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Author : Arthur Octavius Prickard
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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:
Author : Nancy Demand
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317695380
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Thebes in the Fifth Century (Routledge Revivals) written by Nancy Demand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fifth century BC Thebes, faced with the challenges presented by defeat and disgrace in the Persian Wars – it had sided with the invaders – succeeded not only in regaining its former prominence, but also in laying the groundwork for its hegemony of Greece in the early part of the fourth century. In Thebes in the Fifth Century, first published in 1982, Nancy Demand examines the political and military history of this renowned city, as well as a number of other aspects of Theban culture and society: its physical layout, religious cults, poetry and music, arts, crafts and philosophy. Other topics of special interest include a chapter on Pythagoreanism in Thebes, an appendix on the evidence for the participation of women in Pythagoreanism, and an investigation, extending throughout the book, of the role of women in Theban society.
Author : Simon Hornblower
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192539418
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Returning Hero written by Simon Hornblower and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A recurring and significant theme in ancient Greek literature is that of returns and returning, chiefly - but by no means only - of mythical Greek heroes from Troy. One main, and certainly the most 'marked', ancient Greek word for 'return' is nostos (plural nostoi), from which is derived the English 'nostalgia'. Nostos-related traditions were important ingredients of colonial foundation myths and the theme runs through both ancient Greek prose and poetry from Homer's Odyssey to Lykophron's Alexandra, also leaving traces in the historical record through the archaeological and epigraphical commemoration of nostoi, which played a central part in defining Greek ethnicity and crystallizing personal and communal identities. This volume offers a truly interdisciplinary exploration of the concept of nostos in ancient Greek culture, which draws on its contributors' expertise in ancient Greek (and Roman) history, literature, archaeology, and religion. The chapters examine both literary and material evidence in order to achieve a better understanding of the nature of Greek settlement in the Mediterranean zone, and of sometimes equivocal Greek and Roman perceptions of home, displacement, and returning. The special problems and vocabulary of exile are explored in the long Introduction, which offers an incisive yet accessible overview of the volume's key themes and sets its range of contributions clearly in context: while two chapters are concerned in different ways with emotions and personal identity, making use of the theoretical tool of place-attachment, another demonstrates that failed nostoi can be more interesting than successful examples. Evidential absence can be as important and illuminating as presence, and mythical women, underrepresented in this regard, feature extensively in several chapters, which open up a range of new perspectives on nostos.
Author : George Grote
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of Greece written by George Grote and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541673506
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)
Download or read book The End of Everything written by Victor Davis Hanson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “gripping account of catastrophic defeat” (Barry Strauss), a New York Times–bestselling historian charts how and why some societies chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time “In The End of Everything, Hanson tells compelling and harrowing stories of how civilizations perished. He helps us consider contemporary affairs in light of that history, think about the unthinkable, and recognize the urgency of trying to prevent our own demise.” — H. R. McMaster, author of Battlegrounds War can settle disputes, topple tyrants, and bend the trajectory of civilization—sometimes to the breaking point. From Troy to Hiroshima, moments when war has ended in utter annihilation have reverberated through the centuries, signaling the end of political systems, cultures, and epochs. Though much has changed over the millennia, human nature remains the same. Modern societies are not immune from the horror of a war of extinction. In The End of Everything, military historian Victor Davis Hanson narrates a series of sieges and sackings that span the age of antiquity to the conquest of the New World to show how societies descend into barbarism and obliteration. In the stories of Thebes, Carthage, Constantinople, and Tenochtitlan, he depicts war’s drama, violence, and folly. Highlighting the naivete that plagued the vanquished and the wrath that justified mass slaughter, Hanson delivers a sobering call to contemporary readers to heed the lessons of obliteration lest we blunder into catastrophe once again.
Author : Henry Fynes Clinton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book From the LVth to the CXXIVth Olympiad written by Henry Fynes Clinton and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Grote
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of Greece; from the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation Contemporary with Alexander the Great written by George Grote and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Grote
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book History of Greece written by George Grote and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George GROTE
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book History of Greece. ... (With portrait, maps and index.) Fourth edition written by George GROTE and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Grote
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Greece: I. Legendary Greece written by George Grote and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lucia Athanassaki
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192859919
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Plutarch's Cities written by Lucia Athanassaki and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch's Cities is the first comprehensive attempt to assess the significance of the polis in Plutarch's works from several perspectives, namely the polis as a physical entity, a lived experience, and a source of inspiration, the polis as a historical and sociopolitical unit, the polis as a theoretical construct and paradigm to think with. The book's multifocal and multi-perspectival examination of Plutarch's cities - past and present, real and ideal-yields some remarkable corrections of his conventional image. Plutarch was neither an antiquarian nor a philosopher of the desk. He was not oblivious to his surroundings but had a keen interest in painting, sculpture, monuments, and inscriptions, about which he acquired impressive knowledge in order to help him understand and reconstruct the past. Cult and ritual proved equally fertile for Plutarch's visual imagination. Whereas historiography was the backbone of his reconstruction of the past and evaluation of the present, material culture, cult, and ritual were also sources of inspiration to enliven past and present alike. Plato's descriptions of Athenian houses and the Attic landscape were also a source of inspiration, but Plutarch clearly did his own research, based on autopsy and on oral and written sources. Plutarch, Plato's disciple and Apollo's priest, was on balance a pragmatist. He did not resist the temptation to contemplate the ideal city, but he wrote much more about real cities, as he experienced or imagined them.
Author : George Grote
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of Greece. 9 (1859) written by George Grote and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hélène Adeline Guerber
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Story of Greece written by Hélène Adeline Guerber and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Willis Mason West
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Ancient World from the Earliest Times to 800 A.D. ...: Greece and the East written by Willis Mason West and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Grote
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108009611
Total Pages : 791 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book A History of Greece written by George Grote and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grote's classic twelve-volume work established the shape of Greek history which prevails in accounts of the ancient world today.
Author : Helene A. Guerber
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3988680745
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (886 download)
Download or read book The Story of the Greeks written by Helene A. Guerber and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This elementary history of Greece is intended for supplementary reading or as a first history textbook for young pupils. It is therefore made up principally of stories about persons; for, while history proper is largely beyond the comprehension of children, they are able at an early age to understand and enjoy anecdotes of people, especially of those in the childhood of civilization. At the same time, these stories will give a clear idea of the most important events that have taken place in the ancient world, and, it is hoped, will arouse a desire to read further. They also aim to enforce the lessons of perseverance, courage, patriotism, and virtue that are taught by the noble lives described. A knowledge of ancient history, however superficial, is of very great value; and the classic legends are almost equally worth knowing, because of the prominent part they play in the world's literature. These tales make a deep impression on the minds of children, and the history thus learned almost in play will cling to the memory far more tenaciously than any lessons subsequently conned.
Author : Willis Mason West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ancient World from the Earliest Times to 800 A.D. written by Willis Mason West and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
