A provocative, wide-ranging study which challenges our assumptions about Eastern 'backwardness'.

Surveying funerary rites and attitudes toward death from the time of Homer to the fourth century B.C., Robert Garland seeks to show what the ordinary Greek felt about death and ...

how spiritual healing works and how colours, tones, crystals and massage

Discusses the background of the epic poem, and its themes and characters

Looking at contrast and similarity between the above three religions and their influence in South Africa, the central question in this book looks to the future. It asks whether ...

Religion in ancient Greece had a strong public character and within this public religion, there were special cults - 'mysteries'. This welcome volume showcases new research on ...

"Examines the origins and outcomes of the Christian doctrine of atonement; its biblical foundations, development, and theological questions surrounding it, including questions ...

What do we mean when we speak of ancient Greeks? A person from the Archaic period? The war hero celebrated by Homer? Or the fourth century "political animal" described by ...