Origins of greek thought

Origins of Greek Thought

Jean-Pierre Vernant's concise, brilliant essay on the origins of Greek thought relates the cultural achievement of the ancient Greeks to their physica

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Greek Thought, Arabic Culture

Dimitri Gutas provides a stimulating, erudite and well-documented survey of this key movement in the transmission of ancient Greek culture to the Midd

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Greek Ancient Origins

From the first Ancient Greek peoples, the Mycenaean civilization, from the 1700s BCE, through to the Greek Dark Ages and the rise of Classical Antiqui

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Origins of Greek Temple Architecture

This book offers a comprehensive study of the evolution of pre-archaic Greek temple architecture from the eleventh to mid-seventh century BCE. It will

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Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought

The understanding of motion - the core concept of natural philosophy - underwent crucial changes in Greek thinking from Parmenides to Aristotle. This

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Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought

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Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology

In the sixth century BC, Anaximander of Miletus, an associate of Thales, initiated Western philosophy and science with a theory of how the world order

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Metamorphoses of Psyche in Psychoanalysis and Ancient Greek Thought

This unusual book explores the transformative power of liminal experiences in ancient Greek texts, psychoanalytic theory, and the authorÂ’s own life,

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Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists

This edition of early Greek writings on social and political issues includes works by more than thirty authors. There is a particular emphasis on the

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Greek Holiday

From the bestselling author of An Italian Holiday comes a humorous, thought-provoking novel about friendship, family and romance.

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Political Thought of Sayyid Qutb

Sayed Khatab takes a literary approach to the study of Sayyid Qutb, who was executed in Egypt in 1966 but remains one of the most significant political thinkers for contemporary Islam. He sheds light on Islamic radicalism and its origins with a new analysis of the intellectual legacy of the man.

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Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought

Imagine an age where the predictability of science and the wisdom of religion combine. Scientology is called a spiritual technology for a reason. Scientology provides tools to assist you to find your own answers to your questions about existence, your own truth about your life and you. The word Scientology comes from: Scio (Latin) 'knowing, in the fullest sense of the wor...

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Origins of the Sphinx

New research and evidence that the Sphinx is thousands of years older than previously thought

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Monsters in Greek Literature

Monsters in Greek literature are often thought of as creatures which exist in epic narratives, however, as this book shows, they appear in a much broa

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It's All Greek

Did you know that marmalade, pirate, sketch and purse trace their linguistic origins back to the Athens of 500 bce? This book offers a word-by-word lo

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Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy

Questions the idealization of ancient Athens as the source of philosophy and democracy by placing the origins instead in Ionia, a set of Greek colonie

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Modern Witchcraft with the Greek Gods

From Zeus and Hephaestus to Hades and Persephone, this book reveals the origins of nearly thirty Greek gods and goddesses, how they've been worshipped

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Stories of Origins in the Bible and Ancient Mediterranean Literature

Examines a series of parallels between the stories of origins in the Bible and ancient Greek genealogical writings from the 7–5 centuries BCE, as wel

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Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and Ancient India

Locates the origins and early form of Indian and Greek philosophy, and the striking similarities between them, in their entire societal and religious

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Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought

From an archaic, unfamiliar and Greek-sounding disease described by the Hippocratics, 'phrenitis', to meningitis, stress syndrome and delirium: this b

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Cosmos of the Ancients. The Greek Philosophers on Myth and Cosmology

The Greek philosophers lived in a time when the gods and the myths about them were very much alive, and there was no scientific evidence dismissing them. This book explores to what extent the Greeks were able to question their own mythology. This is done by examining the cosmology of their philosophers, and what roles they allowed therein for the gods. ...

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Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth - Haynes Natalie

Anotace: We meet Hera, who, whilst most often known for enacting vicious, creative revenge on the women - mortal or otherwise - who catch the wandering eye of her husband Zeus, turns out not to be such a villain after all.*****We meet Demeter, a mother who will go to any lengths, no matter the cost, to retrieve her daughter Persephone from Hades´ clutches.*****We´ll be i...

