Hellas A Short History Of Ancient Greece

Author : Cyril Edward Robinson
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hellas written by Cyril Edward Robinson and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 1955 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""In Greek history," says Mr. Robinson, "little that happened mattered much; it is what the Greeks thought that counted." It has counted so much, indeed, that no one of us can enter into his European cultural inheritance without some knowledge of what the Greeks thought. Study of the Greeks transcends antiquarianism: their experience is permanently relevant and perennially capable of providing illumination and direction for our own spiritual problems. It is upon this illumination that Mr. Robinson has focused his book; his aim is to present the aspects of Greek history that are of abiding and direct interest to the thoughtful modern. In the sense that a span requiring six stout volumes of the Cambridge Ancient Hstory is here dealt with in fewer than two hundred pages, this is a popularization; but it is a popularization of the right sort, done by a mature scholar whose more technical work compels respect for his general interpretations."--Foreword

Author : C. E. Robinson
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1446546977
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hellas - A Short History of Ancient Greece written by C. E. Robinson and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Greek History, someone has said, little that happened mattered much; it was what the Greeks thought that counted. This, broadly speaking, is the truth; and here I have tried to lay the main emphasis on Greek ideas, setting them against the background of historic events. Obviously the best clue to their understanding is to be found in what the Greeks themselves wrote; and, though no English version can be an adequate substitute, I have given in translation whatever passages appear to me most revealing. With these it has been my object to convey effectively the author’s meaning rather than slavishly to reproduce his phraseology; and I have taken, I confess, some liberty with the task, abbreviating by frequent omissions of words, clauses and even whole sentences, occasionally elaborating to bring out the full sense, and above all recasting the original syntactic construction in approximation to our own modern idiom. In the illustrations, similarly, I have here and there allowed myself the licence of reconstruction when details have suffered through accident or age. I have to record with gratitude my great debt to Mrs. Eric James and Mr. W. H. Plommer and Mr. L. F. R. Audemars for valuable criticisms and suggestions. My thanks are also due to Messrs. Methuen, the publishers of my “History of Greece,” for permission to produce this complementary volume. It may be that the reader will be encouraged to further study of the subject; and on certain points—few among many which limits of space have compelled me to summarize or omit—I have ventured to insert a cross-reference.

Author : Cyril Edward Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hellas written by Cyril Edward Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : G. B. Cobbold
Publisher : Wayside Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781877653643
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hellas written by G. B. Cobbold and published by Wayside Pub. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This broadly-based history offers a new look at the origins of western civilization and highlights the changes that transpired in Greece between 1200 BC and the ascendancy of Rome. Interspersed throughout the text are translated primary sources and brief accounts of what was occurring in the rest of the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East during the classical period.

Author : Sarah B. Pomeroy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780190925307
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of Ancient Greece written by Sarah B. Pomeroy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and updated throughout, the fourth edition of Brief History of Ancient Greece presents the political, social, cultural, and economic history and civilization of ancient Greece in all its complexity and variety. Written by leading authorities on the classical world, this captivatingstudy covers the entire period from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic Era, while integrating the most recent research in archaeology, comparative anthropology, and social history.

Author : W. A. Heurtley
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521094542
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Greece written by W. A. Heurtley and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1967 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : PJ Rhodes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857735519
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Ancient Greece written by PJ Rhodes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical Greece and its legacy have long inspired a powerful and passionate fascination. The civilization that bequeathed to later ages drama and democracy, Homer and heroism, myth and Mycenae and the Delphic Oracle and the Olympic Games has, perhaps more than any other, helped shape the intellectual contours of the modern world. P J Rhodes is among the most distinguished historians of antiquity. In this elegant, zesty new survey he explores the archaic (8th–early 5th centuries BCE), classical (5th and 4th centuries BCE) and Hellenistic (late 4th–mid-2nd centuries BCE) periods up to the beginning of Roman hegemony. His scope is that of the peoples who originated on the Greek mainland and Aegean islands who later migrated to the shores of the Mediterranean and Black Seas, and then (following the conquests of Alexander) to the Near East and beyond. Exploring topics such as the epic struggle with Persia; the bitter rivalry of Athens and Sparta; slaves and ethnicity; religion and philosophy; and literature and the visual arts, this authoritative book will attract students and non-specialists in equal measure.

Author : David Gemmell
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345486080
Total Pages : 620 pages
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Download or read book Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow written by David Gemmell and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this first masterly volume in an epic reimagining of the Trojan War, David Gemmell has written an ageless drama of brave deeds and fierce battles, of honor and treachery, of love won and lost. He is a man of many names. Some call him the Golden One; others, the Lord of the Silver Bow. To the Dardanians, he is Prince Aeneas. But to his friends, he is Helikaon. Strong, fast, quick of mind, he is a bold warrior, hated by his enemies, feared even by his Trojan allies. For there is a darkness at the heart of the Golden One, a savagery that, once awakened, can be appeased only with blood. Argurios the Mykene is a peerless fighter, a man of unbending principles and unbreakable will. Like all of the Mykene warriors, he lives to conquer and to kill. Dispatched by King Agamemnon to scout the defenses of the golden city of Troy, he is Helikaon’s sworn enemy. Andromache is a priestess of Thera betrothed against her will to Hektor, prince of Troy. Scornful of tradition, skilled in the arts of war, and passionate in the ways of her order, Andromache vows to love whom she pleases and to live as she desires. Now fate is about to thrust these three together–and, from the sparks of passionate love and hate, ignite a fire that will engulf the world.

Author : Distinguished Professor of Classics Hunter College Sarah B Pomeroy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195392678
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of Ancient Greece written by Distinguished Professor of Classics Hunter College Sarah B Pomeroy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of the Greeks from the Earliest Times to B.C. 146 written by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1901 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: