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Trophies of Victory

Author : T. Leslie Shear Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400881137
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Trophies of Victory written by T. Leslie Shear Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek military victories at Marathon, Salamis, and Plataia during the Persian Wars profoundly shaped fifth-century politics and culture. By long tradition, the victors commemorated their deliverance by dedicating thank-offerings in the sanctuaries of their gods, and the Athenians erected no fewer than ten new temples and other buildings. Because these buildings were all at some stage of construction during the political ascendency of Perikles, in the third quarter of the fifth century, modern writers refer to them collectively as the Periklean building program. In Trophies of Victory, T. Leslie Shear, Jr., who directed archaeological excavations at the Athenian Agora for more than twenty-five years, provides the first comprehensive account of the Periklean buildings as a group. This richly illustrated book examines each building in detail, including its archaeological reconstruction, architectural design, sculptural decoration, chronology, and construction history. Shear emphasizes the Parthenon's revolutionary features and how they influenced smaller contemporary temples. He examines inscriptions that show how every aspect of public works was strictly controlled by the Athenian Assembly. In the case of the buildings on the Acropolis and the Telesterion at Eleusis, he looks at accounts of their overseers, which illuminate the administration, financing, and organization of public works. Throughout, the book provides new details about how the Periklean buildings proclaimed Athenian military prowess, aggrandized the city's cults and festivals, and laid claim to its religious and cultural primacy in the Greek world.

Kinship in Ancient Athens

Author : S. C. Humphreys
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191092401
Total Pages : 1627 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Kinship in Ancient Athens written by S. C. Humphreys and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 1627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of kinship is at the heart of understanding not only the structure and development of a society, but also the day-to-day interactions of its citizens. Kinship in Ancient Athens aims to illuminate both of these issues by providing a comprehensive account of the structures and perceptions of kinship in Athenian society, covering the archaic and classical periods from Drakon and Solon up to Menander. Drawing on decades of research into a wide range of epigraphic, literary, and archaeological sources, and on S. C. Humphreys' expertise in the intersections between ancient history and anthropology, it not only puts a wealth of data at readers' fingertips, but subjects it to rigorous analysis. By utilizing an anthropological approach to reconstruct patterns of behaviour it is able to offer us an ethnographic 'thick description' of ancient Athenians' interaction with their kin that offers insights into a range of social contexts, from family life, rituals, and economic interactions, to legal matters, politics, warfare, and more. The work is arranged into two volumes, both utilizing the same anthropological approach to ancient sources. Volume I explores interactions and conflicts shaped by legal and economic constraints (adoption, guardianship, marriage, inheritance, property), as well as more optional relationships in the field of ritual (naming, rites de passage, funerals and commemoration, dedications, cultic associations) and political relationships, both formal (Assembly, Council) and informal (hetaireiai). Among several important and novel topics discussed are the sociological analysis of names and nicknames, the features of kin structure that advantaged or disadvantaged women in legal disputes, and the economic relations of dependence and independence between fathers and sons. Volume II deals with corporate groups recruited by patrifiliation and explores the role of kinship in these subdivisions of the citizen body: tribes and trittyes (both pre-Kleisthenic and Kleisthenic), phratries, genê, and demes. The section on the demes stresses variety rather than common features, and provides comprehensive information on location and prosopography in a tribally organized catalogue.

Inscriptions

Author : Daniel J. Geagan
Publisher : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
ISBN 13 : 1621390012
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Inscriptions written by Daniel J. Geagan and published by American School of Classical Studies at Athens. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the last of five volumes presenting inscriptions discovered in the Athenian Agora between 1931 and 1967. Published here are inscriptions on monuments commemorating events or victories, on statues or other representations erected to honor individuals and deities, and on votive offerings to divinities. Most are dated to between the 4th century B.C. and the 2nd century A.D., but a few survive from the Archaic and Late Roman periods. A final section contains monuments that are potentially, but not certainly, dedicatory in character, and a small number of grave markers omitted from Agora XVII. Each of the 773 catalogue entries includes a description of the object inscribed, bibliography, a transcription of the Greek text, and commentary. There are photographs of each piece of which no adequate illustration has yet been published, including newly joined fragments. The volume concludes with concordances and six indexes.

