Of Gods And Mortals

Author : Andrea Sfiligoi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-20
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781780968506

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Two armies prepare for war. Thor, surrounded by crackling lightning, leads the assault of a horde of Viking berserkers. Preparing to receive this charge stands a wall of grim-faced, determined Spartan hoplites, commanded by Ares himself... Of Gods and Mortals is a skirmish wargame that gives players the opportunity to command the greatest heroes, warriors and monsters of legend – and the gods and goddesses that ruled over them. Whether you want to lead the forces of Greek, Egyptian, Celtic or Norse mythology to battle, or build your own pantheon, Of Gods and Mortals presents everything you need. Each player takes control of a god, a handful of legendary characters and a number of mortal troops, forming a warband that must work in harmony to succeed. Although the gods are incredibly powerful, they are only as strong as the faith of the mortals who follow them – if their worshippers are cut down, gods become weaker, and if a deity is vanquished in combat, its followers may flee the field of battle. Success lies in employing a strategy that uses all your troops, from the mightiest to the most humble, as effectively as possible.

Author : Andrea Sfiligoi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-20
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781780968513

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Of Gods and Mortals by Andrea Sfiligoi Pdf

Two armies prepare for war. Thor, surrounded by crackling lightning, leads the assault of a horde of Viking berserkers. Preparing to receive this charge stands a wall of grim-faced, determined Spartan hoplites, commanded by Ares himself... Of Gods and Mortals is a skirmish wargame that gives players the opportunity to command the greatest heroes, warriors and monsters of legend – and the gods and goddesses that ruled over them. Whether you want to lead the forces of Greek, Egyptian, Celtic or Norse mythology to battle, or build your own pantheon, Of Gods and Mortals presents everything you need. Each player takes control of a god, a handful of legendary characters and a number of mortal troops, forming a warband that must work in harmony to succeed. Although the gods are incredibly powerful, they are only as strong as the faith of the mortals who follow them – if their worshippers are cut down, gods become weaker, and if a deity is vanquished in combat, its followers may flee the field of battle. Success lies in employing a strategy that uses all your troops, from the mightiest to the most humble, as effectively as possible.

Author : Adrian Kelly,Christopher Metcalf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108480246

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Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology by Adrian Kelly,Christopher Metcalf Pdf

Explores the interaction between Greece and the Ancient Near East through stories about the gods and their relationships with humankind.

Author : Stephen P. Kershaw
Publisher : Wide Eyed Editions
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9781786031921

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Mythologica by Stephen P. Kershaw Pdf

An illustrated encyclopedia of characters from Greek mythology, prepare to be amazed.

Author : Wilson Perkins Foss
Publisher : Snoeck
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015059301617

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Where Gods and Mortals Meet by Wilson Perkins Foss Pdf

The Urhobo peoples occupy the western fringe of the Niger River delta in southern Nigeria, an area rich with oil reserves. Since the 1970s, the petroleum industry has brought worldwide wealth and attention to Nigeria, but tragically has also detracted from broad-based economic progress as flow stations, flare-offs, drilling platforms and pipelines have proliferated. As rural economies suffered an inevitable decline, the custom of maintaining traditional Urhobo art has experienced a parallel atrophy. The resultant decline in Urhobo culture has prompted a response among many Urhobo who want to celebrate and preserve their traditions for future generations. The Museum for African Art in New York makes a major contribution to this effort through the presentation of "Where Gods and Mortals meet," the first exhibition to showcase Urhobo arts. The exhibition introduces never-before-seen Urhobo art and footage of cultural performances, from yesterday and today. This accompanying catalogue includes approximately 80 works of art: traditional art from the historical period 1850 to 1975, including monumental wood figures, metal and clay sculpture, and masks and costumes with accompanying poetry and song; a small selection of contemporary work by Bruce Onobrakpeya, an Urhobo by birth and one of Africa's foremost artists; plus photos and video footage of extraordinary multimedia masquerades.

