"for the scrutiny of science and the light of revelation": american blood falls. From Southern Cultures, Volume 18: Number 1, Spring 2012
(2012)
By:
Maxwell, Tom
Nonfiction
eBook
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PUBLISHED
[United States] : The University of North Carolina Press : Made available through hoopla, 2012
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1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780807837719 (electronic bk.) MWT11718201, 0807837717 (electronic bk.) 11718201
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Showers of blood, however dreadful, were not news. Pliny, Cicero, Livy, and Plutarch mentioned rains of blood and flesh. Zeus makes it rain blood, 'as a portent of slaughter,' in Homer's Iliad."This article appears in the Spring 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for the Study of the American South
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