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Free Download Cavafy’s Hellenistic Antiquities: History, Archaeology, Empire (The New Antiquity) by Takis Kayalis
English | December 12, 2023 | ISBN: 3031349016 | 295 pages | MOBI | 4.08 Mb
This book reinterprets C. P. Cavafy’s historical and archaeological poetics by correlating his work to major cultural, political and sexualized receptions of antiquity that marked the turn of the 20th century. Focusing on selected poems which stage readings of Hellenistic and late ancient texts and material objects, this study probes the poet’s personal library and archive to trace his scholarly sources and scrutinize their contribution to his creative practice. A new understanding of Cavafy’s historicism emerges by comparing his poetics to a broad array of discourses and intellectual pursuits of his time; these range from antiquarianism, physiognomy and Egyptomania to cultural appropriations of the classics which sought to legitimate British colonial rule as well as homoerotic desire. As this volume demonstrates, Cavafy embraced antiquarianism as an empathetic and passionate way of relating to the past and shaped it into a method that allowed his poetry to render modern meanings to Hellenistic antiquities.

Free Download Antipodean Antiquities: Classical Reception Down Under (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception) by Marguerite Johnson
English | March 21, 2019 | ISBN: 1350021237 | 452 pages | PDF | 10 Mb
Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art.

Free Download Nicholas Peter Legh Allen, "Christian Forgery in Jewish Antiquities"
English | ISBN: 1527555275 | 2020 | 355 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Since at least the fourth century CE, the Jewish historian Josephus Judean Antiquities has been assumed to be a critical source for valid extra-biblical evidence pertaining to the existence of the historical Jesus, James the Just and John the Baptist. Based on the latest findings from both contemporary and independent research, this book sets out, step by step, the final proof that (apart from the New Testament) there is absolutely no valid record pertaining to the historical existence of any of these individuals.

Free Download Cavafy’s Hellenistic Antiquities: History, Archaeology, Empire
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031349016 | 413 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 21 MB
This book reinterprets C. P. Cavafy’s historical and archaeological poetics by correlating his work to major cultural, political and sexualized receptions of antiquity that marked the turn of the 20th century. Focusing on selected poems which stage readings of Hellenistic and late ancient texts and material objects, this study probes the poet’s personal library and archive to trace his scholarly sources and scrutinize their contribution to his creative practice. A new understanding of Cavafy’s historicism emerges by comparing his poetics to a broad array of discourses and intellectual pursuits of his time; these range from antiquarianism, physiognomy and Egyptomania to cultural appropriations of the classics which sought to legitimate British colonial rule as well as homoerotic desire. As this volume demonstrates, Cavafy embraced antiquarianism as an empathetic and passionate way of relating to the past and shaped it into a method that allowed his poetry to render modern meanings to Hellenistic antiquities.

Free Download The Antiquities of the Jews (Audiobook)
English | August 20, 2021 | ASIN: B09D42LFB6 | M4B@64 kbps | 51h 46m | 1.38 GB
Author: Flavius Josephus | Narrator: Allan Corduner
Among the many important historical documents from the Classical world of Greece and Rome The Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus is one of the most distinctive and characterful. Josephus (37-c100 CE) set out with the clear purpose of telling the history of the Jews from the creation in Genesis to the Jewish revolt against the Romans in 66 CE. Born in Jerusalem as Yosef ben Matityahu, he rose to become a leading participant in the First Jewish Revolt (66-73 CE).