Author : Kendare Blake
Publisher : Tor Teen
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781466812222

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Mortal Gods by Kendare Blake Pdf

As ancient immortals are left reeling, a modern Athena and Hermes search the world for answers in Mortal Gods, the second Goddess War novel by Kendare Blake, acclaimed author of Anna Dressed in Blood. Ares, god of war, is leading the other dying gods into battle. Which is just fine with Athena. She's ready to wage a war of her own, and she's never liked him anyway. If Athena is lucky, the winning gods will have their immortality restored. If not, at least she'll have killed the bloody lot of them, and she and Hermes can die in peace. Cassandra Weaver is a weapon of fate. The girl who kills gods. But all she wants is for the god she loved and lost to return to life. If she can't have that, then the other gods will burn, starting with his murderer, Aphrodite. The alliance between Cassandra and Athena is fragile. Cassandra suspects Athena lacks the will to truly kill her own family. And Athena fears that Cassandra's hate will get them all killed. The war takes them across the globe, searching for lost gods, old enemies, and Achilles, the greatest warrior the world has ever seen. As the struggle escalates, Athena and Cassandra must find a way to work together. Because if they can't, fates far worse than death await. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Guy Haley,Andy Clark,David Annandale,Evan Dicken,David Guymer,Nick Horth,Robbie MacNiven,Josh Reynolds,CL Werner
Publisher : Games Workshop
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1784969923

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Gods and Mortals by Guy Haley,Andy Clark,David Annandale,Evan Dicken,David Guymer,Nick Horth,Robbie MacNiven,Josh Reynolds,CL Werner Pdf

Great value anthology, packed with stories from The Mortal Realms. The storm has broken. Sigmar has returned to the Mortal Realms, and his eternal armies march across the lands, smiting the unworthy. This collection of short stories tells tales from the greatest battles of the realms. For too long, the Mortal Realms have suffered under Chaos’ twisted crusade. Tainted lands writhe in agony and once great cities lie in ruins, the hopes of their people extinguished. But the storm winds rise. Sigmar’s greatest creation, the Stormcast Eternals, strike with his vengeance. Their lightning drives the darkness away and their thunder drowns out the screams of the Foul Gods’ acolytes as they fall to sword and halberd. The sons and daughters of the storm know they cannot fail. For now is the time where the fate of a world will be decided. Where Gods and mortals must rise and fight, or face their final damnation. Featuring stories from Guy Haley, Josh Reynolds, David Guymer, C L Werner, David Annandale and more...

Author : Nina Kossman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780195133417

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Gods and Mortals by Nina Kossman Pdf

More than perhaps any other folkloric tradition, whether oral or written, the myths of classical Greece and Rome have survived and pervaded the consciousness of lands far-flung from their source. The mythic world of the ancients, peopled by glamorous gods and unstoppable heroes, in which themortal and immortal commingled, is even now a living presence in 21st century culture, rather than a literary relic. Whether we know them by their Roman or their Greek names - Artemis or Minerva, Poseidon or Neptune - the figures of these ancietn myths captured the imagination of culture afterculture across the globe, inspiring writers, artists, musicians and those of us who comprise the audience for their works. Can it be a coincidence that the greatest poets of the western world have each at one point tried their hand at retellings?Kossman's anthology assembles some of the best of these poems inspired by ancient myths, organizing them by themse, and allowing the reader to compare one against the other - for example, one section assembels poems telling the stories of mythic lovers (Cupid and Psyche, Orpheus and Eurydice);another the many tales of miraculous transformations (Pygmalion and Galatea, Echo and Narcissus). With such a wide variety of the world's best poets to choose from - from all over the world and from any era since classical times - Kossman has had no difficulty creating a literary pantheon; includedare D. H. Lawrence, Derek Walcott, Rita Dove, Denise Levertov, Rilke, Pound, and Yeats. The collection should be a treasure for the innumerable debotees of both myth and poetry.

Author : Jean-Pierre Vernant
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Mythology, Greek
ISBN : 1861973993

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The Universe, the Gods, and Mortals by Jean-Pierre Vernant Pdf

In this engrossing retelling of Greek myth, Jean-Pierre Vernant combines his profound knowledge of the subject with brilliant and original story-telling. Beginning with the creation of Earth out of Chaos, Vernant continues with the castration of Uranus, the war between the Titans and the gods of Olympus, the wily ruses of Prometheus and Zeus, and the creation of Pandora, the first woman. His narrative takes us from the Trojan War to the voyage of Odysseus, from the story of Dionysus to the terrible destiny of Oedipus and to Perseus's confrontation with the Gorgons. Jean-Pierre Vernant has devoted himself to the study of Greek mythology. In recounting these tales, he unravels for us their multiple meanings and brings to life cherished figures of legend whose stories lie at the origin of our civilization.

