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Book Synopsis The Invention of Art History in Ancient Greece by : Jeremy Tanner
Download or read book The Invention of Art History in Ancient Greece written by Jeremy Tanner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-23 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ancient Greeks developed their own very specific ethos of art appreciation, advocating a rational involvement with art. This book explores why the ancient Greeks started to write art history and how the writing of art history transformed the social functions of art in the Greek world. It looks at the invention of the genre of portraiture, and the social uses to which portraits were put in the city state. Later chapters explore how artists sought to enhance their status by writing theoretical treatises and producing works of art intended for purely aesthetic contemplation which ultimately gave rise to the writing of art history and to the development of art collecting. The study, which is illustrated throughout and which draws on contemporary perspectives in the sociology of art, will prompt the student of classical art to rethink fundamental assumptions on Greek art and its cultural and social implications."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Plutarch's Lives written by Tim Duff and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book lucidly explains how the Parallel Lives of Plutarch (c. AD 45-120) are more than mere `sources' for history. The Lives offer us a unique insight into the reception of Classical Greece and Republican Rome in the Greek world of the second century AD. They also explore and challenge issues of psychology, education, morality, and cultural identity.
Book Synopsis The statesman in Plutarch&s works. 2. “The” statesman in Plutarch&s Greek and Roman "Lives" by : Lukas De Blois
Download or read book The statesman in Plutarch&s works. 2. “The” statesman in Plutarch&s Greek and Roman "Lives" written by Lukas De Blois and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the second half of the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the International Plutarch Society (2002). The selected papers are divided by theme in sections concentrating on statesmen and statesmanship in Plutarch's Greek and Roman Lives. The volume bears witness to the ongoing, wide-ranging interest in Plutarch's biographies.
Book Synopsis The Statesman in Plutarch's Works, Volume II: The Statesman in Plutarch's Greek and Roman Lives by : Lukas de Blois
Download or read book The Statesman in Plutarch's Works, Volume II: The Statesman in Plutarch's Greek and Roman Lives written by Lukas de Blois and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the second half of the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the International Plutarch Society (2002). The selected papers are divided by theme in sections concentrating on statesmen and statesmanship in Plutarch's Greek and Roman Lives. The volume bears witness to the ongoing, wide-ranging interest in Plutarch's biographies.
Book Synopsis Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates by : George Grote
Download or read book Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates written by George Grote and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 1203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In George Grote's seminal work, 'Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates,' readers are taken on a comprehensive journey through the philosophical landscape of ancient Greece. Grote masterfully delves into the life and teachings of Plato, one of the most influential thinkers of his time, while also shedding light on other key figures who were part of Sokrates' circle. Through meticulous research and insightful analysis, Grote explores the intellectual debates and dialogues that shaped the philosophical discourse of the era, providing readers with a deep understanding of the interconnectedness of ideas and beliefs. The book is written in a clear and engaging style that makes complex concepts accessible to both scholars and general readers alike. Grote's work serves as an invaluable resource for anyone interested in delving into the world of ancient Greek philosophy and understanding its enduring impact on Western thought.
Download or read book Plato written by George Grote and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Download or read book Hellenika I-II.3.10 written by Xenophon and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Peloponnesian War, according to Thucydides, was the result of the growth of Athenian power. Beginning with the battle of Abydos in 411, this edition covers the Ionian or Dekeleian War, whose end in 404 also brings to a close the Peloponnesian War as a whole. The narrative is all the more valuable for the fact that Xenophon is likely to have been present at a number of the events described. In his very first sentence he mentions a naval battle in which the Athenians are defeated, and in doing so heralds their eventual defeat in the war. It is a tale of decline, and of expansionism gone awry.
Book Synopsis Who Is Phaedrus? by : Marshell Bradley
Download or read book Who Is Phaedrus? written by Marshell Bradley and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Is Phaedrus? This book delivers answers. Many have said Phaedrus is the most intriguing of Plato's works. Phaedrus is certainly one of the most difficult to follow and fathom. In part this is because the title figure, Phaedrus himself, has remained a mystery. Who Is Phaedrus? takes us on a tour of this intricate dialogue: a work of philosophy and history, and a work of art. In Who Is Phaedrus? we see how and why Phaedrus became involved in the most sensational scandals, both religious and political, in ancient Athens; and yet we see Phaedrus come across as a person remarkably contemporary, someone who could walk through a time seam and be wholly understandable as a soul in the twenty-first century. Perplexed as well as perplexing, Phaedrus, in the final analysis, needs Socrates' timeless philosophy as a salve and therapy, and we follow along as Socrates delivers.
