Witchcraft and Magic in Europe Volume 2

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe Volume 2

  • Release: 1999-10-14
  • Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Price: FREE
  • File: PDF, 395 page
  • ISBN: 0812217055
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Topics include binding spells, curse tablets, and the demonization of magic and sorcery by Christianity.

Yet More Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis

Yet More Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis

  • Release: 1997
  • Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
  • Price: FREE
  • File: PDF, 262 page
  • ISBN: 3515072225
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A fourth collection of Papers from the Copenhagen Polis Centre, a collective whose "ulimate aim is to present a new analysis of the Archaic and Classical Greek polis ", through various wide-ranging and thematically specific investigations. This volume and the others in the series are released in advance of the publication of a general synthesis of findings, hence the thematic incoherence of the titles contained herein: Polis as the Generic Term for State, Hekataios' Use of the Word Polis in His Periegesis , and A Typology of Dependent Poleis (Mogens Herman Hansen) ; A Survey of the Major Urban Settlements in the Kimmerian Bosphoros (With a Discussion of Their Status as Poleis ) (Gocha R. Tsetskhladze) ; Emporion . A Study of the Use and Meaning of the Term in the Archaic and Classical Periods (Mogens Herman Hansen) ; Colonies and Ports-of-Tradee on the Northern Shores of the Black Sea: Borysthenes, Kremnoi and the "Other Pontic Emporia in Herodotos (John Hind) ; Some Problems in Polis Identification in the Chalkidic Peninsula (Pernille Flensted-Jensen) ; Triphylia . An Experiment in Ethnic Construction adn Political Organisation (Thomas Heine Nielsen) ; The Polis of Asea. A Case-Study of How Archaeology Can expand Our Knowlege of the History of a Polis (Jeanette Fors�n and Bj�rn Fors�n) .

Ancient Greece and Rome Demeter Law Roman

Ancient Greece and Rome Demeter Law Roman

  • Release: 1998
  • Publisher: Holiday House
  • Price: FREE
  • File: PDF, 4 page
  • ISBN: 0684805049
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Presents a history of ancient Greece and Rome as well as information about the literature and daily life of these early civilizations.