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Author : Stephen V. Tracy
Publisher : ASCSA
ISBN 13 : 9780876615157
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (151 download)
Download or read book The Lettering of an Athenian Mason written by Stephen V. Tracy and published by ASCSA. This book was released on 1975 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revision of the author's thesis, Harvard, 1967.
Author : Stephen V. Tracy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)
Download or read book ˜Theœ Lettering of an Athenian mason written by Stephen V. Tracy and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Victor Tracy
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110407590
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Athenian Lettering of the Fifth Century B.C. written by Stephen Victor Tracy and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has chapters on methodology, on the writing of the first decrees and laws of the years ca. 515 to 450 B.C., on unique examples of writing of ca. 450 to 400, on the inscribers of the Lapis Primus and Lapis Secundus (IG I3 259-280), and on those of the Attic Stelai (IG I3 421-430). These are followed by studies of 11 individual cutters arranged in chronological order. This study brings order to the study of hands of the fifth century by setting out a methodology and by discussing the attempts of others to identify hands. Another aim is to bring out the individuality of the writing of these early inscribers. It shows that from the beginning the writing on Athenian inscriptions on stone was very idiosyncratic, for all intents and purposes individual writing. It identifies the inscribing of the sacred inventories of Athena beginning about 450 B.C. as the genesis of the professional letter cutter in Athens and traces the trajectory of the profession. While the dating of many inscriptions will remain a matter for scholarly discussion, the present study narrows the dates of many texts. It also pinpoints the origin of the mistaken idea that three-bar sigma did not occur on public documents after the year 446 in order to make those who are not expert more aware that this is not a reliable means of dating.
Author : Stephen V. Tracy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520233336
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Athens and Macedon written by Stephen V. Tracy and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-08-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little of the historiography of 3rd century Athens survives, and much of what we know about the period has come down to us in inscriptions carved by Attic stonemasons of the time. This text provides an insight into an unsettled and obscure moment in antiquity.
Author : Jon D. Mikalson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 052091967X
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Religion in Hellenistic Athens written by Jon D. Mikalson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now, there has been no comprehensive study of religion in Athens from the end of the classical period to the time of Rome's domination of the city. Jon D. Mikalson provides a chronological approach to religion in Hellenistic Athens, disproving the widely held belief that Hellenistic religion during this period represented a decline from the classical era. Drawing from epigraphical, historical, literary, and archaeological sources, Mikalson traces the religious cults and beliefs of Athenians from the battle of Chaeroneia in 338 B.C. to the devastation of Athens by Sulla in 86 B.C., demonstrating that traditional religion played a central and vital role in Athenian private, social, and political life. Mikalson describes the private and public religious practices of Athenians during this period, emphasizing the role these practices played in the life of the citizens and providing a careful scruntiny of individual cults. He concludes his study by using his findings from Athens to call into question several commonly held assumptions about the general development of religion in Hellenistic Greece.
Author : David M. Schaps
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136919678
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)
Download or read book Handbook for Classical Research written by David M. Schaps and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the glories of the Greco-Roman classics is the opportunity that they give us to consider a great culture in its entirety; but our ability to do that depends on our ability to work comfortably with very varied fields of scholarship. The Handbook for Classical Research offers guidance to students needing to learn more about the different fields and subfields of classical research, and its methods and resources. The book is divided into 7 parts: The Basics, Language, The Traditional Fields, The Physical Remains, The Written Word, The Classics and Related Disciplines, The Classics since Antiquity. Topics covered range from history and literature, lexicography and linguistics, epigraphy and palaeography, to archaeology and numismatics, and the study and reception of the classics. Guidance is given not only to read, for example, an archaeological or papyrological report, but also on how to find such sources when they are relevant to research. Concentrating on "how-to" topics, the Handbook for Classical Research is a much needed resource for both teachers and students.
Author : Anna Missiou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521111404
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Literacy and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens written by Anna Missiou and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full study of the relationship between literacy and democracy in fifth-century Athens. Through a close analysis of key democratic institutions, such as ostracism, the Council of 500, and the demes and tribes, Missiou argues that literacy was widespread among the common citizens of Athens.
Author : Chavdar Tzochev
Publisher : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
ISBN 13 : 1621390306
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Amphora Stamps from Thasos written by Chavdar Tzochev and published by American School of Classical Studies at Athens. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Thasos was renowned for its wine, which was heavily exported in ceramic amphoras across the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Once a principal market in this trade, the Athenian Agora is now home to one of the largest collections of stamped amphora fragments from the island of Thasos, including 723 items dating from the beginning of the 4th to the late 2nd century B.C. This volume presents the Thasian amphora stamps of the Agora collection, contextualized in a broader discussion of their interpretation and chronology. The core contributions of the volume are an improved chronology of the officials mentioned on the stamps, based on a reassessment of archaeological evidence from the Agora and beyond, and an innovative study of the engravers who made the stamping dies. This volume also provides a critical review of the complex and still poorly understood system of control over ceramic production that underlies the stamping practice. A quantitative study based on 28,030 Thasian stamps highlights the major trends in the Thasian wine trade and offers insight into the role of Athens in this trade.
Author : Rune Frederiksen
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 8771845062
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (718 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Danish Institute at Athens written by Rune Frederiksen and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Brock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199258109
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (581 download)
Download or read book Alternatives to Athens written by Roger Brock and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains eighteen essays by established and younger historians that examine non-democratic alternative political systems and ideologies--oligarchies, monarchies, mixed constitutions--along with diverse forms of communal and regional associations such as ethnoi, amphiktyonies, and confederacies. The papers, which span the length and breadth of the Hellenic world highlight the immense political flexibility and diversity of ancient Greek civilization.
Author : Lucy Shoe Meritt
Publisher : ASCSA
ISBN 13 : 9780876619421
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (194 download)
Download or read book History of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1939-1980 written by Lucy Shoe Meritt and published by ASCSA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of the second 50 years in the life of the American School (originally founded in 1881). Conceived as a companion volume to Louis Lord's 1947 history of the first half century, the text outlines the activities of the School both in Greece and in the United States, beginning with an absorbing account of the affairs of the School during World War II and continuing through the Centennial in 1981, with chapters on the Summer Session, the School's excavations, its publications, and the Gennadeion. The extensive appendixes include lists of all the Trustees, Cooperating Institutions, members of the Managing Committee, staff, fellows, and members of the School since its inception in 1881, and add greatly to the usefulness of this volume. The author's first-hand knowledge of the people and events of the period discussed contributes materially to its depth and detail.
Author : David Conwell
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047431332
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Connecting a City to the Sea written by David Conwell and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-31 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven by the proposition that the Athenians would not have relied on the Long Walls when their navy was weak, this comprehensive history of the structures dates each construction phase, examines the walls’ purpose, and chronicles their fluctuating viability.
Author : Przemysław Siekierka
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110644282
Total Pages : 1259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Women and the Polis written by Przemysław Siekierka and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 1259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the first complete corpus of Greek inscriptions issued by city institutions in honour of their female citizens and foreigners, with the exclusion of Hellenistic queens and women belonging to families of the Roman magistrates. The corpus lists 1131 women fulfilling such criteria. The Greek texts are accompanied by lemmata, English translations and relevant commentaries. Based on the collected evidence, the authors analyse the phenomenon of honorific inscriptions for women as an important symptom of change of citizen mentality. Pointing to the political context in which such honours were bestowed, the phrasing of the texts, character of praiseworthy actions, and the fact that these honours were carved in stone and set up in conspicuous places in cities all reflect what the male part of the city populace thought about women in general and their presence in public spaces in particular. The book is a helpful resource for all those interested in ancient history, social history, and gender studies.
Author : Robin Osborne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009383647
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Athenian Empire written by Robin Osborne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of primary texts on the Athenian Empire in new English translations, with accompanying maps, tables and figures, a glossary and short contextualising introductory notes. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in translation and has been written and reviewed by experienced teachers. The texts presented include extracts from the important literary sources but also numerous inscriptions and coin legends, some of which were previously difficult for students to access.
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009383639
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Athenian Empire written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of primary texts on the Athenian Empire in new English translations, with accompanying maps, tables and figures, a glossary and short contextualising introductory notes. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in translation and has been written and reviewed by experienced teachers. The texts presented include extracts from the important literary sources but also numerous inscriptions and coin legends, some of which were previously difficult for students to access.
Author : Charles W. Hedrick, Jr.
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405152338
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Ancient History written by Charles W. Hedrick, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces students to the chief disciplines, methods and sources employed in 'doing' ancient history, as opposed to 'reading' it. The book: Encourages readers to engage with historical sources, rather than to be passive recipients of historical tales Gives readers a sense of the nature of evidence and its use in the reconstruction of the past Helps them to read a historical narrative with more critical appreciation Encourages them to consider the differences between their own experience of ancient sources, and the use of these objects within the everyday life of ancient society A concise bibliographical essay at the end of each chapter refers to introductions, indices, research tools and interpretations, and explains scholarly jargon Written clearly, concisely and concretely, invoking ancient illustrations and modern parallels as appropriate.
Author : Ewan Clayton
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619024721
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Golden Thread written by Ewan Clayton and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the simple representative shapes used to record transactions of goods and services in ancient Mesopotamia, to the sophisticated typographical resources available to the twenty–first–century users of desktop computers, the story of writing is the story of human civilization itself. Calligraphy expert Ewan Clayton traces the history of an invention which—ever since our ancestors made the transition from a nomadic to an agrarian way of life in the eighth century BC—has been the method of codification and dissemination of ideas in every field of human endeavour, and a motor of cultural, scientific and political progress. He explores the social and cultural impact of, among other stages, the invention of the alphabet; the replacement of the papyrus scroll with the codex in the late Roman period; the perfecting of printing using moveable type in the fifteenth century and the ensuing spread of literacy; the industrialization of printing during the Industrial Revolution; the impact of artistic Modernism on the written word in the early twentieth century—and of the digital switchover at the century's close. The Golden Thread also raises issues of urgent interest for a society living in an era of unprecedented change to the tools and technologies of written communication. Chief among these is the fundamental question: "What does it mean to be literate in the early twenty–first century?" The book belongs on the bookshelves of anyone who is inquisitive not just about the centrality of writing in the history of humanity, but also about its future; it is sure to appeal to lovers of language, books and cultural history.
