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Author : Henry Julius Wetenhall Tillyard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Agathocles written by Henry Julius Wetenhall Tillyard and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Agathocles written by Voltaire and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 2014 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In AGATHOCLES the two sons of the King of Syracuse (Agathocles) strive for the hand of the same girl, and the elder is killed by the younger. The ruler can only avenge his loss by sacrificing his remaining son--but doing so would mean the end of his dynasty.
Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226500322
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Art of War written by Niccolò Machiavelli and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-01-24 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niccolò Machiavelli's Art of War is one of the world's great classics of military and political theory. Praised by the finest military minds in history and said to have influenced no lesser lights than Frederick the Great and Napoleon, the Art of War is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the history and theory of war in the West—and for readers of The Prince and Discourse on Livy who seek to explore more fully the connection between war and politics in Machiavelli's thought. Machiavelli scholar Christopher Lynch offers a sensitive and entirely new translation of the Art of War, faithful to the original but rendered in modern, idiomatic English. Lynch's fluid translation helps readers appreciate anew Machiavelli's brilliant treatments of the relationships between war and politics, civilians and the military, and technology and tactics. Clearly laying out the fundamentals of military organization and strategy, Machiavelli marshals a veritable armory of precepts, prescriptions, and examples about such topics as how to motivate your soldiers and demoralize the enemy's, avoid ambushes, and gain the tactical and strategic advantage in countless circumstances. To help readers better appreciate the Art of War, Lynch provides an insightful introduction that covers its historical and political context, sources, influence, and contemporary relevance. He also includes a substantial interpretive essay discussing the military, political, and philosophical aspects of the work, as well as maps, an index of names, and a glossary.
Author : Shlomo Berger
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783515059596
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (595 download)
Download or read book Revolution and Society in Greek Sicily and Southern Italy written by Shlomo Berger and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 1992 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The analysis of a Greek political phenomenon within the confines of the so-called colonial city-states of Sicily and Southern Italy is the theme of the present book. On the basis of detailed case-studies covering the revolutions in cities like Croton, Cumae, Acragas and Syracuse, the following subjects are dealt with: social stratification and political institutions, the massive presence of foreigners and non-Greeks within the borders of the polis, the role of mercenaries in the local armies and in city life. An apart chapter is dedicated to the technique of the coup d'�tat, showing how it was determined by the peculiarities of the Greek city-state.
Author : Emil Reich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Atlas Antiquus written by Emil Reich and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlas over antikkens verden
Author : Diego A. Von Vacano
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739121931
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (219 download)
Download or read book The Art of Power written by Diego A. Von Vacano and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Power is a challenge to traditional political theory. Diego A. von Vacano examines the work of Machiavelli, arguing that he establishes a new, aesthetic perspective on political life. He then proceeds to carry out the most extensive analysis to date of an important relationship in political theory: that between the thought of Machiavelli and Friedrich Nietzsche. Arguing that these two theorists have similar aims and perspectives, this work uncovers the implications of their common way of looking at the human condition and political practice to elucidate the phenomenon of the persistence of aesthetic, sensory cognition as fundamental to the human experience, particularly to the political life. By exploring this relationship, The Art of Power makes a significant contribution to the growing interest in the intersection of aesthetic theory and political philosophy as well as in interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives on political theory.
Author : Ettore Pais
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ancient Italy written by Ettore Pais and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Hirst
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135195959X
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Alexandria, Real and Imagined written by Anthony Hirst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexandria, Real and Imagined offers a complex portrait of an extraordinary city, from its foundation in the fourth century BC up to the present day: a city notable for its history of ethnic diversity, for the legacies of its past imperial grandeur - Ottoman and Arab, Byzantine, Roman and Greek - and, not least, for the memorable images of 'Alexandria' constructed both by outsiders and by inhabitants of the city. In this volume of new essays, Alexandria and its many images - the real and the imagined - are illuminated from a rich variety of perspectives. These range from art history to epidemiology, from social and cultural analysis to re-readings of Cavafy and Callimachus, from the impressions of foreign visitors to the evidence of police records, from the constructions of Alexandria in Durrell and Forster to those in the twentieth-century Arabic novel.
Author : Christopher Holma
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487503938
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Machiavelli and the Politics of Democratic Innovation written by Christopher Holma and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a detailed reinterpretation and reconstruction of the political thought of Niccolò Machiavelli, Machiavelli and the Politics of Democratic Innovation uses original readings of Machiavelli's texts to develop a new theoretical model of democratic practice. The book critically and creatively juxtaposes certain concepts drawn from Machiavelli's work in order to produce new political insights. Christopher Holman identifies two unique ideas in Machiavelli through his rearrangement of Machiavellian concepts. The first, drawn primarily from The Prince, is an image of the individual human being as a creative subject that seeks the exteriorization of desire via political creation. The second, drawn primarily from The Discourses on Livy, is an image of the democratic republic as a form of regime in which this desire for creative self-expression is universalized, all citizens being able to affirm their psychic orientation toward innovation through their equal access to political institutions and orders. Such institutions and orders, to the extent that they function as media for the expression of a fundamental human creativity, must be arranged so that they are capable of continual interrogation and refinement. In the final instance, a new ethical ground for the normative defense of democratic life is constructed, one grounded in the orientation of individual beings toward novelty and innovation.
Author : Percy Neville Ure
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Origin of Tyranny written by Percy Neville Ure and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diodorus (Siculus.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian written by Diodorus (Siculus.) and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barthold Georg Niebuhr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Lectures on ancient history, from the earliest times to the taking of Alexandria by Octavianus, tr. from the Germ. ed. of M. Niebuhr, by L. Schmitz, with additions and corrections from his own MS. notes written by Barthold Georg Niebuhr and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Regina M. M. Loehr
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003835112
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Emotion and Historiography in Polybius’ Histories written by Regina M. M. Loehr and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores emotion and its importance in Polybius’ conception of history, his writing of historiography, and the benefits of this understanding to readers of history. How and why did ancient historians include emotions in their texts? This book argues that in the Histories of Polybius – the Greek historian who recorded Rome’s rise to dominion in the ancient Mediterranean – emotions play an effective role in history, used by the historian to explain the causes of actions, connect events, and make sense of human behavior. Through analysis of the emotions in the narrative and theory of Polybius’ Histories using critical terminology and frameworks from modern philosophy, psychology, and political science, this work calls into question assumptions that emotions were purely irrational and detrimental in ancient history, politics, and historiography. Emotions often positively shape Polybius’ historical narrative, provide criteria for the success and morality of agents, actions, and even historians, and aid the historian in guiding readers to become intelligent leaders and citizens of a new world centered on Rome. Emotion and Historiography in Polybius’ Histories is a fascinating read for students and scholars of ancient historiography and history, as well as those working on ancient political thought, emotions in the ancient Greek world, and emotion in history and literature more broadly.
Author : Edmund Ollier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Cassell's illustrated universal history written by Edmund Ollier and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sian Lewis
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748626433
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Ancient Tyranny written by Sian Lewis and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tyrants and tyranny are more than the antithesis of democracy and the mark of political failure: they are a dynamic response to social and political pressures.This book examines the autocratic rulers and dynasties of classical Greece and Rome and the changing concepts of tyranny in political thought and culture. It brings together historians, political theorists and philosophers, all offering new perspectives on the autocratic governments of the ancient world.The volume is divided into four parts. Part I looks at the ways in which the term 'tyranny' was used and understood, and the kinds of individual who were called tyrants. Part II focuses on the genesis of tyranny and the social and political circumstances in which tyrants arose. The chapters in Part III examine the presentation of tyrants by themselves and in literature and history. Part IV discusses the achievements of episodic tyranny within the non-autocratic regimes of Sparta and Rome and of autocratic regimes in Persia and the western Mediterranean world.Written by a wide range of leading experts in their field, Ancient Tyranny offers a new and comparative study of tyranny within Greek, Roman and Persian society.
Author : Fred Eugene Ray, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476600066
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Greek and Macedonian Land Battles of the 4th Century B.C. written by Fred Eugene Ray, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-10-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its mixture of famous battles and storied commanders, warfare in 4th century B.C. Greece has long held a fascination for military enthusiasts and the general public alike. Histories, biographies, and popular culture have turned the exploits of noted generals like Xenophon and Iphicrates of Athens, Epaminondas of Thebes, and the father-son team of Philip II and Alexander the Great of Macedonia into the stuff of legend. Drawing from ancient accounts along with suitable analogs, this detailed work offers meticulous reconstructions of 187 of the 4th century's most significant land engagements, considering tactical patterns, evolving trends, and the lasting impact of the era's most influential military minds. By separating myth from reality, these recreations provide incredible insight into past ways of war that continue to influence the course of combat today.
Author : Israel Smith Clare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Library of Universal Knowledge written by Israel Smith Clare and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
