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-5% Esaurito Home Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization Autore: Zimmer Heinrich Princeton University Press 15,20 € 16,00 € Vedi
-5% Esaurito India The Presence of Śiva Autore: Kramrisch Stella Princeton University Press 28,50 € 30,00 € One of the three great gods of Hinduism, Śiva is a living god. The most sacred and most ancient book of India, The Rg Veda, evokes his presence in its hymns; Vedic myths, rituals, and even astronomy testify to his existence from the dawn of time. In a lively meditation on Śiva - based on original Sanskrit texts, many translated here for the first time -... Vedi
-5% Esaurito Home Philosophies of India Autore: Zimmer Heinrich Princeton University Press 23,75 € 25,00 € Vedi
-5% Esaurito Home The First Fossil Hunters Autore: Mayor Adrienne Princeton University Press 23,75 € 25,00 € Griffins, Cyclopes, Monsters, and Giants--these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? What if monstrous creatures once roamed the earth in the very places... Vedi
-5% Esaurito Arte e Architettura Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art Autore: Morris Sarah P. Princeton University Press 25,65 € 27,00 € In a major revisionary approach to ancient Greek culture, Sarah Morris invokes as a paradigm the myths surrounding Daidalos to describe the profound influence of the Near East on Greece's artistic and literary origins. Vedi
-5% Esaurito Egitto The Egyptian Hermes Autore: Fowden Garth Princeton University Press 22,80 € 24,00 € Sage, scientist and sorcerer, Hermes Trismegistus was the culture-hero of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. A human (according to some) who had lived about the time of Moses, but now indisputably a god, he was credited with the authorship of a whole library of books on magic and the supernatural, alchemy, astrology, theology, and philosophy. Until the early... Vedi
-5% Esaurito Arte e Architettura Traditional Art and Symbolism. Selected Papers Autore: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy Princeton University Press 66,50 € 70,00 € Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was a pioneer in Indian art history and in the cultural confrontation of East and West. A scholar in the tradition of the great Indian grammarians and philosophers, an art historian convinced that the ultimate value of art transcends history, a social thinker molded by William Morris, Coomaraswamy was a unique figure... Vedi