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The Aristocratic Temper of Greek Civilization

Author : Chester G. Starr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195360672
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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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.

Aristocracy in Antiquity

Author : Nick Fisher
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589101
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Aristocracy in Antiquity written by Nick Fisher and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2015-10-31 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The words 'aristocrats', 'aristocracy' and 'aristocratic values' appear in many a study of ancient history and culture. Sometimes these terms are used with a precise meaning. More often they are casual shorthand for 'upper class', 'ruling elite' and 'high standards'. This book brings together 12 new studies by an impressive international cast of specialists. It demonstrates not only that true aristocracies were rare in the ancient world, but also that the modern use of 'aristocracy' in a looser sense is misleading. The word comes with connotations derived from medieval and modern history. Antiquity, it is here argued, was different. An introductory chapter by the editors argues that 'aristocracy' is rarely a helpful concept for the analysis of political struggles, of historical developments or of ideology. The editors call instead for close study of the varied nature of social inequalities and relationships in particular times and places. The following eleven chapters explore and in most cases challenge the common assumption that hereditary 'aristocrats' who derive much of their status, privilege and power from their ancestors are identifiable at most times and places in the ancient world. They question, too, the related notion that deep ideological divisions existed between 'aristocratic values', such as hospitality, generosity and a disdain for commerce or trade, and the norms and ideals of lower or 'middling' classes. They do so by detailed analysis of archaeological and literary evidence for the rise and nature of elites and leisure classes, diverse elite strategies, and political conflicts in a variety of states across the Mediterranean. Chapters deal with archaic and classical Athens, Samos, Aigina and Crete; the Greek 'colonial' settlements such as Sicily; archaic Rome and central Italy; and the Roman empire under the Principate.

The Aristocratic Ideal and Selected Papers

Author : Walter Donlan
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780865164116
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book The Aristocratic Ideal and Selected Papers written by Walter Donlan and published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reissue of Donlan's 1980 seminal work, The Aristocratical Ideal in Ancient Greece, is long overdue. It is paired here with Donlan's later writings, which span the years 1970-1994.

The Aristocratic Ideal in Ancient Greece

Author : Walter Donlan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780872911406
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book The Aristocratic Ideal in Ancient Greece written by Walter Donlan and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet

Author : Marek Wecowski
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199684014
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Book Synopsis The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet by : Marek Wecowski

Download or read book The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet written by Marek Wecowski and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wecowski offers a comprehensive account of the origins of the symposion and its close relationship with the rise of the Greek city-state or polis. Held by Greek aristocrats from Homer to Alexander the Great, its distinctive feature was the importance of diverse cultural competitions among the guests.

The World of Ancient Greece [2 volumes]

Author : Michael Lovano
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 747 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The World of Ancient Greece [2 volumes] written by Michael Lovano and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book opens the world of the ancient Greeks to all readers through easily accessible entries on topics essential to understanding Greek high culture and daily life. The ancient Greeks provided the foundation for Western civilization. They made significant advances in science, mathematics, philosophy, literature, and government. While many readers might have heard of Plato and Aristotle, however, or be familiar with the classic works of Greek tragedy, most people know significantly less about daily life in the ancient Greek world. This encyclopedia opens the world of the ancient Greeks, spanning Greek history from the Bronze Age through Roman times, with an emphasis on the Classical and Hellenistic Eras. The encyclopedia provides roughly 270 easily accessible entries on topics essential to understanding everything from Greek high culture to daily life. These entries are grouped in topical sections on the arts, science and technology, politics and government, domestic life, and other subjects. Sidebars on particularly noteworthy people, places, and concepts provide related information, while primary documents allow readers to delve into the mindset and feelings of the ancient Greeks themselves. Extensive bibliographic references give curious readers direction for further research.

Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece

Author : Nigel Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113678800X
Total Pages : 829 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece written by Nigel Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining every aspect of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the early Byzantine era, this thoroughly cross-referenced and fully indexed work is written by an international group of scholars. This Encyclopedia is derived from the more broadly focused Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, the highly praised two-volume work. Newly edited by Nigel Wilson, this single-volume reference provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the political, cultural, and social life of the people and to the places, ideas, periods, and events that defined ancient Greece.

The Aristocratic Ideal in Ancient Greece

Author : Walter Francis Donlan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Aristocratic Ideal in Ancient Greece written by Walter Francis Donlan and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ancient Greek City-state

Author : Mogens Herman Hansen
Publisher : Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
ISBN 13 : 9788773042427
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Greek City-state written by Mogens Herman Hansen and published by Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. This book was released on 1993 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford Classical Dictionary

Author : Simon Hornblower
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199545561
Total Pages : 1650 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Classical Dictionary written by Simon Hornblower and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 1650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised third edition of the 'Oxford Classical Dictionary' is the ultimate reference on the classical world containing over 6,200 entries. The 2003 revision includes minor corrections and updates and all Latin and Greek words in the text are now translated into English.

Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens

Author : Robin Waterfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198727887
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens written by Robin Waterfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, accessible, and up-to-date history of the Ancient Greeks. Covering the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods, and centred around the disunity of the Greeks, their underlying cultural unity, and their eventual political unification.

