The Oracle Sequence The Archon

Author : Catherine Fisher
Publisher : Hodder Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 1444902881
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oracle Sequence: The Archon written by Catherine Fisher and published by Hodder Children's Books. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breathtaking sequel to The Oracle, the Archon must face a journey of treachery and adventure across the pitiless desert in a bid to save his people ... The Archon vows to lead a pilgrimage to the Well of Songs to seek peace with the Rain Queen and save the land from the terrible drought. The Well is hidden in the mountains across the desert. But he is not the only one with his sight set on the mountains: Argelin, the tyrannical and power-hungry General, follows behind, an ever-present threat, with his heart set on the riches to be found. With only Oblek, Seth and two tomb-thieves known as the Jackal and the Fox for company, the Archon's journey is treacherous and dangerous. They must face the Great Desolation and the monstrous animals outlined on the desert floor, animals with mythical powers, and they must survive without Mirany, bearer-of-the-god and true friend of the Archon, who has had to remain behind to face a threat much closer to home ...

Author : Catherine Fisher
Publisher : Hodder Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 1444902873
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oracle Sequence: The Oracle written by Catherine Fisher and published by Hodder Children's Books. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the distant land of deserts and islands, the servants of the god rule the land, his wishes conveyed through the Oracle and interpreted by the High Priestess. Mirany is the new Bearer, afraid of her perilous duties for the god in the rituals of the Oracle, and fearful of her secret questioning ... Does the god truly exist? The priestess is corrupt and in secret partnership with the General, ruler, since the God-on-Earth, the Archon, has no real power - chosen as a child, his face always masked, never seen by outsiders. Should any national tragedy occur, he is also the sacrifice. When the old Archon dies, his spirit migrates into a child, and there are several candidates for succession. But Mirany begins to experience the real visions of the god, discovers which child is the rightful heir, and that the General and High Priestess intend to choose another child and seize power. With only a tomb-robbing scribe and a mad musician for allies, Mirany begins her quest - knowing that, if she is betrayed, her fate will be to be walled up alive in the Archon's tomb ...

Author : Catherine Fisher
Publisher : Oracle Sequence
ISBN 13 : 9780340843772
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archon written by Catherine Fisher and published by Oracle Sequence. This book was released on 2004 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breathtaking sequel to The Oracle, the Archon must face a journey of treachery and adventure across the pitiless desert in a bid to save his people ... The Archon vows to lead a pilgrimage to the Well of Songs to seek peace with the Rain Queen and save the land from the terrible drought. The Well is hidden in the mountains across the desert. But he is not the only one with his sight set on the mountains: Argelin, the tyrannical and power-hungry General, follows behind, an ever-present threat, with his heart set on the riches to be found. With only Oblek, Seth and two tomb-thieves known as the Jackal and the Fox for company, the Archon's journey is treacherous and dangerous. They must face the Great Desolation and the monstrous animals outlined on the desert floor, animals with mythical powers, and they must survive without Mirany, bearer-of-the-god and true friend of the Archon, who has had to remain behind to face a threat much closer to home ...

Author : Catherine Fisher
Publisher : Hodder Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 144490289X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oracle Sequence: The Scarab written by Catherine Fisher and published by Hodder Children's Books. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final story in the Oracle sequence. We are again in the distand land of deserts and islands ruled by one god whose wishes are conveyed through the Oracle. The Archon, child god-on-earth, returns from his journey across the desert to the Well of Songs, to find the tyrannical General Argelin has siezed control and his reign of madness is oppressing the Two Lands. He has publicly denounced the gods, and established a reign of terror. Mirany is in hiding, and the Nine are scattered. Will Argelin's obsession bring the Rain Queen's wrath down on them all? And whose is the sinister new power hidden in the sign of the Scarab? In the descent into anarchy, Mirany and the Archon must attempt the final, impossible journey of the soul. Through the Nine Gateways into death. And back.

Author : Catherine Fisher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oracle written by Catherine Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a distant desert land, the servants of the god rule supreme - New Bearer Mirany is afraid of her duties for the god in the rituals of the Oracle and fearful of her secret doubt as to whether the god truly exists.

Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1802067299
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise And Fall of Athens written by Plutarch and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal work What makes a leader? For Plutarch the answer lay not in great victories, but in moral strengths. In these nine biographies, taken from his Parallel Lives, Plutarch illustrates the rise and fall of Athens through nine lives, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Plutarch ultimately held the weaknesses of its leaders responsible for the city's fall. His work is invaluable for its imaginative reconstruction of the past, and profound insights into human life and achievement. This edition of Ian Scott-Kilvert's seminal translation, fully revised with a new introduction and notes by John Marincola, now also contains Plutarch's attack on the first historian, 'On the Malice of Herodotus'.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520266056
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle and Xenophon on Democracy and Oligarchy written by Aristotle and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains: Aristotle's The Constitution of Athens Xenophon's The Politeia of the Spartans The Constitution of the Athenians ascribed to Xenophon the Orator The Boeotian Constitution from the Oxyrhynchus Historian In bringing together, translating, and annotating these constitutional documents from ancient Greece thirty five years ago, J. M. Moore produced an authoritative work of the highest scholarship. An explanatory essay by classics scholar Kurt A. Raaflaub expands this indispensable collection.

Author : John Henry Howlett (M.A.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metrical Chronology: in which Most of the Important Dates in Ancient and Modern History are Expressed by Consonants Used for Numerals, and Formed by Aid of Vowels Into Significant Words ... to which are Subjoined Tables of Chronology and Regal Genealogies, Combined and Separate written by John Henry Howlett (M.A.) and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521233477
Total Pages : 628 pages
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Download or read book Cambridge Ancient History written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1924 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marek Węcowski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019884820X
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Athenian Ostracism and Its Original Purpose written by Marek Węcowski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ostracism is by far the most emblematic institution of ancient Athenian democracy. This volume offers a reassessment of recently found ostraka (or potsherds, on which the names of the 'candidates' for exile were inscribed by citizens) from several Greek cities outside Athens, a thorough reconstruction of the history and of the procedure of ostracism in Athens, and a comprehensive account of the political circumstances of the introduction of the law on ostracism by Cleisthenes in 508/507 BCE. Marek Węcowski's original study focuses not only on the final stage, the day of the vote, but on the entire operation and procedure of ostracisation. Tracing the logic of the political play in Athens between the opening and final stages of ostracism, Węcowski argues that Athenian ostracism was a mechanism devised to impose compromise on the main players in Athenian political life, thereby avoiding the punishment of political elites by exile of leading politicians resulting from unpredictable votes by the citizenry. To support this hypothesis, Węcowski turns to the theory of the 'evolution of cooperation' as formulated by the American mathematician and political scientist Robert Axelrod based on the iterated prisoner's dilemma in game theory, applied as a probabilistic analogy to the dynamics of Athenian political life under democracy.