Hesperia

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Hesperia written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kourotrophos

Author : Theodora Hadzisteliou Price
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004672427
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Kourotrophos written by Theodora Hadzisteliou Price and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens

Author : Nikos E. Kaltsas
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892366866
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens written by Nikos E. Kaltsas and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb catalogue of Greek, Hellenistic and Roman sculpture displayed in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens containing some of the finest art works of the ancient world.

Horos Dios

Author : Gerald Lalonde
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047417399
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Horos Dios written by Gerald Lalonde and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horos Dios draws on a wide variety of literary and archaeological evidence to argue that an Archaic horos inscription and other rock cuttings on the northeast slope of the Hill of the Nymphs in Athens are remnants of a shrine of Zeus Meilichios, a popular god of purification worshipped widely in Athens, Attica, and the greater Greek world.

Excavations at Nemea III

Author : Robert C. Knapp
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520927907
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Excavations at Nemea III written by Robert C. Knapp and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-05-23 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1974 the University of California at Berkeley has been sponsoring extensive excavations at the Panhellenic athletic festival center of ancient Nemea in the modern Greek province of Korinthia. With its well-documented excavation and clear historical context, the site offers an excellent opportunity for investigation and analysis. This volume, the third in a series of publications on Nemea, is a detailed presentation of the more than three thousand legible coins from all over the ancient world that have been unearthed there. The coins, which are mostly bronze but show an unusually high proportion of silver, reflect the periods of greatest activity at the site—the late Archaic and Early Classical, the Early Hellenistic, the Early Christian, and the Byzantine. More than a compendium of data, the study breaks new ground with its analysis and contextualization of numismatic evidence in an archaeological setting.

The Hellenistic Aesthetic

Author : Barbara Hughes Fowler
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299120443
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Hellenistic Aesthetic written by Barbara Hughes Fowler and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fowler's . . . own insights are apparent throughout, and they seem to distill the personal appreciation and understanding of a scholar who has devoted much of her career to both contemplating and enjoying Hellenistic poetry. . . . [This book] would make an excellent background text for courses in later Greek and Roman art, and it can be read with profit by anyone interested in exploring the character of Hellenistic culture."--J. J. Pollitt, American Journal of Archaeology "Outstanding is the range of examples discussed both in poetry and art. Theocritus, Callimachus, Appolonius, the epigrammatists, and others--that is, the major figures of the time--are considered at length and in several different contexts. Passages are quoted in the original Greek, translated, and analyzed. Fowler's sensitivity to poetic forms, evident in her other published writings, is again evident here. In addition, however, the philosophical context is not overlooked. . . . Also highly commendable are the liberal references to works of art. Sculpture in the round and in relief, portraits, terracotta figurines, original paintings (grave stelai) and Campanian murals, mosaics, gold and silver vessels, and jewelry are introduced at various points. Every work of art discussed is illustrated in astonishingly clear photographs, which are interspersed in the body of the text."--Christine Mitchell Havelock "The Hellenistic Aesthetic provides classicists with their first thorough discussion of the aesthetic unity found in Hellenistic art and literature. . . . Fowler examines parallels both in subject matter and in artistic approach among a diverse group of literary genres and artistic forms. In twelve chapters, The Hellenistic Aesthetic surveys Alexandrian epigrams, pastorals, epics, sculptural groups, mosaics, paintings, and jewelry to supply a convincing, and frequently unexpected, picture of a unified aesthetic vision."--Jeffrey Buller, Classical Outlook

Excavations at Nemea III

Author : Darice Elizabeth Birge
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520231696
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Excavations at Nemea III written by Darice Elizabeth Birge and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation The authors describe Nemea, one of the five Greek sites of ancient athletic games, and examine in great detail the coins discovered there, from the classical period to the Early Christian period and after.

Chinese Yearbook of Human Rights, Volume 6 (2024)

Author : Wei Zhang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004697365
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis Chinese Yearbook of Human Rights, Volume 6 (2024) by : Wei Zhang

Download or read book Chinese Yearbook of Human Rights, Volume 6 (2024) written by Wei Zhang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-07-22 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese Yearbook of Human Rights is a forum for academic exchange between China and the international community in the field of human rights. It publishes peer reviewed articles by scholars and practitioners from both within and outside China on human rights issues, from the perspectives of law, philosophy, political science, history, international relations and other relevant academic disciplines. The Yearbook was originally founded in cooperation with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, but fell silent from 2008 onwards. It now has a new editorial team, consisting of internationally based human rights scholars and a team of editors at the Institute for Human Rights of the China University of Political Science and Law and the Center for Human Rights Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Volume 6, 2024 focuses on the topical issues of the interpretation and implementation of the right to peace, the right to work, and the right to education. Several other issues, such as international human rights mechanisms, business and human rights, climate change litigation, poverty alleviation, and anti-domestic violence, are also covered.

