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Download or read book Ancient Writers, Greece and Rome: Homer to Caesar written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Torrey James Luce
Publisher : Charles Scribner's Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780684178141
Total Pages : 1148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (781 download)
Download or read book Ancient Writers: Homer to Caesar written by Torrey James Luce and published by Charles Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 1982 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains forty-seven essays that provide information about the lives and significant achievements of Greek and Roman writers born before A.D. 337, each with a selected bibliography; and includes a chronology of events, and an alphabetical index.
Author : T. James Luce
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Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Homer to Caesar written by T. James Luce and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Pelling
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191053651
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome written by Christopher Pelling and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome is a book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underpins Western civilization. Chistopher Pelling and Maria Wyke provide a vibrant and distinctive introduction to twelve of the greatest authors from ancient Greece and Rome, writers whose voices still resonate strongly across the centuries: Homer, Sappho, Herodotus, Euripides, Thucydides, Plato, Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Juvenal and Tacitus. To what vital ideas do these authors give voice? And why are we so often drawn to what they say even in modern times? Twelve Voices investigates these tantalizing questions, showing how these great figures from classical antiquity still address some of our most fundamental concerns in the world today (of war and courage, dictatorship and democracy, empire, immigration, city life, art, madness, irrationality, and religious commitment), and express some of our most personal sentiments (about family and friendship, desire and separation, grief and happiness). These twelve classical voices can sound both compellingly familiar and startlingly alien to the twenty-first century reader. Yet they remain suggestive and inspiring, despite being rooted in their own times and places, and have profoundly affected the lives of those prepared to listen to them right up to the present day.
Author : David Matz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313387397
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome written by David Matz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting documents culled from the writings of ancient Greek and Roman authors, this book provides a glimpse of what life was like in ancient times and illustrates the relevance of these long-ago civilizations to modern life. Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life sheds light on various aspects of Greek and Roman daily life by examining excerpts from the works of ancient authors who wrote about these topics. Written to help readers truly understand what life within an ancient civilization was like, each entry is preceded by background information and followed by thought-provoking questions. This book covers fascinating topics such as domestic life, employment, housing, food and clothing, sports and games, public safety, education, health care, politics, and religion. Each chapter contains several relevant documents excerpted from the writings of ancient authors accompanied by background information, reading and thought questions, bibliographical data, and suggestions for further reading. An introductory essay to the volume, a guide for evaluating original sources, and bio-notes on the ancient authors are also included. As with other volumes in the Greenwood Voices of an Era series, this book contains much more than just a series of documents: it provides the information and tools that will promote critical thinking and support the research process.
Author : Jerry Toner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674076338
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Homer's Turk written by Jerry Toner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seventeenth-century English traveler to the Eastern Mediterranean would have faced a problem in writing about this unfamiliar place: how to describe its inhabitants in a way his countrymen would understand? In an age when a European education meant mastering the Classical literature of Greece and Rome, he would naturally turn to touchstones like the Iliad to explain the exotic customs of Ottoman lands. His Turk would have been Homer’s Turk. An account of epic sweep, spanning the Crusades, the Indian Raj, and the postwar decline of the British Empire, Homer’s Turk illuminates how English writers of all eras have relied on the Classics to help them understand the world once called “the Orient.” Ancient Greek and Roman authors, Jerry Toner shows, served as a conceptual frame of reference over long periods in which trade, religious missions, and imperial interests shaped English encounters with the East. Rivaling the Bible as a widespread, flexible vehicle of Western thought, the Classics provided a ready model for portrayal and understanding of the Oriental Other. Such image-making, Toner argues, persists today in some of the ways the West frames its relationship with the Islamic world and the rising powers of India and China. Discussing examples that range from Jacobean travelogues to Hollywood blockbusters, Homer’s Turk proves that there is no permanent version of either the ancient past or the East in English writing—the two have been continually reinvented alongside each other.
Author : Alison Sharrock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134709773
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Fifty Key Classical Authors written by Alison Sharrock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronological guide to influential Greek and Roman writers, Fifty Key Classical Authors is an invaluable introduction to the literature, philosophy and history of the ancient world. Including essays on Sappho, Polybius and Lucan, as well as on major figures such as Homer, Plato, Catullus and Cicero, this book is a vital tool for all students of classical civilization.
Author : Thomas J. Figueira
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786748699
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Wisdom From The Ancients written by Thomas J. Figueira and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Greece, the culture that brought us democracy, philosophy, comedy and tragedy, and the Olympic Games, and ancient Rome, best known for its military prowess, technological achievements, and imperial administration, are justly renowned for their contributions to Western civilization. Wisdom from the Ancients brings alive for today's managers the timeless insights of such larger-than-life figures as Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Trajan, Pericles, and dozens of other colorful and enigmatic leaders. Through direct quotations of ancient texts, engaging commentary, and period art, the authors illuminate the strategies and tactics that have withstood the test of time-from leadership and delegation to managing conflict to effective and persuasive communication.
Author : William Smith
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Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book A Smaller Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Smith
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Total Pages : 488 pages
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Download or read book Smaller Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Smith
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Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book A Smaller Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities abridged from the larger dictionary. Second edition ... enlarged written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Smith
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Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book A Smaller Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carroll Moulton
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ancient Greece and Rome: Demeter-Law, Roman written by Carroll Moulton and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 1998 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of ancient Greece and Rome as well as information about the literature and daily life of these early civilizations.
Author : Carroll Moulton
Publisher : Charles Scribner's Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780684805078
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Ancient Greece and Rome written by Carroll Moulton and published by Charles Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of ancient Greece and Rome as well as information about the literature and daily life of these early civilizations.
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486445763
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Greek and Roman Lives written by Plutarch and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2005-10-06 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers detailed anecdotal biographies of some of the most influential figures in ancient Greece and Rome, including Pericles, Alexander the Great, and Julius Caesar.
Author : Gregory S. Aldrete
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350100528
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Long Shadow of Antiquity written by Gregory S. Aldrete and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid exploration of the many ways the classical world remains relevant today, this is a passionate justification of why we continue to read about and study the lives and works of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Challenging the way the phrase 'That's just ancient history' is used to dismiss something as being irrelevant, Greg and Alicia Aldrete demonstrate just how much ancient Greece and Rome have influenced and shaped our world today in ways both large and small. From the more commonly known influences on politics, law, literature and timekeeping through to the everyday rituals and routines we take for granted when we exercise, dine, marry and dress, we are rooted in the ancient world. Even the political upheaval, celebrity obsession and blurring of public and private boundaries that we see in current news betray ancient characteristics - now brought to the fore here in a new final chapter. If you have ever wondered how far exactly we still walk in the footsteps of the ancients or wanted to understand how study of the classical world can inform and explain our lives today, this is the book for you.
Author : Athanassios Vergados
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110259702
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The "Homeric Hymn to Hermes" written by Athanassios Vergados and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hymn to Hermes, while surely the most amusing of the so-called Homeric Hymns, also presents an array of challenging problems. In just 580 lines, the newborn god invents the lyre and sings a hymn to himself, travels from Cyllene to Pieria to steal Apollo’s cattle, organizes a feast at the river Alpheios where he serves the meat of two of the stolen animals, cunningly defends his innocence, and is finally reconciled to Apollo, to whom he gives the lyre in exchange for the cattle. This book provides the first detailed commentary devoted specifically to this unusual poem since Radermacher’s 1931 edition. The commentary pays special attention to linguistic, philological, and interpretive matters. It is preceded by a detailed introduction that addresses the Hymn’s ideas on poetry and music, the poem’s humour, the Hymn’s relation to other archaic hexameter literature both in thematic and technical aspects, the poem’s reception in later literature, its structure, the issue of its date and place of composition, and the question of its transmission. The critical text, based on F. Càssola’s edition, is equipped with an apparatus of formulaic parallels in archaic hexameter poetry as well as possible verbal echoes in later literature.
