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Author : George Grote
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Historical Greece (concluded) written by George Grote and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Grote
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Historical Greece (concluded) written by George Grote and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 0190886641
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
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Author : Steven Johnstone
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226405095
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book A History of Trust in Ancient Greece written by Steven Johnstone and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enormous amount of literature exists on Greek law, economics, and political philosophy. Yet no one has written a history of trust, one of the most fundamental aspects of social and economic interaction in the ancient world. In this fresh look at antiquity, Steven Johnstone explores the way democracy and markets flourished in ancient Greece not so much through personal relationships as through trust in abstract systems—including money, standardized measurement, rhetoric, and haggling. Focusing on markets and democratic politics, Johnstone draws on speeches given in Athenian courts, histories of Athenian democracy, comic writings, and laws inscribed on stone to examine how these systems worked. He analyzes their potentials and limitations and how the Greeks understood and critiqued them. In providing the first comprehensive account of these pervasive and crucial systems, A History of Trust in Ancient Greece links Greek political, economic, social, and intellectual history in new ways and challenges contemporary analyses of trust and civil society.
Author : Richard Clogg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521004794
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (47 download)
Download or read book A Concise History of Greece written by Richard Clogg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a concise, illustrated introduction to the history of modern Greece, with a new final chapter about Greek history and politics to the present day. 56 illustrations. 10 maps.
Author : Lukas Thommen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107002168
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book An Environmental History of Ancient Greece and Rome written by Lukas Thommen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lively and accessible account of the relationship between man and nature in Graeco-Roman antiquity. Describes the ways in which the Greeks and Romans intervened in the environment and thus traces the history of tension between the exploitation of resources and the protection of nature.
Author : Henry Smith Williams
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Historians' History of the World: Switzerland (concluded ), Russia and Poland written by Henry Smith Williams and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Garland
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069117380X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Wandering Greeks written by Robert Garland and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement was essential to the survival, success, and sheer sustainability of their society, and that this wandering became a defining characteristic of their culture. Addressing a neglected but essential subject, Wandering Greeks focuses on the diaspora of tens of thousands of people between about 700 and 325 BCE, demonstrating the degree to which Greeks were liable to be forced to leave their homes due to political upheaval, oppression, poverty, warfare, or simply a desire to better themselves. Attempting to enter into the mind-set of these wanderers, the book provides an insightful and sympathetic account of what it meant for ancient Greeks to part from everyone and everything they held dear, to start a new life elsewhere—or even to become homeless, living on the open road or on the high seas with no end to their journey in sight. Each chapter identifies a specific kind of "wanderer," including the overseas settler, the deportee, the evacuee, the asylum-seeker, the fugitive, the economic migrant, and the itinerant, and the book also addresses repatriation and the idea of the "portable polis." The result is a vivid and unique portrait of ancient Greece as a culture of displaced persons.
Author : Claude Calame
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691114587
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Myth and History in Ancient Greece written by Claude Calame and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-22 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surely the ancient Greeks would have been baffled to see what we consider their "mythology." Here, Claude Calame mounts a powerful critique of modern-day misconceptions on this front and the lax methodology that has allowed them to prevail. He argues that the Greeks viewed their abundance of narratives not as a single mythology but as an "archaeology." They speculated symbolically on key historical events so that a community of believing citizens could access them efficiently, through ritual means. Central to the book is Calame's rigorous and fruitful analysis of various accounts of the foundation of that most "mythical" of the Greek colonies--Cyrene, in eastern Libya. Calame opens with a magisterial historical survey demonstrating today's misapplication of the terms "myth" and "mythology." Next, he examines the Greeks' symbolic discourse to show that these modern concepts arose much later than commonly believed. Having established this interpretive framework, Calame undertakes a comparative analysis of six accounts of Cyrene's foundation: three by Pindar and one each by Herodotus (in two different versions), Callimachus, and Apollonius of Rhodes. We see how the underlying narrative was shaped in each into a poetically sophisticated, distinctive form by the respective medium, a particular poetical genre, and the specific socio-historical circumstances. Calame concludes by arguing in favor of the Greeks' symbolic approach to the past and by examining the relation of mythos to poetry and music.
Author : John Boardman
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0192852477
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World written by John Boardman and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 1991-09-05 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authorative study covers the period from the eighth century BC, which witnessed the emergence of the Greek city-states, to the conquests of Alexander the Great and the establishment of the Greek monarchies some five centuries later.
Author : William Henry Overall
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1056 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Dictionary of Chronology, Or Historical and Statistical Register written by William Henry Overall and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Johanna Hanink
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674978307
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book The Classical Debt written by Johanna Hanink and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the International Monetary Fund’s first bailout of Greece’s sinking economy in 2010, the phrase “Greek debt” has meant one thing to the country’s creditors. But for millions who claim to prize culture over capital, it means something quite different: the symbolic debt that Western civilization owes to Greece for furnishing its principles of democracy, philosophy, mathematics, and fine art. Where did this other idea of Greek debt come from, Johanna Hanink asks, and why does it remain so compelling today? The Classical Debt investigates our abiding desire to view Greece through the lens of the ancient past. Though classical Athens was in reality a slave-owning imperial power, the city-state of Socrates and Pericles is still widely seen as a utopia of wisdom, justice, and beauty—an idealization that the ancient Athenians themselves assiduously cultivated. Greece’s allure as a travel destination dates back centuries, and Hanink examines many historical accounts that express disappointment with a Greek people who fail to live up to modern fantasies of the ancient past. More than any other movement, the spread of European philhellenism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries carved idealized conceptions of Greece in marble, reinforcing the Western habit of comparing the Greece that is with the Greece that once was. Today, as the European Union teeters and neighboring nations are convulsed by political unrest and civil war, Greece finds itself burdened by economic hardship and an unprecedented refugee crisis. Our idealized image of ancient Greece dangerously shapes how we view these contemporary European problems.
Author : Christian Meier
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199588031
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book A Culture of Freedom written by Christian Meier and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book takes us on a tour through the rich spectrum of Greek life and culture, from their epic and lyric poetry, political thought and philosophy, to their social life, military traditions, sport, and religious festivals, and finally to the early stages of Greek democracy. Running as a connecting thread throughout is a people's attempt to create a society based upon the concept of freedom rather than naked power.
Author : Mogens Herman Hansen
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826265480
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book The Shotgun Method written by Mogens Herman Hansen and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reflecting the innovative work of the Copenhagen Polis Centre's 2004 inventory of Archaic and Classical Greek city-states, Hansen's "shotgun method" for reconstructing and estimating the overall size and local distribution of the Greek population challenges the long-standing opinion that the majority of ancient Greeks lived a rural, subsistent life"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Captivating History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781637164327
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (643 download)
Download or read book Modern Greece written by Captivating History and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-14 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that while the Greek civilization is thousands of years old, Greece itself has only been a nation since the early 1800s? Many people know about the glories of ancient Greece: the Acropolis, the Parthenon, the sculptures, the writings of Homer, and the adventures of Achilles and Jason and the Argonauts. They know about the Greek gods and goddesses, of Zeus, Athena, Apollo, Hermes, Aphrodite, Poseidon, and many others. Even the term "Trojan Horse," named after the trick that the Greeks played on the inhabitants of Troy, has made it into our language. Ancient Greece gave us philosophy, math, medicine, the roots of many languages, and so much more. And then...nothing. The Golden Age of Greece ended more than two thousand years ago, and that's where most people's knowledge ends, but in the over two thousand years since the glories of Athens and Sparta, the Greeks have endured occupation, rebellion, slavery, war, and triumph again and again. Your knowledge of Greece is about to get an update. In this new Captivating History book, you will discover the truth about modern Greece. In Captivating History's History of Modern Greece, you'll learn that: The Greek civilization enjoyed a new "golden age" in the Byzantine or Eastern Roman Empire. In 1453, the Ottoman Turks destroyed the last remnants of Byzantine glory. The Turks incorporated Greece into their empire, which lasted until 1918. Many Greeks actually fought for the Ottomans. Some Greeks became powerful Ottoman political figures. People all over western Europe and America supported Greece's war of independence. One of these "Philhellenes" ("lover of the Greeks") was the famous British poet Lord Byron. It took a series of wars to form the country we recognize today. Greece launched a disastrous invasion of Turkey in 1921. And much, much more! Scroll up and click the "add to cart" button to learn more about modern Greece!
Author : Chester G. Starr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195360672
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Aristocratic Temper of Greek Civilization written by Chester G. Starr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-04-30 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely reassessment of the vital social, cultural, and political role of the aristocrat in Greek society, this book by distinguished historian Chester G. Starr provides a concise portrait of the upper classes and their way of life. Arguing that the influence of the aristocrat on ancient Hellenic civilizatioln is undervalued by both modern Western and Marxist scholars, Starr takes a close look at the social spectrum of ancient Greece, examining the consequences of the aristocrats' domination of the ancient polis, their involvement in and patronage of the arts, and their impact on the structure of religion and on the ancient Greeks' visual perception of their pantheon of gods. In a final chapter, Starr concludes that the influence of the aristocratic ideal did not end when ancient civilization flickered out, but rather was reborn in the Renaissance and has had powerful effect on the course of modern Western history.
Author : Henry Smith Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Historians' History of the World: The Netherlands (concluded), The Germanic empires written by Henry Smith Williams and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
