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Book Synopsis Parthenon and the Mycenaean City on the Heights by : Jens Andreas Bundgaard
Download or read book Parthenon and the Mycenaean City on the Heights written by Jens Andreas Bundgaard and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 1976 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study which puts forward the hypothesis that the Parthenon was built on the foundations of a Mycenaean citadel. Based on careful analysis of the structure of the Parthenon and the rest of the Acropolis, as well as literary sources. Contains some lovely black and white photographs of the temple.
Book Synopsis Parthenon and the Mycenaean City on the Heights by : J. A. Bundgaard
Download or read book Parthenon and the Mycenaean City on the Heights written by J. A. Bundgaard and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Parthenon Enigma by : Joan Breton Connelly
Download or read book The Parthenon Enigma written by Joan Breton Connelly and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book and one of The Daily Beast's Best Books of the Year Winner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award Since the Enlightenment, the Parthenon—the greatest example of Athenian architecture—has been venerated as the definitive symbol of Western democratic values. Here, Joan Breton Connelly challenges this conventional wisdom, drawing on previously undiscovered sources to present a revolutionary new view of this peerless building. Reaching back across time to trace the Parthenon’s story from the laying of its foundation, Connelly finds its true meaning not in the rationalist ideals we typically associate with Athens but in a vast web of ceaseless cultic observances and a unique mythic identity, in which democracy in our sense of the word would have been inconceivable. Marshalling a breathtaking range of textual and visual evidence, and full of fresh insights woven into a thrilling narrative that brings the distant past to life, The Parthenon Enigma sheds a stunning new light on the ancient Athenians from whom we claim cultural descent—and on Western civilization itself.
Download or read book The Parthenon written by Jenifer Neils and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-05 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of a classical monument interjected with the discoveries of modern scholarship.
Book Synopsis The Parthenon and Liberal Education by : Geoff Lehman
Download or read book The Parthenon and Liberal Education written by Geoff Lehman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parthenon and Liberal Education seeks to restore the study of mathematics to its original place of prominence in the liberal arts. To build this case, Geoff Lehman and Michael Weinman turn to Philolaus, a near contemporary of Socrates. The authors demonstrate the influence of his work involving number theory, astronomy, and harmonics on Plato's Republic and Timaeus, and outline its resonance with the program of study in the early Academy and with the architecture of the Parthenon. Lehman and Weinman argue that the Parthenon can be seen as the foremost embodiment of the practical working through of mathematical knowledge in its time, serving as a mediator between the early reception of Ancient Near-Eastern mathematical ideas and their integration into Greek thought as a form of liberal education, as the latter came to be defined by Plato and his followers. With its Doric architecture characterized by symmetria (commensurability) and harmonia (harmony; joining together), concepts explored contemporaneously by Philolaus, the Parthenon engages dialectical thought in ways that are of enduring relevance for the project of liberal education.
Book Synopsis New Directions and Paradigms for the Study of Greek Architecture by :
Download or read book New Directions and Paradigms for the Study of Greek Architecture written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Directions and Paradigms for the Study of Greek Architecture comprises 20 chapters by nearly three dozen scholars who describe recent discoveries, new theoretical frameworks, and applications of cutting-edge techniques in their architectural research. The contributions are united by several broad themes that represent the current directions of study in the field, i.e.: the organization and techniques used by ancient Greek builders and designers; the use and life history of Greek monuments over time; the communication of ancient monuments with their intended audiences together with their reception by later viewers; the mining of large sets of architectural data for socio-economic inference; and the recreation and simulation of audio-visual experiences of ancient monuments and sites by means of digital technologies.
Book Synopsis Citadel to City-State by : Carol G. Thomas
Download or read book Citadel to City-State written by Carol G. Thomas and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Citadel to City-State serves as an excellent summarization of our present knowledge of the not-so-dark Dark Age as well as an admirable prologue to the understanding of the subsequent Archaeic and Classical periods." -- David Rupp, Phoenix The Dark Age of Greece is one of the least understood periods of Greek history. A terra incognita between the Mycenaean civilization of Late Bronze Age Greece and the flowering of Classical Greece, the Dark Age was, until the last few decades, largely neglected. Now new archaeological methods and the discovery of new evidence have made it possible to develop a more comprehensive view of the entire period. Citadel to City-State explores each century from 1200 to 700 B.C.E. through an individual site -- Mycenae, Nichoria, Athens, Lefkandi, Corinth, and Ascra -- that illustrates the major features of each period. This is a remarkable account of the historical detective work that is beginning to shed light on Dark Age Greece.
Book Synopsis Revolutions and Continuity in Greek Mathematics by : Michalis Sialaros
Download or read book Revolutions and Continuity in Greek Mathematics written by Michalis Sialaros and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a number of leading scholars working in the field of ancient Greek mathematics to present their latest research. In their respective area of specialization, all contributors offer stimulating approaches to questions of historical and historiographical ‘revolutions’ and ‘continuity’. Taken together, they provide a powerful lens for evaluating the applicability of Thomas Kuhn’s ideas on ‘scientific revolutions’ to the discipline of ancient Greek mathematics. Besides the latest historiographical studies on ‘geometrical algebra’ and ‘premodern algebra’, the reader will find here some papers which offer new insights into the controversial relationship between Greek and pre-Hellenic mathematical practices. Some other contributions place emphasis on the other edge of the historical spectrum, by exploring historical lines of ‘continuity’ between ancient Greek, Byzantine and post-Hellenic mathematics. The terminology employed by Greek mathematicians, along with various non-textual and material elements, is another topic which some of the essays in the volume explore. Finally, the last three articles focus on a traditionally rich source on ancient Greek mathematics; namely the works of Plato and Aristotle.
Book Synopsis The Archaeology of Athens by : John M. Camp
Download or read book The Archaeology of Athens written by John M. Camp and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A general introduction to the history and major monuments of ancient Athens from earliest times to the 6th century AD. Divided into two sections, the first providing a basic narrative history, the second focusing on individual sites. Neither section is in-depth although there are plenty of illustrations and references to further reading.
Book Synopsis Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 87 by : D. R. Shackleton Bailey
Download or read book Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 87 written by D. R. Shackleton Bailey and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1983-11-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of fifteen essays includes "The Early Greek Poets: Some Interpretations," by Robert Renehan; "The 'Sobriety' of Oedipus: Sophocles OC 100 Misunderstood," by Albert Henrichs; "Virgil's Ecphrastic Centerpieces," by Richard F. Thomas; "Notes on Quintilian," by D. R. Shackleton Bailey; and "Scapegoat Rituals in Ancient Greece," by Jan Bremmer.
Book Synopsis Geotechnics and Heritage by : Emilio Bilotta
Download or read book Geotechnics and Heritage written by Emilio Bilotta and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conservation of monuments and historic sites is one of the most challenging problems facing modern civilization. It involves various cultural, humanistic, social, technical, economical and administrative factors, intertwining in inextricable patterns. The complexity of the topic is such that guidelines or recommendations for intervention techniques
Book Synopsis The Art of Building in the Classical World by : John R. Senseney
Download or read book The Art of Building in the Classical World written by John R. Senseney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the application of drawing in the design process of classical architecture, exploring how the tools and techniques of drawing developed for architecture subsequently shaped theories of vision and representations of the universe in science and philosophy. Building on recent scholarship that examines and reconstructs the design process of classical architecture, John R. Senseney focuses on technical drawing in the building trade as a model for the expression of visual order, showing that the techniques of ancient Greek drawing actively determined concepts about the world. He argues that the uniquely Greek innovations of graphic construction determined principles that shaped the massing, special qualities and refinements of buildings and the manner in which order itself was envisioned.
Book Synopsis The Propylaia to the Athenian Akropolis: The classical building by : William Bell Dinsmoor
Download or read book The Propylaia to the Athenian Akropolis: The classical building written by William Bell Dinsmoor and published by ASCSA. This book was released on 1980 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 211 illus, 9 b/w pls, 10 tbls & 9 foldout plans & drawings
Book Synopsis The Athenian Acropolis by : Jeffrey M. Hurwit
Download or read book The Athenian Acropolis written by Jeffrey M. Hurwit and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-13 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive study of the art, archaeology, myths, cults, and function of one of the most illustrious sites in the West. Providing an extensive treatment of the significance of the site during the 'Golden Age' of classical Greece, Jeffrey Hurwit discusses the development of the Acropolis throughout its long history, up to and including the recent discoveries of the Acropolis restoration project, which have prompted important re-evaluations of the site and its major buildings. Throughout, the author describes the role of the Acropolis in everyday life, always placing it within the context of Athenian cultural and intellectual history. Accompanied by 10 color plates, 172 halftones, and 70 line drawings, this is the most thorough book on the Acropolis to be published in English in nearly a century.
Book Synopsis Introducing New Gods by : Robert Garland
Download or read book Introducing New Gods written by Robert Garland and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The religious imagination of the Greeks, Robert Garland observes, was populated by divine beings whose goodwill could not be counted upon, and worshipers faced a heavy burden of choice among innumerable deities to whom they might offer their devotion. These deities--and Athenian polytheism itself--remained in constant flux as cults successively came into favor and waned. Examining the means through which the Athenians established and marketed cults, this handsomely illustrated book is the first to illuminate the full range of motives--political and economic, as well as spiritual--that prompted them to introduce new gods.
Author :Jan Zacharias Van Rookhuijzen Publisher :Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN 13 :3110612534 Total Pages :390 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (16 download)
Book Synopsis Herodotus and the topography of Xerxes’ invasion by : Jan Zacharias Van Rookhuijzen
Download or read book Herodotus and the topography of Xerxes’ invasion written by Jan Zacharias Van Rookhuijzen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his Histories, Herodotus of Halicarnassus gave an account of Xerxes’ invasion of Greece (480 BCE). Among the information in this work features a rich topography of the places visited by the army, as well as of the battlefields. Apparently there existed a certain demand among the Greeks to behold the exact places where they believed that the Greeks had fallen, gods had appeared, or Xerxes had watched over his men. This book argues that Herodotus’ topography, long taken at face value as if it provided unambiguous access to the historical sites of the war, may partly be a product of Greek imagination in the approximately fifty years between the Xerxes’ invasion and its publication, with the landscape functioning as a catalyst. This innovative approach leads to a new understanding of the topography of the invasion, and of the ways in which Greeks in the late fifth century BCE understood the world around them. It also prompts new suggestions about the real-world locations of various places mentioned in Herodotus’ text.
Author :Eirini M. Dimitriadou Publisher :Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press ISBN 13 :1938770889 Total Pages :623 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (387 download)
Book Synopsis Early Athens by : Eirini M. Dimitriadou
Download or read book Early Athens written by Eirini M. Dimitriadou and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is one of the most important works on ancient Athens in the last fifty years. The focus is on the early city, from the end of the Bronze Age--ca. 1200 BCE--to the Archaic period, when Athens became the largest city of the Classical period, only to be destroyed by the Persians in 480/479 BCE. From a systematic study of all the excavation reports and surveys in central Athens, the author has synthesized a detailed diachronic overview of the city from the Submycenaean period through the Archaic. It is a treasure trove of information for archaeologists who work in this period. Of great value as well are the detailed maps included, which present features of ancient settlements and cemeteries, the repositories of the human physical record. Over eighty additional large-scale, interactive maps are available online to complement the book.
