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June 26, 2023

The Iconography of Magic Images of Power and the Power of Images in Ancient and Late Antique Magic

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Free Download R. Martin Hernandez, "The Iconography of Magic: Images of Power and the Power of Images in Ancient and Late Antique Magic "
English | ISBN: 9042948825 | 2022 | 215 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The study of magical texts of the Classical, Greco-Roman and Late Antique World has experienced a remarkable impulse since the last decades of the twentieth century until today. The so-called "material turn" in philological studies has promoted an ever-growing interest in the study of the materiality and other non-textual components of ancient documents, which has favored interdisciplinary studies aimed at a holistic approach to ancient texts. From this perspective, the articles collected in this volume offer a series of in-depth case studies of images and other paratextual elements of magical artifacts. Comparative studies, statistical analyses, image-text interconnections, and other analytical possibilities are applied to achieve a greater understanding of the magical objects in question, as well as of the belief system in which they were produced. The book illustrates the importance of iconographic analysis as a fundamental part of understanding Antiquity, its ritual texts, and its magical objects.

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June 25, 2023

Latin Loanwords in Ancient Greek A Lexicon and Analysis

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English | 2023 | ISBN: 1108841007 | 747 Pages | PDF | 7 MB
Why, when, and how did speakers of ancient Greek borrow words from Latin? Which words did they borrow? Who used Latin loanwords, and how? Who avoided them, and why? How many words were borrowed, and what kind of word? How long did the loanwords survive? Until now, attempts to answer such questions have been based on incomplete and often misleading evidence, but this study offers the first comprehensive collection of evidence from papyri, inscriptions, and literature from the fifth century BC to the sixth century AD. That collection – included in the book as a lexicon of Latin loanwords – is examined using insights from linguistic work on modern languages to provide new answers that often differ strikingly from earlier ones. The analysis is accessibly presented, and the lexicon offers a firm foundation for future work in this area.

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June 25, 2023

Debts and Indebtedness at Emar (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records

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Free Download Maurizio Viano, "Debts and Indebtedness at Emar (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records "
English | ISBN: 1501521802 | 2022 | 350 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 8 MB
This book is the first comprehensive study of debts and credit system at Emar. It focuses on the socio-economic aspects of credit access and indebtedness as well as on the motivations behind debts and debt settlement in the city of Emar.

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June 25, 2023

Ancient and Traditional Foods, Plants, Herbs and Spices used in Cardiovascular Health and Disease

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English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032108584 | 396 Pages | PDF (True) | 10 MB
The use of different foods, herbs, and spices to treat or prevent disease has been recorded for thousands of years. Egyptian papyrus, hieroglyphics and ancient texts from the Middle East have described the cultivation and preparations of herbs and botanicals to "cure the sick." There are even older records from China and India. Some ancient scripts describe the use of medicinal plants which have never been seen within European cultures. Indeed, all ancient civilizations have pictorial records of different foods, herbs, and spices being used for medical purposes. However, there are fundamental issues pertaining to the scientific evidence for the use of these agents or their extracts in modern medicine.

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June 25, 2023

Ancient and Modern Approaches to the Problem of Relativism

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Free Download Ancient and Modern Approaches to the Problem of Relativism: A Study of Husserl, Locke, and Plato
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031223039 | 139 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
Relativism, or the claim that it is possible that the appearances and opinions of each of us are correct for each of us, and hence that any view is as true as any other, has remained a continuing problem for philosophy and science for 2,500 years. Today, because of the widespread acceptance of relativism, the problem is greater than ever before. This book argues that Plato in fact solved this problem. In the first two chapters, by means of a study of Husserl and Locke, Davis shows that it is possible to return to and take seriously Plato’s treatment of this problem. The third chapter presents Plato’s solution to it. This book is distinctive in that it shows that a problem that has been thought to be present throughout the history of Western thought was in fact solved by Plato, and in that it shows that we can, beginning from our contemporary situation, return to Plato’s solution.

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June 25, 2023

Ancient Greek Texts and Modern Narrative Theory

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English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009339591 | 209 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
The taxonomies of narratology have proven valuable tools for the analysis of ancient literature, but, since they were mostly forged in the analysis of modern novels, they have also occluded the distinct quality of ancient narrative and its understanding in antiquity. Ancient Greek Texts and Modern Narrative Theory paves the way for a new approach to ancient narrative that investigates its specific logic. Jonas Grethlein’s sophisticated discussion of a wide range of literary texts in conjunction with works of criticism sheds new light on such central issues as fictionality, voice, Theory of Mind and narrative motivation. The book provides classicists with an introduction to ancient views of narrative but is also a major contribution to a historically sensitive theory of narrative.

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