Greek Mysteries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Greek Mysteries write by Michael B. Cosmopoulos. This book was released on 2005-08-18. Greek Mysteries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written by an international team of acknowledged experts, this excellent book studies a wide range of contributions and showcases new research on the archaeology, ritual and history of Greek mystery cults. With a lack of written evidence that exists for the mysteries, archaeology has proved central to explaining their significance and this volume is key to understanding a phenomenon central to Greek religion and society.
De Mysteriis
De Mysteriis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook De Mysteriis write by Iamblichus. This book was released on 2003. De Mysteriis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume presents the first modern English translation of Iamblichus’s De mysteriis alongside the standard critical edition of the text by Édouard Des Places (Les Belles Lettres, 1966). This important work, which provides a unique insight into the mystical side of late Neoplatonism, has hitherto been neglected to an unfortunate degree, partly due to its inaccessibility. Iamblichus argues that the only true good is union with the gods and that the only route to this divine union is theurgy—religious ritual demonstrating supernatural power—which both symbolizes and encapsulates the extraordinary miracle of the soul’s conversion back to its divine origin. The process of sacrifice, the activities of angels and demons, the meaning of divine possession, and the functioning of oracles are all examined in this extraordinary defense of theurgic mysticism against contemporary critics such as Porphyry. Clarke, Dillon, and Hershbell bring this famous and fascinating text to light through their introduction and extensive notes.
The Ionia Sanction
The Ionia Sanction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ionia Sanction write by Gary Corby. This book was released on 2011-11-08. The Ionia Sanction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Corby has not only made Greek history accessible—he's made it first-rate entertainment." --Kelli Stanley, award-winning author of Nox Dormienda and City of Dragons Athens, 460 B.C. Life's tough for Nicolaos, the only investigating agent in ancient Athens. His girlfriend's left him and his boss wants to fire him. But when an Athenian official is murdered, the brilliant statesman Pericles has no choice but to put Nico on the job. The case takes Nico, in the company of a beautiful slave girl, to the land of Ionia within the Persian Empire. The Persians will execute him on the spot if they think he's a spy. Beyond that, there are only a few minor problems: He's being chased by brigands who are only waiting for the right price before they kill him. Somehow he has to placate his girlfriend, who is very angry about that slave girl. He must meet Themistocles, the military genius who saved Greece during the Persian Wars, and then defected to the hated enemy. And to solve the crime, Nico must uncover a secret that could not only destroy Athens, but will force him to choose between love, and ambition, and his own life.
The Greek Mysteries
The Greek Mysteries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Greek Mysteries write by Bianchi. This book was released on 1976-12. The Greek Mysteries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites
The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites write by Dudley Wright. This book was released on 2021-04-25. The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This brochure by Brother Wright, a Masonic scholar of Oxford, England, contains the ripest scholarship on Eleusis, its rites, symbols, and legends. This study of the Grecian mysteries shows the ties between the rituals celebrated in the 7th century BC and the 19th cent Freemasonry tradition. As the author noted, there is a striking resemblance in many points to the Operative and Speculative Freemasonry practices, which laid the basis of this work.
