Snakes With Wings And Gold Digging Ants
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Snakes With Wings And Gold Digging Ants
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Author : Herodotus
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2007-02-01
Snakes With Wings And Gold Digging Ants written by Herodotus and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-01 with Travel categories.
So much of what we know of the Ancient World comes from Herodotus (c.490 BC - c.420 BC) that he will always remain the greatest of historians. But in addition such a large part of the entertainment value of the Ancient World comes from his enormous, omnivorous, sometimes credulous appetite for stories of distant lands and strange creatures. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries – but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.
Monsters In Greek Literature
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Author : Fiona Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-05-30
Monsters In Greek Literature written by Fiona Mitchell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-30 with History categories.
Monsters in Greek literature are often thought of as creatures which exist in mythological narratives, however, as this book shows, they appear in a much broader range of ancient sources and are used in creation narratives, ethnographic texts, and biology to explore the limits of the human body and of the human world. This book provides an in-depth examination of the role of monstrosity in ancient Greek literature. In the past, monsters in this context have largely been treated as unimportant or analysed on an individual basis. By focusing on genres rather than single creatures, the book provides a greater understanding of how monstrosity and abnormal bodies are used in ancient sources. Very often ideas about monstrosity are used as a contrast against which to examine the nature of what it is to be human, both physically and behaviourally. This book focuses on creation narratives, ethnographic writing, and biological texts. These three genres address the origins of the human world, its spatial limits, and the nature of the human body; by examining monstrosity in these genres we can see the ways in which Greek texts construct the space and time in which people exist and the nature of our bodies. This book is aimed primarily at scholars and students undertaking research, not only those with an interest in monstrosity, but also scholars exploring cultural representations of time (especially the primordial and mythological past), ancient geography and ethnography, and ancient philosophy and science. As the representation of monsters in antiquity was strongly influential on medieval, renaissance, and early modern images and texts, this book will also be relevant to people researching these areas.
The Story Of The Gold Digging Ants
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Author : T. A. Rickard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
The Story Of The Gold Digging Ants written by T. A. Rickard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with categories.
What Every American Should Know About The Middle East
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Author : Melissa Rossi
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2008-12-30
What Every American Should Know About The Middle East written by Melissa Rossi and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-30 with History categories.
The What Every American Should Know series returns with a timely guide to the region Americans need to understand the most (and know the least) The latest edition of Melissa Rossi's popular What Every American Should Know series gives a crash course on one of the most complex and important regions of the world. In this comprehensive and engaging reference book, Rossi offers a clear analysis of the issues playing out in the Middle East, delving into each country's history, politics, economy, and religions. Having traveled through the area over the past year, she exposes firsthand the U.S.'s geopolitical moves and how our presence has affected the region's economic and political development. Topics include: · Why Iran is viewed as a threat by most Middle East countries · What resource is more important than petroleum in regional power plays · What's really behind the fighting between Sunni and Shia · How Saudi Arabia inadvertently feeds the violence in Iraq and beyond · How monarchies like those in Jordan and Qatar are more open and progressive than the so-called republics With answers that will surprise many Americans, and covering a vast history and cultural complexity that will fascinate any student of the world, What Every American Should Know About the Middle East is a must-read introduction to the most critical region of the twenty-first century.
Children Morality And Society
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Author : S. Frankel
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-04-17
Children Morality And Society written by S. Frankel and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-17 with Social Science categories.
This book explores the extent to which children engage with questions of morality, arguing that they are active members of society who have both the capacity and understanding to engage with discourses of morality.
V Y Mudimbe
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Author : Pierre-Philippe Fraiture
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2013-08-30
V Y Mudimbe written by Pierre-Philippe Fraiture and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
VY Mudimbe: Undisciplined Africanism is the first English-language monograph dedicated to the work of Valentin Yves Mudimbe. This book charts the intellectual history of the seminal Congolese philosopher, epistemologist, and philologist from the late 1960s to the present day, exploring his major essays and novels. Pierre-Philippe Fraiture highlights Mudimbe’s trajectory through major debates on African nationalism, Panafricanism, neo-colonialism, negritude, pedagogy, Christianisation, decolonisation, anthropology, postcolonial representations, and a variety of other subjects, using these as contexts for close readings of many of Mudimbe’s texts, both influential and lesser-known. The book demonstrates that Mudimbe’s intellectual career has been informed by a series of decisive dialogues with some of the key exponents of Africanism (Herodotus, EW Blyden, Placide Tempels), continental and postcolonial thought (Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, and Claude Lévi-Strauss), and African thought and philosophy from Africa and the diaspora (L.S. Senghor, Patrice Nganang, and Achille Mbembe).
Centaurs And Snake Kings
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Author : Jeremy McInerney
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-07-25
Centaurs And Snake Kings written by Jeremy McInerney and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-25 with History categories.
Griffins, centaurs and gorgons: the Greek imagination teems with wondrous, yet often monstrous, hybrids. Jeremy McInerney discusses how these composite creatures arise from the entanglement of humans and animals. Overlaying such enmeshment is the rich cultural exchange experienced by Greeks across the Mediterranean. Hybrids, the author reveals, capture the anxiety of cross-cultural encounter, where similarity and incongruity were conjoined. Hybridity likewise expresses instability of identity. The ancient sea, that most changeable ancient domain, was viewed as home to monsters like Skylla; while on land the centaur might be hypersexual yet also hypercivilized, like Cheiron. Medusa may be destructive, yet also alluring. Wherever conventional values or behaviours are challenged, there the hybrid gives that threat a face. This absorbing work unveils a mercurial world of shifting categories that offer an alternative to conventional certainties. Transforming disorder into images of wonder, Greek hybrids – McInerney suggests – finally suggest other ways of being human.
The Tradition Of The Gold Digging Ants
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Author : Frederik Schiern
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875
The Tradition Of The Gold Digging Ants written by Frederik Schiern and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with Ants categories.
The Way Of Herodotus
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Author : Justin Marozzi
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Release Date : 2010-02-02
The Way Of Herodotus written by Justin Marozzi and has been published by Da Capo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-02 with History categories.
Intrepid travel historian Justin Marozzi retraces the footsteps of Herodotus through the Mediterranean and Middle East, examining Herodotus's 2,500-year-old observations about the cultures and places he visited and finding echoes of his legacy reverberating to this day. The Way of Herodotus is a lively yet thought-provoking excursion into the world of Herodotus, with the man who invented history ever present, guiding the narrative with his discursive spirit.
The Congo And The Cameroons
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Author : Mary Kingsley
language : en
Publisher: ePenguin
Release Date : 2007-02
The Congo And The Cameroons written by Mary Kingsley and has been published by ePenguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02 with Literary Collections categories.
Mary Kingsley's journeys through tropical west Africa are a remarkable record, both of a world that has vanished and of a writer of immense bravery, wit and humanity. Paddling through mangrove swamps, fending off crocodiles, climbing Mount Cameroon, Kingsley is both admirable and funny.