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Thebes

Author : Paul Cartledge
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468316079
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Thebes written by Paul Cartledge and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting, definitive account of the ancient Greek city of Thebes, by the acclaimed author of The Spartans—now in paperback Among the extensive writing available about the history of ancient Greece, there is precious little about the city-state of Thebes. At one point the most powerful city in ancient Greece, Thebes has been long overshadowed by its better-known rivals, Athens and Sparta. In Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece, acclaimed classicist and historian Paul Cartledge brings the city vividly to life and argues that it is central to our understanding of the ancient Greeks’ achievements—whether politically or culturally—and thus to the wider politico-cultural traditions of western Europe, the Americas, and indeed the world. From its role as an ancient political power, to its destruction at the hands of Alexander the Great as punishment for a failed revolt, to its eventual restoration by Alexander’s successor, Cartledge deftly chronicles the rise and fall of the ancient city. He recounts the history with deep clarity and mastery for the subject and makes clear both the di?erences and the interconnections between the Thebes of myth and the Thebes of history. Written in clear prose and illustrated with images in two color inserts, Thebes is a gripping read for students of ancient history and those looking to experience the real city behind the myths of Cadmus, Hercules, and Oedipus.

The Thebans

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780871292049
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (92 download)

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The Sacred Band

Author : James Romm
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501198025
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Band written by James Romm and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From classicist James Romm comes a “striking…fascinating” (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great’s destruction of Thebes—and the saga of the greatest military corps of the time, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed of 150 pairs of male lovers. The story of the Sacred Band, an elite 300-man corps recruited from pairs of lovers, highlights a chaotic era of ancient Greek history, four decades marked by battles, ideological disputes, and the rise of vicious strongmen. At stake was freedom, democracy, and the fate of Thebes, at this time the leading power of the Greek world. The tale begins in 379 BC, with a group of Theban patriots sneaking into occupied Thebes. Disguised in women’s clothing, they cut down the agents of Sparta, the state that had cowed much of Greece with its military might. To counter the Spartans, this group of patriots would form the Sacred Band, a corps whose history plays out against a backdrop of Theban democracy, of desperate power struggles between leading city-states, and the new prominence of eros, sexual love, in Greek public life. After four decades without a defeat, the Sacred Band was annihilated by the forces of Philip II of Macedon and his son Alexander in the Battle of Chaeronea—extinguishing Greek liberty for two thousand years. Buried on the battlefield where they fell, they were rediscovered in 1880—some skeletons still in pairs, with arms linked together. From violent combat in city streets to massive clashes on open ground, from ruthless tyrants to bold women who held their era in thrall, The Sacred Band recounts “in fluent, accessible prose” (The Wall Street Journal) the twists and turns of a crucial historical moment: the end of the treasured freedom of ancient Greece.

The Theban Plays

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141905646
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Theban Plays written by Sophocles and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1973-04-26 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Oedipus/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone Three towering works of Greek tragedy depicting the inexorable downfall of a doomed royal dynasty The legends surrounding the house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create this powerful trilogy about humanity's struggle against fate. King Oedipus is the devastating portrayal of a ruler who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he does not realize he has committed and then inflicts a brutal punishment upon himself. Oedipus at Colonus provides a fitting conclusion to the life of the aged and blinded king, while Antigone depicts the fall of the next generation, through the conflict between a young woman ruled by her conscience and a king too confident of his own authority. Translated with an Introduction by E. F. WATLING

Empires of the Sea

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004407677
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Empires of the Sea written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly ‘non-western’ perspective. The book includes contributions on Mycenaean sea power, Classical Athens, the ancient Thebans, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Genoese Empire, power networks of the Vikings, the medieval Danish Empire, the Baltic empire of Ancien Régime Sweden, the early modern Indian Ocean, the Melaka Empire, the (non-European aspects of the) Portuguese Empire and Dutch East India Company, and the Pirates of Caribbean.

The Return of the Theban Exiles, 379-378 B. C.

Author : Arthur Octavius Prickard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Return of the Theban Exiles, 379-378 B. C. written by Arthur Octavius Prickard and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thebans

Author : Liz Lochhead
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9781854597571
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Thebans written by Liz Lochhead and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thebans tells the ancient stories of the Kingdom of Thebes. It focuses on Oedipus the King, abandoned as a baby and who later inadvertently kills his father and marries his mother, and Antigone, who dies rather than obey Oedipus' successor and leave her brother's corpse unburied...

The Thebans

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780871292056
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Thebans written by Sophocles and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Oedipus, Jocasta and Antigone, and the ancient Greek theme of power, both mortal and godlike.

Seven Against Thebes

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195070070
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Seven Against Thebes written by Aeschylus and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third play in an Oedipus-themed trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 467 BC. The trilogy is sometimes referred to as the Oedipodea. It concerns the battle between an Argive army led by Polynices and the army of Thebes led by Eteocles and his supporters.

Persians, Seven against Thebes, and Suppliants

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781421400631
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Persians, Seven against Thebes, and Suppliants written by Aeschylus and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aaron Poochigian’s new translations of Aeschylus’s earliest extant plays provide the clearest rendering yet of their formal structure. The distinction between spoken and sung rhythms is as sharp as it is in the source texts, and for the first time readers in English can fully grasp the balanced, harmonious arrangement of choral odes. The importance of these works to the history of drama and tragedy and to the history of classical literature is beyond question, and their themes of military hubris and foreign versus native are deeply relevant today. Persians offers a surprisingly sympathetic portrayal of the Athenians’ most hated enemy; in Seven against Thebes Argive invaders, though no less Greek than the Thebans themselves, are portrayed as barbarians; and in Suppliants the city of Argos is called upon to protect Egyptian refugees. Based on textual evidence and the archaeological remains of the Theater of Dionysus at Athens, Poochigian’s introductory overview of stage properties and accompanying stage directions allow readers to experience the plays as they were performed in their own time. He is most careful in his translations of the plays’ choral odes. Instead of rendering them with little or no form, Poochigian has preserved the comprehensive structures Aeschylus himself employed. Readers are thus able to recognize Aeschylus as a master of poetry as well as of drama. Poochigian’s translations are the most accurate renditions of the poetry and dramaturgy of the original works available. Intended to be both read as literature and performed as plays, these translations are lucid and readable, while remaining staunchly faithful to the texts.

The Thebans

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780871292032
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Thebans written by Sophocles and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's collaboration on this new translation combines the strengths that have recently distinguished both as translators of Greek tragedy: expert knowledge of the Greek and of the needs of the teaching classicist, intimate knowledge of theatre, and an excellent ear for the spoken word. Their "Oedipus Tyrannus" features foot-of-the-page notes, an Introduction, stage directions and a translation characterized by its clarity, accuracy, and power.

A Pictorial History of the World, Ancient and Modern, for the Use of Schools

Author : Samuel Griswold Goodrich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book A Pictorial History of the World, Ancient and Modern, for the Use of Schools written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The History of Greece

Author : William Mitford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The History of Greece written by William Mitford and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography

Author : William Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1644 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 1644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

Author : William Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1420 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 1420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by Various Writers

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1418 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by Various Writers written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 1418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography

Author : William Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1404 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 1404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: