Poseidons Gold

Author : Lindsey Davis
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1466857463
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poseidon's Gold written by Lindsey Davis and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rome, AD 72. Falco returns home from a six-month mission to the German legions. But trouble is in store for him: his apartment has been wrecked by squatters, and an ex-legionary friend of his colorfully heroic brother Festus is demanding money, allegedly owed him as the result of one of Festus's wild schemes. Worse still, the only client Falco can get is his mother-who wants him to clear the family name. Then, just as Falco thinks things can only get better, fate takes a turn for the worse. The legionary is found viciously stabbed to death, with Falco the prime suspect. Now he has only three days to prove he is not a murderer, to trace the real suspect, amass evidence, and win a fortune.

Author : Lindsey Davis
Publisher : Random House UK
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poseidon's Gold written by Lindsey Davis and published by Random House UK. This book was released on 1993 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder mystery set in ancient Rome.

Author : Elizabeth G. Birkmaier
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387305109
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poseidon's Paradise; The romance of Atlantis written by Elizabeth G. Birkmaier and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Lindsey Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750507332
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poseidon's Gold written by Lindsey Davis and published by . This book was released on 1994-01 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "GREAT STUFF...A classic hard-boiled, smart-mouth detective who happens to work in ancient Rome." --Molly Ivins Los Angeles Daily News After six months in wild Germania, imperial gumshoe Marcus Didius Falco is back in Rome sweet Rome. But his apartment has been ransacked. And although he desperately needs 400,000 sesterces in order to marry his aristocratic love, Helena, his only client is his mother, who insists that he find out whether the scandalous claims against his dead brother, Festus, are true. Then the chief tarnisher of Festus's good name is murdered, and Marcus becomes the prime suspect. Someone is definitely fiddling with the scales of justice. The more Marcus hunts for the thread that will lead him out of this doom-laden labyrinth of misery and mystery, the less his life is worth. Except, as seems likely, as a meal for the Emperor's hungry lions... "AN INTRIGUING TALE...COMPULSIVE READING." --Roanoke Times & World-News "A VIVIDLY REALIZED IMPERIAL ROME--NOISY, DENSE AND DANGEROUS." --Publishers Weekly

Author : Helen Scales Ph.D.
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101133767
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poseidon's Steed written by Helen Scales Ph.D. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-08-27 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating journey with the sea creature that has captured human imagination for thousands of years Poseidon's Steed trails the seahorse through secluded waters across the globe in a kaleidoscopic history that mirrors man's centuries-old fascination with the animal, sweeping from the reefs of Indonesia, through the back streets of Hong Kong, and back in time to ancient Greece and Rome. Over time, seahorses have surfaced in some unlikely places. We see them immortalized in the decorative arts; in tribal folklore, literature, and ancient myth; and even on the pages of the earliest medical texts, prescribed to treat everything from skin complaints to baldness to flagging libido. Marine biologist Helen Scales eloquently shows that seahorses are indeed fish, though scientists have long puzzled over their exotic anatomy, and their very strange sex lives — male seahorses are the only males in the animal world that experience childbirth! Our first seahorse imaginings appeared six thousand years ago on cave walls in Australia. The ancient Greeks called the seahorse hippocampus (half-horse, half-fish) and sent it galloping through the oceans of mythology, pulling the sea god Poseidon's golden chariot. The seahorse has even been the center of a modern-day international art scandal: A two-thousand-year-old winged seahorse brooch was plundered by Turkish tomb raiders and sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. A book that is as charming as the seahorse itself, Poseidon's Steed brings to life an aquatic treasure. Seahorses lead quiet lives, tucked away out of sight on the seafloor. It is rare to catch a glimpse of a seahorse in its natural habitat. But even if few have seen one live, these exotic, seemingly prehistoric creatures exist quite vividly in our imaginations and they have mesmerized scientists, artists, and storytellers throughout time with their otherworldly rarity. Poseidon's Steed is a sweeping journey that takes us from the coral reefs and seagrass meadows of Indonesia where many seahorses makes their natural habitat to the back streets of Hong Kong where a thriving black market seahorse trade is concealed. Throughout history, seahorses have surfaced in some unexpected places and Scales also follows the seahorse back in time, from our most rudimentary seahorse imaginings six thousand years ago on cave walls in Australia, to the myths of ancient Greece. Scientists have long puzzled over seahorses' unusual anatomy and their very strange sex lives. And male seahorses are the only males in the animal world that experience childbirth! Seahorses are not what scientists call a "keystone" species. They rely on a healthy ocean to survive, but the marine ecosystem does not rely on them. But their delicate beauty reminds us that we rely on the seas not only to fill our dinner plates, but also to feed our imaginations.