Book Synopsis Worlds That Weren't by : Harry Turtledove
Download or read book Worlds That Weren't written by Harry Turtledove and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of four novellas that explore alternate history, including "The Daimon," in which Sokrates leads his soldiers to victory over the Spartans, and "The Last Ride of German Freddie," in which Nietzsche finds himself in Tombstone, Arizona, in works by Harry Turtledove, S. M. Stirling, Mary Gentle, and Walter Jon Williams. Reprint.
Book Synopsis Plato, and the Other Campanions of Sokrates by : George Grote
Download or read book Plato, and the Other Campanions of Sokrates written by George Grote and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Plato, and the Other Campanions of Sokrates by George Grote
Book Synopsis The Athenian Institution of the Khoregia by : Peter Wilson
Download or read book The Athenian Institution of the Khoregia written by Peter Wilson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-18 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major study of a central cultural institution of classical Athens.
Book Synopsis The Unity of Plutarch's Work by : Anastasios Nikolaidis
Download or read book The Unity of Plutarch's Work written by Anastasios Nikolaidis and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 869 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of collected essays explores the premise that Plutarch’s work, notwithstanding its amazing thematic multifariousness, constantly pivots on certain ideological pillars which secure its unity and coherence. So, unlike other similar books which, more or less, concentrate on either the Lives or the Moralia or on some particular aspect(s) of Plutarch’s œuvre, the articles of the present volume observe Plutarch at work in both Lives and Moralia, thus bringing forward and illustrating the inner unity of his varied literary production. The subject-matter of the volume is uncommonly wide-ranging and the studies collected here inquire into many important issues of Plutarchean scholarship: the conditions under which Plutarch’s writings were separated into two distinct corpora, his methods of work and the various authorial techniques employed, the interplay between Lives and Moralia, Plutarch and politics, Plutarch and philosophy, literary aspects of Plutarch’s œuvre, Plutarch on women, Plutarch in his epistemological and socio-historical context. In sum, this book brings Plutarchean scholarship to date by revisiting and discussing older and recent problematization concerning Plutarch, in an attempt to further illuminate his personality and work.
Book Synopsis Plato, and the other Companions of Sokrates, etc by : George GROTE
Download or read book Plato, and the other Companions of Sokrates, etc written by George GROTE and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Eupolis, Poet of Old Comedy by : Ian Christopher Storey
Download or read book Eupolis, Poet of Old Comedy written by Ian Christopher Storey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eupolis was one of the most important of Aristophanes' rivals. He wrote the same sort of topical and often indecent comedy as the surviving plays of Aristophanes. This book provides a translation of all the remaining fragments of his work and an essay on each lost play.
Book Synopsis Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides by : Lisa Kallet
Download or read book Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides written by Lisa Kallet and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wealth and power are themes that preoccupy much of Greek literature from Homer on, and this book unravels the significance of these subjects in one of the most famous pieces of narrative writing from classical antiquity. Lisa Kallet brilliantly reshapes our literary and historical understanding of Thucydides' account of the disastrous Sicilian expedition of 415–413 b.c., a pivotal event in the Peloponnesian War. She shows that the second half of Thucydides' History contains a damning critique of Athens and its leaders for becoming corrupted by money and for failing to appropriately use their financial strength on military power. Focusing especially on the narrative techniques Thucydides used to build his argument, Kallet gives a close examination of the subjects of wealth and power in this account of naval war and its aftermath and locates Thucydides' writings on these themes within a broad intellectual context. Among other topics, Kallet discusses Thucydides' use of metaphor, his numerous intertextual references to Herodotus and Homer, and thematic links he makes among the topics of money, emotion, and sight. Overall, she shows that the subject of money constitutes a continuous thematic thread in books six through eight of the History. In addition, this book takes a fresh look at familiar epigraphic evidence. Kallet's ability to combine sophisticated literary analysis with a firm grasp of Attic inscriptions sheds new light on an important work of antiquity and provides a model example of how to unravel a dense historical text to reveal its underlying literary principles of construction.
Book Synopsis Plato, and the Other Companions of Sokrates by : George Grote
Download or read book Plato, and the Other Companions of Sokrates written by George Grote and published by London : J. Murray. This book was released on 1865 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Greek Settlements in Thrace Until the Macedonian Conquest by : Professor of Classics Benjamin Isaac
Download or read book The Greek Settlements in Thrace Until the Macedonian Conquest written by Professor of Classics Benjamin Isaac and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
