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Ancient Syracuse

Author : Richard Evans
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317181352
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Syracuse written by Richard Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syracuse possesses a unique place in the history of the ancient Mediterranean because of its contribution to Greek culture and political thought and practice. Even in the first century BC Cicero could still declare ’You have often heard that of all the Greek cities Syracuse is the greatest and most beautiful.’ Sicily’s strategic location in the Mediterranean brought the city prosperity and power, placing it in the first rank of states in the ancient world. The history and governance of the city were recorded from the fifth century BC and the volume of literary sources comes close to matching the records of Athens or Rome. Combining literary and material evidence this monograph traces the history of Syracuse, offering new arguments about the date of the city’s foundation, and continues through the fifth century when, as a democracy, Syracuse’s military strength grew to equal that of Athens or Sparta, surpassing them in the early fourth century under the tyrant Dionysius I. From ca. 350 BC, however, the city’s fortunes declined as the state was wracked with civil strife as the tyranny lost control. The result was a collapse so serious that the city faced complete and imminent destruction.

Syracuse in Antiquity

Author : Richard J. Evans
Publisher : Unisa Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Syracuse in Antiquity written by Richard J. Evans and published by Unisa Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syracuse was the largest and most powerful of all the cities established by the Greeks in Sicily. Its history, often violent but always colourful, is recounted by both Greek and Roman historians, its coinage is justly famous, and its extensive remains continue to fascinate visitors to the city. The object of this work is to retell aspects of the history of Syracuse, with particular reference to the topography of the city and its surrounding countryside. In order to acquaint or re-acquaint the reader with the impressive architectural monuments of Syracuse and to contextualise these in their geographical environment, comprehensive use is made of visual material contained in an accompanying CD.

Ancient Syracuse

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
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Download or read book Ancient Syracuse written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Syracuse, City of Legends

Author : Jeremy Dummett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857730614
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Syracuse, City of Legends written by Jeremy Dummett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dubbed 'the greatest Greek city and the most beautiful of them all' by Cicero, Syracuse also boasts the richest history of anywhere in Sicily. Syracuse, City of Legends - the first modern historical guide to the city - explores Syracuse's place within the island and the wider Mediterranean and reveals why it continues to captivate visitors today, more than two and a half millennia after its foundation. For more than 1600 years, from its settlement by Greeks in 733 BC, Syracuse was the leading city in Sicily and at times one of the most powerful in the world. As a Greek city-state it competed with Athens and Carthage and was for a while an important ally of Rome. When Sicily became Rome's first province, Syracuse was the island's capital and was an important centre for early Christianity. Under Byzantine rule, the Emperor Constans II even moved his court to Syracuse for five years. Capture by the Arabs in 878 AD marked the end of ancient Syracuse but the city continued to evolve and during the Spanish era Caravaggio created one of his masterpieces, The Burial of Santa Lucia, in the city. After a devastating earthquake in 1693, a major rebuilding programme gave the city the characteristic Baroque appearance it retains today. Over its long and colourful life, Syracuse has been home to many creative figures, including Archimedes, the greatest mathematician of the ancient world, as well as host to Plato, Scipio Africanus, conqueror of Hannibal, and Caravaggio, who have all contributed to the rich history and atmosphere of this beguiling and distinctive Sicilian city. Generously illustrated, Syracuse, City of Legends also offers detailed descriptions of the principal monuments from each period in the city's life, explaining their physical location as well as their historical context. This vivid and engaging history weaves together the history, architecture and archaeology of Syracuse and will be an invaluable companion for anyone visiting the city as well as a compelling introduction to its ancient and modern history.

