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Athens Burning

Author : Robert Garland
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142142195X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Athens Burning written by Robert Garland and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this next offering for the Witness to Ancient History series, Robert Garland writes about the Persian invasion of Greece in the 5th century BC. After introducing the reader to the contextual background of the Greco-Persian Wars, including the famous Battle of Marathon, Garland describes the various stages of the invasion from both the Persian and Greek point of view. He focuses on the Greek evacuation of Attica (the peninsular region of Greece that includes Athens), the siege of the Acropolis, the eventual defeat of the Persians by Athenian and Spartan armies, and the return of the Greek people to their land. Coming off his 2014 PUP book on the experience of diaspora in ancient Greece, Garland is well placed to speak authoritatively on this important time in ancient history when the Greeks had to flee their homeland. Garland is an experienced and productive writer whose experience producing video lecture courses for The Great Courses company makes him an ideal author for this introductory volume"--Provided by publisher.

Athens Burning

Author : Robert Garland
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421421976
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Athens Burning written by Robert Garland and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-02-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fresh approach to the Greco-Persian wars focusing on Athens’s evacuation, Persian occupation, and rebuilding . . . [a] compelling book.” —John O. Hyland, Christopher Newport University Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Title Between June 480 and August 479 BC, tens of thousands of Athenians evacuated, following King Xerxes’ victory at the Battle of Thermopylae. Abandoning their homes and ancestral tombs in the wake of the invading Persian army, they sought refuge abroad. During this difficult year of exile, the city of Athens was set on fire not once, but twice. In Athens Burning, Robert Garland explores the reasons behind the decision to abandon Attica, the peninsular region of Greece that includes Athens, while analyzing the consequences, both material and psychological, of the resulting invasion. Taking its inspiration from the sufferings of civilians, Athens Burning also works to dispel the image of the Persians as ruthless barbarians. Addressing questions that are largely ignored in other accounts of the conflict, including how the evacuation was organized and what kind of facilities were available to the refugees along the way, Garland demonstrates the relevance of ancient history to the contemporary world. This compelling story is especially resonant in a time when the news is filled with the suffering of nearly 5 million people driven by civil war from their homes in Syria. Aimed at students and scholars of ancient history, this highly accessible book will also fascinate anyone interested in the burgeoning fields of refugee and diaspora studies. “The fullest account of the Persian sack of Athens in September 480 and in June 479 BCE available in English.” —Canadian Journal of History

Athens is Burning

Author : Nick Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781803694832
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book Athens is Burning written by Nick Brown and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Athens is Burning' tells the story of the days that changed the ancient world through the eyes of those who lived through it: the leaders and those in the front line. A story of courage, betrayal and tormented love. Following the defeat at Thermopylae the Athenians are forced to abandon their city to the Persian army. Led by Themistocles they regroup their fleet, for a last stand in the bay of Salamis. But have they been betrayed and if so who by: their enemies or their friends? What happens next will decide the fate of both Greece and democracy. The fast paced, meticulously researched sequel to the critically acclaimed Luck Bringer and Wooden Walls of Thermopylae. "Nick Brown is the Hemmingway of the Ancient World." Lucy Branch "Fascinating and entertaining, makes the reader feel present at the events alongside Mandrocles the Luck Bringer." Antonis Mistriotis

Sappho Is Burning

Author : Page duBois
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226167565
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book Sappho Is Burning written by Page duBois and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To know all we know about Sappho is to know little. Her poetry, dating from the seventh century B.C.E., comes to us in fragments, her biography as speculation. How is it then, Page duBois asks, that this poet has come to signify so much? Sappho Is Burning offers a new reading of this archaic lesbian poet that acknowledges the poet's distance and difference from us and stresses Sappho's inassimilability into our narratives about the Greeks, literary history, philosophy, the history of sexuality, the psychoanalytic subject. In Sappho is Burning, duBois reads Sappho as a disruptive figure at the very origin of our story of Western civilization. Sappho is beyond contemporary categories, inhabiting a space outside of reductively linear accounts of our common history. She is a woman, but also an aristocrat, a Greek, but one turned toward Asia, a poet who writes as a philosopher before philosophy, a writer who speaks of sexuality that can be identified neither with Michel Foucault's account of Greek sexuality, nor with many versions of contemporary lesbian sexuality. She is named as the tenth muse, yet the nine books of her poetry survive only in fragments. She disorients, troubles, undoes many certitudes in the history of poetry, the history of philosophy, the history of sexuality. DuBois argues that we need to read Sappho again.

Burning Books

Author : Haig A. Bosmajian
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786422084
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Burning Books written by Haig A. Bosmajian and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This work provides a detailed account of book burning worldwide over the past 2000 years. The book burners are identified, along with the works they deliberately set aflame"--Provided by publisher.

A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life

Author : William Stearns Davis
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 338703489X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life written by William Stearns Davis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Drama, Oratory and Thucydides in Fifth-Century Athens

Author : Sophie Mills
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429632703
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Drama, Oratory and Thucydides in Fifth-Century Athens written by Sophie Mills and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study centres on the rhetoric of the Athenian empire, Thucydides’ account of the Peloponnesian War and the notable discrepancies between his assessment of Athens and that found in tragedy, funeral orations and public art. Mills explores the contradiction between Athenian actions and their self-representation, arguing that Thucydides’ highly critical, cynical approach to the Athenian empire does not reflect how the average Athenian saw his city’s power. The popular education of the Athenians, as presented to them in funeral speeches, drama and public art told a very different story from that presented by Thucydides’ history, and it was far more palatable to ordinary Athenians since it offered them a highly flattering portrayal of their city and, by extension, each individual who made up that city. Drama, Oratory and Thucydides in Fifth-Century Athens: Teaching Imperial Lessons offers a fascinating insight into Athenian self-representation and will be of interest to anyone working on classical Athens, the Greek polis and classical historiography.

Running

Author : Cara Hoffman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476757593
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Running written by Cara Hoffman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the critically acclaimed author of Be Safe I Love You comes a haunting novel of love, friendship, and survival set in the red light district of Athens in the 1980s that New York magazine calls “a gauzy portrait of youthful longing, sticky romance, and regret.” Running follows the lives of three friends and lovers: queer English poet Milo Rollack, prep school dropout Jasper Lethe, and seventeen-year-old Bridey Sullivan, an American with a fascination for fire. Barely out of childhood, squatting in a crumbling hotel on the outskirts of Athens in the late 1980s, the three slip in and out of homelessness, heavy drinking, and underground jobs. While working as runners for the hotel—convincing tourists to stay there for a commission and free board—they are befriended by an IRA fugitive and become inextricably linked to an act of terrorism that will mark each of them for life. Bridey, the consummate survivor, abandons Jasper and Milo, planning to return when the dust has settled. But no one has fared well in her absence. And then a mysterious death drives her to seek an impossible absolution that will take her from the streets of the red-light district to the remote island cliff houses of the southern Mediterranean. Twenty-five years later, Milo, now a successful writer and professor in Manhattan, struggles to live ethically in a world he knows is corrupt, coping with a secret that makes him a stranger to those closest to him. “Beautiful and atmospheric…original and deeply sad” (Kirkus Reviews), Running is a sweeping and fearless story of friendship and survival from Cara Hoffman, an author who “writes like a dream—a disturbing, emotionally charged dream” (The Wall Street Journal).

The Burning of the Opisthodomos at Athens

Author : William Dinsmoor
Publisher : Gorgias PressLlc
ISBN 13 : 9781607244677
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book The Burning of the Opisthodomos at Athens written by William Dinsmoor and published by Gorgias PressLlc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper William Dinsmoor, a historian of architecture and one of the scholars involved in the rebuilding of the Acropolis in the early 20th century, here uses a variety of evidence to set a date for this burning.

Report of the State Forester

Author : Vermont. Forest Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Report of the State Forester written by Vermont. Forest Service and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Biennial Report of the Commissioner of Forestry

Author : Vermont. Department of Conservation and Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Biennial Report of the Commissioner of Forestry written by Vermont. Department of Conservation and Development and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oriental monarchies ; Hellenistic ascendency

Author : John Clark Ridpath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Oriental monarchies ; Hellenistic ascendency written by John Clark Ridpath and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ridpath's History of the World

Author : John Clark Ridpath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Ridpath's History of the World written by John Clark Ridpath and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ridpath's Universal History

Author : John Clark Ridpath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Ridpath's Universal History written by John Clark Ridpath and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cyclopaedia of Universal History

Author : John Clark Ridpath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Cyclopaedia of Universal History written by John Clark Ridpath and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World

Author : Sylvian Fachard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108851460
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World by : Sylvian Fachard

Download or read book The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World written by Sylvian Fachard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Trojan War to the sack of Rome, from the fall of Constantinople to the bombings of World War II and the recent devastation of Syrian towns, the destruction of cities and the slaughter of civilian populations are among the most dramatic events in world history. But how reliable are literary sources for these events? Did ancient authors exaggerate the scale of destruction to create sensational narratives? This volume reassesses the impact of physical destruction on ancient Greek cities and its demographic and economic implications. Addressing methodological issues of interpreting the archaeological evidence for destructions, the volume examines the evidence for the destruction, survival, and recovery of Greek cities. The studies, written by an international group of specialists in archaeology, ancient history, and numismatic, range from Sicily to Asia Minor and Aegean Thrace, and include Athens, Corinth, and Eretria. They highlight the resilience of ancient populations and the recovery of cities in the long term.

THE NEW CENTURY BOOK OF FACTS

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1728 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE NEW CENTURY BOOK OF FACTS written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: