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So you have fallen in love with those beautiful black Friesian horses now what? How can you learn about the breed, its history, characteristics, registry, breeding practices and evaluation programs? This comprehensive guide is for the Friesian lover that one day plans to become a Friesian owner.
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A Must Read for the potential buyer of a Friesian horse........2007-10-11
Laura Beeman puts it all into prospective. Her experience with the breed, and the breeding itself of this wonderful horse is priceless. Laura doesn't just encourages you to do your homework before your purchase, she also helps you through it, step by step.
This book is well written, displays beautiful photos and is a very helpful tool for anyone who likes to learn more about the Friesian horse and on what to look for before you buy your first Friesian.
Rebecca Lerwill
A small book - packed with details!.......2006-03-09
There isn't much fluff in this book; it's packed with facts. This is the place to look for the history of the Friesian breed, foundation sires and their offspring, what to look for if you're thinking about buying a Friesian, explanations of the Dutch terms used in evaluating the breed, the "rules of Friesian ownership" implemented to perpetuate the pure breed, even examples of the forms used. I found The Friesian Horse to be a very good resource.
Benefit for the Friesian Buyer.......2005-07-25
I could not believe there are so few books written about this magnificient breed of horse. Thanks to Laura's book I was able to get a better understanding on what this breed is about and how to go about finding a Friesian to buy. Trying to understand the pedigree line and the registration papers and so on can be a real challenge until I read this book. She does a wonderful job of breaking it down and making it all very user friendly.:)
A Must-Have for Friesian Lovers.......2003-04-08
This is an absolutely great book and reference guide on Friesian horses. Contains valuable information on owning a Friesian, especially here in the United States.
It's a Must-Have for anyone who loves this breed!
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Very sweet childrens book.......2006-02-10
I was not sure what to expect, but as Friesian lovers know, it is hard to find Friesian anything, so when you find it you grab it!
This is a smaller sized childrens book (think "Little Golden Books"), and has some very basic information on the Friesian Horse and it's history, and uses.
There are beautiful pictures throughout from Gloria Muscarella at Cheval Photography.
It is a quick read for an adult, and nothing an owner doesn't already know, but nonetheless worth owning, or gift giving to any Friesian lover, collector, or enthusiast.
This book appears to be one in a series of breed related "Little Golden Books" on horses.
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This touching, historical story of a young girl and her horse will delight young readers and horse lovers of all ages. Join Niesje Brouwers, a young girl from The Netherlands, and Torden, her thundering Friesian stallion, in their adventures.
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Wonderfully heart warming !.......2006-11-11
This book is both timeless and ageless and very heart warming. I found myself going back to my childhood and my love of horses and reading the adventures made me feel as though I was there living them with each page. I applaud C. Kirkham for bringing the history of the Friesian horse into such a GREAT read and look VERY forward to the sequel. I highly recommend this book to everyone, young and old, it's OUTSTANDING ! Ronda
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FRIESIAN HORSES
TOMAS MICEK
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Friesian Horses (Magnificent Horses of the World)
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Friesian Breeder Rates Book.......2000-07-22
I searched everywhere for information on this breed before starting a Friesian breeding business. This was one of the VERY FEW books in English about the breed. I enjoyed the high-quality pictures but felt there was limited information. Also, the pictures are beautiful, but do not vary in style/substance. It looks as though they were all taken in the same place on the same day, with the same group of horses. The Friesian is a versatile horse used for driving, riding, pleasure and show. I still have not found a book in print that brings forth all these aspects of the breed.
This book has the best Friesian pictures I've ever seen..........1999-04-01
This book was short, but the beautiful pictures more than madeup for the lack of information. Friesians are one of my most favoritehorse breeds. What informaton this book did have was clear and understandable. The pictures are worth a thousand words, so if you love pictures better than information, this book is custom made for you.
I like it alot it could be a little longer...........1998-11-07
I love this book but it could be a little longer I wish it had a little more friesian pictures in it. I love friesians and there aren't many things on or off the internet about them. But I am a 14 female and i loved this book! Their are many beautiful pictures in here on the greatest breed in the world. Thank you for putting out this book! If you love friesians you need this book! -Mary Beth
A Splendid picture book showing off the Magnificent Friesian.......1998-10-13
A Beautiful picture book with pictures suitable to be framed. This book does not give much detail in writting, however, it is one of the few available written in english. It does enlighten the reader briefly about history and present day Friesians. The pictures would be a delight to all horse enthusiast of all ages.