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Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities

Quoting hundreds of passages from Greek and Roman authors, this light-hearted book gives a vividly direct picture of the origins of modern medicine in

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Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks

In Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks Weil apply her unique, piercing intellect to early Greek thought, where she finds precursors t

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Amazons : The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World - Man John

Anotace: Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors. Equal to men in battle, legends claimed they cut off their right breasts to improve their archery skills and routinely killed their male children to purify their ranks. For centuries people believed in their ex...

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Amazons : The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World - John Man

<p>Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors. Equal to men in battle, legends claimed they cut off their right breasts to improve their archery skills and routinely killed their male children to purify their ranks. For centuries people believed in their exi...

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The Shadow of Perseus: A compelling feminist retelling of the myth of Perseus told from the perspectives of the women who knew him best - Claire Heywood

<p>'A page-turning retelling . . . so interesting and thought-provoking' JENNIFER SAINT'A fresh and original take on the myth of Perseus . . . I was gripped by the human drama at the novel's heart' ELODIE HARPERMyth remembers Perseus as one of its greatest heroes. A slayer of monsters. A rescuer of damsels.But the women who knew him best have a different story to te...

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A History of Judaism - Martin Goodman

<p>'An absolute godsend ... Goodman has done both Jews and non-Jews a great service with this book, encapsulating most of Jewish thought over four millennia into one extraordinarily readable volume' Julia Neuberger, Literary ReviewA panoramic history of Judaism from its origins to the present</p> <p>Judaism is by some distance the oldest of the three Abr...

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Studies of Homeric Greece - Jan Bouzek

Anotace: Kniha je přepracovaným a doplněným přehledem archeologie a historie pozdně mykénského a geometrického Řecka a společenství geometrických stylů rané doby železné v Evropě a severní Eurasii, ve vztahu k egyptským a předovýchodním civilizacím: období od 13. do 8. století př. Kr., tzv. axiální době lidských dějin a počátkům přechodu od předfilozofického k filozofick...

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Studies of Homeric Greece - Jan Bouzek

<p>Kniha je přepracovaným a doplněným přehledem archeologie a historie pozdně mykénského a geometrického Řecka a společenství geometrických stylů rané doby železné v Evropě a severní Eurasii, ve vztahu k egyptským a předovýchodním civilizacím: období od 13. do 8. století př. Kr., tzv. axiální době lidských dějin a počátkům přechodu od předfilozofického k filozofické...

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The Book of Fire: The moving, captivating and unmissable new novel from the author of THE BEEKEEPER OF ALEPPO - Christy Lefteri

<p>A captivating, moving novel of survival, hope and redemption, THE BOOK OF FIRE is the blazing new book from the international bestselling author of THE BEEKEEPER OF ALEPPO and SONGBIRDS.AMONG THE ASHES, ONE FAMILY FOUND HOPE . . .In a tiny, beautiful Greek village, deep in an ancient forest, live a family - Irini, Tasso and their daughter, sweet Chara. One day th...

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When Fishes Flew : The Story of Elena´s War - Morpurgo Michael

Anotace: This first new novel in two years from the Nation`s Favourite Storyteller is a sweeping story of love and rescue - an unforgettable journey to the Greek island of Ithaca, and back in time to World War Two...Australian-Greek girl Nandi travels to her ancestors` home in Ithaca, and discovers - through a friendship with an extremely unusual flying fish - the extrao...

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When Fishes Flew : The Story of Elena´s War - Michael Morpurgo

<p>This first new novel in two years from the Nation's Favourite Storyteller is a sweeping story of love and rescue - an unforgettable journey to the Greek island of Ithaca, and back in time to World War Two... Australian-Greek girl Nandi travels to her ancestors' home in Ithaca, and discovers - through a friendship with an extremely unusual flying fish - the extr...