Aristocratic Souls in Democratic Times

Author : Richard Avramenko
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498553273
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Aristocratic Souls in Democratic Times written by Richard Avramenko and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great statesmen and gentlemen, men of honor and rank, seem to be phenomena of a bygone Aristocratic era. Aristocracies, which emphasize rank, and value difference, quality, beauty, rootedness, continuity, stand in direct contrast to democracies, which value equality, autonomy, novelty, standardization, quantity, utility and mobility. Is there any place for aristocratic values and virtues in the modern democratic social and political order? This volume consists of essays by political theorists, historians, and literary theorists that explore this question in the works of aristocratic thinkers, both ancient and modern. The volume includes analyses of aristocratic virtues, interpretations of aristocratic assemblies and constitutions, both historic and contemporary, as well as critiques of liberal virtues and institutions. Essays on Tacitus, Hobbes, Burke, Tocqueville, Nietzsche, as well as some lesser known figures, such as Henri de Boulainvilliers, John Randolph of Roanoke, Louis de Bonald, Konstantin Leontiev, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Richard Weaver, and the Eighth Duke of Northumberland, explore ways of preserving and adapting the salutary aspects of the aristocratic ethos to the needs of modern liberal societies.

The Uniqueness of Western Civilization

Author : Ricardo Duchesne
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004194614
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Uniqueness of Western Civilization written by Ricardo Duchesne and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extensively researched book argues that the development of a libertarian culture was an indispensable component of the rise of the West. The roots of the West's superior intellectual and artistic creativity should be traced back to the aristocratic warlike culture of Indo-European speakers. Among the many fascinating topics discussed are: the ascendancy of multicultural historians and the degradation of European history; China's ecological endowments and imperial windfalls; military revolutions in Europe 1300-1800; the science and chivalry of Henry the Navigator; Judaism and its contribution to Western rationalism; the cultural richness of Max Weber versus the intellectual poverty of Pomeranz, Wong, Goldstone, Goody, and A.G. Frank; change without progress in the East; Hegel's Phenomenology of the [Western] Spirit; Nietzsche and the education of the Homeric Greeks; Kojeve's master-slave dialectic and the Western state of nature; Christian virtues and German aristocratic expansionism.

Ratio et res ipsa

Author : S. P. Oakley
Publisher : Cambridge Philological Society
ISBN 13 : 1913701034
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Ratio et res ipsa written by S. P. Oakley and published by Cambridge Philological Society. This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1966, when James Diggle was elected to his Fellowship at Queen's College, Cambridge, his teaching and scholarly example have inspired many of his pupils to embark on their own academic careers. In this volume fourteen former pupils have contributed essays to mark his retirement. The contributions cover many of the diverse disciplines of Classics: Greek literature, Greek language, Latin literature, Textual Criticism, Greek and Roman Culture and the History of Scholarship. James Diggle has always excelled in the teaching of Greek and Latin composition and included are two offerings in Greek verse by former pupils. The volume concludes with a bibliography of the honorand's published writings.

The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece

Author : Lynette Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113475471X
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece written by Lynette Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-04 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the historical development of the Greek polis, the authors ask questions about the civic institutions of ancient Greece as a whole, and their relationships to each other.

Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition

Author : Graham Speake
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135942064
Total Pages : 1941 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition written by Graham Speake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 1941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hellenism is the living culture of the Greek-speaking peoples and has a continuing history of more than 3,500 years. The Encyclopedia of Greece and the HellenicTradition contains approximately 900 entries devoted to people, places, periods, events, and themes, examining every aspect of that culture from the Bronze Age to the present day. The focus throughout is on the Greeks themselves, and the continuities within their own cultural tradition. Language and religion are perhaps the most obvious vehicles of continuity; but there have been many others--law, taxation, gardens, music, magic, education, shipping, and countless other elements have all played their part in maintaining this unique culture. Today, Greek arts have blossomed again; Greece has taken its place in the European Union; Greeks control a substantial proportion of the world's merchant marine; and Greek communities in the United States, Australia, and South Africa have carried the Hellenic tradition throughout the world. This is the first reference work to embrace all aspects of that tradition in every period of its existence.

Eros

Author : Bruce S Thornton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042998040X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Eros written by Bruce S Thornton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality is a controversial book that lays bare the meanings Greeks gave to sex. Contrary to the romantic idealization of sex dominating our culture, the Greeks saw eros as a powerful force of nature, potentially dangerous and in need of control by society: Eros the Destroyer, not Cupid the Insipid, is what fired the Greek imagination. The destructiveness of eros can be seen in Greek imagery and metaphor, and in their attitudes toward women and homosexuals. Images of love as fire, disease, storms, insanity, and violence—top 40 song clichés for us—locate eros among the unpredictable and deadly forces of nature. The beautiful Aphrodite embodies the alluring danger of sex, and femmes fatales like Pandora and Helen represent the risky charms of female sexuality. And homosexuality typifies for the Greeks the frightening power of an indiscriminate appetite that threatens the stability of culture itself. In Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Seualily, Bruce Thornton offers a uniquely sweeping and comprehensive account of ancient sexuality free of currently fashionable theoretical jargon and pretensions. In its conclusions the book challenges the distortions of much recent scholarship on Greek sexuality. And throughout it links the wary attitudes of the Greeks to our present-day concerns about love, sex, and family. What we see, finally, are the origins of some of our own views as well as a vision of sexuality that is perhaps more honest and mature than our own dangerous illusions.