Ancient Greek Costume

Author : Linda Jones Roccos
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786427744
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Greek Costume written by Linda Jones Roccos and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Costume production distinguishes early civilization from the Paleolithic era as much as architectural production. Costume transcends boundaries, as it first unites and then divides mankind. The mode of dress differentiates friend from foe and peasant from prince. Changes in the appearance and types of garments through the ages are a significant indicator of social, economic and chronological changes. This annotated bibliography of 603 references, taken from monographs, dissertations, festschrifts, periodicals, encyclopedias and handbooks, is the most comprehensive research tool for the subject of ancient Greek costume. This subject is of increasing interest to scholars in many fields, including archaeology and anthropology, art and art history, classics, drama, history, ancient literature, even modern literature. The references in this bibliography range from the encyclopedia entry to the monograph, and show a variety of themes: women's dress, men's dress, foreign dress, accessories, jewelry, headdresses, theater dress, textile production and literary evidence.

California Studies in Classical Antiquity, Volume 7

Author : Ronald S. Stroud
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520322843
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book California Studies in Classical Antiquity, Volume 7 written by Ronald S. Stroud and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.

Handbook of Greek Sculpture

Author : Olga Palagia
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614513538
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Greek Sculpture written by Olga Palagia and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Greek Sculpture aims to provide a detailed examination of current research and directions in the field. Bringing together an international cast of contributors from Greece, Italy, France, Great Britain, Germany, and the United States, the volume incorporates new areas of research, such as the sculptures of Messene and Macedonia, sculpture in Roman Greece, and the contribution of Greek sculptors in Rome, as well as important aspects of Greek sculpture like techniques and patronage. The written sources (literary and epigraphical) are explored in dedicated chapters, as are function and iconography and the reception of Greek sculpture in modern Europe. Inspired by recent exhibitions on Lysippos and Praxiteles, the book also revisits the style and the personal contributions of the great masters.

Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual

Author : Walter Burkert
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520047709
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual written by Walter Burkert and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1982-11-08 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tantalizingly rich . . . this is a splendid book."--Greece and Rome "Burken relegates his learned documentation to the notes and writes in a lively and fluent style. The book is recommended as a major contribution to the interpretation of ancient Greek myth and ritual. The breadth alone of Burkert's learning renders his book indispensable."--Classical Outlook "Impressive. . . founded on a striking knowledge of the complex evidence (literary, epigraphical, archaeological, comparative) for this extensive subject. Burkert offers a rare combination of exact scholarship with imagination and even humor. A brilliant book, in which . . .the reader can see at every point what is going on in the author's mind--and that is never uninteresting, and rarely unimportant."--Times Literary Supplement "Burkert's work is of such magnitude and depth that it may even contribute to that most difficult of tasks, defining myth, ritual, and religion. . [He] locates his work in the context of culture and the historv of ideas, and he is not hesitant to draw on sociology and biology. Consequently his work is of significance for philosophers, historians, and even theologians, as well as for classicists and historians of Greek culture. His hypotheses are courageous and his conclusions are bold; both establish standards for methodology as well as results. "--Religious Studies Review

Art in the Hellenistic Age

Author : Jerome Jordan Pollitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521276726
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Art in the Hellenistic Age written by Jerome Jordan Pollitt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-06-12 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1986 book is an interpretative history of Greek art during the Hellenistic period.

Hidden Interests in Credit and Finance

Author : James B. Greenberg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498545793
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Hidden Interests in Credit and Finance written by James B. Greenberg and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, James B. Greenberg and Thomas K. Park take an anthropological approach to the economic history of the past one thousand years and define credit as a potentially transformative force involving inequalities. Traveling through the Mediterranean and Europe, from the medieval period to the modern day, Greenberg and Park reorient financial history and position social capital and ethical thought at its center. They examine the multicultural origins of credit and finance, from banking to credit cards and predatory lending to the collapse of global credit markets in 2007–2008. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, history, economics, religion, and sociology.