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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Hard to believe but true: - The Passover Seder is a Greco-Roman symposium banquet - The Talmud rabbis presented themselves as Stoic philosophers - Synagogue buildings were Roman basilicas - Hellenistic rhetoric professors educated sons of well-to-do Jews - Zeus-Helios is depicted in synagogue mosaics across ancient Israel - The Jewish courts were named after the Roman political institution, the Sanhedrin - In Israel there were synagogues where the...
3) Mythology
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of Greek and Roman myths from various classical sources arranged in section on the gods and early heroes, love and adventure stories, heroes before and during the Trojan War, and lesser myths. Includes a brief section on Norse mythology
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Language
English
Description
"The black-tie gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art promises to be a star-studded evening. Cordelia Stapleton and John Sinclair have flown in from Alexandria, Egypt, to help celebrate ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian culture with New York's elite. The influential crowd of artists, collectors, scientists, and New York society dine and dance at the museum's historic Temple of Dendur, unaware that terrorists are planning to attack. Fortunately, museum...
Author
Publisher
Hay House
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
An encyclopedia listing 77 divinities from Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Asian, Babylonian, Tibetan, Buddhist, Celtic, Theosophical, New Age, Catholic, Cabalistic, Jewish, and Christian roots. Virtue carefully researched and wrote about the history of each of the deities, what role they serve today, how they can help us with specific life problems, and how to call upon each one. Virtue spent time in communication with each divinity to ensure that the being...
Author
Publisher
Praeger/ABC-CLIO
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Psychiatrist and social advocate Fredric Wertham lobbied against comics because of their sexual and sadistic subtext and their potential to reverse women's roles and encourage same-sex behavior. However, Wertham's McCarthy-Era stance forgot that early superhero comics foretold Hitler's threat - and offered solutions." "Superheroes have provided entertainment for generations, but there is much more to these fictional characters than what first meets...
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