Deadly Treasures (A Lady Alkmene Cosy Mystery, Book 3)

Deadly Treasures (A Lady Alkmene Cosy Mystery, Book 3)
Author: Vivian Conroy
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2016-11-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0008205183

‘Vivian Conroy's series gets more exciting, adventurous, and dangerous each new books.’ – Nikkia's Reviews The third book in the Lady Alkmene Callender Mystery series Murder on the coast

Pots & Plays

Pots & Plays
Author: Oliver Taplin
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2007-10-15
Genre: Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN: 0892368071

This interdisciplinary study opens up a fascinating interaction between art and theater. It shows how the mythological vase-paintings of fourth-century B.C. Greeks, especially those settled in southern Italy, are more meaningful for those who had seen the myths enacted in the popular new medium of tragedy. Of some 300 relevant vases, 109 are reproduced and accompanied by a picture-by-picture discussion. This book supplies a rich and unprecedented resource from a neglected treasury of painting.

Diamonds of Death (A Lady Alkmene Cosy Mystery, Book 2)

Diamonds of Death (A Lady Alkmene Cosy Mystery, Book 2)
Author: Vivian Conroy
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2016-10-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0008205175

‘as delightful as the first book.’ - The Stories of Chantel Dacosta The second Lady Alkmene Callender Mystery A family of secrets...

On the Daimonion of Socrates

On the Daimonion of Socrates
Author: Plutarch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Demonology
ISBN: 9783161501371

Plutarch's dialogue "On the daimonion of Socrates" is a unique combination of exciting historical romance and serious philosophical and religious discussion: A narrator from Boeotian Thebes tells his Athenian friend how Thebes was liberated from Spartan domination in a fateful night of midwinter 379/8 BC and connects this with the retelling of a fascinating philosophical discussion about the famous daimonion of Socrates in the afternoon and evening before. Besides presenting an introduction, a revised Greek text, and a new English translation (with copious notes), the volume offers a range of essays on themes providing further insights into this masterly literary piece: on the historical, religious and philosophical background and on thematic connections with other works by Plutarch.

Atlantis

Atlantis
Author: Ignatius Donnelly
Publisher: Book Tree
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2006-08
Genre: Deluge
ISBN: 1585092681

Long known as the classic work on the study of Atlantis, the author puts forth the idea that this was the true place where civilization began.This one book has done more than any other in promoting the idea for the lost continent of Atlantis.

Gates of Fire

Gates of Fire
Author: Steven Pressfield
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2007-01-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0553904051

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Steven Pressfield brings the battle of Thermopylae to brilliant life.”—Pat Conroy At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army. Day after bloody day they withstood the terrible onslaught, buying time for the Greeks to rally their forces. Born into a cult of spiritual courage, physical endurance, and unmatched battle skill, the Spartans would be remembered for the greatest military stand in history—one that would not end until the rocks were awash with blood, leaving only one gravely injured Spartan squire to tell the tale. . . .

Herakles, the Hero of Thebes

Herakles, the Hero of Thebes
Author: Mary Elizabeth Burt
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2024-07-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 3988680788

While traveling in Greece, Miss Burt found the children of the Primary Schools reading these stories in the lower grades, the book being one used next above the primer. The interest was enthusiastic, and she brought home a copy of the book, which she has now arranged as a second reading-book for our own schools. The rapidity of action in the stories of Herakles, Jason, and the other Heroes of the Myth, the prowess and courage and untiring endurance of the men, render the characters worthy subjects of thought to young mind , and have secured the stories a permanent place in educational literature.