Panhellenism And The Barbarian In Archaic And Classical Greece

Author : Lynette Mitchell
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589470
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Panhellenism and the Barbarian in Archaic and Classical Greece written by Lynette Mitchell and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2007-12-31 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in English to provide a systematic treatment of Panhellenism. The author argues that in archaic and classical Greece Panhellenism defined the community of the Hellenes and gave it political substance. Panhellenism also responded to other needs of the community, in particular serving to locate the Hellenes in time and space. One of the chief Panhellenic narratives, the war against the barbarian, provided the conceptual framework in which Alexander the Great could imagine his Asian campaign.

Author : Lynette Mitchell
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472513460
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heroic Rulers of Archaic and Classical Greece written by Lynette Mitchell and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an in-depth exploration of rule by a single man and how this was seen as heroic activity, the title challenges orthodox views of ruling in the ancient world and breaks down traditional ideas about the relationship between so-called hereditary rule and tyranny. It looks at how a common heroic ideology among rulers was based upon excellence, or arete, and also surveys dynastic ruling, where rule was in some sense shared within the family or clan. Heroic Rulers examines reasons why both personal and clan-based rule was particularly unstable and its core tension with the competitive nature of Greek society, so that the question of who had the most arete was an issue of debate both from within the ruling family and from other heroic aspirants. Probing into ancient perspectives on the legitimacy and legality of rule, the title also explores the relationship between ruling and law. Law, personified as 'king' (nomos basileus), came to be seen as the ultimate source of sovereignty especially as expressed through the constitutional machinery of the city, and became an important balance and constraint for personal rule. Finally, Heroic Rulers demonstrates that monarchy, which is generally thought to have disappeared before the end of the archaic period, remained a valid political option from the Early Iron Age through to the Hellenistic period.

Author : Kostas Vlassopoulos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107244269
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greeks and Barbarians written by Kostas Vlassopoulos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an ambitious synthesis of the social, economic, political and cultural interactions between Greeks and non-Greeks in the Mediterranean world during the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods. Instead of traditional and static distinctions between Greeks and Others, Professor Vlassopoulos explores the diversity of interactions between Greeks and non-Greeks in four parallel but interconnected worlds: the world of networks, the world of apoikiai ('colonies'), the Panhellenic world and the world of empires. These diverse interactions set into motion processes of globalisation; but the emergence of a shared material and cultural koine across the Mediterranean was accompanied by the diverse ways in which Greek and non-Greek cultures adopted and adapted elements of this global koine. The book explores the paradoxical role of Greek culture in the processes of ancient globalisation, as well as the peculiar way in which Greek culture was shaped by its interaction with non-Greek cultures.

Author : Harrison Thomas Harrison
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474468918
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greeks And Barbarians written by Harrison Thomas Harrison and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Greeks view foreign peoples? This book considers what the Greeks thought of foreigners and their religions, cultures and politics, and what these beliefs and opinions reveal about the Greeks. The Greeks were occasionally intrigued by the customs and religions of the many different peoples with whom they came into contact; more often they were disdainful or dismissive, tending to regard non-Greeks as at best inferior, and at worst as candidates for conquest and enslavement. Facing up to this less attractive aspect of the classical tradition is vital, Thomas Harrison argues, to seeing both what the ancient world was really like and the full nature of its legacy in the modern. In this book he brings together outstanding European and American scholarship to show the difference and complexity of Greek representations of foreign peoples - or barbarians, as the Greeks called them - and how these representations changed over time.The book looks first at the main sources: the Histories of Herodotus, Greek tragedy, and Athenian art. Part II examines how the Greeks distinguished themselves from barbarians through myth, language and religion. Part III considers Greek representations of two different barbarian peoples - the allegedly decadent and effeminate Persians, and the Egyptians, proverbial for their religious wisdom. In part IV three chapters trace the development of the Greek-barbarian antithesis in later history: in nineteenth-century scholarship, in Byzantine and modern Greece, and in western intellectual history.Of the twelve chapters six are published in English for the first time. The editor has provided an extensive general introduction, as well as introductions to the parts. The book contains two maps, a guide to further reading and an intellectual chronology. All passages of ancient languages are translated, and difficult terms are explained.

