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Book Antiquity 2

Download or read book Antiquity 2 written by Toni Hurley and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition features a full colour design with a variety of Ancient Societies, Personalities and Historical Periods drawing on a range of archaeological and written evidence. Chapters from Antiquity 3 have also been revised and included in this combined volume to provide the most comprehensive coverage of the HSC Ancient History course, now conveniently in one book. Written and presented in an absorbing and accessible manner, Antiquity 2 Third Edition will enhance students' experience of ancient civilisations and enable them to develop the skills needed for successful study of HSC Ancient History.

Book Theodosius II

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Kelly
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-08-08
  • ISBN : 110727690X
  • Pages : 341 pages

Download or read book Theodosius II written by Christopher Kelly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodosius II (AD 408–450) was the longest reigning Roman emperor. Ever since Edward Gibbon, he has been dismissed as mediocre and ineffectual. Yet Theodosius ruled an empire which retained its integrity while the West was broken up by barbarian invasions. This book explores Theodosius' challenges and successes. Ten essays by leading scholars of late antiquity provide important new insights into the court at Constantinople, the literary and cultural vitality of the reign, and the presentation of imperial piety and power. Much attention has been directed towards the changes promoted by Constantine at the beginning of the fourth century; much less to their crystallisation under Theodosius II. This volume explores the working out of new conceptions of the Roman Empire - its history, its rulers and its God. A substantial introduction offers a new framework for thinking afresh about the long transition from the classical world to Byzantium.

Book Antiquities of the Jews   Book   II

Download or read book Antiquities of the Jews Book II written by Flavius Josephus and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book, "" Antiquities of the Jews; Book - II "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.

Book Two Romes

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  • Author : Lucy Grig
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 019024108X
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book Two Romes written by Lucy Grig and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An integrated collection of essays by leading scholars, 'Two Romes' explores the changing roles and perceptions of Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity. This examination of the 'two Romes' in comparative perspective illuminates our understanding not just of both cities but of the whole late Roman world.

Book Nietzsche as a Scholar of Antiquity

Download or read book Nietzsche as a Scholar of Antiquity written by Anthony K. Jensen and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typically, the first decade of Friedrich Nietzsche's career is considered a sort of précis to his mature thinking. Yet his philological articles, lectures, and notebooks on Ancient Greek culture and thought - much of which has received insufficient scholarly attention - were never intended to serve as a preparatory ground to future thought. Nietzsche's early scholarship was intended to express his insights into the character of antiquity. Many of those insights are not only important for better understanding Nietzsche; they remain vital for understanding antiquity today. Interdisciplinary in scope and international in perspective, this volume investigates Nietzsche as a scholar of antiquity, offering the first thorough examination of his articles, lectures, notebooks on Ancient Greek culture and thought in English. With eleven original chapters by some of the leading Nietzsche scholars and classicists from around the world and with reproductions of two definitive essays, this book analyzes Nietzsche's scholarly methods and aims, his understanding of antiquity, and his influence on the history of classical studies.

Book Atheism in Pagan Antiquity

Download or read book Atheism in Pagan Antiquity written by A. B. Drachmann and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Atheism in Pagan Antiquity" by A. B. Drachmann Drachmann was a Danish philologist, but he was also interested in religion and how it changed over history. This book is an inquiry is the outcome of a request to write an article on "Atheism" for a projected dictionary of the religious history of classical antiquity. On going through the sources, he found that a more comprehensive treatment than the scope of a dictionary would allow was deserved. Does atheism apply to pagans? How did non-belief work in a polytheistic world?

Book Contested Antiquity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Esther Solomon
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2021-02-02
  • ISBN : 0253055989
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book Contested Antiquity written by Esther Solomon and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the archaeological legacies of Greece and Cyprus are often considered to represent some of the highest values of Western civilization—democracy, progress, aesthetic harmony, and rationalism—this much adored and heavily touristed heritage can quickly become the stage for clashes over identity and memory. In Contested Antiquity, Esther Solomon curates explorations of how those who safeguard cultural heritage are confronted with the best ways to represent this heritage responsibly. How should visitors be introduced to an ancient Byzantine fortification that still holds the grim reminders of the cruel prison it was used as until the 1980s? How can foreign archaeological institutes engage with another nation's heritage in a meaningful way? What role do locals have in determining what is sacred, and can this sense of the sacred extend beyond buildings to the surrounding land? Together, the essays featured in Contested Antiquity offer fresh insights into the ways ancient heritage is negotiated for modern times.

Book Presbytery and not Prelacy the Scriptural and Primitive Polity     Also  the Antiquity of Presbytery  including an account of the ancient Culdees  and of St  Patrick  etc

Download or read book Presbytery and not Prelacy the Scriptural and Primitive Polity Also the Antiquity of Presbytery including an account of the ancient Culdees and of St Patrick etc written by Thomas SMYTH (D.D., of Charleston, S.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Antiquity Forgot

