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Athens Victorious

Author : Greg Recco
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739123270
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Athens Victorious written by Greg Recco and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's Republic is typically thought to recommend a form of government that, from our current perspective, seems perniciously totalitarian. Athens Victorious demonstrates that Plato intended quite the opposite: to demonstrate the superiorityof a democratic constitution. Greg Recco provides a brilliant rereading of Book Eight. Often considered an anticlimax, Book Eight seems to be a mere catalogue of mistakes but is in fact one of Plato's most neglected literary creations: a mythic or epic restaging of the Peloponnesian War that pitted Sparta's militaristic oligarchy against Athens' democracy. In Plato's reenactment, Athens wins. Recco argues that the values identified in Book Eight as distinctively democratic were the very ones that served as the unannounced touchstones of moral and political judgment throughout the dialogue.Athens Victorious is an important reinterpretation ofThe Republic. It is an excellent resource for students and scholars of Classical Studies, Philosophy, and Political Theory.

Trophies of Victory

Author : T. Leslie Shear Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691170576
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 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 500 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.

The Athenian Institution of the Khoregia

Author : Peter Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521542135
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (421 download)

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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.

The Divided City

Author : Nicole Loraux
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Divided City written by Nicole Loraux and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the roles of conflict and forgetting in ancient Athens. Athens, 403 B.C.E. The bloody oligarchic dictatorship of the Thirty is over, and the democrats have returned to the city victorious. Renouncing vengeance, in an act of willful amnesia, citizens call for---if not invent---amnesty. They agree to forget the unforgettable, the "past misfortunes," of civil strife or stasis. More precisely, what they agree to deny is that stasis---simultaneously partisanship, faction, and sedition---is at the heart of their politics. Continuing a criticism of Athenian ideology begun in her pathbreaking study The Invention of Athens, Nicole Loraux argues that this crucial moment of Athenian political history must be interpreted as constitutive of politics and political life and not as a threat to it. Divided from within, the city is formed by that which it refuses. Conflict, the calamity of civil war, is the other, dark side of the beautiful unitary city of Athens. In a brilliant analysis of the Greek word for voting, diaphora, Loraux underscores the conflictual and dynamic motion of democratic life. Voting appears as the process of dividing up, of disagreement---in short, of agreeing to divide and choose. Not only does Loraux reconceptualize the definition of ancient Greek democracy, she also allows the contemporary reader to rethink the functioning of modern democracy in its critical moments of internal stasis.

Victory

Author : Winston S. Churchill
Publisher : RosettaBooks
ISBN 13 : 0795331630
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Victory written by Winston S. Churchill and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel Prize-winning Prime Minister’s historic speeches from the final year of WWII are collected in this essential volume. During the final eight months of World War II, Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave some of the most brilliant and consequential speeches of his career. Here are Churchill’s war status reports delivered to the House of Commons, his rousing statements to the British people, and his global broadcasts, including his announcement of Germany’s unconditional surrender on May 8th, 1945. These speeches detail Churchill's public reactions to the forming of the United Nations, the death of Roosevelt, the dropping of the Atomic Bomb, and, lastly, the election that defeats him. Perhaps most notable is the "Gestapo" speech of 1945, in which Churchill made a controversial comparison between a Socialist government and the Gestapo—an extremely charged word at that time—that many believe cost him his job as Prime Minister.

Fear and Loathing in Ancient Athens

Author : Alexander Rubel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317544803
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Fear and Loathing in Ancient Athens written by Alexander Rubel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian war was the arena for a dramatic battle between politics and religion in the hearts and minds of the people. Fear and Loathing in Ancient Athens, originally published in German but now available for the first time in an expanded and revised English edition, sheds new light on this dramatic period of history and offers a new approach to the study of Greek religion. The book explores an extraordinary range of events and topics, and will be an indispensable study for students and scholars studying Athenian religion and politics.

The Macedonians in Athens, 322-229 B.C.

Author : Olga Palagia
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785705326
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book The Macedonians in Athens, 322-229 B.C. written by Olga Palagia and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a century following the end of the Lamian War in 322 B.C., Athens' harbour at Pireus was almost constantly occupied by a Macedonian garrison. The Macedonian presence dealt a crucial blow to Athenian independence and Athenian democracy, initiating the first in a long and intermittent series of foreign occupations. The twenty-eight papers in this volume are based on an international conference hosted by the University of Athens in May 2001, and focus on various aspects of Athenian art, archaeology and history in the century of Macedonian domination. They consider Athens' new role as a political stepping stone for potential Successors to the throne of Macedon - Cassander, Demetrios Poliorketes and Antigonos Gonatas were each able to secure Macedonia by using Athens as a power base - and the ways in which Athenian culture was affected by the Macedonian presence. They contribute to the ongoing debate about the reasons for the Macedonian ascendancy, the degree of independence accorded Athens by their Macedonian overlords, the third-century archon list, and changes in Athenian art and architecture.

