The Birth And Development Of The Idealized Concept Of Arcadia In The Ancient World

Author : Antonio Corso
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803271655
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birth and Development of the Idealized Concept of Arcadia in the Ancient World written by Antonio Corso and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together for the first time all the available evidence for the origination and development of the concept of Arcadia, from the Homeric period to the early Roman Empire, this book brings to light a treasure-trove of evidence, both well-known and obscure or fragmentary, filling a significant gap in the scholarly bibliography.

Author : Alexander Kirichenko
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192692003
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Literature and the Ideal written by Alexander Kirichenko and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek Literature and the Ideal contends that the development of Greek literature was motivated by the need to endow political geography with a sense of purposeful structure. Alexander Kirichenko argues that Greek literature was a crucial factor in the cultural production of space, and Greek geography a crucial factor in the production of literary meaning. The book focuses on the idealizing images that Greek literature created of three spatial patterns of power distribution: a decentralized network of aristocratically governed communities (Archaic Greece); a democratic city controlling an empire (Classical Athens); and a microcosm of Greek culture located on foreign soil, ruled by quasi-divine royals, and populated by immigrants (Ptolemaic Alexandria). Kirichenko draws connections between the formation of these idealizing images and the emergence of such literary modes of meaning making as the authoritative communication of the truth, the dialogic encouragement to search for the truth on one's own, and the abandonment of transcendental goals for the sake of cultural memory and/or aesthetic pleasure. Readings of such canonical Greek authors as Homer, Hesiod, the tragedians, Thucydides, Plato, Callimachus, and Theocritus show that the pragmatics of Greek literature (the sum total of the ideological, cognitive, and emotional effects that it seeks to produce) is, in essence, always a pragmatics of space: there is a strong correlation between the historically conditioned patterns of political geography and the changing mechanisms whereby Greek literature enabled its recipients to make sense of their world.

Author : Thorsten Fögen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110473038
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Graeco-Roman Antiquity and the Idea of Nationalism in the 19th Century written by Thorsten Fögen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume explains the phenomenon of nationalism in nineteenth-century Europe through the prism of Graeco-Roman antiquity. Through a series of case studies covering a broad range of source material, it demonstrates the different purposes the heritage of the classical world was put to during a turbulent period in European history. Contributors include classicists, historians, archaeologists, art historians and others.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
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Download or read book Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: Synopses of books. General index written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Dudley Warner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
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Download or read book Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: Synopses of books. General index written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1605202541
Total Pages : 370 pages
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Download or read book A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol. XLV (Forty-Five Volumes); Synopses of Famous Books & General Index written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It would be enough to recommend this astonishing, 45-volume set, first published in 1896, if it were merely a wonderfully massive compilation of the world's best writings from the world's best authors up until the advent of the 20th century. But A Library of the World's Best Literature is so much more than that. For this marvelous collection represents the evolution of human thought-the evolution of human civilization, even-as seen through the mind of one of the most important, if sadly almost forgotten, literary figures of the 19th century.Popular American essayist, novelist, and journalist CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was renowned for the warmth and intimacy of his writing, which encompassed travelogue, biography and autobiography, fiction, and more, and influenced entire generations of his fellow writers. Here, the prolific writer turned editor for his final grand work, a splendid survey of global literature, classic and modern, and it's not too much to suggest that if his friend and colleague Mark Twain-who stole Warner's quip about how "everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it"-had assembled this set, it would still be hailed today as one of the great achievements of the book world.And so it still deserves to be. Arranged not chronologically but alphabetically, mostly under the names of authors but in some cases of literatures or special subjects-such as Icelandic literature or Arthurian legend-this set is no dry reference work. These eminently browsable volumes-available through Cosimo for the first time in decades in both paperback and hardcover editions-are meant to be read and enjoyed by anyone who loves the written word.Volume 45 features more synopses of notable works-from Adam Bede by George Eliot to Zury; The Meanest Man in Spring County by Joseph Kirkland-including many not previously referenced in the set but highlighted as well worth a serious reader's time and attention.This volume also includes a General Index to the 45-volume set.

Author : Hippolyte Taine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of English Literature ... written by Hippolyte Taine and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nehemiah Cleaveland
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
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Download or read book A History of Dummer Academy written by Nehemiah Cleaveland and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hippolyte Taine
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1368 pages
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Download or read book History of English Literature written by Hippolyte Taine and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 212 pages
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Download or read book Los Angeles Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles magazine is a regional magazine of national stature. Our combination of award-winning feature writing, investigative reporting, service journalism, and design covers the people, lifestyle, culture, entertainment, fashion, art and architecture, and news that define Southern California. Started in the spring of 1961, Los Angeles magazine has been addressing the needs and interests of our region for 48 years. The magazine continues to be the definitive resource for an affluent population that is intensely interested in a lifestyle that is uniquely Southern Californian.