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The return : fathers, sons and the land in between
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ISBN: 9780241966280 Year: 2017 Publisher: London Penguin Books

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Matar, Hisham

Numismatique romaine du culte métroaque
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ISBN: 9004068430 9004296484 9789004068438 Year: 1983 Volume: 97 Publisher: Leiden : E.J. Brill,

In search of god the mother
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ISBN: 0520919688 0585153736 9780520919686 9780585153735 0520210247 Year: 1999 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press

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"This book is the first comprehensive assembly and discussion of the entire extant evidence concerning the worship of this goddess, called Matar Kubileya in Phrygia, Kybele in ancient Greece, and Magna Mater (the Great Mother) in Rome. Lynn E. Roller presents and analyzes literary, historiographic, and archaeological data ranging from the prehistoric record to the early centuries of the Roman Empire. This book will interest classicists, archaeologists, ancient historians, historians of religion and religious ecology, and everyone who has ever been piqued by curiosity about the Great Mother goddess in the ancient Mediterranean world."--Book jacket.


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Der Kult der Meter/Kybele in Westanatolien und in der Ägäis : Akten des internationalen Symposions an der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften am 24. Oktober 2017
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ISBN: 9783903207516 3903207519 Year: 2020 Publisher: Wien Verlag Holzhausen


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Les belles étrangères : Egypte, du 28 novembre au 8 décembre 1994
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Year: 1994 Publisher: Paris Centre national du livre

Soteriology and mystic aspects in the cult of Cybele and Attis
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ISBN: 9004072837 9004296557 9789004072831 Year: 1985 Volume: 103 Publisher: Leiden : E.J. Brill,

Le sanctuaire métroaque de Vienne (France)
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ISBN: 9004061096 9004295631 9789004061095 9789004295636 Year: 1980 Volume: 83 Publisher: Leiden : E.J. Brill,

The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the tyranny of Asia
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ISBN: 1282357638 9786612357633 0520931580 160129395X 9780520931589 1429402334 9781429402330 9780520243491 0520243498 9781282357631 9781601293954 Year: 2006 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Among maternal deities of the Greek pantheon, the Mother of the Gods was a paradox. She is variously described as a devoted mother, a chaste wife, an impassioned lover, and a virgin daughter; she is said to be both foreign and familiar to the Greeks. In this erudite and absorbing study, Mark Munn examines how the cult of Mother of the Gods came from Phrygia and Lydia, where she was the mother of tyrants, to Athens, where she protected the laws of the Athenian democracy. Analyzing the divergence of Greek and Asiatic culture at the beginning of the classical era, Munn describes how Kybebe, the Lydian goddess who signified fertility and sovereignty, assumed a different aspect to the Greeks when Lydia became part of the Persian empire. Conflict and resolution were played out symbolically, he shows, and the goddess of Lydian tyranny was eventually accepted by the Athenians as the Mother of the Gods, and as a symbol of their own sovereignty. This book elegantly illustrates how ancient divinities were not static types, but rather expressions of cultural systems that responded to historical change. Presenting a new perspective on the context in which the Homeric and Hesiodic epics were composed, Munn traces the transformation of the Asiatic deity who was the goddess of Sacred Marriage among the Assyrians and Babylonians, equivalent to Ishtar. Among the Lydians, she was the bride to tyrants and the mother of tyrants. To the Greeks, she was Aphrodite. An original and compelling consideration of the relations between the Greeks and the dominant powers of western Asia, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia is the first thorough examination of the way that religious cult practice and thought influenced political activities during and after the sixth and fifth centuries B.C.

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Despotism --- Religion and politics --- Sovereignty --- State sovereignty (International relations) --- International law --- Political science --- Common heritage of mankind (International law) --- International relations --- Self-determination, National --- Politics, Practical --- Politics and religion --- Religion --- Religions --- Absolutism --- Autocracy --- Tyranny --- Authoritarianism --- Dictatorship --- Totalitarianism --- Religious aspects --- History of doctrines. --- History. --- Law and legislation --- Political aspects --- Cybele --- Cibela --- Cibele --- Cibeles --- Kybēbē --- Kibela --- Kibele --- Kubaba --- Kübelé --- Kubeleya --- Kubileya --- Kuvava --- Kybelē --- Kybelis --- Matar Kubileya --- Matar Kubeleya --- Cult --- Cybele (Goddess) --- ancient greece. --- aphrodite. --- asia. --- assyria. --- athens. --- babylon. --- chastity. --- classicism. --- classics. --- democracy. --- divinity. --- empire. --- epic poetry. --- feminine divine. --- femininity. --- gender. --- gods and goddesses. --- greek goddesses. --- greek gods. --- greek pantheon. --- hellenism. --- hesiod. --- hesiodic epics. --- homer. --- homeric epics. --- ishtar. --- lydia. --- maternal. --- maternity. --- mother of the gods. --- motherhood. --- myth. --- mythology. --- nonfiction. --- panteon. --- persian empire. --- philosophy. --- phrygia. --- politics. --- purity. --- religion. --- religious cults. --- sacred marriage. --- sexuality. --- tyranny. --- tyrants. --- war. --- western asia.


