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A catalogue of Greek art covering the two millennia of its history includes not only the wistful ephebes sculpted in accordance with the classical canon, but also savage and primitive Minoan figurines, starkly stylized idols from the Cyclades, and…

This beautifully illustrated book offers a wide-ranging overview of the greatest archaeological sites and discoveries from ancient Greece.

A fascinating collaboration between a medieval historian and a professor of psychiatry, this enthralling book applies modern biological and psychological research findings to the lives of medieval mystics and ascetics. Drawing upon a database of over…

"A survey of how, over the past 4,000 years, religious leaders, poets, painters, and ordinary people have visualized Hell--its location, architecture, furnishings, purpose, and inhabitants."--Inside cover.

Chiefly papers presented in a series of conferences, held at Divinity School, University of Chicago, in March 1981, April 1982 and Oct. 1982.