Book of Jorkens (1947) Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey (1954) Other Short Story Collections The Gods of Pegana (1905) Time and the Gods (1906) The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (1908) A Dreamer’s Tales (1910) The Book of Wonder (1912) Fifty-One Tales (1915) Tales of Wonder (1916) Tales of War (1918) Unhappy Far-Off Things (1919) Tales of Three Hemispheres (1919) The Man Who Ate the Phoenix (1949) The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories (1952) The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Plays Five Plays (1914) Plays of Gods and Men (1917) If (1921) Plays of Near and Far (1922) Seven Modern Comedies (1928) Plays for Earth and Air (1937) The Poetry Collection Fifty Poems (1929) The Non-Fiction Nowadays (1918) The Autobiographies While the Sirens Slept (1944) The Sirens Wake (1945) The Biography Dunsany the Dramatist (1917) by Edward Hale Bierstadt

Author : François Pomey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1778
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1001176232

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The Pantheon Representing the Fabulous Histories of the Heathen Gods and Most Illustrious Heroes by François Pomey Pdf