Ancient Syracuse

Author : Richard J. Evans
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781472419378
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Syracuse written by Richard J. Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2 The Deinomenid Rulers in Fifth Century BC Literature -- 3 Ancient Literary Sources for the Deinomenid Tyranny -- 4 The Dating of the Damareteion Coinage -- 5 Extraordinary Trophies: Syracusan Exhibitionism after Victory over the Athenians -- 6 The Chief Sources for the Life and Death of Dion -- Bibliography -- Index

...Ancient Syracuse;

Author : Enrico Mauceri
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019880913
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book ...Ancient Syracuse; written by Enrico Mauceri and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enrico Mauceri provides a comprehensive overview of the ancient city of Syracuse, which was a center of culture, commerce, and power in ancient Greece and Rome. He discusses the city's history, art, architecture, religion, politics, and society, drawing on various sources and interpretations to create a vivid and informative portrait of this fascinating place. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Archimedes Palimpsest

Author : Reviel Netz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107014374
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book The Archimedes Palimpsest written by Reviel Netz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Archimedes Palimpsest is the name given to a Byzantine prayer-book which was written over a number of earlier manuscripts. This volume provides colour images and transcriptions of three of the texts recovered from it. Pride of place goes to the treatises of Archimedes, including the only Greek version of Floating Bodies, and the unique copies of Method and Stomachion. This transcription provides many different readings from those made by Heiberg from what he termed Codex C in his edition of the works of Archimedes of 1910-1915. Secondly, fragments of two previously unattested speeches by the Athenian orator Hyperides, which are the only Hyperides texts ever to have been found in a codex. Thirdly, a fragment from an otherwise unknown commentary on Aristotle's Categories. In each case advanced image-processing techniques have been used to create the images, in order to make the text underneath legible.

Ancient Syracuse (Classic Reprint)

Author : Enrico Mauceri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332368600
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (686 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Syracuse (Classic Reprint) written by Enrico Mauceri and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ancient Syracuse The origin of the famous city, which was the nursery of Hellenic civilization in the Occident, is lost in legend. It welcomed the first Siculi (recent archeological discovery confirming the vague reference of Thucydides), and later very probably the Etoli, who led the way to the definite and complete immigration which occured in the eighth century B. C. The beautiful suburban ne-cropoli of Plemmiro, of Cozzo, of Pantano, and of Thap-sos, as well as tombs found in the neighborhood of Or-tigia and of Xeapoli, together with The rich pottery and other material shown in the Syracuse museum, attest its historical reality. The date of the real foundation commonly accepted on the faith of the great historian of the Pelopennesian War, is 731 B. C., but whether or not the author be that legendary Archia related by the same Thucydides is of little matter. Certain it is that Syracuse (lu/saxotrat) (so called, according to some, from a Phoenician word meaning eastern site, according to others referring to the neighboring marsh) always recognized Corinth as its mother country, towards whom their thoughts went out in good and bad fortune, and with whom they maintained an unchanging relation and affection. The development which very shortly the new city took on was remarkable, so much so as to feel the necessity of using some of its surplus population in the establishment of colonies at Akrai, Casmene and Camarina, and ro make laws exemplary for their juridic wisdom and equitable spirit, such as the Dioclee, so called from the name of the famous legislator. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

ANCIENT SYRACUSE

Author : ENRICO. MAUCERI
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033494080
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book ANCIENT SYRACUSE written by ENRICO. MAUCERI and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily

Author : Olga Tribulato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107029317
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily written by Olga Tribulato and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and up-to-date account of the languages of ancient Sicily by an international team of experts.

Mass and Elite in the Greek and Roman Worlds

Author : Richard Evans
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 131706688X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Mass and Elite in the Greek and Roman Worlds written by Richard Evans and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume has its origin in the 14th University of South Africa Classics Colloquium in which the topic and title of the event were inspired by Josiah Ober’s seminal work Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens (1989). Indeed the influence this work has had on later research in all aspects of the Greek and Roman world is reflected by the diversity of the papers collected here, which take their cue and starting point from the argument that, in Ober’s words (1989, 338): ‘Rhetorical communication between masses and elites... was a primary means by which the strategic ends of social stability and political order were achieved.’ However, the contributors to the volume have also sought to build further on such conclusions and to offer new perceptions about a spread of issues affecting mass and elite interaction in a far wider number of locations around the ancient Mediterranean over a much longer chronological span. Thus the conclusions here suggest that once the concept of mass and elite was established in the minds of Greeks and later Romans it became a universal component of political life and from there was easily transferred to economic activity or religion. In casting the net beyond the confines of Athens (although the city is also represented here) to – amongst others – Syracuse, the cities of Asia Minor, Pompeii and Rome, and to literary and philosophical discourse, in each instance that interplay between the wider body of the community and the hierarchically privileged can be shown to have governed and directed the thoughts and actions of the participants.

ANCIENT SYRACUSE

Author : Enrico 1869 Mauceri
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781360277790
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (777 download)

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Download or read book ANCIENT SYRACUSE written by Enrico 1869 Mauceri and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Tyrants of Syracuse Volume II

Author : Jeff Champion
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 184468296X
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book The Tyrants of Syracuse Volume II written by Jeff Champion and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of one of the most important classical cities, Syracuse, and its struggles (both internal and external) for freedom and survival. Situated at the heart of the Mediterranean, Syracuse was caught in the middle as Carthage, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Athens and then Rome battled to gain control of Sicily. The threat of expansionist enemies on all sides made for a tumultuous situation within the city, resulting in repeated coups that threw up a series of remarkable tyrants, such as Gelon, Timoleon and Dionysius. In this first volume Jeff Champion traces the course of Syracuse's wars under the tyrants from the Battle of Himera (480 BC) against the Carthaginians down to the death of Dionysius I (367 BC), whose reign proved to be the high tide of the city's power and influence. One of the highlights along the way is the city's heroic resistance to, and eventual decisive defeat of, the Athenian expeditionary force that besieged them for over two years (415-413 BC), an event with massive ramifications for the Greek world. This is the eventful life story of one of the forgotten major powers of the ancient Mediterranean world.

Ancient Syracuse from prehistoric times to the Arab conquest

Author : Vittorio Belfiore
Publisher : Youcanprint
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Syracuse from prehistoric times to the Arab conquest written by Vittorio Belfiore and published by Youcanprint. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il testo si presenta come un compendio sulla Siracusa antica della quale l'autore traccia un quadro che spazia dagli albori del V millennio a.C. fino alla conquista araba dell'878. Le argomentazioni, condotte con senso critico e metodo scientifico, riportano alla luce tesi e dibattiti volti a far rivivere le illustri vestigia di una città che seppe essere magnifica.

Agathokles of Syracuse

Author : Christopher de Lisle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192606271
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Agathokles of Syracuse written by Christopher de Lisle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agathokles of Syracuse ruled large areas of Sicily and southern Italy between 317 and 289 BC. In this book, Christopher de Lisle argues that Agathokles was an important player in the Mediterranean world at a key moment in its history. Agathokles' career has important implications for our definition of the Hellenistic world and its relationship to both the western Mediterranean and earlier Greek history. However, he has tended not to feature in studies of the Hellenistic world or of ancient Sicily. In ancient discourse about him, in the coins he issued, in his interactions with the world around him, and in the way he ruled, Agathokles is simultaneously heir to a long tradition and actively engaged in his contemporary world. The failure to place Agathokles in both of these contexts up till now has contributed to the development of an excessively deep separation between the western and eastern Mediterranean and between the Classical and Hellenistic periods. This work - the first book-length study of Agathokles in English in over a century - places him in the context of both the earlier history of Sicily, and the developments in the eastern Mediterranean that mark the start of the Hellenistic era. The volume includes a narrative of his career, studies of his coinage and his representation in literary sources, and a series of explorations of important themes and regions.

Syracuse and Its Environs

Author : Franklin Henry Chase
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Syracuse and Its Environs written by Franklin Henry Chase and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Tyrants of Syracuse

Author : Jeff Champion
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Tyrants of Syracuse written by Jeff Champion and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: