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Classical Mythology
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
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the chalice and the blade
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Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world - a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima, the most important study of history ever produced in the Islamic world, is not as well known as he should be, and his ideas are widely misunderstood. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography, Robert Irwin provides an engaging and authoritative account of Ibn Khaldun's extraordinary life, times, writings, and ideas.
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Issues with accuracy, pronounciation
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Very Interesting and Informative, but Poorly Read
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A one-eyed old man, with a gray cloak and a wide-brimmed hat leaning on a staff. A wanderer who appears when least expected, bringing triumph or doom. The god of prophecy, poetry and fate. A shape changer. A sorcerer. The god Odin cuts a dramatic figure in Norse mythology and is still a part of the popular imagination. He is the inspiration for figures like J.R.R. Tolkien's Gandalf the Grey, and he still appears in modern literature as varied as Marvel Comics and Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods.
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Not what I expected but enjoyable nontheless
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A wild and unexpected journey through culture, science, philosophy, and religion to better understand the mercurial genius of William Blake.
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What a journey!
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From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of the first two centuries of the Jesus movement, transforming our understanding of the religion and its early dissemination.
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Excellent and informative
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Before We Were Trans
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Before We Were Trans illuminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present, whose experiences of gender have defied binary categories. Blending historical analysis with sharp cultural criticism, trans historian and activist Kit Heyam offers a new, radically inclusive trans history, chronicling expressions of trans experience that are often overlooked, like gender-nonconforming fashion and wartime stage performance. Heyam looks to the past to uncover new horizons for possible trans futures.
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The history we need right now
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The Bible's Cutting Room Floor
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In The Bible’s Cutting Room Floor, acclaimed author and translator Dr. Joel M. Hoffman gives us the stories and other texts that didn’t make it into the Bible even though they offer penetrating insight into the Bible and its teachings. The Book of Genesis tells us about Adam and Eve’s time in the Garden of Eden, but not their saga after they get kicked out or the lessons they have for us about good and evil.
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Good content, rather poor presentation by narrator
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The Lost Gospel
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Waiting to be rediscovered in the British Library is an ancient manuscript of the early Church, copied by an anonymous monk. The manuscript is at least 1,450 years old, possibly dating to the first century, Jesus' lifetime. And now, The Lost Gospel provides the first-ever translation from Syriac into English of this unique document that tells the inside story of Jesus' social, family, and political life. The Lost Gospel takes listeners on an unparalleled historical adventure through a paradigm-shifting manuscript.
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Very well-crafted but uses lot of sketchy material
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Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Classical Mythology
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- Wallace Stevens
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not a good book
This is a vile book.
I was hoping for a summary/overview of Greek myth, instead I get warmed-over Foucault, cultural studies nonsense. Yes friends, it's all about Power, nothing else has any importance! Complete rubbish! Oh yes, this is Oxford University Press producing this garbage? How on earth did that happen?
Also, what is with these beastly mispronunciations? Isn't anyone listening to these recordings? Pronouncing "nous" as "noose"? Butchering "philologist"? Yes, the reader has a lovely voice and she reads clearly, but really! Sadly, this is a problem on many audiobooks.
Fortunately, I only paid $9.00 for this thing. If only I could remove it from my library...
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- Christopher Trogan
- 11-24-23
Ideological Mythology
If you're looking for an introduction to mythology, there are many others books that actually introduce mythology, rather than the current popular trend of viewing mythology as makes ideology. Very disappointing.
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- Drone Boy
- 05-08-24
Woeful: poorly titled, written, and structured
I came to this introduction to classical mythology thinking, after having read some of the negative reviews, that an introduction to classical mythology could not be that bad. Unfortunately, this book lived up to those negative reviews, and for a number of reasons.
Firstly, this book is erroneously and perhaps deceptively titled. It should be titled: classical mythology in modern culture, as Morales reads a variety of classical Greek myths in terms of how they appear today, on the Euro coin, on the front of buildings, and in photographs of socialites. This introduction, therefore, is not really about classical mythology but a kind of pseudo-anthropological cultural-studies based analysis of myth in modern culture.
Secondly, the introduction lacks any coherent structure, so that the chapters read like rambling descriptions of mythological narratives, and how they have changed over time. Some of these discussions prove interesting, but they lack much substance. Indeed, sometimes a chapter just ends, and you are left wondering: what was that all about? What was the meaning of that chapter?
Thirdly, the writing is fairly turgid and some of the chapters tend to meander of into discussion that read more like gossip and hearsay than empirical-based analysis driven by some governing thesis.
The Golden Bough is on Audible and, while seriously long, i would recommend it to anyone interested in the relationship between myth and ritual. I would not recommend this title.
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