История
Различные книги в жанре ИсторияMushrooms, Myth and Mithras
Since the publication of Daniel Pinchbeck's «Breaking Open the Head» there has been a resurgence of interest in psychedelics in general and mushrooms in particular. Professor Carl Ruck has been researching and writing about mushrooms and culture for decades, and is one of the preeminent scholars on classic mythology and mushrooms. The many people who follow news and developments in the psychedelic community will embrace “Mushrooms, Myth, and Mithras” as a classic and will be fascinated by it's evidence that mushroom use was not only a practice of the elite of ancient Rome, but that the symbols emerging from the experience and rituals have had a profound impact on the emergence of European culture. Mark Hoffman, one of the younger co-authors of the book, is publisher of “Entheos, The Journal of Psychedelic Spirituality,” and is very plugged in to the community who will be interested in this book. Carl Ruck is best known for his seminal work with Gordon Wasson & Albert Hofmann on mushrooms and other plants used during shamanistic rituals for healing and spiritual experience. (These drugs are known as entheogens).
Mennesker og guder ved Sortehavets kyster
Sortehavet var i antikken modested for flere forskellige kulturer. I steppelandet nord for Sortehavet boede skythiske nomade-stammer, langs hele kyststrAekningen anlagde grAekerne kolonier, og i sydost gjorde Persien sin indflydelse gAeldende. I dette klude-tAeppe af kulturpavirkninger tog vante religiose forestillinger nye former, nar de skulle tilpasses lokale forhold. Fem antikforskere behandler i denne bog forskellige aspekter af det religiose liv, som udspillede sig ved Sortehavets kyster.
Fremmed og moderne
Fremmed og moderne soger at Aendre vores syn pa den antikke kulturs efterliv i europAeisk civilisation. I dag betragter vi antikken som stivnet tradition, en forbigangen fortid. Men antikken har ikke primAert fungeret som udtryk for det etablerede. Derimod har antikken inspireret generationer af europAeere, fordi den reprAesenterede noget fremmedartet og genstridigt i deres univers. Den antikke erfaring har modsagt mange efterfolgende tidsaldres forestillinger. Pa den made kom den til at virke som en kreativt, udfordrende og inspirerende kraft i europAeisk kultur. Den udfordrede europAeerne ved at vise at det velkendte kunne tAenkes anderledes. Antikken var – og er – bade fremmed og moderne.
Urban Life and Local Politics in Roman Bithynia
Most studies of Roman local administration focus on the formal structures of power: imperial laws, urban institutions and magistracies. This book explores the interplay of formal power with informal factors such as social prejudice, parochialism and personal rivalries in the cities of northwestern Asia Minor from the first to the fifth centuries AD. Through a detailed analysis of the municipal speeches and career of the philosopher-politician Dion Chrysostomos, we gain new in-depth insight into the petty conflicts and lofty ambitions of an ancient provincial small-town politician and those around him. The author concludes that Roman local politics were rarely concerned with political issues but more often with social status and the desire for recognition within an agonistic society.
Rome and the Black Sea Region
In 89 BC, Roman legionaries intervened in the Black Sea region to curb the ambitions of Mithridates VI of Pontos. Over the next two centuries, the Roman presence on the Black Sea coast was slowly, but steadily increased. This volume deals with the Roman impact on the indigenous population in the Black Sea region and touches on the theme of romanisation of that area. Nine different contributors discuss several aspects of Roman identity and the cultural interaction – one article even compares the situation to the American presence in Iraq – though at the same time, it also looks at the resistance to the Roman Empire and the Roman problems of creating peace in the region after the colonisation. Romanisation and becoming Roman in a Greek world is a very popular field of discussion about which a lot has already been written. This book, however, encircles three important themes – the domination, the romanisation and the resistance. It covers two different sides of the Roman presence in the area and shows both the perspective of a Roman just arrived, Pliny the Younger, and a native seeing the Romans coming, the historian Memnon of Herakleia. Furthermore it describes how multi-identity cultures manage to live together because becoming Roman not necessarily means becoming less Greek (or less Gaulish, less Scythian, less Bosporan, etc.). The diversity of the different chapters in this book creates reflection on the cultural change in the traditionalist, yet cosmopolitan environment that was the Roman Black Sea Region.
Viden uden grAenser
Bind 4 i serien starter i 1920'erne, hvor dansk naturvidenskab – trods fremvAeksten af en rAekke internationalt fremtrAedende centre i fysik, kemi og fysiologi – endnu kun spillede en beskeden rolle i samfundsokonomien. Bogen folger udviklingen frem til 1960'erne, en periode, som var karakteriseret ved fortsat internationalisering og hastigt voksende investeringer i naturvidenskabelig forskning og uddannelse.
