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The Folds of Parnassos

Author : Jeremy McInerney
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292786301
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Folds of Parnassos written by Jeremy McInerney and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Independent city-states (poleis) such as Athens have been viewed traditionally as the most advanced stage of state formation in ancient Greece. By contrast, this pioneering book argues that for some Greeks the ethnos, a regionally based ethnic group, and the koinon, or regional confederation, were equally valid units of social and political life and that these ethnic identities were astonishingly durable. Jeremy McInerney sets his study in Phokis, a region in central Greece dominated by Mount Parnassos that shared a border with the panhellenic sanctuary at Delphi. He explores how ecological conditions, land use, and external factors such as invasion contributed to the formation of a Phokian territory. Then, drawing on numerous interdisciplinary sources, he traces the history of the region from the Archaic age down to the Roman period. McInerney shows how shared myths, hero cults, and military alliances created an ethnic identity that held the region together over centuries, despite repeated invasions. He concludes that the Phokian koinon survived because it was founded ultimately on the tenacity of the smaller communities of Greece.

Beneath the Folds of Parnassos

Author : Jeremy James McInerney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Beneath the Folds of Parnassos written by Jeremy James McInerney and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Folds of Olympus

Author : Jason König
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691201293
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Folds of Olympus written by Jason König and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural and literary history of mountains in classical antiquity The mountainous character of the Mediterranean was a crucial factor in the history of the ancient Greek and Roman world. The Folds of Olympus is a cultural and literary history that explores the important role mountains played in Greek and Roman religious, military, and economic life, as well as in the identity of communities over a millennium—from Homer to the early Christian saints. Aimed at readers of ancient history and literature as well as those interested in mountains and the environment, the book offers a powerful account of the landscape at the heart of much Greek and Roman culture. Jason König charts the importance of mountains in religion and pilgrimage, the aesthetic vision of mountains in art and literature, the place of mountains in conquest and warfare, and representations of mountain life. He shows how mountains were central to the way in which the inhabitants of the ancient Mediterranean understood the boundaries between the divine and the human, and the limits of human knowledge and control. He also argues that there is more continuity than normally assumed between ancient descriptions of mountains and modern accounts of the picturesque and the sublime. Offering a unique perspective on the history of classical culture, The Folds of Olympus is also a resoundingly original contribution to the literature on mountains.

Genealogy and Social History

Author : Eric Martone
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527578666
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Genealogy and Social History written by Eric Martone and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, genealogical websites and government agencies have made millions of valuable historical documents digitally available to the public. There is a tremendous amount of information that can be gleaned from these documents to aid scholars interested in social history. This volume brings together researchers presenting historically contextualized family case studies as a lens to enrich the reader’s understanding of the past.

Conflict in Ancient Greece and Rome [3 volumes]

Author : Sara Elise Phang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610690206
Total Pages : 1504 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Conflict in Ancient Greece and Rome [3 volumes] written by Sara Elise Phang and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 1504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex role warfare played in ancient Greek and Roman civilizations is examined through coverage of key wars and battles; important leaders, armies, organizations, and weapons; and other noteworthy aspects of conflict. Conflict in Ancient Greece and Rome: The Definitive Political, Social, and Military Encyclopedia is an outstandingly comprehensive reference work on its subject. Covering wars, battles, places, individuals, and themes, this thoroughly cross-referenced three-volume set provides essential support to any student or general reader investigating ancient Greek history and conflicts as well as the social and political institutions of the Roman Republic and Empire. The set covers ancient Greek history from archaic times to the Roman conquest and ancient Roman history from early Rome to the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE. It features a general foreword, prefaces to both sections on Greek history and Roman history, and maps and chronologies of events that precede each entry section. Each section contains alphabetically ordered articles—including ones addressing topics not traditionally considered part of military history, such as "noncombatants" and "war and gender"—followed by cross-references to related articles and suggested further reading. Also included are glossaries of Greek and Latin terms, topically organized bibliographies, and selected primary documents in translation.

A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo

Author : Duane W. Roller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316850706
Total Pages : 1601 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 1601 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.

Military Leaders and Sacred Space in Classical Greek Warfare

Author : Sonya Nevin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786730677
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Military Leaders and Sacred Space in Classical Greek Warfare written by Sonya Nevin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Greeks attributed great importance to the sacred during war and campaigning, as demonstrated from their earliest texts. Among the first four lines of the Iliad, for example, is a declaration that Apollo began the feud between Achilles and Agamemnon and sent a plague upon the Greek army because its leader, Agamemnon, had mistreated Apollo's priest. In this first in-depth study of the attitude of military commanders towards holy ground, Sonya Nevin addresses the customs and conduct of these leaders in relation to sanctuaries, precincts, shrines, temples and sacral objects. Focusing on a variety of Greek kings and captains, the author shows how military leaders were expected to react to the sacred sites of their foes. She further explores how they were likely to respond, and how their responses shaped the way such generals were viewed by their communities, by their troops, by their enemies and also by those like Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon who were writing their lives. This is a groundbreaking study of the significance of the sacred in warfare and the wider culture of antiquity.

Aegean Greece in the Fourth Century BC

Author : John Buckler
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047400100
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Aegean Greece in the Fourth Century BC written by John Buckler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the political, diplomatic, and military history of the Aegean Greeks of the fourth century BC. It includes their power struggles, the Persian involvement in their affairs, and the ultimate Macedonian triumph over Greece.

Decrees of Fourth-Century Athens (403/2-322/1 BC): Volume 1, The Literary Evidence

Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316952681
Total Pages : 1010 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Decrees of Fourth-Century Athens (403/2-322/1 BC): Volume 1, The Literary Evidence written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decree-making is a defining aspect of ancient Greek political activity: it was the means by which city-state communities went about deciding to get things done. This two-volume work provides a new view of the decree as an institution within the framework of fourth-century Athenian democratic political activity. Volume 1 consists of a comprehensive account of the literary evidence for decrees of the fourth-century Athenian assembly. Volume 2 analyses how decrees and decree-making, by offering both an authoritative source for the narrative of the history of the Athenian demos and a legitimate route for political self-promotion, came to play an important role in shaping Athenian democratic politics. Peter Liddel assesses ideas about, and the reality of, the dissemination of knowledge of decrees among both Athenians and non-Athenians and explains how they became significant to the wider image and legacy of the Athenians.

The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Greece and Rome. - Vol. 1 - 7

Author : Michael Gagarin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195170725
Total Pages : 3369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Greece and Rome. - Vol. 1 - 7 written by Michael Gagarin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 3369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Federalism in Greek Antiquity

Author : Hans Beck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521192269
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Federalism in Greek Antiquity written by Hans Beck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive reassessment of federalism and political integration in antiquity, including detailed descriptions of all the Greek federal states.

City, Countryside, and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity

Author : Ralph Rosen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047409183
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book City, Countryside, and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity written by Ralph Rosen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents papers by fourteen distinguished Classicists on the ancient dichotomy polarity of 'city' and 'countryside' as a reflection of ancient values and cultural ideology.

Euripides, "Ion"

Author : Gunther Martin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110523418
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Euripides, "Ion" written by Gunther Martin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euripides’ Ion is a highly complex and elusive play and thus poses considerable difficulties to any interpreter. On the basis of a new recension of the text, this commentary offers explanations of the language, literary technique, and realia of the play and discusses the main issues of interpretation. In this way the reader is provided with the material required for an appreciation of this entertaining as well as provocative dramatic composition.

Cities Called Athens

Author : Kevin F. Daly
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611486181
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Cities Called Athens written by Kevin F. Daly and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourteen essays in this volume share new and evolving knowledge, theories, and observations about the city of Athens or the region of Attica. The contents include essays on topography, architecture, religion and cult, sculpture, ceramic studies, iconography, epigraphy, trade, and drama. This volume is dedicated to John McK. Camp II, to acknowledge the extraordinary impact he has had on the field of Greek archaeology through his work in the Athenian Agora, as a scholar of ancient Greece, and as Mellon Professor at the American School of Classical Studies. The contributors' work represents current research by the latest generation of scholars with ties to Athens. All of the contributors were students of Professor Camp in Greece, and their essays are dedicated to him in gratitude for his profound influence on their lives and careers.

Cult and Koinon in Hellenistic Thessaly

Author : Denver Graninger
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004207104
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Cult and Koinon in Hellenistic Thessaly written by Denver Graninger and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the territorial expansion of the Thessalian League ca. 196-27 BCE, the development of the state religion of the League, and the tension between regional political identity and local cult tradition.

The Cattle of the Sun

Author : Jeremy McInerney
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400834872
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Cattle of the Sun written by Jeremy McInerney and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Greece is traditionally seen as an agrarian society, cattle were essential to Greek communal life, through religious sacrifice and dietary consumption. Cattle were also pivotal in mythology: gods and heroes stole cattle, expected sacrifices of cattle, and punished those who failed to provide them. The Cattle of the Sun ranges over a wealth of sources, both textual and archaeological, to explore why these animals mattered to the Greeks, how they came to be a key element in Greek thought and behavior, and how the Greeks exploited the symbolic value of cattle as a way of structuring social and economic relations. Jeremy McInerney explains that cattle's importance began with domestication and pastoralism: cattle were nurtured, bred, killed, and eaten. Practically useful and symbolically potent, cattle became social capital to be exchanged, offered to the gods, or consumed collectively. This circulation of cattle wealth structured Greek society, since dedication to the gods, sacrifice, and feasting constituted the most basic institutions of Greek life. McInerney shows that cattle contributed to the growth of sanctuaries in the Greek city-states, as well as to changes in the economic practices of the Greeks, from the Iron Age through the classical period, as a monetized, market economy developed from an earlier economy of barter and exchange. Combining a broad theoretical approach with a careful reading of sources, The Cattle of the Sun illustrates the significant position that cattle held in the culture and experiences of the Greeks. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

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.