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Letters to Strabo

Author : David Smith
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1785899368
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book Letters to Strabo written by David Smith and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the late 1970s, Letters to Strabo is the fictional autobiography of Adam Finnegan Black, or ‘Finn’, an innocent young American who is insatiably curious about life. His ambition is to be a travel writer, like his heroes; Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway and the ancient Greek ‘father of geography’, Strabo. When Finn was young, his father Jerry went missing in a scuba diving accident in 1960’s Alexandria. After graduating from Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, Finn sets out to fulfil a promise made to his mother at her death. “Finn, promise me one day you’ll find out what really happened to your father.” Along the way, he’s inspired through a series of adventures by the landscapes and people he meets travelling round the Mediterranean, but especially by the Letters to Strabo, written by Eve, his long-distance pen pal whom he dreams, one day, will become his wife... Through these letters, Finn gradually learns more about himself but also about how Eve is, in turn, struggling with an emotional trauma that she won’t fully reveal. This is both a love story and coming-of-age tale, painted on the canvas of the radiant literary, cultural and physical geography of the Mediterranean. It is funny and provocative as Finn recounts, with disarming honesty, the excitement and mistakes of youthful energy, but ultimately life-affirming in the emergence of new hope from personal tragedy. The style is both richly descriptive and intimately human and will appeal to lovers of literary fiction and good travel writing, incorporating quotes from classic works spanning from Homer to Hemingway.

Strabo of Amasia

Author : Daniela Dueck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134605609
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Strabo of Amasia written by Daniela Dueck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strabo of Amasia offers an intellectual biography of Strabo, a Greek man of letters, set against the political and cultural background of Augustan Rome. It offers the first full-scale interpretation of the man and his life in English. It emphasises the place and importance of Strabo's Geography and of geography itself within these intellectual circles. It argues for a deeper understanding of the fusion of Greek and Roman elements in the culture of the Roman Empire. Though he wrote in Greek, Strabo must be regarded as an 'Augustan' writer like Virgil or Livy.

The Geography of Strabo

Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139952498
Total Pages : 1016 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book The Geography of Strabo written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Geography of Strabo is the only surviving work of its type in Greek literature, and the major source for the history of Greek scholarship on geography and the formative processes of the earth. In addition, this lengthy and complex work contains a vast amount of information on other topics, including the journey of Alexander the Great, cultic history, the history of the eastern Mediterranean in the first century BC, and women's history. Modern knowledge of seminal geographical authors such as Eratosthenes and Hipparchos relies almost totally on Strabo's use of them. This is the first complete English translation in nearly a century, and the first to make use of recent scholarship on the Greek text itself and on the history of geography. The translation is supplemented by a detailed discussion of Strabo's life and his purpose in writing the Geography, as well as the sources that he used.

Plato's "Letters"

Author : Plato
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501772902
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Plato's "Letters" written by Plato and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Plato's "Letters", Ariel Helfer provides to readers, for the first time, a highly literal translation of the Letters, complete with extensive notes on historical context and issues of manuscript transmission. His analysis presents a necessary perspective for readers who wish to study Plato's Letters as a work of Platonic philosophy. Centuries of debate over the provenance and significance of Plato's Letters have led to the common view that the Letters is a motley collection of jewels and scraps from within and without Plato's literary estate. In a series of original essays, Helfer describes how the Letters was written as a single work, composed with a unity of purpose and a coherent teaching, marked throughout by Plato's artfulness and insight and intended to occupy an important place in the Platonic corpus. Viewed in this light, the Letters is like an unusual epistolary novel, a manner of semifictional and semiautobiographical literary-philosophic experiment, in which Plato sought to provide his most demanding readers with guidance in thinking more deeply about the meaning of his own career as a philosopher, writer, and political advisor. Plato's "Letters" not only defends what Helfer calls the "literary unity thesis" by reviewing the scholarly history pertaining to the Platonic letters but also brings out the political philosophic lessons revealed in the Letters. As a result, Plato's "Letters" recovers and rehabilitates what has been until now a minority view concerning the Letters, according to which this misunderstood Platonic text will be of tremendous new importance for the study of Platonic political philosophy.

Strabo of Amasia

Author : Daniela Dueck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134605617
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Strabo of Amasia written by Daniela Dueck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a new interpretation of the man and his life and emphasises the place and importance of Strabo's Geography and of geography itself within these intellectual circles.

The Routledge Companion to Strabo

Author : Daniela Dueck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317445864
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Strabo written by Daniela Dueck and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Strabo explores the works of Strabo of Amasia (c. 64 BCE – c. CE 24), a Greek author writing at the prime of Roman expansion and political empowerment. While his earlier historiographical composition is almost entirely lost, his major opus of the Geography includes an encyclopaedic look at the entire world known at the time: numerous ethnographic, topographic, historical, mythological, botanical, and zoological details, and much more. This volume offers various insights to the literary and historical context of the man and his world. The Companion, in twenty-eight chapters written by an international group of scholars, examines several aspects of Strabo’s personality, the political and scholarly environment in which he was active, his choices as an author, and his ideas of history and geography. This selection of ongoing Strabonian studies is an invaluable resource not just for students and scholars of Strabo himself, but also for anyone interested in ancient geography and in the world of the early Roman Empire.

Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography

Author : Serena Bianchetti
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004284710
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography written by Serena Bianchetti and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography edited by S. Bianchetti, M. R. Cataudella, H. J. Gehrke is the first collection of studies on historical geography of the ancient world that focuses on a selection of topics considered crucial for understanding the development of geographical thought. In this work, scholars, all of whom are specialists in a variety of fields, examine the interaction of humans with their environment and try to reconstruct the representations of the inhabited world in the works of ancient historians, scientists, and cartographers. Topics include: Eudoxus, Dicaearchus, Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, Agatharchides, Agrippa, Strabo, Pliny and Solinus, Ptolemy, and the Peutinger Map. Other issues are also discussed such as onomastics, the boundaries of states, Pythagorism, sacred itineraries, measurement systems, and the Holy Land.

Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World

Author : Antonia Sarri
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110423480
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World written by Antonia Sarri and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letter writing was widespread in the Graeco-Roman world, as indicated by the large number of surviving letters and their extensive coverage of all social categories. Despite a large amount of work that has been done on the topic of ancient epistolography, material and formatting conventions have remained underexplored, mainly due to the difficulty of accessing images of letters in the past. Thanks to the increasing availability of digital images and the appearance of more detailed and sophisticated editions, we are now in a position to study such aspects. This book examines the development of letter writing conventions from the archaic to Roman times, and is based on a wide corpus of letters that survive on their original material substrates. The bulk of the material is from Egypt, but the study takes account of comparative evidence from other regions of the Graeco-Roman world. Through analysis of developments in the use of letters, variations in formatting conventions, layout and authentication patterns according to the sociocultural background and communicational needs of writers, this book sheds light on changing trends in epistolary practice in Graeco-Roman society over a period of roughly eight hundred years. This book will appeal to scholars of Epistolography, Papyrology, Palaeography, Classics, Cultural History of the Graeco-Roman World.

A History of Ancient Geography

Author : Henry Fanshawe Tozer
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780819601384
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A History of Ancient Geography written by Henry Fanshawe Tozer and published by Biblo & Tannen Publishers. This book was released on 1971 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life and Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero

Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Letters to Edward Gibbon

Author : George Travis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Letters to Edward Gibbon written by George Travis and published by . This book was released on 1794 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia

Author : Sir William Mitchell Ramsay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia written by Sir William Mitchell Ramsay and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia and Their Place in the Plan of the Apocalypse

Author : William Mitchell Ramsay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia and Their Place in the Plan of the Apocalypse written by William Mitchell Ramsay and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Routledge Companion to Strabo

Author : Daniela Dueck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317445856
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Strabo written by Daniela Dueck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Strabo explores the works of Strabo of Amasia (c. 64 BCE – c. CE 24), a Greek author writing at the prime of Roman expansion and political empowerment. While his earlier historiographical composition is almost entirely lost, his major opus of the Geography includes an encyclopaedic look at the entire world known at the time: numerous ethnographic, topographic, historical, mythological, botanical, and zoological details, and much more. This volume offers various insights to the literary and historical context of the man and his world. The Companion, in twenty-eight chapters written by an international group of scholars, examines several aspects of Strabo’s personality, the political and scholarly environment in which he was active, his choices as an author, and his ideas of history and geography. This selection of ongoing Strabonian studies is an invaluable resource not just for students and scholars of Strabo himself, but also for anyone interested in ancient geography and in the world of the early Roman Empire.

A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo

Author : Duane W. Roller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316853152
Total Pages : 1188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo written by Duane W. Roller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strabo's Geography, completed in the early first century AD, is the primary source for the history of Greek geography. This Guide provides the first English analysis of and commentary on this long and difficult text, and serves as a companion to the author's The Geography of Strabo, the first English translation of the work in many years. It thoroughly analyzes each of the seventeen books and provides perhaps the most thorough bibliography as yet created for Strabo's work. Careful attention is paid to the historical and cultural data, the thousands of toponyms, and the many lost historical sources that are preserved only in the Geography. This volume guides readers through the challenges and complexities of the text, allowing an enhanced understanding of the numerous topics that Strabo covers, from the travels of Alexander and the history of the Mediterranean to science, religion, and cult.

Reading the Letter to Titus in Light of Crete

Author : Michael Robertson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004685715
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Reading the Letter to Titus in Light of Crete written by Michael Robertson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume argues that Titus’s invocation of Crete affected the ways early readers developed their identities. Using archaeological data, classical writings, and early Christian documents, he describes multiple traditions that circulated on Crete and throughout the Roman Empire concerning Cretan Zeus, Cretan social structure, and Cretan Judaism. He then uses these traditions to interpret Titus and explain how the letter would intersect with and affect readers’ identities. Because readers had differing conceptions of Crete based on their location and access to and evaluation of Cretan traditions, readers would have developed their identities in multiple, conflictual, even contradictory ways.

The Letters of The Younger Pliny

Author : the younger Pliny
Publisher : Lebooks Editora
ISBN 13 : 6558942380
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (589 download)

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Download or read book The Letters of The Younger Pliny written by the younger Pliny and published by Lebooks Editora. This book was released on 2024-06-17 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Letters of Pliny the Younger, also known as the Epistles of Pliny the Younger, have been studied for centuries, as they offer a unique and intimate glimpse into the daily life of Romans in the 1st century AD. Through his letters, the Roman writer and lawyer Pliny the Younger (whose full name was Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus) discusses philosophical and moral issues; but he also talks about everyday matters and topics related to his administrative duties. One of these letters, Letter 16 from Book VI, addressed to Tacitus, holds unparalleled historical value. In it, Pliny describes the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, which destroyed the city of Pompeii. Many scholars claim that with his letters, Pliny invented a new literary genre: the letter written not only to establish pleasant communication with peers but also to publish it later. Pliny compiled copies of every letter he wrote throughout his life and published those he considered the best in twelve books. This edition presents selected letters chosen for their various characteristics and covering several books, focusing mainly on Books I, II, and III. The work is part of the famous collection: 501 Books You Must Read.