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This is a large and very beautiful book of photographs of champion Saddlebreds, Hackneys, and Friesian horses. The photos, which are printed on acid-free paper, are artfully composed and in deep, rich colors. There are standard posed shots, horse in competition, and behind-the-scenes views.
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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on September 19, 2002. The length of the article is 693 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Horses strut, stride for a rare honor.(Animals)(Certification: Two judges come from The Netherlands to see if 13 Friesians have what it takes to earn an orange ribbon.)
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Friese paarden
A. K. W Douma
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If you are dazzled by the beauty of millefiori canes, then you will love The Glass Menagerie. This guide to the world of silhouette canes contains over 150 blow-ups of silhouettes in full color. Hawley accompanies his photography with well-researched speculation about why each cane was made, pointing out particularly fine silhouettes and identifying those canes which are rare finds. The Glass Menagerie is the first book to take an in-depth look at the art of silhouette canes. It is an essential addition to the library of any collector.
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Best Book On Canes I've Ever Read ... Hawley Strikes Home!.......2000-03-08
I can't believe they made the guy use a cane. Hawley gives us a perfect perspective of what life in a paperweight is like. Glassy. Classy? I have incorperated this work into my class on modern day anthropomorphism. I applaud his efforts. I particularly enjoyed his passage, "Affliction makes opposing forces loom anthropomorphously." Perhaps he could work these ideas into a dramatic work about a family who's father has abandoned them and they live in St. Louis, in a state of paralysis as they struggle to find happiness. He could even make a character who finds solace in an imagined world of glass animals. Perhaps ...
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Practical workbook loaded color photos!.......1998-01-07
Colorwash is the author's own unique design technique. She shares all in this comprehensive look at painting with fabric. Includes color excercises and design charts.
The Original on this Quilt technique.......1997-05-17
Dierdre Amsden of the UK is the one who first introduced this technique, which USA authors have renamed either "Watercolor" or "Impressionist".
DA's quilts are top quality, this is a lovely book
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Could Greek philosophy be rooted in Egyptian thought? Is it possible that the Pythagorean theory was conceived on the shores of the Nile and the Euphrates rather than in ancient Greece? Could it be that much of Western civilization was formed on the "Dark Continent"? For almost two centuries, Western scholars have given little credence to the possibility of such scenarios.
In Black Athena, an audacious three-volume series that strikes at the heart of today's most heated culture wars, Martin Bernal challenges Eurocentric attitudes by calling into question two of the longest-established explanations for the origins of classical civilization. To use his terms, the Aryan Model, which is current today, claims that Greek culture arose as the result of the conquest from the north by Indo-European speakers, or "Aryans," of the native "pre-Hellenes." The Ancient Model, which was maintained in Classical Greece, held that the native population of Greece had initially been civilized by Egyptian and Phoenician colonists and that additional Near Eastern culture had been introduced to Greece by Greeks studying in Egypt and Southwest Asia. Moving beyond these prevailing models, Bernal proposes a Revised Ancient Model, which suggests that classical civilization in fact had deep roots in Afroasiatic cultures.
This long-awaited third and final volume of the series is concerned with the linguistic evidence that contradicts the Aryan Model of ancient Greece. Bernal shows how nearly 40 percent of the Greek vocabulary has been plausibly derived from two Afroasiatic languages--Ancient Egyptian and West Semitic. He also reveals how these derivations are not limited to matters of trade, but extended to the sophisticated language of politics, religion, and philosophy. This evidence, according to Bernal, greatly strengthens the hypothesis that in Greece an Indo-European-speaking population was culturally dominated by Ancient Egyptian and West Semitic speakers. Provocative, passionate, and colossal in scope, this volume caps a thoughtful rewriting of history that has been stirring academic and political controversy since the publication of the first volume.
