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Author : Phylinda Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1681141345
The poems in Herculaneum's Fortune examine how Herculaneum and Pompeii's destruction and excavation offer insight to our experience with chaos, loss, and transition.
Author : Moore, Phylinda
Publisher : Anaphora Literary Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781681140384
"Herculaneum’s Fortune": poems examine how Herculaneum and Pompeii’s destruction and excavation offer insight to our experience with chaos, loss, and transition.
Author : Tim Whitmarsh
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307958334
How new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of the European Enlightenment, when the forces of science and secularism broadly challenged those of faith, disbelief in the gods, in fact, originated in a far more remote past. In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean, a world almost unimaginably different from our own, to recover the stories and voices of those who first refused the divinities. Homer’s epic poems of human striving, journeying, and passion were ancient Greece’s only “sacred texts,” but no ancient Greek thought twice about questioning or mocking his stories of the gods. Priests were functionaries rather than sources of moral or cosmological wisdom. The absence of centralized religious authority made for an extraordinary variety of perspectives on sacred matters, from the devotional to the atheos, or “godless.” Whitmarsh explores this kaleidoscopic range of ideas about the gods, focusing on the colorful individuals who challenged their existence. Among these were some of the greatest ancient poets and philosophers and writers, as well as the less well known: Diagoras of Melos, perhaps the first self-professed atheist; Democritus, the first materialist; Socrates, executed for rejecting the gods of the Athenian state; Epicurus and his followers, who thought gods could not intervene in human affairs; the brilliantly mischievous satirist Lucian of Samosata. Before the revolutions of late antiquity, which saw the scriptural religions of Christianity and Islam enforced by imperial might, there were few constraints on belief. Everything changed, however, in the millennium between the appearance of the Homeric poems and Christianity’s establishment as Rome’s state religion in the fourth century AD. As successive Greco-Roman empires grew in size and complexity, and power was increasingly concentrated in central capitals, states sought to impose collective religious adherence, first to cults devoted to individual rulers, and ultimately to monotheism. In this new world, there was no room for outright disbelief: the label “atheist” was used now to demonize anyone who merely disagreed with the orthodoxy—and so it would remain for centuries. As the twenty-first century shapes up into a time of mass information, but also, paradoxically, of collective amnesia concerning the tangled histories of religions, Whitmarsh provides a bracing antidote to our assumptions about the roots of freethinking. By shining a light on atheism’s first thousand years, Battling the Gods offers a timely reminder that nonbelief has a wealth of tradition of its own, and, indeed, its own heroes.
Author : Alfonso De Franciscis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X000555802
To the Romans, Vesuvius was a fertile mountain, thickly covered with vineyards and woods. When the volcano suddenly erupted on the morning of 24 August 79 A.D., the populations of the little cities that dotted the surrounding countryside were entirely unprepared for the disaster.
Author : Ralph Griffiths,George Edward Griffiths
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1760
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HXJHS6
Author : Theodore H. Feder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:640189917
Author : Lafayette Charles Loomis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Europe
ISBN : HARVARD:FL3KER
Author : Pedar Foss,John J. Dobbins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134689750
This well-illustrated volume, written by experts, is an all-embracing survey of The World of Pompeii, the town of Herculaneum and the many urban and rural villas.
Author : Theresa Lund Weber
Publisher : E P Dutton
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0883324504
Author : Mariana Starke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Europe
ISBN : NYPL:33433002690513
Author : Mariana Starke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011858727
Author : Horace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521452205
Helps readers to translate and interpret Horace's first book of Satires in the light of recent scholarship.
Author : Mariana Starke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Europe
ISBN : OXFORD:590938223
Author : Mariana STARKE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019334990
Author : John Mason Good,Olinthus Gregory,Newton Bosworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1813
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UCAL:B2952447