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Stone-Garland

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Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571317287
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Stone-Garland written by and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology. The Greek origins of the word gesture at a bouquet, a garland; “a flower-logic, a petal-theory, a blossom-word.” In Stone-Garland, Dan Beachy-Quick brings the term back to its roots, linking together the lives and words of six singular ancient Greeks. Simonides: honest servant to patrons. Anacreon: lustful singer, living on in the work of his acolytes. Archilochus: cruel critic, beloved of the Muses. Alcman: who took birds as his teachers. Theognis: chronicler of human excellence and vice. Callimachus: cosmopolitan head librarian at Alexandria. These are the poets who appear in these pages, sometimes in fragments, sometimes in sustained glimpses. Drawing inspiration from the Greek Anthology, first drafted in the first century BC, Beachy-Quick presents translations filled with lovers and children, gods and insects, earth and water, ideas and ideals. Throughout, the line between the ancient and the contemporary blurs, and “the logic of how life should be lived decays wondrously into the more difficult possibilities of what life is.” Spare, earthy, lovely, Stone-Garland offers readers of the Seedbank series its lyric blossoms and subtle weave, a walk through a cemetery that is also a garden.

Ancient Greece

Author : Robert Garland
Publisher : Sterling
ISBN 13 : 9781454909088
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Greece written by Robert Garland and published by Sterling. This book was released on 2013 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You'll explore all aspects of Greek life: literacy, household chores, education, illness, festivals, economy and trade, coinage, law and order, military service, the Olympic Games, theatrical performances, mythology, and more.

Wandering Greeks

Author : Robert Garland
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069117380X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Wandering Greeks written by Robert Garland and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement was essential to the survival, success, and sheer sustainability of their society, and that this wandering became a defining characteristic of their culture. Addressing a neglected but essential subject, Wandering Greeks focuses on the diaspora of tens of thousands of people between about 700 and 325 BCE, demonstrating the degree to which Greeks were liable to be forced to leave their homes due to political upheaval, oppression, poverty, warfare, or simply a desire to better themselves. Attempting to enter into the mind-set of these wanderers, the book provides an insightful and sympathetic account of what it meant for ancient Greeks to part from everyone and everything they held dear, to start a new life elsewhere—or even to become homeless, living on the open road or on the high seas with no end to their journey in sight. Each chapter identifies a specific kind of "wanderer," including the overseas settler, the deportee, the evacuee, the asylum-seeker, the fugitive, the economic migrant, and the itinerant, and the book also addresses repatriation and the idea of the "portable polis." The result is a vivid and unique portrait of ancient Greece as a culture of displaced persons.

How to Survive in Ancient Greece

Author : Robert Garland
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526754711
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book How to Survive in Ancient Greece written by Robert Garland and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would it be like if you were transported back to Athens 420 BCE? This time-traveler’s guide is a fascinating way to find out . . . Imagine you were transported back in time to Ancient Greece and you had to start a new life there. What would you see? How would the people around you think and believe? How would you fit in? Where would you live? What would you eat? What work would be available, and what help could you get if you got sick? All these questions, and many more, are answered in this engaging blend of self-help and survival guide that plunges you into this historical environment—and explains the many problems and strange new experiences you would face if you were there.

Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks

Author : Robert Garland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031335815X
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks written by Robert Garland and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Greece comes alive in this exploration of the daily lives of ordinary people-men and women, children and the elderly, slaves and foreigners, rich and poor. With new information drawn from the most current research, this volume presents a wealth of information on every aspect of ancient Greek life. Discover why it was more desirable to be a slave than a day laborer. Examine cooking methods and rules of ancient warfare. Uncover Greek mythology. Learn how Greeks foretold the future. Understand what life was like for women, and what prevailing attitudes were toward sexuality, marriage, and divorce. This volume brings ancient Greek life home to readers through a variety of anecdotes and primary source passages from contemporary authors, allowing comparison between the ancient world and modern life. A multitude of resources will engage students and interested readers, including a Making Connections feature which offers interactive and fun ideas for research assignments. The concluding chapter places the ancient world in the present, covering new interpretations like the movie 300, the founding of modern Greece, and the ways in which classical culture still affects our own. With over 60 illustrations, a timeline of events, a glossary of terms, and an extensive print and nonprint bibliography, this volume offers a unique and descriptive look at one of the most influential eras in human history.

