The Reception of Ancient Cyprus in Western Culture 9783110984309, 9783110996654

The Reception of Ancient Cyprus in Western Culture 9783110984309, 9783110996654, 9783110984514, 2022946587

The reception of ancient Cyprus in the Western world has not received much attention in scholarship, despite the fact th

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The Night Journey and Ascension in Islam: The Reception of Religious Narrative in Sunnī, Shī‘ī and Western Culture 9780755612482, 9781848859869

The night journey (isra’) and ascension to heaven (mi’raj) is a singularly auspicious event in the biography of the Prop

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Images of Savages: Ancient Roots of Modern Prejudice in Western Culture 0415188555, 9780415188555

In Images of Savages, the distinguished psychologist Gustav Jahoda advances the provocative thesis that racism and the p

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The reception of ancient virtues and vices in modern popular culture: beauty, bravery, blood and glory 9789004347717, 9004347712

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The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture 0801401011, 0195056396

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The Allure of Sports in Western Culture 9781487519605

Sports are the most popular spectator events in the history of the world. This volume demonstrates how sports shape soci

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Crops, Culture, and Contact in Prehistoric Cyprus 9781407312767, 9781407342436

Recent archaeobotanical results from early Neolithic sites on Cyprus have put the island in the forefront of debates on

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The Culture of Ancient Egypt 9780226901527, 0226901521

The story of Egypt is the story of history itself—the endless rise and fall, the life and death and life again of the et

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The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization and Paratext 9789004414525, 9004414525

"In The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization and Paratext, a team of in

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Ancient Myths in the Making of Culture 9783653045079, 9783631651766, 365304507X

The reception of Mediterranean Antiquity heritage is one of the dominant research areas in contemporary classical studie

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