Myth, Locality, and Identity argues that Pindar engages in a striking, innovative style of mythmaking that represents and shapes Sicilian identities in his epinician odes for Sicilian victors in the fifth century BCE. While Sicily has been thought to be lacking in local traditions for Pindar to celebrate, Lewis argues that the Sicilian odes offer examples of the formation of local traditions: the monster Typho whom Zeus defeated to become king of the gods, for example, now lives beneath Mt. Aitna; Persephone receives the island of Sicily as a gift from Zeus; and the Peloponnesian river Alpheos travels to Syracuse in pursuit of the local spring nymph Arethusa. By weaving regional and Panhellenic myth into the local landscape, as the book shows, Pindar infuses physical places with meaning and thereby contextualizes people, cities, and their rulers within a wider Greek framework. During this time period, Greek Sicily experienced a unique set of political circumstances: the inhabitants were continuously being displaced, cities were founded and resettled, and political leaders rose and fell from power in rapid succession. This book offers the first sustained analysis of myth in Pindar's odes for Sicilian victors across the island that accounts for their shared context. The nodes of myth and place that Pindar fuses in this poetry reinforce and develop a sense of place and community for citizens locally; at the same time, they raise the profile of physical sites and the cities attached to them for larger audiences across the Greek world. In addition to providing new readings of Pindaric odes and offering a model for the formation of Sicilian identities in the first half of the fifth century, the book contributes new insights into current debates on the relationship between myth and place in classical literature.
After an illuminating account of the history of Patrick and Henry counties, which occupies the first third of the book, the authors turn their attention to genealogy, providing authoritative histories of no fewer than 110 families. The genealogies generally begin with the first settler in either Patrick or Henry County and proceed to enumerate descendants in several generations, providing incidental detail according to the materials available. In addition to the remarkable collection of genealogies, the book also contains transcriptions of important genealogical source materials, such as the Patrick and Henry land grants and patents registered in the old Land Office in Richmond.
Have you ever stopped to chat with a street evangelist? Or have you instinctively crossed to the other side of the street to avoid the intrusive encounter? This book, Peculiar People, offers the reader a fascinating look into the lives of two, aging street evangelists: Auntie Faith and her husband, Uncle Billy, who have abandoned their ordinary lives in exchange for an extraordinary passion for winning souls right off the street. Faith and Billy can be found preaching to anyone who will listen in the most unlikely places: laundromats, local pubs, waiting rooms, bus stops, and even at fast food hangouts. They never know where they will fi nd themselves on a given day and that may well be behind bars. It is a story of evangelism on the edge. The book takes a sweet turn into an unexpected love story that has the power to carry you back to your first love. The tenderness of this love imparts an appreciation for the beauty and the sanctity of Christian bonding between two young people in love. If you are an atheist or a non-religious person, you will have a very diffi cult time reading this book from beginning to end, especially if you are critical of Christians. The last atheist who read this book couldn't get beyond page seventy-fi ve. However, if you have been anti-Christian for a while, and you are now beginning to feel your heart softening toward the Lord, there is no better book to read. It is an excellent introduction to Christianity. The book is painlessly informative and biblical, yet it is tender and funny, and the characters are truly endearing, as they are characterized through sensitive, revealing dialogue. This text will teach you how to understand born-again people, and it will also tell you how to become born again yourself. Jesus said in John 3 "Unless a man is born again, he will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven." Then he repeated it for emphasis a few verses later. Enjoy the book. Be open. It just might be your doorway to eternal life.
Kendra, a gold digging secretary, targets Clark Rogers, a rich New Orleans widower, for marriage via the obituary notices. After becoming his private secretary, by design, Kendra encounters the widower's ghost, who tells her she's been murdered. The late Mrs. Rogers offers to assist Kendra in her plot for marriage if she exposes her murderous enemies.
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