Greek Realities

Author : Finley Hooper
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814315972
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Realities written by Finley Hooper and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of ancient Greek life and thought from the Mycenaean kings to Alexander, Aristotle and Diogenes.

Author : Philip Carabott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429851111
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Society in the Making, 1863–1913 written by Philip Carabott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997, Carabott creates a volume exploring the struggle between the forces of modernity and those who resisted and denied it, providing the underlying theme of this volume. Using a wide array of sources, and drawing parallels with processes elsewhere in Europe, the contributors focus on such topics as secularization and the church, education and irredentism, shifts in the language of political contention, the feminist awareness in prose. Historical writing on Greece in this era has tended to concentrate on facts and on the roles of individuals and foreign powers. The papers here, which derive from research presented to a conference at King’s College London in 1995, aim rather to look at the potency of social forces and groupings, and offer a critical and often revisionist account of the fundamental changes in society that marked the period from the 1860s to the start of the present century.

Author : Melanie Jonasch
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789253594
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fight for Greek Sicily written by Melanie Jonasch and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The island of Sicily was a highly contested area throughout much of its history. Among the first to exert strong influence on its political, cultural, infrastructural, and demographic developments were the two major decentralized civilizations of the first millennium BCE: the Phoenicians and the Greeks. While trade and cultural exchange preceded their permanent presence, it was the colonizing movement that brought territorial competition and political power struggles on the island to a new level. The history of six centuries of colonization is replete with accounts of conflict and warfare that include cross-cultural confrontations, as well as interstate hostilities, domestic conflicts, and government violence. This book is not concerned with realities from the battlefield or questions of military strategy and tactics, but rather offers a broad collection of archaeological case studies and historical essays that analyze how political competition, strategic considerations, and violent encounters substantially affected rural and urban environments, the island’s heterogeneous communities, and their social practices. These contributions, originating from a workshop in 2018, combine expertise from the fields of archaeology, ancient history, and philology. The focus on a specific time period and the limited geographic area of Greek Sicily allows for the thorough investigation and discussion of various forms of organized societal violence and their consequences on the developments in society and landscape.

Author : Mary R. Lefkowitz
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300107692
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Gods, Human Lives written by Mary R. Lefkowitz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insightful and fun, this new guide to an ancient mythology explains why the Greek gods and goddesses are still so captivating to us, revisiting the work of Homer, Ovid, Virgil, and Shakespeare in search of the essence of these stories. (Mythology & Folklore)

Author : Arum Park
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317355342
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought written by Arum Park and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought follows the construction of reality from Homer into the Hellenistic era and beyond. Not only in didactic poetry or philosophical works but in practically all genres from the time of Homer onwards, Greek literature has shown an awareness of the relationship between verbal art and the social, historical, or cultural reality that produces it, an awareness that this relationship is an approximate one at best and a distorting one at worst. This central theme of resemblance and its relationship to reality draws together essays on a range of Greek authors, and shows how they are unified or allied in posing similar questions to classical literature.

Author : Victoria Beatrix Maria Fendel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192695835
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coptic Interference in the Syntax of Greek Letters from Egypt written by Victoria Beatrix Maria Fendel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egypt in the early Byzantine period was a bilingual country where Greek and Egyptian (Coptic) were used alongside each other. Historical studies along with linguistic studies of the phonology and lexicon of early Byzantine Greek in Egypt testify to this situation. In order to describe the linguistic traces that the language-contact situation left behind in individuals' linguistic output, Coptic Interference in the Syntax of Greek Letters from Egypt analyses the syntax of early Byzantine Greek texts from Egypt. The primary object of interest is bilingual interference in the syntax of verbs, adverbial phrases, clause linkage as well as in semi-formulaic expressions and formulaic frames. The study is based on a corpus of Greek and Coptic private letters on papyrus, which date from the fourth to mid-seventh centuries, originate from Egypt and belong to bilingual, Greek-Coptic, papyrus archives.

Author : Thomas W Gallant
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748636072
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1768 to 1913 written by Thomas W Gallant and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces the rich social, cultural, economic and political history of the Greeks during National Period up till the military coup of 1909.

Author : Hans van Wees
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781474275903
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Warfare written by Hans van Wees and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2024-12-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the soldier's-eye view of combat to the broad social and economic structures that shaped campaigns and wars, ancient Greek warfare in all its aspects has been studied more intensively in the last few decades than ever before. This book ranges from the concrete details of conducting raids, battles and sieges to more theoretical questions about the causes, costs and consequences of warfare in archaic and classical Greece. It argues that the Greek sources present a highly selective and idealised picture, too easily accepted by most modern scholars, and that a more critical study of the evidence leads to radically different conclusions about the Greek way of war. In this new edition the evidence from recent research is interwoven throughout the existing text along with new images to supplement the original illustrative material, which is now fully integrated. A new map and annotated timeline will support students, while a much-expanded final chapter on naval warfare will bring this important subdiscipline fully up to date.

Author : Michael K. Kellogg
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616145765
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greek Search for Wisdom written by Michael K. Kellogg and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once said that all of Western philosophy was "but a series of footnotes to Plato." By the same token, one could argue that all of Western civilization is but an extension of the ancient Greek cultural legacy. The Greeks invented tragedy, comedy, lyric poetry, history, philosophy, and democracy. They also made remarkable advances in science, medicine, and mathematics. In the author’s view, what ties this wide-ranging intellectual ferment together is a restless search for wisdom. The author looks at ten outstanding examples of Greek wisdom, offering fresh and engaging portraits of the epic poets (Homer, Hesiod); dramatists (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes); historians (Herodotus, Thucydides); and philosophers (Plato, Aristotle) against the background of Greek history. In each case he asks what the author has to tell us— regardless of genre—about our place in the world and how we should live our lives. By surveying some of the highest peaks of ancient civilization, the author argues that we gain perspective on the historical terrain that lies below. This book presents an eloquent and convincing case that a study of the Greek classics, as Gustave Flaubert explained, makes us "greater, wiser, purer."

Author : Tonio Hölscher
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520967887
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome written by Tonio Hölscher and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-06-22 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visual culture was an essential part of ancient social, religious, and political life. Appearance and experience of beings and things was of paramount importance. In Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome, Tonio Hölscher explores the fundamental phenomena of Greek and Roman visual culture and their enormous impact on the ancient world, considering memory over time, personal appearance, conceptualization and representation of reality, and significant decoration as fundamental categories of art as well as of social practice. With an emphasis on public spaces such as sanctuaries, agora and forum, Hölscher investigates the ways in which these spaces were used, viewed, and experienced in religious rituals, political manifestations, and social interaction.