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you cant beat em join em.......2007-06-21
im not going to get detailed at all im white and i no that the Egyptians were Black and they were the first people on earth point blank the book was like tony the tiger GGGGGGreat
Black Athena -Ancient/Classical/Modern history.......2007-04-14
A very good addition to my library attributing to my greater understanding of true history.
A previous reviewer seems to imply that this book is full of "parti pris rhetoric", and that no intelligent, reasonable person who "believes history to be something that is objective, rather then something subjective that can be changed to fulfill the ego of insecure people" should not read this book.
The fact is archeologists; historians, scientist, theologists and philosophers have never been objective in their views. Simply read the life experiences of Socrates. Anyone that thinks history is objective, will only consider it objective within their own paradigm, and therefore cannot learn outside of that paradigm. "A person who knows everything cannot learn".
To imply that this book changes objective history to a "subjective one to fulfill the ego of an insecure people", is to show a high level of egotism and insecurity; Insecurity, for fear that the very belief upon which the ego rides will be altered or destroyed. Egotism, insecurity, and greed is foundation of feudalism, classism, racism, and tribalism.
Racism is relatively new. It is less than three hundred years old. I was first told this in college by my teacher (Anglo in nature) who has a PHD in history and taught at the University of Pennsylvania. In my own research in overt and convert history, I found this to be the absolute truth. It started during the period of enlightenment, when Europe, not the Celtic/Gaulic Europeans, but rather the Germanic/Viking tribes (Anglos, Visigoths, Osigoths, Varingians, Merovingians Lombards etc) had reached a level of self-realization, best expressed in illuminism.
In the quest of their belief that they were the enlighten race and that they were descendents of the Egyptians (not fully realizing that the Egyptians were black), they began expeditions to Egypt (and other places). For, who else could have built such monolithic structures other than their ancestry?
They came back sorely disappointed. You can see many of those disappointments by the smash noses of the statues they brought back. It was at this point you begin to see the masking of ancient history, and the birth of "evolution" which is falsely attributed to Charles Darwin.
I would not have believed this until I began my own research. It was most revealing to me, not in history, but in science. Consider this, two thousand years before the existence of Greece, the Sumerians (a black civilization) had already tabulated the exponential. But, who talks about this? One thousand years prior to the Greeks, the Egyptians priest were not theorizing, but rather, practicing spontaneous generation, which is still being rejected in today's "science", even though it's naturally occurring in nature.
One of the bigger shocks in my lifetime was the understanding that the DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) structure was conceive by a monk, not a chemist. The problem with any form of knowledge coming from the Orthodoxy of any field is that they have something to gain by imparting their form of knowledge, and to lose if they do not. This is the nature of human beings whether black or white, rich or poor. Like the philosophical Socrates, I consider the historian Martin Bernal a Gadfly. Without Gadflys, we would have perished long ago.
The Afroasiatic Roots outdating Classics Programs.......2007-02-03
"As a fault Bernal has muddied already muddied waters with attempting to ask the wrong questions ...and, those who have been 'refuting' him, have likewise addressed the wrong concerns. ... (but) If nothing else has come out of this debate, it is a realization that the notions of race as expressed by modern scholars reflect a modern industrial world and must be understood in that context." Eugene Cruz-Uribe
Black Athena, in a nutshell:
In Black Athena, Martin Bernal attempts to prove that the roots of Greek civilization and language came from Egypt and the Levant. Bernal argued in his first volume, 1987, that 18th and 19th century White scholarship, biasedly favored an 'Aryan/ Indo-European Model,' denying ancient Egyptian contributions. He attributed the European root search results to a racist dominated mentality. While Bernal proposal that ancient Egyptians were dark Africans, there is no proof of their Negroid classification. His work drifted to the extreme left supporting the wider allegation of Afrocentrism. The second volume of this projected four-volume work arouses fundamental questions of awe and skepticism, that touch almost every issue in American daily life: lack of logical dialogue, residual racism, failure of university programs.
To state that because Egypt is located on (NE corner of) of Africa, it is African, is merely simplistic. Does geography hold the only key to this classification? Dean Eugene Cruz-Uribe adds that, "... for many scholars that the anti-Bernal crusades that have evolved often have faulted Bernal ... and have thus downplayed the questions raised (that his outrageous theses addressed squarely one area of scholarship that Egyptologists and Classical historians had preferred not to address)".
