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Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1304 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Essays in Ancient History and Antiquities written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arnaldo Momigliano
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226533859
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Essays in Ancient and Modern Historiography written by Arnaldo Momigliano and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published 1977 by Basil Blackwell Oxford in Great Britain and by Wesleyan University Press in the United States."
Author : Arnaldo Momigliano
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226533867
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Essays in Ancient and Modern Historiography written by Arnaldo Momigliano and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arnaldo Momigliano was one of the foremost classical historiographers of the twentieth century. This collection of twenty-one carefully selected essays is remarkable both in the depth of its scholarship and the breadth of its subjects. Moving with ease across the centuries, Momigliano supplements powerful readings of writers in the Greek, Jewish, and Roman traditions, such as Tacitus and Polybius, with writings that focus on later historians, such as Vico and Croce. Charmingly written and concise, these pieces range from review essays reprinted from the New York Review of Books to treatises on the nature of historical scholarship. Essays in Ancient and Modern Historiography is a brilliant reminder of Momigliano’s profound knowledge of classical civilization and his gift for deftly handling prose. With a new Foreword by Anthony Grafton, this volume is essential reading for any student of classics or historiography.
Author : Richard Ew Adams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429981910
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Ancient Civilizations Of The New World written by Richard Ew Adams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this concise, yet sweeping look at the origins and development of ancient new world civiliozations, Richard adams provides a superb introductory overview of these unique and fascinating cultures. Incorporating the latest breakthroughs in the study of the cultures of Mesoamerica and the Andes, Adams examines the development of the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, and Inca peoples, among others, from simple agricultural societies to urban civilizations with complex transportation networks, distinct social hierarchies, rich artistic and religious traditions, and writing systems that have defied anthropological investigation until recently.
Author : Victor Ehrenberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136576525
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Man, State and Deity written by Victor Ehrenberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1974, this book is a collection of nine essays written by Victor Ehrenberg between 1925 and 1967, five of which had not been published before. They deal with a number of aspects of Greek and Roman history, and with the nature of ancient history in the East and West. The first essay is a broad survey of interactions between opposing forces and ideas in the world as seen from the most ancient Near Eastern civilizations to the beginning of the western Middle Ages and the era of Byzantium; this is followed by discussions of topics from Classical and Hellenistic Greece and Republican and Imperial Rome, with the accent on the history of ideas and institutions –freedom, the Greek city-state, and Roman concepts of state and empire. The final chapter consists of personal reflections on the meaning of history from the writer’s own characteristic viewpoint, and is, as he admits, more in the way of a confession than pure scholarship.
Author : Geoffrey W. Bakewell
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Gestures written by Geoffrey W. Bakewell and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2003 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These thirty essays were presented to Alan L Boegehold, a distinguished philologist and an inspirational teacher, on the occasion of his retirement and his seventy-fifth birthday. The contributions fall into two categories, each one reflecting Boegehold's diverse interests in classical studies: the first section includes essays on literary and philosophical topics, several of which pick up on the theme of "gestures"; the second section is representative of Boegehold's more specialised research in Greek epigraphy, history and law.
Author : Stanley Mayer Burstein
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Panhellenica written by Stanley Mayer Burstein and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raj Kumar
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9788171416820
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (168 download)
Download or read book Essays on Ancient India written by Raj Kumar and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Introduction, The Geographical Background, How Nehru Discovered Ancient India-I, How Nehru Discovered Ancient India-II, The Economic History of Ancient India, Trade and Commerce in Ancient India, Town- Planning and House-Building in Ancient According to Silpasastras, Art and Architecture, Ancient House-Planning, Naming A Child or A Person, Mantra, Yantra and Tantra.
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (333 download)
Download or read book Essays in Ancient History and Antiquities written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nadav Naʼaman
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 1575061287
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Essays on Ancient Israel in Its Near Eastern Context written by Nadav Naʼaman and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting the breadth and interconnectedness of Professor Na'aman's research areas, this volume contains contributions on archaeology, ancient Near East (other than ancient Israel), Israel's ancient history and historiography, and biblical studies. --from publisher description.
Author : Michael Frede
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816612757
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Essays in Ancient Philosophy written by Michael Frede and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text contains seventeen papers written by the author over the course of the last twelve years on the topic of philosophy.
