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Potamikon: Sinews of Acheloios
Language: en
Pages: 366
Authors: Nicholas J. Molinari
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-10 - Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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This book, Potamikon, presents an investigation into the origin and identity of the man-faced bull, as well as a catalogue of coins.
Acusilaus of Argos’ Rhapsody in Prose
Language: en
Pages: 202
Authors: Ilaria Andolfi
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-18 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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This volume is a full-scale commentary on the extant fragments of Acusilaus of Argos, commonly regarded as one of the earliest Greek mythographers (VI-V cent. B
Naples: the City of the Sun and Parthenope: the role of astronomy, mythology and Pythagoras in the urban planning of Neapolis
Language: en
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This essay delves into the most intimate secret of Naples through an archaeoastronomical inquiry. It demonstrates that religious and philosophical motivations w
Centaurs and Snake-Kings
Language: en
Pages: 477
Authors: Jeremy McInerney
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-07-25 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Griffins, centaurs and gorgons: the Greek imagination teems with wondrous, yet often monstrous, hybrids. Jeremy McInerney discusses how these composite creature
Potamikon
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Nicola Sisci
Categories: Bronze coins
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology

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Potamikon attempts to solve a question that has perplexed scholars for hundreds of years: Who exactly is the man-faced bull featured so often on Greek coinage?