Suzanne Preston Blier, "Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: Ife History, Power, and Identity, c. 1300"
English | ISBN: 1107021669 | 2015 | 595 pages | PDF | 37 MB
In this book, Suzanne Preston Blier examines the intersection of art, risk, and creativity in early African arts from the Yoruba center of Ife and the striking ways that ancient Ife artworks inform society, politics, history, and religion. Yoruba art offers a unique lens into one of Africa's most important and least understood early civilizations, one whose historic arts have long been of interest to local residents and Westerners alike because of their tour-de-force visual power and technical complexity. Among the complementary subjects explored are questions of art making, art viewing, and aesthetics in the famed ancient Nigerian city-state, as well as the attendant risks and danger assumed by artists, patrons, and viewers alike in certain forms of subject matter and modes of portrayal, including unique genres of body marking, portraiture, animal symbolism, and regalia. This volume celebrates art, history, and the shared passion and skill with which the remarkable artists of early Ife sought to define their past for generations of viewers.

The Ancient Athenian Navy: The History and Legacy of Greece's Dominant Naval Force in Antiquity by Charles River Editors
English | April 11, 2019 | ISBN: 1093657480 | 130 pages | EPUB | 1.89 Mb
*Includes pictures

Ancient Egypt A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition by Ian Shaw | 4.33 MB
English | 216 Pages

Title: Ancient Egypt
Author: Ian Shaw
Year: 2021

By Pau Figueras, "Death and Afterlife in Ancient Jewish and Christian Literature "
English | ISBN: 146323919X | 2019 | 221 pages | PDF | 2 MB

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Greek Geometry - Secrets of the Ancient Mystics Revealed
pdf, epub, azw3, mobi | 5.77 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B08T6SC4DP | Author: Unknown | Year: 2021

Ancient and Medieval Concepts of Friendship (SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy) edited by Suzanne Stern-Gillet, Gary M. Gurtler
English | December 1, 2014 | ISBN: 1438453655, 1438453647 | EPUB | 344 pages | 0.9 MB
Charts the stages of the history of friendship as a philosophical concept in the Western world.

Ancient Egypt - A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions), 2nd Edition
epub | 4.33 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 0198845464 | Author: Ian Shaw | Year: 2021

various authors, Dr. Michael S. Heiser, D. Clapper, "The Anunnaki Gods According to Ancient Mesopotamian Sources: English Translations of Important Scholarly Works with Brief Comme"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0692199063 | 114 pages | EPUB / MOBI | 0.55 MB
This edited volume offers, for the first time, English translations of the four major scholarly articles (originally written in German) on the Anunnaki gods of ancient Mesopotamian religion. The four articles were translated by a native German speaker. These articles provide primary source data and informed scholarly discussion about the Anunnaki. One can either base one's knowledge about the Anunnaki on the speculations found online and in popular television shows, or one can allow the Sumerians and other Mesopotamian writers to speak for themselves.

Mortuary Variability and Social Diversity in Ancient Greece - Studies on Ancient Greek Death and Burial
pdf | 12.82 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 978-1789694420 | Author: Nikolas Dimakis;Tamara M. Dijkstra; | Year: 2020

Ancient Apologetic Exegesis: Introducing and Recovering Theophilus's World By Stuart E. Parsons
2015 | 237 Pages | ISBN: 162564809X | PDF | 5 MB
New Testament scholarship uncovers much about first-century Christianity. Early Christian masters such as Origen and Augustine draw great attention to the third and following centuries. Yet oddly, despite this flood of attention to both the first century and to the third and later centuries, the second century often escapes notice, this despite its almost living memory of Jesus and his apostles from only a generation or two prior. A distinctive biblical exegesis was used by those second-century apologists who challenged Greco-Roman pagan religionists. Along with introducing the general shape of this ancient apologetic exegesis, Ancient Apologetic Exegesis aims at its recovery as well. Current literature often misunderstands or dismisses second-century exegetical approaches. But by looking behind anachronistic views of ancient genre, literacy, and rhetoric, we can rediscover a forgotten form of early Christian exegesis.