Harrison: Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion

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Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion by Jane Ellen Harrison (1908)

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I was delighted to see that the classic study by Jane Ellen Harrison is available at Google Books (I was prompted to look fro this because I wanted to read her chapter on the Danaides, since the Danaides figured in the myth image widget for this week).


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Pulleyn: Church-yard Gleanings

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Church-yard Gleanings, and Epigrammatic Scraps by William Pulleyn

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This book contains a collection of epitaphs with essays for each one, along with a selection of epigrams. For the Latin epitaphs both the Latin and an English translations are provided. Here is the full title - so charming! "Being a collection of remarkable epitaphs and epigrams compiled from the most ancient as well as modern sources, foreign and domestic, serious and facetious, to which are annexed some observations on churches, church-yards, rites of sepulture, tombs, and mausoleums; with instructions for ascertaining the dates of ancient monuments." There is a table of contents which allows you to quickly browse for persons or places of interest to you.



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Weber: Aspects of Death

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Aspects of Death by Frederick Parkes Weber (1918)

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The full title of the book is Aspects of death and correlated aspects of life in art, epigram, and poetry: Contributions towards an anthology and an iconography of the subject, illustrated especially by medals, engraved gems, jewels, ivories, antique pottery, etc.. This enormous book, appx. 800 pages long, contains all kinds of intriguing material. There is a detailed table of contents along with an itemized list of illustrations.



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Chatto: Origin and History of Playing Cards

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Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards by William Andrew Chatto (1848)

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I posted about this book at Google+ here: Google+ post.


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Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Nilous

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Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Nilous edited by Alexander Turner Cory (1811)

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This is a nice Greek-English facing text edition of the famous "hieroglyphs" of Horapollo.



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