Sarah Iles Johnston is a distinguished professor focusing on religion, classics, and comparative studies. Her work delves into the study of religion and mythology, particularly exploring early forms of religious practices and beliefs. She investigates how people in the past understood and experienced their religious lives. Her writings offer profound insights into the historical and cultural contexts of the phenomena she examines.
This guide to the Ukraine highlights the Black Sea resorts and undiscovered attractions. It brings the story of Chernobyl up-to-date, including details of tours. The in-depth coverage of the area is accompanied by detailed maps.
The first English-language survey of ancient Greek divinatory methods Offers in-depth discussions of oracles, wandering diviners, do-it-yourself methods of foretelling the future, magical divinatory techniques, and much more Illustrates how the study of divination illuminates the mentalities of ancient Greek religions and societies.
A guide that allows you to approach Prague by geographical area. It includes Dedicated Walking Tours chapter that helps you discover hidden gems in Eastern Europe's most-visited city. It also contains a detachable full city map.
Our resident author recommends the very best sights, restaurants, shops and entertainment, plus local experts also reveal London's secrets: from a boutique hairdresser's top shopping suggestions to the coolest live music venues from the director of the BBC Electric Proms.Discover twice the city in half the time. Features unique itineraries and highlights to help you make the most of a short trip, plus full-colour neighbourhood maps for easy navigation. Sample the late-night delights of Soho Weigh yourself down with shopping bags in Covent Garden Down some proper beer in the Jerusalem Tavern Separate your Picassos from your Pollocks at Tate Modern
Complete, practical country guide for independent travellers. Outdoor activities chapter, covering everthing from spa breaks, hiking, mountain-biking, skiing and showboarding. City information covering shopping, museums and galleries, varied nightlife from clubbing to opera, festivals and conferences.
Complemented by easy-to use, reliable maps, helpful recommendations, authoritative background information, and up-to-date coverage of things to see and do, these popular travel guides cover in detail countries, regions, and cities around the world for travelers of every budget, along with extensive itineraries, maps with cross-referencing to the text, "Top 10" and "Top 5" lists, and other practical features.
All the world meets in London, giving its celebrated museums, gracious galleries and historic streets a multicultural edge. Feel its spirit in the pews of St Paul's or capture it at trendy Spitalfields market - with our discerning selections Best of London puts the whole city in your pocket. • TAKE IN THE SIGHTS - exploring London's classic cathedrals, eclectic art and architectural icons is made easy with our fold-out maps and dedicated walking tours• FIND THE HAUNTS - pull a pint in a historic pub or mingle with the crowd in a decadent style-bar; our entertainment chapter puts the capital's nightlife at your fingertips• SHOP 'TIL YOU DROP - designer labels, streetwear with street cred, antiques, music and indulge your retail passion among the city's hip markets and countless shops• DINE OUT on modern British cuisine in Kensington or tuck into grastropub food in Notting Hill - our guide serves up London's finest eateries
From dramatic Alpine train journeys to the buzzing scene in Zurich, from breathless adrenaline sports to irresistible chocolate - Switzerland offers a hugely varied range of temptations. This candid, completely revised guide will take you to the best of the country's treasures. * museums, mountains, music - the lowdown on the essential sights * from hiking to skiing, making the most of the stunning outdoors * detailed coverage of the best cafes, bars and restaurants * recommended sleeping options from lakeside camping to chic city hotels * user-friendly language guide * 67 detailed maps.
Hekate is best known to classicists and historians of religion as the horrific patroness of witches. But from the Hellenistic age onwards, some Greek and Roman philosophers and magicians portrayed her quite differently, allotting to her such duties as ensouling the cosmos and the individual men within it, forming the connective boundary between the divine and human worlds, and facilitating such communication between man and god as could lead eventually to the individual soul's release. She was celestial and potentially beneficent, rather than chthonic and threatening.