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Presocratics

The origins of modern science and philosophy lie in Greek civilization of the 5th and 6th centuries BC. A series of thinkers, the "Presocratic philoso

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Four Texts on Socrates

Translations of four major works of ancient Greek literature which treat the life and thought of Socrates, focusing particularly on his trial and defe

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Cambridge Companion to Ancient Ethics

Covering the full range of Greek ethical thought, this volume includes chapters on the schools of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics, and on themes from

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Buddhism

Tells the story of Buddhism's origins and its development into three major schools of thought. This book explores the concept of the 'socially engaged

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Sociological Theory - International Student Edition

A comprehensive overview of all the major theorists and key schools of sociological thought, from sociologyâ€s origins through to the early 21stĂ‚Â

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Cambridge Companion to Aquinas

Ten leading scholars introduce all the important aspects of Aquinas' thought, ranging from its historical background and dependence on Greek, Islamic,

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Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon

Includes animal fables that are some of the earliest stories ever told, thought to have been composed by a slave in Greek antiquity and giving glimpse

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Sixty-Four Poems

Endre Ady was born in eastern Hungary in 1877. Between 1906 and 1908, while plying to and from Paris as a correspondent for a Budapest daily, he published three volumes of startling verse that jolted Hungarian poetry into the 2oth century. His work was at once controversial, and contradictory: it was full of western, modernist, influence, but also spoke uniquely to the d...

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Philokalia

The Philokalia (literally "love of the beautiful") is, after the Bible, the most influential source of spiritual tradition within the Orthodox Church. First published in Greek in 1782 by St. Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain and St. Macarios of Corinth, the Philokalia includes works by thirty-six influential Orthodox authors such as Maximus the Confessor, Peter of Madascus, ...

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Dracul - Stoker Dacre

Anotace: Dracul reveals not only the true origins of Dracula himself, but also of his creator, Bram Stoker . . . and of the elusive, enigmatic woman who connects them.It is 1868, and a 21-year-old Bram Stoker has locked himself inside an abbey`s tower to confront a vile and ungodly beast. He is armed with mirrors and crucifixes and holy water and a gun - and is kept comp...

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Dracul - Dacre Stoker

<p>Dracul reveals not only the true origins of Dracula himself, but also of his creator, Bram Stoker . . . and of the elusive, enigmatic woman who connects them. It is 1868, and a 21-year-old Bram Stoker has locked himself inside an abbey's tower to confront a vile and ungodly beast. He is armed with mirrors and crucifixes and holy water and a gun - and is kept com...

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How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures (0241431786)

Kniha - autor Robin Dunbar, 352 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá When did humans develop spiritual thought? What is religion's evolutionary purpose? And in our increasingly secular world, why has it endured? Every society in the history of humanity has lived with religion. In How Religion Evolved, evolutionary psychologist Professor Robin Dunbar tracks its ori...

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Traditional Czech Cuisine - Tradiční česká kuchyně (anglicky) - Viktor Faktor

Anotace: Use this book full of recipes to prepare a wide range of typically Czech dishes whose origins stretch far back into the past, yet have remained so popular that they are regularly consumed even today. Try your hand at everyday preparations or special dishes intended for such holidays as Easter or Christmas, a wedding feast, or simply a family celebration. Each of...

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The Atomic Human

A vital perspective is missing from the discussions we're having about Artificial Intelligence: what does it mean for our identity?Our fascination with AI stems from the perceived uniqueness of human intelligence. We believe it's what differentiates us. Fears of AI not only concern how it invades our digital lives, but also the implied threat of an intelligence that displ...

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Traditional czech cuisine (978-80-7252-177-7)

Kniha - 93 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá Use this book full of recipes to prepare a wide range of typically Czech dishes whose origins stretch far back into the past, yet have remained so popular that they are regularly consumed even today. Try your hand at everyday preparations or special dishes intended for such holidays as Easter or Christmas, a wedding...