The Greek anthology The garland of philip and some sontemporary epigrams

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Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greek anthology The garland of philip and some sontemporary epigrams written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Greek Way of Life

Author : Robert Garland
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 : 9780715623770
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book The Greek Way of Life written by Robert Garland and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek Way of Life is a survey of the major life experiences which constituted the social reality of classical Greece, broken down into the general topics of conception and pregnancy, birth, childhood, coming of age, early adulthood, and elders and the elderly. What emerges is a conception of the human being as a social animal par excellence whose nature was largely realised in the attainment of paradigmatic social roles: military service for men and childbearing for women. Among the subtopics are Greek medical ideas, the roles of women and children, marriage, care of the elderly, and the role of religious ideas. An engaging narrative and a useful sourcebook, this will appeal to both general readers and scholars.

Athens Burning

Author : Robert Garland
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142142195X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Athens Burning written by Robert Garland and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this next offering for the Witness to Ancient History series, Robert Garland writes about the Persian invasion of Greece in the 5th century BC. After introducing the reader to the contextual background of the Greco-Persian Wars, including the famous Battle of Marathon, Garland describes the various stages of the invasion from both the Persian and Greek point of view. He focuses on the Greek evacuation of Attica (the peninsular region of Greece that includes Athens), the siege of the Acropolis, the eventual defeat of the Persians by Athenian and Spartan armies, and the return of the Greek people to their land. Coming off his 2014 PUP book on the experience of diaspora in ancient Greece, Garland is well placed to speak authoritatively on this important time in ancient history when the Greeks had to flee their homeland. Garland is an experienced and productive writer whose experience producing video lecture courses for The Great Courses company makes him an ideal author for this introductory volume"--Provided by publisher.

Introducing New Gods

Author : Robert Garland
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801427664
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book Introducing New Gods written by Robert Garland and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The religious imagination of the Greeks, Robert Garland observes, was populated by divine beings whose goodwill could not be counted upon, and worshipers faced a heavy burden of choice among innumerable deities to whom they might offer their devotion. These deities--and Athenian polytheism itself--remained in constant flux as cults successively came into favor and waned. Examining the means through which the Athenians established and marketed cults, this handsomely illustrated book is the first to illuminate the full range of motives--political and economic, as well as spiritual--that prompted them to introduce new gods.

The Greek Way of Death

Author : Robert Garland
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801487460
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book The Greek Way of Death written by Robert Garland and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Death for the Greeks was not an instantaneous event, rather a process or passage which required strenuous efforts on the part of the living to ensure that the dead achieved full and final transfer to the next world. The central questions which this book attempts to answer are: the extent to which death was a preoccupying concern among the Greeks; the feelings with which the individual may have anticipated his death; the nature of the bonds between the living and the dead; and the light shed by burial practices upon characteristic elements of Greek society. While the beliefs of ordinary Greeks about their ordinary dead form the book's central focus, there is also a chapter on 'special dead' - the unburied, murderers and their victims, children, and suicides."--BOOK JACKET.

