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"Barber traces the history of the stories surrounding the Holy Grail, beginning with Chretien de Troyes, who in the twelfth century first imagined the famous scene in which a mysterious golden vessel adorned with jewels was paraded before the eyes of…

The heroic age of the Mycenaeans -- Greek beginnings and the remembrance of the Heroic Age -- Archaic Greek art -- Archaic Greek architecture -- Greek art 500-450 B.C. -- Greek classic art -- Greek art in its second classic phase : late fifth century…

Early phases of the pictorial arts. The flowering of the art of the book. The beginning of the end. Beyond the material world. The final phase.

The world's most renowned authorities on the botany and chemistry of hallucinogens have produced an exhaustive study of psychoactive flora. The properties of the plants and the use made of them by man are examined and detailed by botanist Richard…

"The philosopher Heraclitus was a high-born citizen of Ephesus, who lived in the sixth century B.C. He renounced his high station and became increasingly distant from his fellow men, and disillusioned with the corruption of their thought. He died in…

"With hundreds of illustrations and specially commissioned drawings, this is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the deities that lay at the heart of Egyptian religion and society."--Jacket.

The temples of ancient Egypt include the largest and perhaps most impressive religious monuments the world has ever known. Mansions of the gods, models of Egypt and of the universe, focal points of worship, great treasure houses and islands of order…

"Leaving the secluded castle of his queen mother, a kingdom of splendor and innocence, Parsival meets the world in a series of extraordinary adventures and mysterious encounters of the sword and of the soul."--Flyleaf.