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Arrian the Historian

Author : Daniel W. Leon
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477321888
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Arrian the Historian written by Daniel W. Leon and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first centuries of the Roman Empire, Greek intellectuals wrote a great many texts modeled on the dialect and literature of Classical Athens, some 500 years prior. Among the most successful of these literary figures were sophists, whose highly influential display oratory has been the prevailing focus of scholarship on Roman Greece over the past fifty years. Often overlooked are the period’s historians, who spurned sophistic oral performance in favor of written accounts. One such author is Arrian of Nicomedia. Daniel W. Leon examines the works of Arrian to show how the era's historians responded to their sophistic peers’ claims of authority and played a crucial role in theorizing the past at a time when knowledge of history was central to defining Greek cultural identity. Best known for his history of Alexander the Great, Arrian articulated a methodical approach to the study of the past and a notion of historical progress that established a continuous line of human activity leading to his present and imparting moral and political lessons. Using Arrian as a case study in Greek historiography, Leon demonstrates how the genre functioned during the Imperial Period and what it brings to the study of the Roman world in the second century.

Greek and Roman Military Writers

Author : Brian Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134451180
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Greek and Roman Military Writers written by Brian Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-09-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Campbell has selected and translated a wide range of pieces from the ancient military writers who tell us about the technical aspects of military practice and the management of armies. The pieces cover a fascinating range of topics - battle formations and manoeuvres, different types of troops, the art of generalship, methods for conducting and resisting a siege, the construction of artillery and fortifications, and every kind of ploy used by generals to defeat their opponents. Each piece is annotated with further explanation and context, making this an essential resource for everyone studying the army and warfare in the classical age.

Roman rule in Greek and Latin Writing

Author : Jesper Majbom Madsen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004278281
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Roman rule in Greek and Latin Writing written by Jesper Majbom Madsen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing explores the ways in which Greek and Latin writers from the late 1st to the 3rd century CE experienced and portrayed Roman cultural institutions and power. The central theme is the relationship between cultures as reflected in Greek and Latin authors’ responses to Roman power; in practice the collection revisits the orthodoxy of two separate intellectual groups, differentiated as much by cultural and political agenda as by language. The book features specialists in Greek and Roman literary and intellectual culture; it gathers papers on a variety of authors, across several literary genres, and through this spectrum, makes possible an informed and detailed comparison of Greek and Latin literary views of Roman power (in various manifestations, including military, religion, law and politics).

Greek and Roman Technology: A Sourcebook

Author : Andrew N. Sherwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134926219
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Greek and Roman Technology: A Sourcebook written by Andrew N. Sherwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-04 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume the authors translate and annotate key passages from ancient authors to provide a history and an analysis of the origins and development of technology. Among the topics covered are: * energy * basic mechanical devices * agriculture * food processing and diet * mining and metallurgy * construction and hydraulic engineering * household industry * transport and trade * military technology. The sourcebook presents 150 ancient authors and a diverse range of literary genres, such as, the encyclopedic Natural Histories of Pliny the Elder, the poetry of Homer and Hesiod, the philosophy of Plato, Aristotle and Lucretius and the agricultural treatise of Varro. Humphrey, Oleson and Sherwood provide a comprehensive and accessible collection of rich and varied sources to illustrate and elucidate the beginnings of technology. Glossaries of technological terminology, indices of authors and subjects, introductions outlining the general significance of the evidence, notes to explain the specific details, and a recent bibliography make this volume a valuable research and teaching tool.

Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds

Author : Oliver Taplin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192100207
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds written by Oliver Taplin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this book--its new perspective--is on the 'receivers' of literature: readers, spectators, and audiences. Twelve contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, explore the various and changing interactions between the makers of literature and their audiences or readers from the earliest Greek poetry to the end of the Roman empires in the Western and Eastern Mediterranean. From the heights of Athens to the hellenistic Greek diaspora, from the great Augustans to the irresistible tide of Christianity, the contributors deploy fresh insights to map out lively and provocative, yet accessible, surveys. They cover the kinds of literature which have shaped western culture--epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy, rhetoric, epigram, elegy, pastoral, satire, biography, epistle, declamation, and panegyric. Who were the audiences, and why did they regard their literature as so important? --jacket.

The Story of Greece and Rome

Author : Antony Spawforth
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300217110
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Greece and Rome written by Antony Spawforth and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However, narratives about the "civilized" Greek and Roman empires resisting the barbarians at the gate are far from accurate. Tony Spawforth, an esteemed scholar, author, and media contributor, follows the thread of civilization through more than six millennia of history. His story reveals that Greek and Roman civilization, to varying degrees, was supremely and surprisingly receptive to external influences, particularly from the East. From the rise of the Mycenaean world of the sixteenth century B.C., Spawforth traces a path through the ancient Aegean to the zenith of the Hellenic state and the rise of the Roman empire, the coming of Christianity and the consequences of the first caliphate. Deeply informed, provocative, and entirely fresh, this is the first and only accessible work that tells the extraordinary story of the classical world in its entirety.

Hindsight in Greek and Roman History

Author : Anton Powell
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589128
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Hindsight in Greek and Roman History written by Anton Powell and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine new studies here explore, and reconstruct, determinant episodes of Greek, Hellenistic and Roman history. The authors argue that hindsight - especially in modern works - has falsified the past, by playing down or eliminating the record of ancient unfulfilled forecasts, and of trends in events which in the long term did not obviously prove predominant. The authors also highlight the efforts of the best-placed writers in Antiquity not to be misled by hindsight, but rather to give due weight to the working of hopes and fears, and of trends in events, which with remote retrospect would tend to be belittled or forgotten. The techniques demonstrated in this book open new fields of research across Ancient History: they illuminate almost every ancient episode for which there is evidence of what historical agents planned or anticipated. The authors show convincingly that, by giving due respect to trends observable, and to political predictions made, in Antiquity, historians of today are better placed to evaluate outcomes: to see how easily events might have developed differently, or even to show that concrete outcomes were different from those conventionally portrayed from hindsight.

Taken at the Flood

Author : Robin Waterfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199916896
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Taken at the Flood written by Robin Waterfield and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing a marginalized era of Greek and Roman history, Taken at the Flood offers a compelling narrative of Rome's conquest of Greece.

Greek Writers of Roman History

Author : I.C. Vollgraff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Writers of Roman History written by I.C. Vollgraff and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Greek and Roman Historians

Author : Michael Grant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134828217
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Greek and Roman Historians written by Michael Grant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grant shows us how the historians of antiquity routinely try to deceive, but he argues for the continuing vital importance of their work, and offers new ways of reading and interpreting it. An indispensible guide to using source-material.

Greek Literature in the Roman Empire

Author : Jason König
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472521323
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Greek Literature in the Roman Empire written by Jason König and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Jason Konig offers for the first time an accessible yet comprehensive account of the multi-faceted Greek literature of the Roman Empire, focusing especially on the first three centuries AD. He covers in turn the Greek novels of this period, the satirical writing of Lucian, rhetoric, philosophy, scientific and miscellanistic writing, geography and history, biography and poetry, providing a vivid introduction to key texts, with extensive quotation in translation. The challenges and pleasures these texts offer to their readers have come to be newly appreciated in the classical scholarship of the last two or three decades. In addition there has been renewed interest in the role played by novelistic and rhetorical writing in the Greek culture of the Roman Empire more broadly, and in the many different ways in which these texts respond to the world around them. This volume offers a broad introduction to those exciting developments.

Greek and Roman Civilizations, Grades 5 - 8

Author : Heidi M. C. Dierckx
Publisher : Mark Twain Media
ISBN 13 : 1580376274
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Greek and Roman Civilizations, Grades 5 - 8 written by Heidi M. C. Dierckx and published by Mark Twain Media. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides lessons and activities on the history, literature, music, geography, and art of the ancient Romans and Greeks.

Greek writers of Roman history

Author : J. C. Vollgraff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Greek writers of Roman history written by J. C. Vollgraff and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature

Author : William Hansen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253211576
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature written by William Hansen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-22 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not all readers in ancient Greece whiled away the hours with Homer, Plato, or Sophocles - at least, not always. Many enjoyed light reading, such as can be found in the pages of this lively anthology. Various types of popular writing - novels, short stories, books of jokes or fables, fortune-telling handbooks - trace their origins to the ancient Mediterranean. In fact, some of this literature was so successful that it remained in circulation for centuries, even into the Middle Ages. Translated into other languages, these works were the best sellers of their time and remain enjoyable reading today. They are also fascinating social documents that reveal much about the daily lives, humor, loves, anxieties, fantasies, values, and beliefs of ordinary men and women.

Greek Writers of Roman History

Author : Johann Christoph Vollgraff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Greek Writers of Roman History written by Johann Christoph Vollgraff and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Roman Historiography

Author : Andreas Mehl
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118785134
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book Roman Historiography written by Andreas Mehl and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman Historiography: An Introduction to its Basic Aspects and Development presents a comprehensive introduction to the development of Roman historical writings in both Greek and Latin, from the early annalists to Orosius and Procopius of Byzantium. Provides an accessible survey of every historical writer of significance in the Roman world Traces the growth of Christian historiography under the influence of its pagan adversaries Offers valuable insight into current scholarly trends on Roman historiography Includes a user-friendly bibliography, catalog of authors and editions, and index Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic Title

The Historians of Ancient Rome

Author : Ronald Mellor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136222618
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book The Historians of Ancient Rome written by Ronald Mellor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historians of Ancient Rome is the most comprehensive collection of ancient sources for Roman history available in a single English volume. After a general introduction on Roman historical writing, extensive passages from more than a dozen Greek and Roman historians and biographers trace the history of Rome over more than a thousand years: from the city’s foundation by Romulus in 753 B.C.E. (Livy) to Constantine’s edict of toleration for Christianity (313 C.E.) Selections include many of the high points of Rome’s climb to world domination: the defeat of Hannibal; the conquest of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean; the defeat of the Catilinarian conspirators; Caesar’s conquest of Gaul; Antony and Cleopatra; the establishment of the Empire by Caesar Augustus; and the "Roman Peace" under Hadrian and long excepts from Tacitus record the horrors of the reigns of Tiberius and Nero. The book is intended both for undergraduate courses in Roman history and for the general reader interested in approaching the Romans through the original historical sources. Hence, excerpts of Polybius, Livy, and Tacitus are extensive enough to be read with pleasure as an exciting narrative. Now in its third edition, changes to this thoroughly revised volume include a new timeline, translations of several key inscriptions such as the Twelve Tables, and additional readings. This is a book which no student of Roman history should be without.