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Pages: 324
Authors: Mark William Padilla
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This volume reflects on liminality as it relates to initiatory themes in Greek literature and on literary works, especially tragedy, that represent heroes and h
Figures of Speech
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Pages: 361
Authors: Gloria Ferrari
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-01-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Over the past two hundred years, thousands of ancient Greek vases have been unearthed. Yet these artifacts remain a challenge: what did the images depicted on t
Coming of Age in Ancient Greece
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: Stephen John Morewitz
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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What was childhood like in ancient Greece? What activities and games did Greek children embrace? How were they schooled and what religious and ceremonial rites
Death and the Maiden
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Ken Dowden
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-18 - Publisher: Routledge

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A remarkable number of Greek myths concern the plight of virgins – slaughtered, sacrificed, hanged, transformed into birds, cows, dear, bears, trees, and puni
The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Claude Calame
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-18 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece offers the first comprehensive inquiry into the deity of sexual love, a power that permeated daily Greek life. Avoiding Fo