Black Athena II:
Martin Bernal supports his thesis, by many Egyptian or Semitic roots for Greek words, while more recent discoveries in upper Egypt, indicated Phoenician alphabet could have evolved from Proto-Sinaitic into a more linear form during about the 12th century BC. The immediate offspring of Phoenician were the old Hebrew alphabet, and Aramaic, as well as Archaic Greek. No matter where and when the adoption of Egyptian signs onto a Semitic language occurred, the process of adoption is quite interesting. Bernal's striking examples, may exert a stronger potential in light of recent finds, but there is too much to be developed before his weaker cases could be supported by conclusive archeological reconstruction.
Much of the Bernal's archaeological interpretations though boldly genius, still lack solid evidential examples to convince. Bernal woven model of a "Pax Aegyptiaca" populations with cultural infilteration in the Aegean Bronze Age is no new idea. Bernal advances such cases that have been neglected or minimized by the Hellenocentricts. Bernal's blunt reconstructions go much further than warranted, comments John Lenz, "In fact he rejects a model of multiculturalism in favor of a scenario of widespread Egyptian colonization and domination."
Failure of Humanities:
How often do we hear Egyptian wisdom ignorantly depreciated by comparison with Greek philosophy? How many universities even offer courses on the ancient Near East and Egypt?
Harvard school's governing board selected a transforming leader reminiscent of Harvard's past great presidents, who set the agenda for higher education in the country and, as revered public intellectuals, dominated national debates. Dean Summers--himself a former Harvard economics wunderkind, convinced that his old school, (as mostly all ivy's) needs far more than a face lift, nothing less than a cultural revolution on campus. He initiated a review of the undergraduates study material that could ultimately help revise the definition of an effective liberal arts education program worthy of the 21st century, calling for a more interdisciplinary approach to learning as well (Bernal's self pursued agenda). Currently, humanities students major in traditional subjects, such as English or classics, while the nature of knowledge has vastly changed, many of the most exciting areas of inquiry cut across traditional disciplines, pointed the ousted dean. While the majority of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences -- which placed a pending vote of no confidence against Summers and seemed ready to move on it -- Summers still maintained strong support from some faculty members and a majority of students.
A compelling Review:
In an even handed analytical review, "Ancient Histories and Modern Humanities," By John Lenz, he concludes, "Black Athena, volume 2 is extremely heavy going and problematic. Informative and generally reasonable in tone, its scope and ambition put the work of most scholars to shame. Even hoary antiquarians will learn things, and other dedicated readers will be led into the fascinating alleyways of Aegean prehistory. Everyone, however, should read this work with extreme caution."
Revisiting the Central Claims of One-Dimensional Whiteness .......2007-01-08
"The central claims of Afrocentrism were prominently set forth in a controversial book, Black Athena, 2 vol. (1987-91), by white historian Martin Bernal. Since that time, Afrocentrism has encountered significant opposition from mainstream scholars who charge it with historical inaccuracy, scholarly ineptitude, and racism." Encyclopedia Britannica
A controversial book:
This is an earth breaking, thought provoking, and exciting book. It has been and will continue to be controversial, and polarizing as well. The author, Martin Bernal, is a professor at Cornell University, the son of John D. Bernal, who laid the foundation of molecular biology, and grandson of the great Oxford U. Egyptologist Sir Alan Gardiner. He proposes arguably that Greek civilization, was instead an off shot from Egypto-Levantine culture, rather than being the cradle of a distinguished European civilization, with its roots firmly planted in NE Africa and SW Asia. He proposes that the Greek classical civilization and philosophy is not the foundation of our western culture, thus forcing us to reconsider the roots, concepts and meaning of Western civilization itself.
The book was published in a period when America was becoming the only super power, after the long waited fall of the Soviet Union, letting conservative politicians and academics tout the uniqueness of the West and its European civilization of amalgamated Greco Roman roots.