Author : Elizabeth G. Birkmaier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poseidon's Paradise written by Elizabeth G. Birkmaier and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christian Cameron
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 1409114139
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poseidon's Spear written by Christian Cameron and published by Orion. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic novel from the master of historical fiction, author of ALEXANDER: GOD OF WAR 'Brilliantly evoked' Sunday Times Arimnestos of Plataea is a man who has seen and done things that most men only dream about. Sold into slavery as a boy, he fought his way to freedom - and then to everlasting fame: standing alongside the Athenians at the Battle of Marathon where the Greeks crushed the invading Persians. Sometimes, however, a man's greatest triumph is followed by his greatest sorrow. Returning to his farm, Arimnestos finds that his wife Euphoria has died in childbirth, and in an instant his laurels turn to dust. But the gods are not finished with Arimnestos yet. With nothing left to live for, he throws himself from a cliff into the sea, only to be pulled by strong arms from death's embrace. When he awakes, he finds himself chained to an oar in a Phoenician trireme. And so begins an epic journey that will take Arimnestos and a motley crew of fellow galley slaves to the limits of their courage, and beyond the edge of the known world, in a quest for freedom, revenge - and a cargo so precious it's worth dying for.

Author : C. E. Davis
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1608609642
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poseidon's Grotto Have You Ever Lived a Dream? written by C. E. Davis and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There exists a magical place near the sea which some believe to be hallowed ground, where the future is idyllic and living in a dream is the only reality. Lyndon Williams is one who seeks this enchanted sanctuary with the hopes of creating a future for himself and his special girl. But his desire turns into a lifelong obsession when Lyndon is not willing to give up his dreams, or his first love, as he unfailingly searches through time for Poseidon's Grotto.

Author : Clive Cussler
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593087909
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wrath of Poseidon written by Clive Cussler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo come up against an old enemy while searching for a treasure that has been lost for centuries in this exciting adventure in the bestselling series by the Clive Cussler, Grand Master of Adventure. Ten years ago, a chance meeting at the Lighthouse Café in Redondo Beach led Sam Fargo and Remi Longstreet on the adventure of a lifetime, hunting the legendary riches stolen from the Persian King Croesus in 546 B.C. But they weren't the only ones. Someone else is after the gold, and he's willing to kill anyone who gets in his way. When Sam and Remi run afoul of a criminal drug-running operation, their hopes of finding the treasure are dashed. But with Sam's ingenuity and Remi's determination, they survive their confrontation with the drug runners, and manage to send one of the key players to prison. Though the cache of gold is never found, life goes on. Sam and Remi marry--and years later return to Greece to find the one treasure that got away. Time becomes their enemy when the kingpin they helped send to prison over a decade ago is released--and he has two goals in mind. Find the legendary hoard of King Croesus, and kill Sam and Remi Fargo. The Fargos know that as long as this gold is out there, no one is safe. They return to Greece for a final showdown--and one last chance to find that elusive treasure.

Author : Curtis Bennett
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791496295
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God as Form written by Curtis Bennett and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1976-06-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In God as Form, Curtis Bennett discusses the nature of godhead, the function of image for art and religion expressive of its instinctive functioning in dream imagery, the radical distinction between the Greek and Christian views of incarnation, Xenophanes' disclaimer of the Greek human forms for divinity, Sappho's Hymn to Aphrodite, The First Olympian, and more. "Seeing the modern predicament not in the revolt of human will against God but in its rebellion against its own givenness, in the reversal not of values but of effect and cause, God as Form pushes hard against the limits of the exploratory essay. What rises in the memory, though, with the force of the 'realized' image as one lays down this book, are the readings of poetic texts from which the thesis springs: dawn breaking for immortals and mortals alike, the hall of the symposium, Sappho and Pindar in consonance across millennia with Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens. Demonstrating the claimed relation between poetry and theology in the critical act itself, these readings may one day do for literary criticism and the theory of poetry what Erich Auerbach's Mimesis has done in its time." — from the Foreword by Gregor Sebba