Tag: Polis

Order and History (Volume 2) The World of the Polis


Free Download Athanasios Moulakis, "Order and History (Volume 2): The World of the Polis"
English | 2000 | pages: 488 | ISBN: 0826212832 | PDF | 3,1 mb
This second volume of Voegelin’s magisterial Order and History, The World of the Polis, explores the ancient Greek symbolization of human reality. Taking us from the origins of Greek culture in the Pre-Homeric Cretan civilizations, through the Iliad and Odyssey, Hesiod, and the rise of philosophy with the Pre-Socratics Parmenides and Heraclitus, this masterful work concludes with the historians of the classical period.

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The Mysteries of Artemis of Ephesos Cult, Polis, and Change in the Graeco-Roman World


Free Download Guy MacLean Rogers, "The Mysteries of Artemis of Ephesos: Cult, Polis, and Change in the Graeco-Roman World "
English | ISBN: 0300178638 | 2013 | 528 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
Artemis of Ephesos was one of the most widely worshiped deities of the Graeco-Roman World. Her temple, the Artemision, was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and for more than half a millennium people flocked to Ephesos to learn the great secret of the mysteries and sacrifices that were celebrated every year on her birthday.

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Early Greek States Beyond the Polis


Free Download Catherine Morgan, "Early Greek States Beyond the Polis"
English | 2003 | pages: 339 | ISBN: 0415089964, 0415486718 | PDF | 5,4 mb
Clear and direct in style, and with more than eighty photographs, maps and plans, Early Greek States Beyond the Polis is a widely relevant study of Greek history, archaeology and society.

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