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27 produkter
Rise and Fall of the Afterlife
Häftad, 2001
651 kr
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Belief in the afterlife is still very much alive in Western civilisation, even though the truth of its existence is no longer universally accepted. Surprisingly, however, heaven, hell and the immortal soul were all ideas which arrived relatively late in the ancient world. Originally Greece and …
Early Greek Concept of the Soul
Häftad, 1987
417 kr
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Jan Bremmer presents a provocative picture of the historical development of beliefs regarding the soul in ancient Greece. He argues that before Homer the Greeks distinguished between two types of soul, both identified with the individual: the free soul, which possessed no psychological attributes …
Perpetua's Passions
Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis
Av Marco Formisano, Jan N. Bremmer
E-bok, 2012
1539 kr
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Perpetua''s Passions is a collection of studies about Perpetua, a young female Christian martyr who was executed in 203 AD. Like her spiritual guide, Saturus, Perpetua left a diary, and a few years after their deaths a fellow Christian collected these writings and supplied them with an introduction …
Perpetua's Passions
Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis
Av Jan N. Bremmer, Marco Formisano
Inbunden, 2012
2389 kr
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Perpetua's Passions is a collection of studies about Perpetua, a young female Christian martyr who was executed in 203 AD. Like her spiritual guide, Saturus, Perpetua left a diary, and a few years after their deaths a fellow Christian collected these writings and supplied them with an introduction …
Rise and Fall of the Afterlife
Inbunden, 2001
2525 kr
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Belief in the afterlife is still very much alive in Western civilisation, even though the truth of its existence is no longer universally accepted. Surprisingly, however, heaven, hell and the immortal soul were all ideas which arrived relatively late in the ancient world. Originally Greece and …
Interpretations of Greek Mythology (Routledge Revivals)
Inbunden, 2013
3544 kr
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Interpretations of Greek Mythology, first published in1987, builds on the innovative work of Walter Burkert and the ‘Paris school’ of Jean-Pierre Vernant, and represents a renewal of interpretation of Greek mythology. The contributors to this volume present a variety of approaches to the Greek …
Interpretations of Greek Mythology (Routledge Revivals)
Häftad, 2015
984 kr
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Interpretations of Greek Mythology, first published in1987, builds on the innovative work of Walter Burkert and the ‘Paris school’ of Jean-Pierre Vernant, and represents a renewal of interpretation of Greek mythology. The contributors to this volume present a variety of approaches to the Greek …
Early Greek Concept of the Soul
E-bok, 2020
571 kr
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Jan Bremmer presents a provocative picture of the historical development of beliefs regarding the soul in ancient Greece. He argues that before Homer the Greeks distinguished between two types of soul, both identified with the individual: the free soul, which possessed no psychological attributes …
Gods of Ancient Greece
Identities and Transformations
Av Jan N. Bremmer, Andrew Erskine
Häftad, 2013
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
450 kr
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The Greek gods are still very much present in modern consciousness. Although Apollo and Dionysos, Artemis and Aphrodite, Zeus and Hermes are household names, it is much less clear what these divinities meant and stood for in ancient Greece. In fact, they have been very much neglected in modern …
Greek Religion: Volume 46
Häftad, 2021
334 kr
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This brief but highly informative book presents an outline of Greek religion in the classical period. After surveying its main characteristics, it offers a clear and innovative view of the great gods and heroes as well as their sanctuaries and also the main myths, rituals and mysteries: from Athena …
Rise and Fall of the Afterlife
E-bok, 2003
676 kr
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Belief in the afterlife is still very much alive in Western civilisation, even though the truth of its existence is no longer universally accepted. Surprisingly, however, heaven, hell and the immortal soul were all ideas which arrived relatively late in the ancient world. Originally Greece and …
Rise and Fall of the Afterlife
E-bok, 2003
676 kr
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Belief in the afterlife is still very much alive in Western civilisation, even though the truth of its existence is no longer universally accepted. Surprisingly, however, heaven, hell and the immortal soul were all ideas which arrived relatively late in the ancient world. Originally Greece and …
From Sappho to De Sade (Routledge Revivals)
Moments in the History of Sexuality
Inbunden, 2014
2996 kr
