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Book Synopsis The Galley to Mytilene by : Paul Goodman
Download or read book The Galley to Mytilene written by Paul Goodman and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1980 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Goodman's short fiction that contains many of his best-known stories, including the much-anthologized Our Visit To Niagara and Adam. Goodman explores the archetype of the divided self Theseus and the Minotaur, man and boy, Adam in exile and Adam in the Garden and attempts to reconcile the two.
Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Gattilusio Lordships and the Aegean World 1355-1462 by : Christopher Wright
Download or read book The Gattilusio Lordships and the Aegean World 1355-1462 written by Christopher Wright and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Gattilusio Lordships and the Aegean World 1355-1462, Christopher Wright offers a window into the culturally and politically diverse late medieval Aegean. The overlapping influences of the contrasting networks of power at work in the region are explored through the history of one of many small and distinctive political units that flourished in this fragmented environment, the lordships of the Gattilusio family, centred on Lesbos. Though Genoese in origin, they owed their position to Byzantine authority. Though active in crusading, they cultivated congenial relations with the Ottomans. Though Catholic, they afforded exceptional freedom to the Orthodox Church. Their regime is shown to represent both a unique fusion of influences and a revealing microcosm of its times.
Book Synopsis The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571: The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries by : Kenneth Meyer Setton
Download or read book The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571: The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries written by Kenneth Meyer Setton and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1976 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hystory written by Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ancient History for Colleges and High Schools by : William Francis Allen
Download or read book Ancient History for Colleges and High Schools written by William Francis Allen and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ancient History for Colleges and High Schools by : Philip Van Ness Myers
Download or read book Ancient History for Colleges and High Schools written by Philip Van Ness Myers and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Last of the Wine by : Mary Renault
Download or read book The Last of the Wine written by Mary Renault and published by Virago. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'All my sense of the ancient world - its values, its style, the scent of its wars and passions - comes from Mary Renault. Her Theseus novels are perhaps the most exciting of her Greek fictions, and The Last of the Wine the most moving. I turned to writing historical fiction because of something I learned from Renault: that it lets you shake off the mental shackles of your own era, all the categories and labels, and write freely about what really matters to you' EMMA DONOGHUE 'Mary Renault's portraits of the ancient world are fierce, complex and eloquent, infused at every turn with her life-long passion for the Classics. Her characters live vividly both in their own time, and in ours' MADELINE MILLER Combining the scholarship of a historian with the imagination of a novelist, Mary Renault masterfully brings the ancient world to life in this page-turning drama of the Peloponnesian War. Alexias, a young Athenian of good family, comes of age during the last phases of the Peloponnesian War. The adult world he enters is one in which the power and influence of his class have been undermined by the forces of war. Alexias finds himself drawn to the controversial teachings of Socrates, following him even though it at times endangers both his own life and his family's place in society. Among the great teacher's followers Alexias meets Lysis, and the two youths become inseparable - together they wrestle in the palaestra, journey to the Olympic Games, and fight in the wars against Sparta. As their relationship develops against the background of famine, siege and civil conflict, Mary Renault expertly conveys the intricacies of classical Greek culture. 'Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. She shows us their strangeness; discerning, sure-footed, challenging our values, piquing our curiosity, she leads us through an alien landscape that moves and delights us' HILARY MANTEL 'The most vivid and convincing reconstruction of ancient Greek life that I have ever seen' Sunday Times
Book Synopsis Sparta's Third Attic War by : Paul Rahe
Download or read book Sparta's Third Attic War written by Paul Rahe and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2024-11-19 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the great war pitting the Athenians against the Peloponnesians first erupted, Pericles told his compatriots that, if they kept up their navy, focused on the conflict at hand, and refrained from wasting their resources on ulterior objects, they would “win through”—and Thucydides believed him. After Pericles’ death, however, to the historian’s dismay, the Athenians pursued risky adventures tangential to their struggle with the Spartans and their allies; and, in Sicily, thanks in large part to domestic strife, they squandered not one, but two great armadas. Then, in the aftermath of that catastrophe, they found themselves bereft of triremes and short of manpower—as a coalition formed against them including their Lacedaemonians rivals, their longtime allies in the Aegean, and the Great King of Achaemenid Persia. In Sparta’s Third Attic War, Paul Rahe examines the armed conflict that followed, attending to the impact of the internal struggles that took place at Athens, Sparta, and the court of the Great King on its outcome; describing the maneuvers of the wily, flexible, seductive Athenian turncoat Alcibiades, who dominated in turn the counsels of the Spartans, the Persians, and his fellow Athenians; and charting the eventual emergence at Lacedaemon of a commanding figure of helot ancestry named Lysander, who formed a close relationship with the younger son of the Great King and, in battle, outwitted the Athenians at every turn. This is a story of grit, determination, and brilliance on both sides. It examines the ambivalence of the Spartans, it relates the folly that brought the Athenians down, and it traces their ultimate defeat to defects in the policy and vision of Pericles.
Book Synopsis Sources for the History of Western Civilization by : Michael Burger
Download or read book Sources for the History of Western Civilization written by Michael Burger and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sources for the History of Western Civilization is a primary source reader designed specifically to allow undergraduate students to interact with historical documents. Michael Burger provides only the editorial guidance that students truly require, without unnecessary interventions. The third edition gives special stress to certain genres, including letters and biographical writings, to facilitate comparisons across time. Introductions to sources are brief, encouraging students to make their own assessments and giving instructors the freedom to supplement where desired. The third edition features substantive revisions and additional coverage of key topics throughoutas well as new material on the Crusades, Jewish persecution, and European expansion.
Book Synopsis The Sun King at Sea by : Meredith Martin
Download or read book The Sun King at Sea written by Meredith Martin and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated volume, the first devoted to maritime art and galley slavery in early modern France, shows how royal propagandists used the image and labor of enslaved Muslims to glorify Louis XIV. Mediterranean maritime art and the forced labor on which it depended were fundamental to the politics and propaganda of France’s King Louis XIV (r. 1643–1715). Yet most studies of French art in this period focus on Paris and Versailles, overlooking the presence or portrayal of galley slaves on the kingdom’s coasts. By examining a wide range of artistic productions—ship design, artillery sculpture, medals, paintings, and prints—Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss uncover a vital aspect of royal representation and unsettle a standard picture of art and power in early modern France. With an abundant selection of startling images, many never before published, The Sun King at Sea emphasizes the role of esclaves turcs (enslaved Turks)—rowers who were captured or purchased from Islamic lands—in building and decorating ships and other art objects that circulated on land and by sea to glorify the Crown. Challenging the notion that human bondage vanished from continental France, this cross-disciplinary volume invites a reassessment of servitude as a visible condition, mode of representation, and symbol of sovereignty during Louis XIV’s reign.
Book Synopsis Owls to Athens by : H. N. Turteltaub
Download or read book Owls to Athens written by H. N. Turteltaub and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cousins Menedemos and Sostratos are preparing for a trading expedition to Athens. While philosophy-minded Sostratos is thrilled to return to Athens, Menedemos is both reluctant to leave his father's wife Baukis, with whom he has fallen in love, and relieved to be removed from temptation. They stock up on luxury goods and rush to Athens so Sostratos can make it there in time for Greater Dionysia, a parade and dramatic festival in honor of Dionysus. In Athens, the cousins watch political history being made as Athens trades their sovereign ruler for an invader who announces plans to institute a newfangled "democracy." Meanwhile, Sostratos visits the Lykeion, the site of his unfinished education, but his fears of being mocked turn into triumph when he gets a good price for his wares. Menedemos, in typical fashion, starts an affair with a married woman, this time having the audicity to get their host's wife pregnant. In love as in trade, Menedemos's and Sostratos's quick wits have usually been enough to get them out of their self-created messes, but this may be pushing it... Like a Patrick O'Brian novel set in the third century B.C., Owls to Athens is an entertaining tapestry of cameraderie and adventure amidst the world of classical antiquity in all its living, breathing, earthy reality.
Book Synopsis The history of the Peloponnesian war illustrated by maps, taken entirely from actual surveys by Thucydides by : Richard Philip Goldsworthy Tiddeman
Download or read book The history of the Peloponnesian war illustrated by maps, taken entirely from actual surveys by Thucydides written by Richard Philip Goldsworthy Tiddeman and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the Peloponnesian War by : Thucydides
Download or read book The History of the Peloponnesian War written by Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Thoukudidēs. The history of the Peloponnesian war, with notes by T. Arnold. [With] Additional notes by : Thucydides
Download or read book Thoukudidēs. The history of the Peloponnesian war, with notes by T. Arnold. [With] Additional notes written by Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Peloponnesian War by : Thucydides
Download or read book The Peloponnesian War written by Thucydides and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-10-15 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thomas Hobbes's translation of Thucydides brings together the magisterial prose of one of the greatest writers of the English language and the depth of mind and experience of one of the greatest writers of history in any language. . . . For every reason, the current availability of this great work is a boon."—Joseph Cropsey, University of Chicago
Book Synopsis EPICURUS IN LOVE: The Epicuriana by : Paul B. Donovan
Download or read book EPICURUS IN LOVE: The Epicuriana written by Paul B. Donovan and published by The Euphorion Press. This book was released on 2021-12-18 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gently smoking cone blows its top, belching flames and molten debris. Suffocating rains of ash, pumice, and blistering hot gases shower down on the unfortunate luxury resort, amid rivers of lava. Breaking news, with the byline of climate change, Live from CNN —- No, this is 79 BC. Vesuvius, the sacred mountain of Hercules, engulfs the Roman city of Pompeii, burying everything and everyone. Miraculously, a papyrus scroll, carbonized but still intact, lies buried under the ruins of a collapsed seaside villa. Given up as lost forever, the fabled ‘Epicuriana’ is recovered —- a riveting tale of adventures, loves and losses —- told firsthand as a novel by Epicurus of Samos. Book-ending two romances, classical Athens and 21st century Boston, the storyline pays homage to the ancient Eleusinian Mysteries —- tracing the ceaseless synchronicity of chance encounters that may take minutes or millennia to play out. “Deeply character-driven, the Epicuriana is clearly very well researched, drawing on a rather substantial bibliography. ( It ) certainly has the ability to evoke emotion in the reader and I found myself hooting and laughing and having other pleasant emotional responses occasionally throughout the reading. A lovely personal story which mirrors the struggles and doubts of many of us today – perhaps we are in too much of a hurry to make our own mistakes! The story really makes you think”. --- Society of Friends of Epicurus Paul Donovan, Ph.D., draws upon his lifelong love of the Greek Golden Age and the wish —- using the narrative possibilities of a novel —- to bring its impressive cast of players back from the history books, to vibrant if sometimes messy lives. He lives in rural Maine with his wife, Pamela Pease, Ph.D
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