W. J. Bennett, Regan's Secretary of Education, has argued that Americans should go back to the basics, students have to read and absorb the classic of Western civilization, rather than thinking critically about what history of science meant, or the impact of space travel and the Internet communications revolution, that rendered the world flat. Black Athena is a negative response to the new conditions which may have offset; its implications are unsettling.
One-Dimensionality and Whiteness:
This book may have linked with Marcuse's concept of the one-dimensional society and the Great Refusal, with critical race theory in order to achieve a more robust interrogation of 'whiteness'. The author of a recent paper on "Policy Futures in Education," argues that in the context of the United States, the one-dimensionality that Marcuse condemns in One-Dimensional Man is best illuminated by the concept of whiteness, in the context of white supremacy, is an ideological manifestation of dominant capitalism in the United States. The author furthers that the values Marcuse wants to break with or refuse in An Essay on Liberation can be more concretely captured if it is made clear that the ideology of whiteness represents a key part of the normative order of advanced industrial society that started to institute its legitimate roots in a mythic fable of European philosophy and heroism. The paper warns against Ms Lefkowitz, and her outdated classicists promoting whiteness in educational institutions serves to oppress race, gender, and class centered individuals and communities. Thus, the author proposes that, in the context of education, the crucial theoretical tools we have to challenge Ms Lefkowitz's glorification of the one-dimensional education and refuse whiteness in favor of a critical multicultural education.
Bernal's Greek Civilization:
Bernal's thesis for the origins of ancient Greek civilization accounts that it gradually evolved in ancient antiquity, through interactions between the local inhabitants and the Egyptians and Phoenicians colonies established in Greece at various time epochs, during the second millennium B. C. He alleges that ancient Greek culture developed out of these interactions, while Greeks continued to borrow from the Afro-Asians for the next two millennia.
Bernal's shocking theory, has radically contradicted the Indo-European framework of diffusion into Greek population by northern European Aryans who mixed with the local, pre-Hellenic inhabitants causing Greece and the Aegean world to develop a culture of the Anglo-Saxon prototype of Western civilization. The Aryan Model which was created during the first half of the nineteenth century became dominant to the present day, when challenged with Bernal, who suggested that the Aryan Model survived because it matched and adequately served the advancing ideals of capitalism in progress, racialism, and imperialism which eventually dominated the modern times. It may be excessively helpful in positive debates to be rational. Any scholar, motivated mainly by race issues ( Ms Lefkowitz, who has few qualifications other than outdated classics) could be identified as a red-neck, if she does not renounce her infallibility, being uninformed on other domains, which Bernal assesses their significance and implications, of an enormous entity of philological, archaeological, historical evidence, and critical tools of analysis and reconstruction, which Martin Bernal utilized repeatedly.
Egyptian Human Heritage:
Two books are basic to have common grounds, on the origin of Greek civilization
a. Gerald Massey's 'Book of the Beginnings,' is an essential reading for seekers of a balanced understanding of human origins, religious thought and belief, and the role of Ancient Egyptian civilization in world progress. Massey, born in England in 1828, was a radical Egyptologist, like Bernal's grandfather, has maintained that Africa was the source of "the greatest civilization in the world." According to Massey, all evidence cries aloud its proclamation that Africa was the birthplace of the non-articulate and Egypt the mouthpiece of the articulate man."
Greek Plato, wrote in Timaeus, "The wisdom of the Egyptians was a proverb with the Greeks, who felt themselves children beside this ancient race." Later, Herodotus, another informed Greek has demonstrated that Greece borrowed from Egypt all the elements of her civilization, and that Egypt was the cradle of civilization. The Late Nobel laureate, Naguib Mahfouz, who read the second book, namely, 'The Dawn of conscience,' by the great American Orientalist James H. Breasted was right in saying, "Egyptian civilization was beyond any doubt a great culture that encompassed the entire ancient world. The fact that we may have come to know it once more through the mediation of Western explorers and scientists does not make it any less ours. How could it be? It is the heritage of all humanity."
Betrnal's Mortal Sins:
Martin Bernal, by trespassing the boundaries of established disciplines and using inter discipline evidence that is not usually handled in the same language, Bernal has advanced academic tactics that are doomed heretical to those ultra orthodox who resent incursions into their outdated domains by uninitiated novices, who lack the curia's approval credentials. Monoply academics in their intrenched disciplines would menace most of Black Athena's novel arguments and reconstruction methodology. In the debates that followed, criticizing Martin's analyses and undermining his interpretations of the vast pieces of evidence, he has undoubtedly earned intellectual audience in and outside the academia.
Prophetic Review:
In his 1988 compelling review, Thomas C. Patterson, made a prophecy concluding, "But in the end he will win the war, if he has not in fact already done so. One reason for this is the tightness and logic of his arguments. Another is that, while scholars in the various relevant fields may view Bernal as an outsider or an interloper, they cannot easily dismiss him as a crank or a crackpot, since he has adopted the methods of the various disciplines and followed their established, generally agreed upon procedures and canons for evaluating evidence."
If you like parti pris rhetoric then you'll love this book!.......2006-10-13
Do you like to be lied to? Do you like propaganda and ill concieved agendas shoved down your throat? Do you like people who state theories as facts and then offer no evidence to substantiate their claims? Do you want to read a book which very existence would make Herodotus turn over in his grave and cause anyone who believes an accurate potrayl of history to be important to feel nothing but deep despair? If your answer was yes to one or more of these questions then you'll probably really enjoy this book. However if you're an intelligent and reasonable person who believes history to be something that is objective, rather then something subjective that can be changed to fulfill the ego of insecure people then this book probably isn't for you. However, if you are interested in the outlandish Afrocentric claims to Greek antiquity then I would recommend reading 'Not Out Of Africa' by Mary Lefkowitz.
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Focus on Athena! .......2006-09-24
The synopsis available above from Amazon must be one of the shortest descriptions of a book I've seen on Amazon; however, The Warrior Goddess: Athene is exactly what what the synopsis says!
It is written for children, I'd guess about 8-12 or so. They are simple retelling of the myths in which Athena plays a significant part...these are evolved from Gates oral telling of these stores during her time at the Children's department of the Fresno County Free Library in California.
They are quite lovely in their simplicity and quite lovingly created...my only complaint is I didn't really care for the simple line drawings, I found them to be distracting, not helpful to the story and I can't imagine children really being terribly inspired by them as accompaniment to the text either. An easy read!
Excelllent source of facts about Athena!.......1997-11-26
This book talks in great detail about the stories in Greek mythology. It expands upon points in ancient myths. I enjoyed the exciting things the gods could do. When Athena used her magic it was very interesting, like when she turned Arachne into a spider or when she helped Perseus get the head of Medusa.
If people don't like Myths they should read this book and it will change their minds. This book led me to a new reading genre making me very interested in Mytholagy.
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Athena in the Classical World
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Why Athena?.......2002-02-01
This book developed out of a conference on Athena held at Oxford in April 1998. It seeks to bring together a range of contributions which present the latest research in a number of disciplines, and aims to shed light on the goddess from a variety of angles. By drawing on current research in ancient religion, literature, art and archaeology, the contributions cover a wide and exciting area, not only in terms of geographical and chronological scope, but also in the range of topics. It would be hard to read this book without feeling enriched and moved to investigate the subject further. Among ancient Greek deities, none has enjoyed as rich a life in modern times as Athena, as this book shows. Its detailed introduction by the editors would, on its own, serve as a valuable reference work on Athena in her many guises.
This book looks at Athena's cult, myth and iconography. It also examines political, social, and gendered concerns, and art historical and etymological developments.
Common and recurrent themes are explored, as are the many dividing lines, evolutionary processes, and even contradictory elements which characterise representations of the goddess.
The volume has enhanced my understanding of Athena, and will be a source of inspiration for new ideas and interpretations.
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The Votive Statues of the Athenian Acropolis
Katherine Keesling
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Worshippers dedicated hundreds of statues to Athena on the Acropolis during the period between Solon's reforms and the end of the Peloponnesian War. This work brings together the evidence for statue dedications on the Acropolis in the sixth and fifth centuries B.C., including inscribed statues bases that preserve information about the dedicators and the evidence for lost bronze sculptures. Catherine Keesling questions the standard interpretation of the korai as generic and anonymous votaries, while revealing more about the origins and significance of Greek portraiture.
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