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  • Author : Howard B. White
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 9400996632
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Antiquity Forgot written by Howard B. White and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was probably Rousseau who first thought of dreams as ennobling experiences. Anyone who has ever read Reveries du Promeneur Solitaire must be struck by the dreamlike quality of Rousseau's meditations. This dreamlike quality is still with us, and those who experience it find themselves ennobled by it. Witness Martin Luther King's famous "1 have a dream. " Dreaming and inspiration raise the artist to the top rung in the ladder ofhuman relations. That is probably the prevailing view among educated people of our time. Rousseau made that view respectable and predominant. Yet in another sense, the problem is much older. It is the problem of political philosophy and poetry, the problem of Socrates and Aristophanes, of Plato and Homer. Yet, while antiquity usually gives the crown to philosophy, since Rous seau, the alternative view tends to prevail. The distinction is not, however, a formal one. Sir Philip Sidney enlisted Plato on the side of poetry. The true distinction is between imagination and reason. If reason is to rule, as Aristotle points out,l the most architectonic of the sciences, that is political science, should rule. It is political philosophy which must determine the nature of the arts which will help or which will hinder the good of the city or the polity. That does not mean that a mere professor should stand in judgment of Shake speare, Bacon, and Rembrandt. It means that ifhe studies these three great artists, he is not over-stepping disciplinary limits.

Book The Art of Biography in Antiquity

Download or read book The Art of Biography in Antiquity written by Tomas Hägg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the whole spectrum of Greek and Roman biography, which explores the virtues and vices of philosophers, statesmen and poets.

Book Group Identity and Religious Individuality in Late Antiquity

Download or read book Group Identity and Religious Individuality in Late Antiquity written by Eric Rebillard and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand the past, we necessarily group people together and, consequently, frequently assume that all of its members share the same attributes. In this ground-breaking volume, Eric Rebillard and Jörg Rüpke bring renowned scholars together to challenge this norm by seeking to rediscover the individual and to explore the dynamics between individuals and the groups to which they belong.

Book The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity

Download or read book The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity written by Averil Cameron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides both a detailed introduction to the vivid and exciting period of `late antiquity' and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Empire.

Book Perspective in the Visual Culture of Classical Antiquity

Download or read book Perspective in the Visual Culture of Classical Antiquity written by Rocco Sinisgalli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linear perspective is a science that represents objects in space upon a plane, projecting them from a point of view. This concept was known in classical antiquity. In this book, Rocco Sinisgalli investigates theories of linear perspective in the classical era. Departing from the received understanding of perspective in the ancient world, he argues that ancient theories of perspective were primarily based on the study of objects in mirrors, rather than the study of optics and the workings of the human eye. In support of this argument, Sinisgalli analyzes, and offers new insights into, some of the key classical texts on this topic, including Euclid's De speculis, Lucretius' De rerum natura, Vitruvius' De architectura and Ptolemy's De opticis. Key concepts throughout the book are clarified and enhanced by detailed illustrations.

Book The Nature and Function of Water  Baths  Bathing and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance

Download or read book The Nature and Function of Water Baths Bathing and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays offer scholars, teachers, and students a new basis for discussing attitudes toward, and technological expertise concerning, water in antiquity through the early Modern period, and they examine historical water use and ideology both diachronically and cross regionally. Topics include gender roles and water usage; attitudes, practices, and innovations in baths and bathing; water and the formation of identity and policy; ancient and medieval water sources and resources; and religious and literary water imagery. The authors describe how ideas about the nature and function of water created and shaped social relationships, and how religion, politics, and science transformed, and were themselves transformed by, the manipulation of, uses of, and disputes over water in daily life, ceremonies, and literature. Contributors are Rabun Taylor, Sandra Lucore, Robert F. Sutton, Jr., Cynthia K Kosso, Kevin Lawton, Evy Johanne Håland, Hélène Cazes, Alexandra Cuffel, Mark Munn, Brenda Longfellow, Gretchen Meyers, Sara Saba, Scott John McDonough, Etienne Dunant, E. J. Owens , Mehmet Taşlıalan, Deborah Chatr Aryamontri, John Stephenson, Lin A. Ferrand, Paul Trio, Anne Scott, Misty Rae Urban, Ruth Stevenson, Charles Connell, Alyce Jordan, Ronald Cooley, and Irene Matthews.

Book German and English

Download or read book German and English written by Felix Flügel and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dreams in Late Antiquity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patricia Cox Miller
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1998-01-11
  • ISBN : 9780691058351
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Dreams in Late Antiquity written by Patricia Cox Miller and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centuries.... By studying together pagan and Christian dreams, Cox Miller hopes to reach a better understanding of some fundamental patterns of late antique culture. DLGuy G. Stroumsa, The Journal of Religion A fluent and discursive text.... This is an adventurous exploration of a range of material which deserves to be more widely known.DLGillian Clark, The Classical Review.

Book History of Music in Russia from Antiquity to 1800  The eighteenth century  Music and theater  1730 1740   Music in court life during the reigns of Elizabeth Petrovna and Catherine II   Music in Russia s domestic life during the second half of the eighteenth century   The Russian horn band   Music in Russian public life during the second half of the eighteenth century   Musical creativity in Russia during the eighteenth century   Literature about music  publishers and sellers of sheet music  instrument makers and merchants

Download or read book History of Music in Russia from Antiquity to 1800 The eighteenth century Music and theater 1730 1740 Music in court life during the reigns of Elizabeth Petrovna and Catherine II Music in Russia s domestic life during the second half of the eighteenth century The Russian horn band Music in Russian public life during the second half of the eighteenth century Musical creativity in Russia during the eighteenth century Literature about music publishers and sellers of sheet music instrument makers and merchants written by Nikolaĭ Fedorovich Fendeĭzen and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: