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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good to Fine. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing.. ** ARTICLES AND STORIES (1) I Saw A Miracle At Lourdes by Michael Sheldon (2) The Man Who Made Gold by Albert A. Brandt (3) Strange Happenings at The White House by Chester S. Geier (4) The Fakirs Curse by Brigadier Humphrey Bullock (5) I Meet A Ghost Ship by James Hapson (6) Men of Mystery by Dr. Paul Vest (7) A Romance of Two Worlds by Frank Turner (8) A Tahiti Ghost by Mary Elliot (9) Your Secret Memories by "Logos" (10) How To Travel In Your Dreams by Erna Hollis (11) Clairvoyant Recovers Lost Gold by Harold T. Wilkins (12) Mystery Fireball of Hamburg by James M. Reinhardt (13) Secrets of The Tarot by Frank Lind (14) Test Your E.S.P. Quotient by A. Peter Underwood (15) How To Escape Your Nervous Tension by Desmond Dunne (16) How Scientists Are Probing The Sixth Sense by Alson J. Smith >> wearing on spine; cover scuffing. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.…

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 2020 Brill hardcover edition. Unread copy in very good condition. From the cover: Night, in ancient Greece and Rome, was a mythological figure, a context for specialized knowledge, a semantic space in literature, and a setting for unique experiences. Fifteen case-studies here explore how nighttime was employed in the ascription of specific values in all these areas of ancient culture. Contents: Introduction: the values of nighttime in classical antiquity by Antje Wessels and James Ker PART 1 Who or what is the night? Night as measure, mother, and metaphor in the Hesiodic cosmos by Adrienne Atkins First-born of night or oozing from the slime? Deviant origins in Orphic cosmogonies by Radcliffe G. Edmonds III PART 2 Nocturnal knowledge: medicine, philosophy, religion, astronomy Night as diagnostic marker in Hippocratic medicine by Ralph M. Rosen Nights of insight: Plato on the philosophical qualities of the night by Albert Joosse Night's fictions: the religious institutions of Numa in Lucilius fr. 484-489 (Marx) by Cynthia Damon The astronomer-poet at night: the evolution of a motif by Kathryn Wilson PART 3 Society and gender: men and women at work, by night A night attack in the Seven Against Thebes by Isabella Reinhardt Tragedy of darkness: the role of night in Euripides' Rhesus by Marie-Charlotte von Lehsten The witching hour: troubled women in Homer, Apollonius, and Theocritus by Amelia Bensch-Schaus Nox rei publicae? Catiline's and Cicero's nocturnal activities in the Catilinarians by Christoph Pieper Inn-dependent: spending the night in a hostel in the Roman world by Jane Sancinito PART 4 Experiencing by night Better safe than sorry: nocturnal divinatory signs from a first-century BCE Roman perspective by Kim Beerden Through the eyes of the night: ecphrasis of nocturnal ambush scenes in Roman epic and historiography by Selina Weissmantel Nocturnal negotiations: experiencing the night scenes from the Iliad at the house of Octavius Quartio, Pompeii II 2.2 by Barbara Kellum Persius' nocturnal inspiration in the light of day by Jennifer Ferriss-Hill.…