A Cyclopædia of Works of Architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant

Author : William Pitt Preble Longfellow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book A Cyclopædia of Works of Architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant written by William Pitt Preble Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages and Nations

Author : Joseph Haydn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1636 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages and Nations written by Joseph Haydn and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece

Author : Zinon Papakonstantinou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317051122
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece written by Zinon Papakonstantinou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the eighth century BCE to the late third century CE, Greeks trained in sport and competed in periodic contests that generated enormous popular interest. As a result, sport was an ideal vehicle for the construction of a plurality of identities along the lines of ethnic origin, civic affiliation, legal and social status as well as gender. Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece delves into the rich literary and epigraphic record on ancient Greek sport and examines, through a series of case studies, diverse aspects of the process of identity construction through sport. Chapters discuss elite identities and sport, sport spectatorship, the regulatory framework of Greek sport, sport and benefaction in the Hellenistic and Roman world, embodied and gendered identities in epigraphic commemoration, as well as the creation of a hybrid culture of Greco-Roman sport in the eastern Mediterranean during the Roman imperial period.

The History of Ancient Greece

Author : John Gillies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Ancient Greece written by John Gillies and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The History of Ancient Greece

Author : John Bagnell Bury
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The History of Ancient Greece written by John Bagnell Bury and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. B. Bury's History of Ancient Greece has been one of the most influential authorities on the Ancient Greece for over one century. This book presents the complete political history of Ancient Greece from its earliest beginnings in 3rd millennium B.C. all the way until the death of Alexander the Great. Contents: Greece and the Aegean The Beginnings of Greece and the Heroic Age The Expansion of Greece Growth of Sparta - Fall of the Aristocracies The Union of Attica and the Foundation of the Athenian Democracy Growth of Athens in the Sixth Century The Advance of Persia to the Aegean The Perils of Greece - the Persian and Punic Invasions The Foundation of the Athenian Empire The Athenian Empire Under the Guidance of Pericles The Decline and Downfall of the Athenian Empire The Spartan Supremacy and the Persian War The Revival of Athens and Her Second League The Hegemony of Thebes The Syracusan Empire and the Struggle With Carthage The Rise of Macedonia The Conquest of Persia The Conquest of the Far East

The History of Ancient Greece, Its Colonies, and Conquests; from the Earliest Accounts Till the Division of the Macedonian Empire in the East. Including the Hystory of Literature, Philosophy, and the Fine Arts. By John Gillies ... Vol. 1.(-5.)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
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Rulers of the Sea

Author : John Nash
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111343162
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Rulers of the Sea written by John Nash and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of sea power and maritime strategy in the Classical Greek world. More than just a study of navies and battles, it examines how the sea was used to influence events ashore and how the use of naval power combined with land power had a defining impact on the period. After an examination of the oft-overlooked practical issues of navigation and administration, the book explores the idea of a ‘maritime consciousness’ in Greece and how this shaped the way the Greeks engaged in war. Naval operations from the Persian Wars down to the rise of Thebes are examined at the operational and strategic level, including a catalogue of the hundreds of different maritime operations from the 5th and 4th centuries BCE. Further, while the great sea power Athens is most prominent, it looks at other city-states to examine how they utilised sea power. This new approach uses modern theory to highlight some enduring lessons of sea power. It demonstrates that Classical scholars should embrace sea power as an important concept in the Greek world. Modern scholars of naval and strategic studies should cast their gaze further back in time when looking for lessons in sea power. This book helps to bridge the scholarship between these two disciplines.

The Victorious Youth

Author : Carol C. Mattusch
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 089236470X
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book The Victorious Youth written by Carol C. Mattusch and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this full study of the statue, Victorious Youth - the first in nearly 20 years - the author takes into account the most recent art historical information and scientific data about the piece. Included is a complete conservation report.

A Companion to Aeschylus

Author : Peter Burian
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405188049
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Aeschylus written by Peter Burian and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COMPANION TO AESCHYLUS A COMPANION TO AESCHYLUS In A Companion to Aeschylus, a team of eminent Aeschyleans and brilliant younger scholars delivers an insightful and original multi-authored examination—the first comprehensive one in English—of the works of the earliest surviving Greek tragedian. This book explores Aeschylean drama, and its theatrical, historical, philosophical, religious, and socio-political contexts, as well as the receptions and influence of Aeschylus from antiquity to the present day. This companion offers readers thorough examinations of Aeschylus as a product of his time, including his place in the early years of the Athenian democracy and his immediate and ongoing impact on tragedy. It also provides comprehensive explorations of all the surviving plays, including Prometheus Bound, which many scholars have concluded is not by Aeschylus. A Companion to Aeschylus is an ideal resource for students encountering the work of Aeschylus for the first time as well as more advanced scholars seeking incisive treatment of his individual works, their cultural context and their enduring significance. Written in an accessible format, with the Greek translated into English and technical terminology avoided as much as possible, the book belongs in the library of anyone looking for a fresh and authoritative account of works of continuing interest and importance to readers and theatre-goers alike.

Our Hellenic Heritage: pt. III. Athens

Author : Henry Rosher James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Our Hellenic Heritage: pt. III. Athens written by Henry Rosher James and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: