The Reception of Ancient Cyprus in Western Culture 9783110984309, 9783110996654

The Reception of Ancient Cyprus in Western Culture 9783110984309, 9783110996654, 9783110984514, 2022946587

The reception of ancient Cyprus in the Western world has not received much attention in scholarship, despite the fact th

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The Night Journey and Ascension in Islam: The Reception of Religious Narrative in Sunnī, Shī‘ī and Western Culture 9780755612482, 9781848859869

The night journey (isra’) and ascension to heaven (mi’raj) is a singularly auspicious event in the biography of the Prop

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Images of Savages: Ancient Roots of Modern Prejudice in Western Culture 0415188555, 9780415188555

In Images of Savages, the distinguished psychologist Gustav Jahoda advances the provocative thesis that racism and the p

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The reception of ancient virtues and vices in modern popular culture: beauty, bravery, blood and glory 9789004347717, 9004347712

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The Allure of Sports in Western Culture 9781487519605

Sports are the most popular spectator events in the history of the world. This volume demonstrates how sports shape soci

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The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture 0801401011, 0195056396

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Crops, Culture, and Contact in Prehistoric Cyprus 9781407312767, 9781407342436

Recent archaeobotanical results from early Neolithic sites on Cyprus have put the island in the forefront of debates on

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The reception of Greek lyric poetry in the ancient world : transmission, canonization and paratext 9789004414525, 9004414525

"In The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization and Paratext, a team of in

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The Culture of Sex in Ancient China 9780824864651

The subject of sex was central to early Chinese thought. Discussed openly and seriously as a fundamental topic of human

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Cyprus In The 1930S: British Colonial Rule and the Roots of the Cyprus Conflict 9780755623914, 9781780764382

Why has the unification of Cyprus proved impossible? The existing literature looks to the 1950s, and the formation of EO

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