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Peter A. Clayton is an Egyptologist, archaeologist and numismatist who has excavated at sites in England and Egypt

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The London Encyclopedia (1983) — Avustaja, eräät painokset392 kappaletta

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Kanoninen nimi
Clayton, Peter A.
Syntymäaika
1937-04-27
Sukupuoli
male
Kansalaisuus
UK
Ammatit
archaeologist
numismatist
Organisaatiot
Treasure Valuation Committee

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Storia, mito, iconografia e letteratura delle Sette Meraviglie: la Grande Piramide di Cheope, i Giardini Pensili di Babilonia, la statua di Zeus a Olimpia, il Tempio di Artemide a Efeso, il Mausoleo di Alicarnasso, il Colosso di Rodi e il Faro di Alessandria.

Solo la Piramide di Cheope resiste immortale tra le sabbie e il Nilo, in uno scenario e con una maestà di eccezionale bellezza. Si sono dissolti nel mistero i Giardini Pensili di Babilonia e il Colosso di Rodi; mentre la statua fidiaca di Zeus, il tempio di Artemide, la tomba di Mausolo e, dal 1994, il Faro di Alessandria ci parlano ancora attraverso quel che ne rimane dello stupore che suscitavano nel visitatore all’apogeo della loro gloria. Un’équipe di specialisti ha studiato le strutture e le vicende dei sette monumenti, ricostruendo quanto è sopravvissuto in un’opera che non è solo di ricerca, ma anche, e soprattutto, di storia dell’arte, vita civile e religiosa, lungo l’arco di due millenni. Un’appendice a cura di Carlo Carena raccoglie sistematicamente tutte le fonti classiche fondamentali su cui si basa la nostra conoscenza delle Sette Meraviglie del mondo antico.… (lisätietoja)
 
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kikka62 | 2 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 20, 2020 |
GREAT FIGURES OF MYTHOLOGY

Whether we listen with aloof amusement to the drama like mumbo jumbo of some red-eyed
witch doctor of the Congo, or read with cultivated rapture thin translations from the sonnets of the
mystic Lao-tse, now and again crack the hard nut shell of an argument of Aquinas, or catch sud
denly the shining meaning of a bizarre Eskimo fairy tale: it will be always the one, shape-shifting
yet marvelously constant story that we find, together with a challengingly persistent suggestion
of more remaining to be experienced than will ever be known or told.

Throughout the inhabited world, in all times and under every circumstance, the myths of man
have flourished; and they have been the living inspiration of whatever else may have appeared out
of the activities of the human body and mind. It would not be too much to say that myth is the
secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural
manifestation. Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime
discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic
magic ring of myth.

The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in
the smallest nursery fairy tale-as the flavor of the ocean is contained in a droplet or the whole
mystery of life within the egg of a flea. For the symbols of mythology are not manufactured; they
cannot be ordered, invented, or permanently suppressed. They are spontaneous productions
of the psyche, and each bears within it, ur damaged, the germ power of its source
What is the secret of the timeless vision? From what profundity ofthe mind does it derive? Why is
mythology everywhere the same, beneath its varieties of costume? And what does it teach?
… (lisätietoja)
 
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FundacionRosacruz | 1 muu arvostelu | Mar 22, 2018 |
CHRONICLE OF THE PHARAOHS

Chronological biographies of each pharoah with photos of statues or other portrait of the ruler with genealogical information as well. Excellent reference work for the serious student of Egyptian history.
 
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FundacionRosacruz | 5 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 24, 2018 |
A book that I read in parts over the years. Very interesting, very detailed and yet still very clear. I have a huge interest in the ancient Egypt world, so this was just the book for me. Should you come across one, I recommend it!
 
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BoekenTrol71 | 5 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Oct 22, 2017 |

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