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Traditional Czech Cuisine / Tradiční česká kuchyně - Viktor Faktor

<p>Kniha plná receptů typických českých pokrmů, které původem sahají hluboko do minulosti, ale staly se tak oblíbenými, že se připravují dodnes. Pokrmy každodenní i ty, které se připravují o svátcích, jako jsou Velikonoce a Vánoce, či u příležitosti svatební hostiny a dalších rodinných oslav. Receptům je ponechán původní český název a jsou oživeny kulinářskými zajím...

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Feminism Book - neuveden

Anotace: Exploring more than 100 of the most important ideas, organizations, and events to have defined the feminist movement, this is an essential introduction to feminism. The latest entry in DK`s bestselling Big Ideas series, The Feminism Book is a complete study of feminism. Trace the subject from its origins, through the suffrage campaigns of the late 19th century, ...

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The Feminism Book : Big Ideas Simply Explained - Lucy Mangan

<p>Exploring more than 100 of the most important ideas, organizations, and events to have defined the feminist movement, this is an essential introduction to feminism. The latest entry in DK's bestselling Big Ideas series, The Feminism Book is a complete study of feminism. Trace the subject from its origins, through the suffrage campaigns of the late 19th century,...

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The Cloisters - Katy Hays

<p>The Secret History meets Ninth House in this sinister, atmospheric novel . . . the discovery of a mysterious deck of tarot cards lays bare shocking secrets within a close-knit circle of researchers at New York's famed Met Cloisters museum.'Beguiling and atmospheric, an entrancing and gripping tale.' KATE MOSSE'Glamour, power, seduction, ambition - The Cloisters h...

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Red Rising - Red Rising Trilogy 1 - Pierce Brown

Anotace: The Earth is dying. Darrow is a Red, a miner in the interior of Mars. His mission is to extract enough precious elements to one day tame the surface of the planet and allow humans to live on it. The Reds are humanity's last hope. Or so it appears, until the day Darrow discovers it's all al lie. That Mars has been habitable - and inhabited - for generations, by...

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Red Rising - Red Rising Trilogy 1 - Pierce Brown

<p></p><p> The Earth is dying. Darrow is a Red, a miner in the interior of Mars. His mission is to extract enough precious elements to one day tame the surface of the planet and allow humans to live on it. The Reds are humanity's last hope.</p> <p> Or so it appears, until the day Darrow discovers it's all al lie. That Mars has been habitabl...

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Český časopis historický 4/2018

<p>Z obsahu: DOUBEK Vratislav<br /> Pojetí republikanismu před ustavením Československé republiky … s. 953<br /> (The concept of republicanism before the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic)<br /> The study analyses some aspects of the dynamic development of the end of the First World War, which led to the declaration of an independent Czec...

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Alone in the Dark Deluxe Edition

A Love Letter to Horror Fans Alone in the Dark: Digital Deluxe Edition is a treasure chest of carefully curated experiences designed to thrill. Whether you're revisiting the twisted atmosphere of the 1992 classic or stepping into Derceto Manor for the first time, this edition is packed with features that promise to captivate. From switching up character models for a taste...

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Alone in the Dark

Alone in the Dark weaves a chilling tapestry of psychological horror and Southern Gothic charm, reimagining the iconic game that set the benchmark for the genre. We invite you to join us on a journey into madness, where each encounter could be your last. With each step you take closer to unravelling Derceto's mystery, the eyes that watch from the darkness grow hungrier. E...

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Alone in the Dark (PC)

Alone in the Dark weaves a chilling tapestry of psychological horror and Southern Gothic charm, reimagining the iconic game that set the benchmark for the genre. We invite you to join us on a journey into madness, where each encounter could be your last. With each step you take closer to unravelling Derceto's mystery, the eyes that watch from the darkness grow hungri...

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Alone in the Dark Deluxe Edition (PC)

A Love Letter to Horror FansAlone in the Dark: Digital Deluxe Edition is a treasure chest of carefully curated experiences designed to thrill. Whether you're revisiting the twisted atmosphere of the 1992 classic or stepping into Derceto Manor for the first time, this edition is packed with features that promise to captivate. From switching up character models for a t...

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