The statue Victorious Youth, popularly known as the "Getty bronze," is one of a very few life-size bronzes from ancient Greece known to exist in the world today. These surviving pieces are representatives of literally thousands of such statues that were once displayed in sanctuaries, city
centers, and private homes and gardens, belying the modern perception that they are one-of-a-kind works. In this first full-length study of the sculpture in ...

Contents: The Chaldeans; Sketch of the History of Chaldean Astronomy and Its Influence Upon the Religion; Babylonia and Greece; Dissemination in the West; Power of Astrology; Hermetic Books; Israel and Astrology; The Oriental Mysteries; Theology; Sacred Numbers; The Sun as the Highest God; Development of Solar Theology; Astral Mysticism Ethics and Cult; Mystic Element in Astral Religion; Cosmic Emotion; Eschatology; Astral Mysticism as a ...

No other treatise covers the same ground and presents the chief facts in such a convenient and trustworthy a form. The Oracle at Delphi has been a source of wonder and interest for more than a thousand years due to its amazing power to sway the peoples of ancient worlds, its strange phenomena and its constant intervention in matters important to both the state and individuals. Readers of Greek history and poetry will find this book invaluable in ...

Helen of Troy is the subject of this work. She was one of those beauties who stand out in history and legend eternally for both the admiration and the pity of mankind. The author states that listening to what he has to tell the reader about fair Helen, and the various accounts of her, it will be for you to decide for yourselves whether she was a real person, typical of beauty, charm, failings and sufferings, such as she appeared to generation ...

The new series Studies in Classical Archaeology aims to bring recent archaeological finds, fieldwork and research to the forefront among Greek scholars. This first volume includes 24 papers, plus an epilogue by John Boardman, taken from a colloquium held at Somerville College in Oxford in 2001. The papers are well illustrated throughout, including 86 pages of photographs, and covers a range of different approaches, finds and sites from c. 900 ...

How should we study the democracy of classical Athens? How, if at all, is it relevant to our own world with its different forms of democracy? Attitudes to Athenian democracy have always been affected by the circumstances of those studying it; but, after a period in which scholars professed objectivity and impartiality as their ideal, the possibility of attaining that ideal has been questioned, and ideological commitment and relevance to ...

This book is the outcome of work undertaken in Greece during Mr. Lawson's two years' tenure of the Craven Studentship from 1898 to 1900. The scheme of the work originally proposed was the investigation of the customs and superstitions of modern Greece in their possible bearing upon the life and thought of ancient Greece. Partial Contents: survival of tradition; survival of pagan deities; communion of gods and men; relation of soul and body; ...

Authoritative and highly readable, this volume focuses on the contributions of major figures, and also explores fascinating aspects of works by lesser-known scholars. Mathematicians will find accounts here of every extant Greek mathematical book and many proofs translated directly from ancient texts. Greek scholars will encounter a full treatment of nomenclature and arithmetical symbols. Students of history can extract a chronicle of the ...

Contents: pagan piety in the Graeco-Roman world; greater mysteries at Eleusis; Dionysian excesses; Orphic reform; regenerative rites of the great mother; death & rebirth in Mithraism; Isiac initiation; new birth experience in Hermeticism; mysticism of Philo; social significance of mystery initiation. ...

The substantial legend of Aristomenes, hero of the Messenian resistance to Sparta, is by turns thrilling, mysterious and humorous, and yet it remains almost unknown even to specialist ancient historians. This book, the first monograph to be devoted to Aristomenes, redirects attention to his adventures, which in parts resemble those of King Arthur, Robin Hood and even Sinbad the Sailor, and which may afford us some access to the imagination of a ...