Author: Ms. Sarah Iles Johnston
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: press, reference, library, university, harvard, ancient, world, guide, religions
Number of Pages: 736
Published: 2004-11-30
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0674015177
ISBN-13: 9780674015173

"Religious beliefs and practices, which permeated all aspects of life in antiquity, traveled well-worn routes throughout the Mediterranean: itinerant charismatic practitioners journeying from place to place peddled their skills as healers, purifiers, cursers, and initiators; and vessels decorated with illustrations of myths traveled with them. New gods encountered in foreign lands by merchants and conquerors were sometimes taken home to be adapted and adopted. A full understanding of this complex spiritual world unfolds in Religions of the Ancient World, the first basic reference work that col

Author: Sarah Iles Johnston
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: ancient, religions, blackwell, divination, greek
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2008-08-25
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1405115734
ISBN-13: 9781405115735

The first English-language survey of ancient Greek divinatory methods, Ancient Greek Divination offers a broad yet detailed treatment of the earliest attempts by ancient Greeks to seek the counsel of the gods. Offers in-depth discussions of oracles, wandering diviners, do-it-yourself methods of foretelling the future, magical divinatory techniques, and much more Illustrates how the study of divination illuminates the mentalities of ancient Greek religions and societies

Author: Sarah Iles Johnston
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: dead, greece, ancient, encounters, restless, living
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 1999-05-03
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0520217071
ISBN-13: 9780520217072

During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions--most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to increased contacts with cultures of the ancient Near East. In Restless Dead, Sarah Iles Johnston presents and interprets these changes, using them to build a complex picture of the way in which the society of the dead reflected that of the living, expressing and defusing its tensions, reiterating its values and eventually becoming a source o

Author: Ms. Sarah Iles Johnston
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: religions, ancient
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-09-30
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0674025482
ISBN-13: 9780674025486

Religious beliefs and practices, which permeated all aspects of life in antiquity, traveled well-worn routes throughout the Mediterranean: itinerant charismatic practitioners journeying from place to place peddled their skills as healers, purifiers, cursers, and initiators; and vessels decorated with illustrations of myths traveled with them. New gods encountered in foreign lands by merchants and conquerors were sometimes taken home to be adapted and adopted. This collection of essays by a distinguished international group of scholars, drawn from the groundbreaking reference work Religion in

Authors:Fritz Graf, Sarah Iles Johnston,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: gold, tablets, bacchic, orpheus, texts, afterlife, ritual
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-06-22
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0415415500
ISBN-13: 9780415415507

Fascinating texts written on small gold tablets that were deposited in graves provide a unique source of information about what some Greeks and Romans believed regarding the fate that awaited them after death, and how they could influence it.  These texts, dating from the late fifth century BCE to the second century CE, have been part of the scholarly debate on ancient afterlife beliefs since the end of the nineteenth century.  Recent finds and analysis of the texts have reshaped our understanding of their purpose and of the perceived afterlife.  The tablets belonged to those who had been

Authors:James J. Clauss, Sarah Iles Johnston,
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: medea, art, philosophy, myth, essays, literature
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 1996-12-23
List price: $46.00
ISBN-10: 0691043760
ISBN-13: 9780691043760

From the dawn of European literature, the figure of Medea--best known as the helpmate of Jason and murderer of her own children--has inspired artists in all fields throughout all centuries. Euripides, Seneca, Corneille, Delacroix, Anouilh, Pasolini, Maria Callas, Martha Graham, Samuel Barber, and Diana Rigg are among the many who have given Medea life on stage, film, and canvas, through music and dance, from ancient Greek drama to Broadway. In seeking to understand the powerful hold Medea has had on our imaginations for nearly three millennia, a group of renowned scholars here examines the maj

Authors:Annie Fellows Johnston, Anne Johnston,
Publisher: Applewood Books
Keywords: colonel, little
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1557093156
ISBN-13: 9781557093158

A spunky little girl who lives on her grandfather’s farm in Kentucky reunites a fragmented family after the Civil War.