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Conflict time photography : [exhibition, London, Tate Modern, 26 November 2014 - 15 March 2015 ; Essen, Museum Folkwang, 10 April - 5 July 2015 ; Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, 31 July - 25 October 2015] : catalogue
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ISBN: 9781849763202 1849763208 Year: 2014 Publisher: London Tate Publishing

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From the seconds after a bomb is detonated to a former scene of battle years after a war has ended, this moving exhibition focuses on the passing of time, tracing a diverse and poignant journey through over 150 years of conflict around the world, since the invention of photography. In an innovative move, the works are ordered according to how long after the event they were created from moments, days and weeks to decades later. Photographs taken seven months after the fire bombing of Dresden are shown alongside those taken seven months after the end of the First Gulf War. Images made in Vietnam 25 years after the fall of Saigon are shown alongside those made in Nakasaki 25 years after the atomic bomb. The result is the chance to make never-before-made connections while viewing the legacy of war as artists and photographers have captured it in retrospect. The immediate trauma of war can be seen in the eyes of Don McCullin's Shell-shocked US Marine 1968, while the destruction of buildings and landscapes are documented by Simon Norfolk's Afghanistan: Chronotopia 2001. Different conflicts will also reappear from multiple points in time throughout the exhibition. The Second World War for example is addressed in Jerzy Lewczynski's 1960 photographs of the Wolf's Lair / Adolf Hitler's War Headquarters, Shomei Tomatsu's images of objects found in Nagasaki, Kikuji Kawada's epic project The Map made in Hiroshima in the 1960s, Michael Schmidt's Berlin streetscapes from 1980 and Nick Waplington's 1993 close-ups of cell walls from a Prisoner of War camp in Wales. The exhibition is staged to coincide with the 2014 centenary and concludes with new and recent projects by British, German, Polish and Syrian photographers which reflect on the First World War a century after it began.--Tate website.


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Firecrackers : female photographers now
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ISBN: 9780500544747 0500544743 Year: 2017 Publisher: London Thames & Hudson

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There are many outstanding female photographers working today, yet the photographic industry continues to be a male-dominated world. Established in 2011, Firecracker (fire-cracker.org) is an online platform dedicated to supporting female photographers worldwide by showcasing their work in a series of monthly, online gallery features; by organizing events; and by awarding an annual grant to enable a female photographer to fund a project. Building on Firecracker's foundations, this book brings together the work of more than thirty of the most talented contemporary female photographers from around the world. Each profile explores the photographer's creative practice, illustrated by photographs that showcase a key project in her career, and a selection that offers a wider view of her work. The images encompass an eclectic variety of styles, techniques, and locations--from German Alma Haser's futuristic series of portraits that use origami to create 3D sculptures within the frame, to Egyptian Laura El-Tantawy's filmic and intensely personal series on political protest in Cairo. With more than 300 photographs, Firecrackers is a celebration of some of the most inquisitive, stylish, and daring photography being made today. Introduction • Ying Ang • Evgenia Argugaeva • Behnaz Babazadeh • Poulomi Basu • Endia Beal • Juno Calypso • Haley Morris-Cafiero • Natasha Caruana • Scarlett Coten • Bieke Depoorter • Maria Gruzdeva • Alma Haser • Mayumi Hosokura • Corinna Kern • Katrin Koenning • Anastasia Taylor Lind • Diana Markosian • Diana Matar • Chloe Dewe Mathews • Zanele Muholi • Aida Muluneh • Anja Niemi • Regine Petersen • Jill Quigley • Magda Rakita • Lua Ribeira • Mariela Sancari • Laura El-Tantawy • Newsha Tavakolian • Sanne de Wilde • Cemre Yesil • Yunya Yin • Chen Zhe

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