Author : Anna Della Subin
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250296887

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Accidental Gods by Anna Della Subin Pdf

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE, THE IRISH TIMES AND THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT A provocative history of men who were worshipped as gods that illuminates the connection between power and religion and the role of divinity in a secular age Ever since 1492, when Christopher Columbus made landfall in the New World and was hailed as a heavenly being, the accidental god has haunted the modern age. From Haile Selassie, acclaimed as the Living God in Jamaica, to Britain’s Prince Philip, who became the unlikely center of a new religion on a South Pacific island, men made divine—always men—have appeared on every continent. And because these deifications always emerge at moments of turbulence—civil wars, imperial conquest, revolutions—they have much to teach us. In a revelatory history spanning five centuries, a cast of surprising deities helps to shed light on the thorny questions of how our modern concept of “religion” was invented; why religion and politics are perpetually entangled in our supposedly secular age; and how the power to call someone divine has been used and abused by both oppressors and the oppressed. From nationalist uprisings in India to Nigerien spirit possession cults, Anna Della Subin explores how deification has been a means of defiance for colonized peoples. Conversely, we see how Columbus, Cortés, and other white explorers amplified stories of their godhood to justify their dominion over native peoples, setting into motion the currents of racism and exclusion that have plagued the New World ever since they touched its shores. At once deeply learned and delightfully antic, Accidental Gods offers an unusual keyhole through which to observe the creation of our modern world. It is that rare thing: a lyrical, entertaining work of ideas, one that marks the debut of a remarkable literary career.

Author : Michael Grant,John Hazel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Mythology
ISBN : PSU:000013301743

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Gods and Mortals in Classical Mythology by Michael Grant,John Hazel Pdf

Author : George Perez
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781779511553

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Absolute Wonder Woman: Gods and Mortals by George Perez Pdf

Experience George Pérez's Wonder Woman like you've never seen before in this absolute edition of Wonder Woman: Gods and Mortals! More than four decades after making her debut in ALL STAR COMICS #8, the World's Greatest Heroine was comprehensively reimagined in 1986 by legendary comics creator George Pérez -- and this new incarnation of DC Comics' fabled Amazon Princess quickly rose to unprecedented levels of popular and critical acclaim. In collaboration with co-writer Len Wein and inker Bruce Patterson, Pérez sent on to craft Wonder Woman's adventures for years, and his masterful stories ranged from heart-stopping battles with the Titans of myth to heart-warming interludes with Diana's trusted network of friends. Now, for the first time ever, these treasured tales from the 1980s are receiving the absolute treatment with larger pages to showcase Pérez's magnificent artwork. Collects Wonder Woman #1-14; Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #26; Who's Who Update 1987 #1-3.

Author : Jay B. McDaniel
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606089125

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Earth, Sky, Gods and Mortals by Jay B. McDaniel Pdf

In this innovative volume, Jay McDaniel creatively weaves various strands of contemporary theology into a vibrant pattern for an ecological spirituality. Influenced by process theology, the author synthesizes core insights of feminism, liberation theology, creation theology, and world religions. He focuses this varied knowledge around the central theme of an ecologically sound and nurturing faith. The work is strengthened by provocative study questions, an insightful appendix on the role of silence in ecological spirituality, and a comprehensive, annotated bibliography.

Author : N. K. Jemisin
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316075985

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The Broken Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin Pdf

A man with no memory of his past and a struggling, blind street artist will face off against the will of the gods as the secrets of this stranger's past are revealed in the sequel to The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, the debut novel of NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin. In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a strange homeless man on an impulse. This act of kindness engulfs Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings, leaving their desecrated bodies all over the city. And Oree's guest is at the heart of it. . .

Author : Michael Grant,John Hazel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Greece
ISBN : UOM:39015013666162

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Gods and Mortals in Classical Mythology by Michael Grant,John Hazel Pdf

"The Greek and Roman myths and legends are an indispensable part of our cultural heritage -- drawn upon by painters adn writers through the centuries, told and retold all over the world. Together they add up to one of the greatest imaginative achievements in the history of civilization; and yet the narratives of the myths themselves, today, are often only half-remembered. This scholarly and comprehensive book presents, in alphabetical order, clear and concise accounts of all the characters around whom the myths of Greece and Rome were woven." --from publisher's notes.