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Author : Thomas W. Africa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Phylarchus and the Spartan Revolution written by Thomas W. Africa and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Anthony Rahe
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300224613
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Spartan Regime written by Paul Anthony Rahe and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] monumental history . . . explaining . . . how Sparta’s early strategic role in the Greek world was inseparable from the uniqueness of its origins and values.” (David Hanson, The Hoover Institution, author of The Other Greeks) For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nature of a civilization described as a combination of democracy and oligarchy by Aristotle, considered an ideal of liberty in the ages of Machiavelli and Rousseau, and viewed as a forerunner of the modern totalitarian state by many twentieth-century scholars has long remained a mystery. In a bold new approach to historical study, noted historian Paul Rahe attempts to unravel the Spartan riddle by deploying the regime-oriented political science of the ancient Greeks, pioneered by Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Xenophon, and Polybius, in order to provide a more coherent picture of government, art, culture, and daily life in Lacedaemon than has previously appeared in print, and to explore the grand strategy the Spartans devised before the arrival of the Persians in the Aegean. “Persuasive.” —Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times Book Review “Rahe thinks and writes big. . . . The Spartan Regime breaks important new ground.” —Jacob Howland, Commentary “An important new history. . . . The story of this ancient clash of civilizations, masterfully told by Paul Rahe . . . provides a timely reminder about strategic challenges and choices confronting the United States.” —John Maurer, Claremont Review of Books “Rahe’s ability to reveal the human side beneath [an] austere exterior is one of many reasons to read this beautifully written, meticulously researched, and deeply engaging book.” —Waller R. Newell, Washington Free Beacon “A serious scholarly endeavor.” —Eric W. Robinson, American Historical Review
Author : Paul Cartledge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113450389X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Hellenistic and Roman Sparta written by Paul Cartledge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new edition, Paul Cartledge and Antony Spawforth have taken account of recent finds and scholarship to revise and update their authoritative overview of later Spartan history, and of the social, political, economic and cultural changes in the Spartan community. This original and compelling account is especially significant in challenging the conventional misperception of Spartan 'decline' after the loss of her status as a great power on the battlefield in 371 BC. The book's focus on a frequently overlooked period makes it important not only for those interested specifically in Sparta, but also for all those concerned with Hellenistic Greece, and with the life of Greece and other Greek-speaking provinces under non-Roman rule.
Author : Stephen Hodkinson
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589322
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Sparta written by Stephen Hodkinson and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2009-12-31 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Sparta is increasingly seen as important, not only for its own sake but also for understanding Athenian literature and the political history of numerous Greek states. Traditional approaches to Sparta are now being supplemented by contributions from archaeology and the social sciences. The renewed interest in Sparta is international. The volume includes, for the first time, original contributions from most of the world's leading authorities on Spartan history.
Author : Tyler Smith
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004396047
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Fourth Gospel and the Manufacture of Minds in Ancient Historiography, Biography, Romance, and Drama written by Tyler Smith and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fourth Gospel and the Manufacture of Minds in Ancient Historiography, Biography, Romance, and Drama is the first book-length study of genre and character cognition in the Gospel of John. Informed by traditions of ancient literary criticism and the emerging discipline of cognitive narratology, Tyler Smith argues that narrative genres have generalizable patterns for representing cognitive material and that this has profound implications for how readers make sense of cognitive content woven into the narratives they encounter. After investigating conventions for representing cognition in ancient historiography, biography, romance, and drama, Smith offers an original account of how these conventions illuminate the Johannine narrative’s enigmatic cognitive dimension, a rich tapestry of love and hate, belief and disbelief, recognition and misrecognition, understanding and misunderstanding, knowledge, ignorance, desire, and motivation.
