Being Greek Under Rome

Author : Simon Goldhill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521030878
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being Greek Under Rome written by Simon Goldhill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the cultural conflicts of the second-century CE Roman Empire, through the perspective of Greek writings. The specially commissioned essays investigate the intellectual and social tensions in the era which gave rise to Christianity.

Author : Greg Woolf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521789820
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming Roman written by Greg Woolf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-27 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the 'Romanization' of Rome's Gallic provinces in the late Republic and early empire.

Author : Thomas E. Ricks
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062997475
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Principles written by Thomas E. Ricks and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Editors' Choice —New York Times Book Review "Ricks knocks it out of the park with this jewel of a book. On every page I learned something new. Read it every night if you want to restore your faith in our country." —James Mattis, General, U.S. Marines (ret.) & 26th Secretary of Defense The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author offers a revelatory new book about the founding fathers, examining their educations and, in particular, their devotion to the ancient Greek and Roman classics—and how that influence would shape their ideals and the new American nation. On the morning after the 2016 presidential election, Thomas Ricks awoke with a few questions on his mind: What kind of nation did we now have? Is it what was designed or intended by the nation’s founders? Trying to get as close to the source as he could, Ricks decided to go back and read the philosophy and literature that shaped the founders’ thinking, and the letters they wrote to each other debating these crucial works—among them the Iliad, Plutarch’s Lives, and the works of Xenophon, Epicurus, Aristotle, Cato, and Cicero. For though much attention has been paid the influence of English political philosophers, like John Locke, closer to their own era, the founders were far more immersed in the literature of the ancient world. The first four American presidents came to their classical knowledge differently. Washington absorbed it mainly from the elite culture of his day; Adams from the laws and rhetoric of Rome; Jefferson immersed himself in classical philosophy, especially Epicureanism; and Madison, both a groundbreaking researcher and a deft politician, spent years studying the ancient world like a political scientist. Each of their experiences, and distinctive learning, played an essential role in the formation of the United States. In examining how and what they studied, looking at them in the unusual light of the classical world, Ricks is able to draw arresting and fresh portraits of men we thought we knew. First Principles follows these four members of the Revolutionary generation from their youths to their adult lives, as they grappled with questions of independence, and forming and keeping a new nation. In doing so, Ricks interprets not only the effect of the ancient world on each man, and how that shaped our constitution and government, but offers startling new insights into these legendary leaders.

Author : Fergus Millar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520253914
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Greek Roman Empire written by Fergus Millar and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-07-10 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This masterful study will have its place on every ancient historian's bookshelf."—Claudia Rapp, author of Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity: The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition

Author : Charles Freeman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199263647
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Egypt, Greece, and Rome written by Charles Freeman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Author : Harriet I. Flower
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107032245
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic written by Harriet I. Flower and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.

Author : Erik Jensen
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1624667147
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barbarians in the Greek and Roman World written by Erik Jensen and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did the ancient Greeks and Romans think of the peoples they referred to as barbari? Did they share the modern Western conception—popularized in modern fantasy literature and role-playing games—of "barbarians" as brutish, unwashed enemies of civilization? Or our related notion of "the noble savage?" Was the category fixed or fluid? How did it contrast with the Greeks and Romans' conception of their own cultural identity? Was it based on race? In accessible, jargon-free prose, Erik Jensen addresses these and other questions through a copiously illustrated introduction to the varied and evolving ways in which the ancient Greeks and Romans engaged with, and thought about, foreign peoples—and to the recent historical and archaeological scholarship that has overturned received understandings of the relationship of Classical civilization to its "others."

Author : Antony Spawforth
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300217110
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Greece and Rome written by Antony Spawforth and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However, narratives about the "civilized" Greek and Roman empires resisting the barbarians at the gate are far from accurate. Tony Spawforth, an esteemed scholar, author, and media contributor, follows the thread of civilization through more than six millennia of history. His story reveals that Greek and Roman civilization, to varying degrees, was supremely and surprisingly receptive to external influences, particularly from the East. From the rise of the Mycenaean world of the sixteenth century B.C., Spawforth traces a path through the ancient Aegean to the zenith of the Hellenic state and the rise of the Roman empire, the coming of Christianity and the consequences of the first caliphate. Deeply informed, provocative, and entirely fresh, this is the first and only accessible work that tells the extraordinary story of the classical world in its entirety.

Author : Robin Waterfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199916896
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taken at the Flood written by Robin Waterfield and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing a marginalized era of Greek and Roman history, Taken at the Flood offers a compelling narrative of Rome's conquest of Greece.

Author : David Konstan
Publisher : Cambridge Philological Society
ISBN 13 : 1913701352
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greeks on Greekness written by David Konstan and published by Cambridge Philological Society. This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Marx observed that ‘just when people seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves... they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service’. While the Greek east under Roman rule was not revolutionary, perhaps, in the sense that Marx had in mind, it was engaged in creating something that had not previously existed, in part just through the millennia-long involvement with its own tradition, which was continually being remodelled and readapted. It was an age that was intensely self-conscious about its relation to history, a consciousness that manifested itself not only in Attic purism and a reverence for antique literary models but also in ethnic identities, educational and religious institutions, and political interactions with – and even among – the Romans. In this volume, seven scholars explore some of the forms that this preoccupation with the Greek past assumed under Roman rule. Taken together, the chapters offer a kaleidoscopic view of how Greeks under the Roman Empire related to their past, indicating the multiple ways in which the classical tradition was problematised, adapted, transformed, and at times rejected. They thus provide a vivid image of a lived relation to tradition, one that was inventive rather than conservative and self-conscious rather than passive. The Greeks under Rome played with their heritage, as they played at being and not being the Greeks they continually studied and remembered.