Themes In Greek Society And Culture

Author : Allison Glazebrook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199020652
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Themes in Greek Society and Culture written by Allison Glazebrook and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the Bronze Age, as well as the Archaic, Classical, and early Hellenistic periods, Themes in Greek Society and Culture introduces students to central aspects of ancient Greek society. The volume brings together 19 expert contributors who explore the institutions, structures,activities, and cultural output that formed the experience of living in ancient Greece.

Author : Allison Glazebrook
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199036813
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Themes in Greek Society and Culture written by Allison Glazebrook and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most engaging, accessible, and rich overview of the ancient Greeks' institutions, structures, activities, and cultural outputs from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period.Covering the Bronze Age, as well as the Archaic, Classical, and early Hellenistic periods, Themes in Greek Society and Culture introduces students to central aspects of ancient Greek society. The updated second edition brings together 20 expert contributors who explore the institutions, structures,activities, and cultural output that formed the experience of living in ancient Greece.

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 : G. Lowes Dickinson
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greek View of Life written by G. Lowes Dickinson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1896, this work provides a broad introduction to Greek literature and thought. It deals with various interesting subjects such as the Greek view of religion, the state and its connection to the citizen, law, artisans and enslaved people, manual labor, trade, and art.

Author : Frederick Sylvester North Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781436771146
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Essay on Certain Points of Resemblance Between the Ancient and Modern Greeks (1813) written by Frederick Sylvester North Douglas and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Marina Berzins McCoy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199672784
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wounded Heroes written by Marina Berzins McCoy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McCoy examines how Greek epic, tragedy, and philosophy offer important insights into the nature of human vulnerability, especially how Greek thought extols the recognition and proper acceptance of vulnerability. Beginning with the literary works of Homer and Sophocles, she also expands her analysis to the philosophical works of Plato and Aristotle.

Author : Harvey Yunis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139437836
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece written by Harvey Yunis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the sixth through the fourth centuries BCE, the landmark developments of Greek culture and the critical works of Greek thought and literature were accompanied by an explosive growth in the use of written texts. By the close of the classical period, a new culture of literacy and textuality had come into existence alongside the traditional practices of live oral discourse. New avenues for human activity and creativity arose in this period. The very creation of the 'classical' and the perennial use of Greece by later European civilizations as a source of knowledge and inspiration would not have taken place without the textual innovations of the classical period. This book considers how writing, reading and disseminating texts led to new ways of thinking and new forms of expression and behaviour. The individual chapters cover a range of phenomena, including poetry, science, religions, philosophy, history, law and learning.

Author : Mark Golden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521497909
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport and Society in Ancient Greece written by Mark Golden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport and Society in Ancient Greece provides a concise and readable introduction to ancient Greek sport. It covers such topics as the links between sport, religion and warfare, the origins and history of the Olympic games, and the spirit of competition among the Greeks. Its main focus, however, is on Greek sport as an arena for the creation and expression of difference among individuals and groups. Sport not only identified winners and losers. It also drew boundaries between groups (Greeks and barbarians, boys and men, males and females) and offered a field for debate on the relative worth of athletic and equestrian competition. The book includes guides to the ancient evidence and to modern scholarship on the subject.

Author : David Sansone
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444358774
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Greek Civilization written by David Sansone and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise narrative of Greek history and an analysis of the literature, art, and thought of the ancient Greeks. Tells the story of Greek civilization from the from the Minoan Period to the time of the Byzantine Empire Surveys the remarkable culture and history the ancient Greeks Explores the ways in which Greek civilization has been continually reinvented from antiquity to the present day Updated edition includes additional illustrations, maps, and timelines, a glossary, and an annotated bibliography

Author : Charles Freeman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307428273
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Closing of the Western Mind written by Charles Freeman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical and powerful reappraisal of the impact of Constantine’s adoption of Christianity on the later Roman world, and on the subsequent development both of Christianity and of Western civilization. When the Emperor Contstantine converted to Christianity in 368 AD, he changed the course of European history in ways that continue to have repercussions to the present day. Adopting those aspects of the religion that suited his purposes, he turned Rome on a course from the relatively open, tolerant and pluralistic civilization of the Hellenistic world, towards a culture that was based on the rule of fixed authority, whether that of the Bible, or the writings of Ptolemy in astronomy and of Galen and Hippocrates in medicine. Only a thousand years later, with the advent of the Renaissance and the emergence of modern science, did Europe begin to free itself from the effects of Constantine's decision, yet the effects of his establishment of Christianity as a state religion remain with us, in many respects, today. Brilliantly wide-ranging and ambitious, this is a major work of history.