Author : Matthew Dillon
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1473889510
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archaic and Classical Greece written by Matthew Dillon and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays examining the influence of gods, oracles, and omens in the wars of the Archaic and Classical Greek world. Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Greeks were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice to propitiate the appropriate gods (such as Ares, god of War) or consulting oracles and omens to divine their plans. Yet the link between war and religion is an area that has been regularly overlooked by modern scholars examining the conflicts of these times. This volume addresses that omission by drawing together the work of experts from across the globe. The chapters have been carefully structured by the editors so that this wide array of scholarship combines to give a coherent, comprehensive study of the role of religion in the wars of the Archaic and Classical Greek world. Aspects considered in depth will include: Greek writers on religion and war; declarations of war; fate and predestination, the sphagia and pre-battle sacrifices; omens, oracles and portents, trophies and dedications to cult centers; militarized deities; sacred truces and festivals; oaths and vows; religion & Greek military medicine. Praise for Religion & Classical Warfare: Archaic and Classical Greece “Comprised of ten erudite and impressively informative articles by experts in the field of Greek antiquity. . . . A work of meticulous and detailed scholarship, Religion & Classical Warfare: Archaic and Classical Greece must be considered as a core addition to community, college, and university library Antiquarian Greek History collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.” —Midwest Book Review

Author : J. A. K. Thomson
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greeks & Barbarians written by J. A. K. Thomson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a fascinating attempt to elucidate what and who barbarians were from the perspective of the Ancient Greeks. During that period, the Greeks used the term not only towards those who did not speak Greek and follow classical Greek customs, but also towards Greek populations on the fringe of the Greek world with peculiar dialects.

Author : James Alexander Kerr Thomson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333466169
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greeks and Barbarians (Classic Reprint) written by James Alexander Kerr Thomson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Greeks and Barbarians There have been many explanations of ancient Greece and its peculiar spirit. If I may say so, the only original thing about the explanation offered in this book is its want of originality; for it is the explanation of the Greeks themselves. They believed that Hellenism was born of the con ict between the Greeks and the Barbarians. As Thucydides puts it (i. Greek and Barbarian are correlative terms and Herodotus wrote his great book, seek ing, as he says, digressions of set purpose, to illustrate just that. About such an explanation there is obviously nothing startling at all. It is indeed (at first sight) so colourless and negative, that it must be dissatisfaction with it which has provoked all the other explanations. Scholars must have said to themselves, What is the use of repeat ing that Hellenism is the opposite of Barbarism? We know that already. But they knew it only in a formal or abstract way. It is but the other day that classical scholars have begun to study the Barbarian and to work out the contrast which alone can give us the material for a rich understanding of the Greek himself. Without this study one's ideas of the Greek could not fail to be somewhat empty and colourless. But any one who cares to read even the meagre outline which these essays supply will hardly complain that there is a lack of colour. The subject indeed is so vast that one is compelled to be selective and illustrative. Even to be this is far from easy. For instance, it seems extraordinary to write upon the meaning of Hellenism without a chapter on Greek art. Such a chapter, however, is excluded by the design of this book, which must dispense with illustrations whereas in dealing with literature I could always drive home my point by simple quotation. Then again it may appear a little old-fashioned and arbitrary that I confine myself to the centuries before Alexander. But after all it was, in these centuries that Hellenism rose into its most characteristic form - and in any case a man must stop somewhere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Author : John E. Coleman
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greeks and Barbarians written by John E. Coleman and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 1997 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen papers from the April 1993 conference held at Cornell U. interpret relationships between the ancient Greeks and other cultures from the viewpoints of archaeology, history, linguistics, philosophy, and literature. Topics include linguistic contacts, relations with Phoenicians and Ethiopians, Greek philosophy in Egypt, ancient notions of nationalism and ethnocentrism, and the use of Greek antiquity for the development of Eurocentrism. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Hans Beck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108485774
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China written by Hans Beck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative study of the ancient Mediterranean and Han China, seen through the lens of political culture.

Author : Pericles Georges
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barbarian Asia and the Greek Experience written by Pericles Georges and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georges (history, Lake Forest College, Illinois) explores the ways ancient Greeks viewed and interacted with non-Greeks from the archaic period to the 4th century B.C. Through the works of Aeschylus, Herodotus, and Xenophon, Georges examines critical episodes in the formation of Greek ideas and attitudes concerning foreigners from Asia with whom they came into close historical contact and against whom they defined themselves especially the "barbarians" of Persia and Lydia. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.