Author : Sarah B. Pomeroy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198030002
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Spartan Women written by Sarah B. Pomeroy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length examination of Spartan women, covering over a thousand years in the history of women from both the elite and lower classes. Classicist Sarah B. Pomeroy comprehensively analyzes ancient texts and archaeological evidence to construct the world of these elusive though much noticed females. Sparta has always posed a challenge to ancient historians because information about the society is relatively scarce. Most existing scholarship on Sparta concerns the military history of the city and its heavily male-dominated social structure--almost as if there were no women in Sparta. Yet perhaps the most famous of mythic Greek women, Menelaus' wife Helen, the cause of the Trojan War, was herself a Spartan. Written by one of the leading authorities on women in antiquity, Spartan Women reconstructs the lives and the world of Sparta's women, including how their status changed over time and how they held on to their surprising autonomy. Proceeding through the archaic, classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods, Spartan Women includes discussions of education, family life, reproduction, religion, and athletics.
Author : Alberto Esu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198884052
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Divided Power in Ancient Greece written by Alberto Esu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the division of power work in Ancient Greece? This groundbreaking study reveals Ancient Greek political decision-making to be a multi-layered system of delegation and legal control. Scholars have previously examined the nature and locus of sovereignty in the Classical and Hellenistic Greek poleis through institutional, rhetorical, or ideological approaches. By concentrating on the institutional design of decree-making, Alberto Esu moves beyond unitary and hierarchical understandings of sovereignty; he presents a new view of power as divided and horizontally organized between different decision-making institutions, each one with its own discourse and expertise. Greek political decision-making is thus seen through a new institutionalist perspective that rediscovers the normative importance of political institutions as factors shaping the collective behaviour of decision-makers. Part I explores how deliberative power in decree-making was delegated in Classical Athens, Mytilene, and Hellenistic Megalopolis. Part II examines procedures of legal control and judicial review in the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Divided power proves to be a feature of both democratic and non-democratic societies across the Ancient Greek world; Esu's analysis of its institutional manifestation transforms our understanding of political life—its discourses and norms—in the Ancient Greek city-states.
Author : Frank W. Walbank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521136808
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Selected Papers written by Frank W. Walbank and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a selection of Professor F. W. Walbank's papers on classical Greco-Roman subjects.
Author : Philip Davies
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589861
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Sparta in Plutarch's Lives written by Philip Davies and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch (born before AD 50, died after AD 120) is the ancient author who has arguably contributed more than any other to the popular conception of Sparta. Writing under the Roman Empire, at a time when the glory days of ancient Sparta were already long in the past, Plutarch represents a milestone in Sparta's mythologisation, but at the same time is a vital source for our historical understanding of Sparta. In this volume, eight scholars from around the world come together to consider Plutarch's understanding and presentation of Sparta, his flaws and significance as an historical source, and his development of Sparta as a resonant subject and theme within his bestknown work, the Parallel Lives. This book is the latest in a series which the Classical Press of Wales is publishing on major sources for Sparta. Volumes on Xenophon and Sparta (Powell & Richer 2020) and Thucydides and Sparta (Powell & Debnar 2021) have already been released, and a further volume on Herodotus and Sparta is currently in preparation
Author : Hau Lisa Hau
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474411096
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus written by Hau Lisa Hau and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did human beings first begin to write history? Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and for the future. She uncovers the moral messages of the ancient Greek writers of history and the techniques they used to bring them across. Hau also shows how moral didacticism was an integral part of the writing of history from its inception in the 5th century BC, how it developed over the next 500 years in parallel with the development of historiography as a genre and how the moral messages on display remained surprisingly stable across this period. For the ancient Greek historiographers, moral didacticism was a way of making sense of the past and making it relevant to the present; but this does not mean that they falsified events: truth and morality were compatible and synergistic ends.
Author : Hau Lisa Hau
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474411088
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus written by Hau Lisa Hau and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did human beings first begin to write history? Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and for the future. She uncovers the moral messages of the ancient Greek writers of history and the techniques they used to bring them across. Hau also shows how moral didacticism was an integral part of the writing of history from its inception in the 5th century BC, how it developed over the next 500 years in parallel with the development of historiography as a genre and how the moral messages on display remained surprisingly stable across this period. For the ancient Greek historiographers, moral didacticism was a way of making sense of the past and making it relevant to the present; but this does not mean that they falsified events: truth and morality were compatible and synergistic ends.
Author : Hildegard Temporini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Principat. v written by Hildegard Temporini and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anton Powell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317802349
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Classical Sparta (Routledge Revivals) written by Anton Powell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, first published in 1989, investigates aspects of the Spartan polity which have often been overlooked or underestimated. Viewed at least until the Renaissance as the epitome of classical virtues, Sparta has in the last two centuries suffered a rapid decline in reputation among liberal-minded scholars, repelled by many of the repressive measures employed by this remarkably successful city-state, which for centuries dominated mainland Greece. Recent studies have emphasised permanent problems which beset Sparta: the small size of her citizen body, the tensions between noble Spartiates and commoners, the ambiguous role of women, and, of course, the helots. Classical Sparta: Techniques Behind Her Success seeks to present this intriguing polis by exploring how its perennial difficulties were, for so long, ingeniously overcome. Specifically, the essays in this volume address themselves to broadly ideological issues, demonstrating how skilful propaganda and deception contributed significantly to the longevity of the Spartan state.
Author : Giorgio Piras
Publisher : Sapienza Università Editrice
ISBN 13 : 8893772965
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (937 download)
Download or read book The Historical Review of Sparta (2023) written by Giorgio Piras and published by Sapienza Università Editrice. This book was released on 2023-10-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of “The Historical Review of Sparta”, jointly promoted by the Department of Classics of Sapienza University of Rome and the Institute of Sparta, focuses on the battle of Sellasia, which occurred in the summer 222 BC and saw the clash between the Spartans led by Cleomenes III and the Achaean-Macedonian alliance guided by Antigonus III Doson. The several papers here collected address the historical incident from different and complementary perspectives, in the attempt to contextualize it in a wider framework. Hence, the articles carry out a thorough analysis of Hellenistic Sparta, by investigating the constitutional reforms implemented during the 3rd cent. BC, exploring the political (and sometimes conflictual) relations between the Laconian polis and other emerging powers in Greece and the Mediterranean basin, and discussing the changes occurred in the governmental, economic, military, educational and religious field. Furthermore, the contributions offer an in-depth study of the military strategies and tactics implemented in the battlefield, as well as an analysis on the final impact of the catastrophic defeat of Sparta on its internal societal structure and cultural system, and a reflection on the modern reception of the historical event.
Author : Doyne Dawson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195069838
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Cities of the Gods written by Doyne Dawson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical study of the theory of Utopian communism in ancient Greek thought identifies and assesses the reasons for the decline in Utopian traditions after 150 BC. The author examines the evidence of the survival of Utopian traditions; particularly their influence on early Christianity.
Author : Alexander Fuks
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004675698
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Social Conflict in Ancient Greece written by Alexander Fuks and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sviatoslav Dmitriev
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351621440
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book The Birth of the Athenian Community written by Sviatoslav Dmitriev and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Birth of the Athenian Community elucidates the social and political development of Athens in the sixth century, when, as a result of reforms by Solon and Cleisthenes (at the beginning and end of the sixth century, respectively), Athens turned into the most advanced and famous city, or polis, of the entire ancient Greek civilization. Undermining the current dominant approach, which seeks to explain ancient Athens in modern terms, dividing all Athenians into citizens and non-citizens, this book rationalizes the development of Athens, and other Greek poleis, as a gradually rising complexity, rather than a linear progression. The multidimensional social fabric of Athens was comprised of three major groups: the kinship community of the astoi, whose privileged status was due to their origins; the legal community of the politai, who enjoyed legal and social equality in the polis; and the political community of the demotai, or adult males with political rights. These communities only partially overlapped. Their evolving relationship determined the course of Athenian history, including Cleisthenes’ establishment of demokratia, which was originally, and for a long time, a kinship democracy, since it only belonged to qualified male astoi.