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The history of sexuality has been the subject of increased interest in recent years and more widely acknowledged importance in the interpretation of past mentalités. Yet historians have only recently begun to study sexual practices in any depth, establishing that sexuality is not a biological …
From Sappho to De Sade (Routledge Revivals)
Moments in the History of Sexuality
Häftad, 2021
562 kr
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The history of sexuality has been the subject of increased interest in recent years and more widely acknowledged importance in the interpretation of past mentalités. Yet historians have only recently begun to study sexual practices in any depth, establishing that sexuality is not a biological …
From Sappho to De Sade (Routledge Revivals)
Moments in the History of Sexuality
E-bok, 2014
696 kr
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The history of sexuality has been the subject of increased interest in recent years and more widely acknowledged importance in the interpretation of past mentalités . Yet historians have only recently begun to study sexual practices in any depth, establishing that sexuality is not a biological …
From Sappho to De Sade (Routledge Revivals)
Moments in the History of Sexuality
E-bok, 2014
696 kr
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The history of sexuality has been the subject of increased interest in recent years and more widely acknowledged importance in the interpretation of past mentalités . Yet historians have only recently begun to study sexual practices in any depth, establishing that sexuality is not a biological …
Interpretations of Greek Mythology (Routledge Revivals)
E-bok, 2014
1155 kr
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Interpretations of Greek Mythology , first published in1987, builds on the innovative work of Walter Burkert and the ‘Paris school’ of Jean-Pierre Vernant, and represents a renewal of interpretation of Greek mythology. The contributors to this volume present a variety of approaches to the Greek …
Interpretations of Greek Mythology (Routledge Revivals)
E-bok, 2014
1155 kr
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Interpretations of Greek Mythology , first published in1987, builds on the innovative work of Walter Burkert and the ‘Paris school’ of Jean-Pierre Vernant, and represents a renewal of interpretation of Greek mythology. The contributors to this volume present a variety of approaches to the Greek …
The Rise of Christianity through the eyes of Gibbon, Harnack and Rodney Stark
Häftad
275 kr
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Initiation into the Mysteries of the Ancient World
Inbunden, 2014
1172 kr
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The ancient Mysteries have long attracted the interest of scholars, an interest that goes back at least to the time of the Reformation. After a period of interest around the turn of the twentieth century, recent decades have seen an important study of Walter Burkert (1987). Yet his thematic …
Maidens, Magic and Martyrs in Early Christianity
Collected Essays I
Inbunden, 2017
3252 kr
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Warum nannten sich die frühen Anhänger Jesu 'Christen'? Was war ihr soziales und religiöses Kapital? Warum zog das Christentum sowohl arme Witwen als auch reiche Frauen an? Was hielten Heiden von den frühen Christen? Indem er die wichtigen, apokryphen Apostelgeschichten in die Untersuchung der …
The World of Greek Religion and Mythology
Collected Essays II
Inbunden, 2020
3725 kr
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In dieser Aufsatzsammlung untersucht Jan N. Bremmer Schlüsselthemen der griechischen Religion, wie Götter und Helden, Tier- und Menschenopfer, Schweigepflicht und Wahrsagerei. Er klärt auch die Bedeutung griechischer Mythen und ihre Beziehung zu Ritualen, Geschichte und antiker Propaganda.
Becoming a Man in Ancient Greece and Rome
Essays on Myths and Rituals of Initiation
Häftad, 2021
1721 kr
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Jan N. Bremmer erläutert in diesem Werk die Bedeutung der Initiation als Schlüssel zum Verständnis einiger der berühmtesten griechischen Mythen. Er erläutert die Hintergründe des Trojanischen Krieges, beleuchtet aber auch andere berühmte Mythen, wie Ödipus' Sieg über die Sphinx, Dionysos' weibliche …
Jews, Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire
Collected Essays III
Inbunden, 2025
3118 kr
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Dieser Band versammelt ausgewählte Studien Jan N. Bremmers zum Wechselspiel von Judentum, Christentum und paganer Religion im Römischen Reich. Der Autor behandelt eine weite Bandbreite von Themen, wie Pogrome, Geister, Opfer, Wunder, Mysterien, den Niedergang der traditionellen antiken Religion, …
Antike Religion im Kontext / Ancient Religion in Context
Lexikon / An Encyclopedia
Av Jan N. Bremmer, Georgia Petridou m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
4219 kr
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Dieser Pauly Supplementband erschließt die Religionen der griechisch-römischen Welt in 86 Artikeln auf Englisch und Deutsch, von Ahnen und Askese bis hin zu Wissen und Witwen. Die Beiträge konzentrieren sich auf die Verwendung religiöser Handlungen oder Bedeutungen durch antike Akteure in einer …
Rise of Christianity through the eyes of Gibbon, Harnack and Rodney Stark
Häftad, 2010
399 kr
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