The Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Five: Last Olympian
The Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Five: Last Olympian By Rick Riordan Publisher: Hyperion Books, May 5, 2009 ISBN: 9781423101475 All
The Percy Jackson And The Olympians, Book Four: Battle Of The Labyrinth
The Percy Jackson And The Olympians, Book Four: Battle Of The Labyrinth By Rick Riordan Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children, April 14, 2009…
The Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Two: Sea of Monsters
The Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Two: Sea of Monsters By Rick Riordan Publisher: Hyperion Books, April 15, 2007 ISBN: 9781423103349 After…
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightening Thief
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightening Thief Synopsis Trouble prone Percy Jackson is having problems in high school – but that’s the…
Religion in the Ancient Novel
Religion plays a central role in the plot of virtually every fictional narrative, influencing the lives, actions, mentality, practices, beliefs, and eventual fates of the characters (and narrators); the types, interventions, and motives of divinity or other uncanny forces; the use of mythological exemplars.
Golden Verses: Voice and Authority in the Tablets
Golden Verses: Voice and Authority in the Tablets Richard P.Martin (Stanford) Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics: April (2007) Abstract This paper attempts to…
The Tower of Babel: archaeology, history and cuneiform texts
Such is the fame of the myth of the Tower of Babel related in Genesis 11 that the publication of a new monograph on the building generally thought to have inspired the myth is an important event.
Bad Boys: Circumcellions and Fictive Violence
The circumcellions were roving bands of violent men and women found in late Roman Africa. The problem is that far more of them have been produced by literary fictions, ancient and modern, than once existed.
Religion in Roman Historiography and Epic
It is now impossible for us to know how—or even whether—the Romans represented divine action and religious practice in narrative or song before they began their project of adapting Greek literary forms into a national literature of their own in the second half of the third century BC.
Cult and Belief in Punic and Roman Africa
This is a second attempt at a synthesis of the main problems for the forthcoming Cambridge History of Ancient Religions. The problems are complex and still threaten to overwhelm. This version remains a cri de coeur: any helpful comments and criticisms are encouraged.