Author : Willem Jongman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004350918
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book After the Past written by Willem Jongman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was funny about ancient jokes, and why? Why did the Roman state legislate to curb the behaviour of its obscenely rich and powerful elite, if it never really expected such laws to be obeyed? Why did it oppress the poor, and lavish public child support on them? These are important questions, but ancient Greeks and Romans could never have thought of them. They never questioned the right of the rich to be rich. They could not improve their understanding of Homeric gift-giving with the experience of ritualized friendship among the Trobriand islanders. Such questions and such answers can only come from those who live after the ancient past. This volume honours the well-known Dutch epigraphist and ancient historian H.W. Pleket. Ten substantial essays reflect his wide range, from early Greece to the Roman Empire, and his taste for comparative economic and social history.
Author : T. P. Wiseman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780197263235
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (632 download)
Download or read book Classics in Progress written by T. P. Wiseman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of Greco-Roman civilisation is as exciting and innovative today as it has ever been. This intriguing collection of essays by contemporary classicists reveals new discoveries, new interpretations and new ways of exploring the experiences of the ancient world. Through one and a half millennia of literature, politics, philosophy, law, religion and art, the classical world formed the origin of western culture and thought. This book emphasises the many ways in which it continues to engage with contemporary life. Offering a wide variety of authorial style, the chapters range in subject matter from contemporary poets' exploitation of Greek and Latin authors, via newly discovered literary texts and art works, to modern arguments about ancient democracy and slavery, and close readings of the great poets and philosophers of antiquity. This engaging book reflects the current rejuvenation of classical studies and will fascinate anyone with an interest in western history.
Author : Ramsay MacMullen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691656665
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Changes in the Roman Empire written by Ramsay MacMullen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the foremost historians of the Roman Empire, this collection of both new and previously published essays forms a colorful picture of daily life in the Mediterranean world between A.D. 50 and 450. Here, for example, the author applies statistical analysis to broad groups of people on matters ranging from justice through medicine to language. In so doing he is able to substantiate general statements about routines in ordinary people's behavior and to detect within these routines the very changes that constitute history. Such analysis also shows how this era benefits from the same historiographical approaches that have so successfully elucidated sociocultural phenomena in other periods. Drawing from statistical analysis and many other historical approaches, these essays on popular mores in the Roman Empire cover such topics as language and art, acculturation, thought and religion, sex and gender, cruelty and slavery, and aspects of class and power relations. The author introduces the collection with several essays on historical method, as it pertains to the richness of documentation and variety to be found in the region and period chosen. Ramsay MacMullen is Dunham Professor of History and Classics at Yale University. The most recent of his many books include Corruption and the Decline of Rome and Christianizing the Roman Empire: A.D. 100-400, both published by Yale. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Jean-Jacques Aubert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110931419
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book A Tall Order. Writing the Social History of the Ancient World written by Jean-Jacques Aubert and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume commemorates the 65th birthday of William Vernon Harris (on September 13, 2003), when a group of his former students agreed to honor him with a collection of essays that would represent the wide variety of interests and influences of our advisor and friend. The fifteen papers in fact range chronologically from the first Olympics to late antiquity and discuss various questions of imperialism, law, economy, and religion in the ancient Mediterranean world. The essays share a social historical perspective from which they challenge as many commonly accepted notions in ancient history. The contributors acknowledge their intellectual debt to the formative scholarly acumen of William V. Harris, which adds up to the "tall order" of engaging with his work.
Author : Thomas de Quincey
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780428988203
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (882 download)
Download or read book Essays in Ancient History and Antiquities, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint) written by Thomas de Quincey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays in Ancient History and Antiquities, Vol. 7 [The following are brief general notes with wtiich Mr. De Quincey introduced "The Caesars," and Plato's "Republic" when revising the latest edition of his works.] "The Caesars," it may be right to mention, was written in a situation which denied me the use of books; so that with the exception of a few penciled extracts in a pocket-book from the Augustan history, I was obliged to depend upon ray memory for materials, in so far as respected facts. These materials for the Western Empire are not more scanty than meagre; and in that proportion so much the greater is the temptation which they offer to free and skeptical speculation. To this temptation I have yielded intermittingly; but from a fear (perhaps a cowardly fear) of being classed as a dealer in licentious paradox, I checked myself exactly where the largest license might have been properly allowed to a bold spirit of incredulity. In particular, I cannot bring myself to believe, nor ought therefore to have assumed the tone of a believer, in the inhuman atrocities charged upon the earlier Caesars. Guided by my own instincts of truth and probability, I should, for instance, have summarily exploded the most revolting among the crimes imputed to Nero. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : David Graeber
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374721106
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book The Dawn of Everything written by David Graeber and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action. Includes Black-and-White Illustrations