Poetic Garlands

Author : Kathryn J. Gutzwiller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520918975
Total Pages : 805 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Poetic Garlands written by Kathryn J. Gutzwiller and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epigrams, the briefest of Greek poetic forms, had a strong appeal for readers of the Hellenistic period (323-31 B.C.). One of the most characteristic literary forms of the era, the epigram, unlike any other ancient or classical form of poetry, was not only composed for public recitation but was also collected in books intended for private reading. Brief and concise, concerned with the personal and the particular, the epigram emerged in the Hellenistic period as a sophisticated literary form that evinces the period's aesthetic preference for the miniature, the intricate, and the fragmented. Kathryn Gutzwiller offers the first full-length literary study of these important poems by studying the epigrams within the context of the poetry books in which they were originally collected. Drawing upon ancient sources as well as recent papyrological discoveries, Gutzwiller reconstructs the nature of Hellenistic epigram books and interprets individual poems as if they remained part of their original collections. This approach results in illuminating and original readings of many major poets, and demonstrates that individual epigrammatists were differentiated by gender, ethnicity, class status, and philosophical views. In an important final chapter, Gutzwiller reconstructs much of the poetic structure of Meleager's Garland, an ancient anthology of Hellenistic epigrams.

Surviving Greek Tragedy

Author : Robert Garland
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Surviving Greek Tragedy written by Robert Garland and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surviving Greek Tragedy is a history of the physical survival to the present day of the thirty-two extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Beginning with the first revival of the plays in the fourth century BC, it charts the course of their transmission down the centuries as they passed through the hands of actors, readers, scholars, schoolteachers, monks, publishers, translators and theatre directors. Over the course of this 2,400-year period, the plays were at different times performed, copied, quoted, emended, excerpted, analysed, taught, translated, censored, adapted, or merely left to moulder in a library, as each successive culture charged with their safe-keeping saw fit. In the last thirty years Greek tragedy has become the medium through which most people encounter the classical heritage, and in the book Garland gives extensive coverage to modern stagings of the plays all over the world, taking this fascinating story right up to the present. Fully illustrated with images from all the periods under discussion--from Greek vase paintings to Deborah Warner's production of Medea at the Queen's Theatre, London.

Greek Mythology

Author : Robert Garland
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526776553
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Greek Mythology written by Robert Garland and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The timeless stories of Greek mythology come to life in these reimagined tales written in the voices of Zeus, Oedipus, Odysseus, and many others. Though the gods are featured prominently in Greek mythology, there is nothing sacred about it. Anyone is free to bring their own interpretation to these stories, just as Homer, Sophocles, and Euripides did centuries ago. In this volume, classicist and author Robert Garland presents nearly forty Greek legends as told by the characters themselves. Telling their stories from their own perspectives, the famous characters of Greek mythology—both gods and mortals—are given a chance to reflect on their lives and defend actions. Each story is accompanied by historical commentary, making Greek Mythology: Gods and Heroes Brought to Life an engaging and accessible way to enjoy these timeless tales.

The Piraeus

Author : Robert Garland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Piraeus written by Robert Garland and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Piraeus combines a useful reference work on the cults and monuments of the port of Athens with a thoughtful discussion of the history and sociology of one of the great unsung cities of the ancient world.'--Classical World

Ancient Greece

Author : Matthew Dillon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136991387
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Greece written by Matthew Dillon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-18 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of a definitive collection of source material on Greek social and political history from 800 to 399 BC, from all over the Greek world.

How to Survive in Ancient Rome

Author : L J Trafford
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526757877
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book How to Survive in Ancient Rome written by L J Trafford and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What you’d need to know if you time-traveled to Ancient Rome—from local customs to clothing to religion to housing to food. Imagine you were transported back in time to Ancient Rome and you had to start a new life there. How would you fit in? Where would you live? What would you eat? Where would you go to have your hair done? Who would you go to if you got ill, or if you were mugged in the street? All these questions, and many more, are answered in this new how-to guide for time travelers. This lively and engaging twist on ancient history reveals how to deal with the many problems and new experiences you would face—and thrive in this strange new environment.

The Eye of the Beholder

Author : Robert Garland
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 : 9781853997372
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book The Eye of the Beholder written by Robert Garland and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engrossing book was the first ever investigation into the plight of the disabled and deformed in Graeco-Roman society, drawing on a wealth of material, including literary texts, medical tracts, vase paintings, sculpture, mythology and ethnography. It is now issued in paperback for the first time with a new preface and updated bibliography.