Download or read book Ancient Botany written by Gavin Hardy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gavin Hardy and Laurence Totelin have brought together their botanical and historical knowledge to produce this unique overview of ancient botany. It examines all the founding texts of botanical science, such as Theophrastus' Enquiry into Plants, Dioscorides' Materia Medica, Pliny the Elder's Natural History, Nicolaus of Damascus' On Plants, and Galen' On Simple Remedies, but also includes lesser known texts ranging from the sixth century BCE to the seventh century CE, as well as some material evidence. The authors adopt a thematic approach rather than a chronological one, considering important issues such as the definition of a plant, nomenclature, classifications, physiology, the link between plants and their environment, and the numerous usages of plants in the ancient world. The book also takes care to place ancient botany in its historical, social and economic context. The authors have explained all technical botanical terms and ancient history notions, and as a result, this work will appeal to historians of ancient science, medicine and technology; classicists; and botanists interested in the history of their discipline.

Download or read book La langue po tique indo europ enne written by Indogermanische Gesellschaft and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depuis plus de cent cinquante ans, les specialistes de grammaire comparee des langues indo-europeennes ont recueilli et analyse des faits qui relevent de l'usage esthetique des formes linguistiques dans les textes de plusieurs langues: l'enquete est desormais elargie a l'ensemble de la famille linguistique indo-europeenne. Les faits couvrent tous les aspects de la langue reconstruite appelee par convention indo-europeen: phonetique, morphologie, syntaxe, phraseologie, metrique. Ce domaine de recherche, qui associe constamment la philologie et la linguistique, est appele poetique indo-europeenne, et vise a situer une partie des faits en question dans la perspective d'une tradition poetique heritee. Le present volume reunit les communications presentees lors d'un colloque international qui s'est tenu a Paris en octobre 2003, et qui etait organise par l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, section des Sciences historiques et philologiques, en association avec le Centre d'Etudes Anciennes de l'Ecole Normale Superieure. Les contributions, au nombre de trente-deux, sont signees d'une grande partie des meilleurs specialistes francais et etrangers et concernent, a travers differentes approches, la quasi totalite des langues indo-europeennes: anatolien, indo-iranien, grec, latin et langues sabelliques, germanique, armenien, slave, baltique, celtique, tokharien. Le nombre et la diversite des travaux permettent de dresser un etat de la recherche actuelle sur le plan international, aussi bien en poetique qu'en linguistique indo-europeenne.

Download or read book Nestor written by Keith Dickson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1995. This study presents techniques in the Greek epic, in various guises within literature and a commentary on the naming of Nestor, Nestor as AOIDUS, as intercessor, and as host.

Download or read book Acharnians written by Aristophanes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristophanes' Acharnians was performed at the Lenaia festival in Athens in 425 BCE. OAcharnians itself, at any rate, took first place and is generally regarded as one of Aristophanes' two or three most brilliant surviving comedies. Olson offers the first complete new scholarly edition of the play in almost a century.

Download or read book BIBLIOGRAPHIE linguistique de l ann e 1982 written by H. Borkent and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1985-03-31 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Frontiers of Ancient Science written by Brooke Holmes and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our understanding of science, mathematics, and medicine today can be deeply enriched by studying the historical roots of these areas of inquiry in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. The fields of ancient science and mathematics have in recent years witnessed remarkable growth. The present volume brings together contributions from more than thirty of the most important scholars working in these fields in the United States and Europe in honor of the eminent historian of ancient science and medicine Heinrich von Staden, Professor Emeritus of Classics and History of Science at the Institute of Advanced Study and William Lampson Professor Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at Yale University. The papers range widely from Mesopotamia to Ancient Greece and Rome, from the first millennium B.C. to the early medieval period, and from mathematics to philosophy, mechanics to medicine, representing both a wide diversity of national traditions and the cutting edge of the international scholarly community.

Download or read book Cytherica written by Josef Chytry and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cytherica boldly introduces a new faculty of thought called cytherics to contemporary academic discursivities. It defines cytherics as the sighting and siting of an aesthetic-erotic, or «aphrodisian», environment. Building on the furthest extensions of aesthetics since the eighteenth century, cytherics develops both the aesthetic-political and aesthetic-erotic dimensions of the aesthetic tradition to formulate exciting new responses to the pressing issues of contemporary societies. While drawing richly on the background of German and European Hellenism, this book provides valuable new insights for those working in the areas of the aesthetic-political, critical theory, postmodernist discursivities, and dialectical speculation.

Download or read book Anatolian Interfaces written by Billie Jean Collins and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2010-03-28 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this collection are the product of the conference "Hittites, Greeks and Their Neighbors in Ancient Anatolia: An International Conference on Cross-Cultural Interaction," hosted by Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. They cover an impressive range of issues relating to the complex cultural interactions that took place on Anatolian soil over the course of two millennia, in the process highlighting the difficulties inherent in studying societies that are multi-cultural in their make-up and outlook, as well as the role that cultural identity played in shaping those interactions. Topics include possible sources of tension along the Mycenaean-Anatolian interface; the transmission of mythological and religious elements between cultures; the change across time and space in literary motifs as they are adapted to new milieus and new audiences; the ways in which linguistic data can refine our understanding of the interrelations between the various peoples who lived in Anatolia; and the role that the Anatolian kingdoms of the first millennium played as cultural filters and conduits through which North Syrian or Near Eastern ideas or materials were transmitted to the Greeks.

Download or read book New Studies in Latin Linguistics written by Robert Coleman and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 29 papers in this volume cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from the Glottalic Theory and Lachmann's Law to the hermeneutic analysis of text-structure in Tacitus' Germania. The volume focuses on three themes specifically: the morphology and semantics of lexical formation; the internal and external syntax of the noun phrase; and the pragmatics of textual cohesion. The papers are descriptive rather than historical in approach, and most of the contributors are Latinists by training. For this reason the volume will be of interest not only for philologists and general linguists but also for those working with the Latin language.

Download or read book Creation of the Sacred written by Walter Burkert and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacrifice is essential to all religions. Could there be a natural, even biological, reason? Why are sacrifice and numerous other religious rituals and concepts shared by so many different cultures? In this extraordinary book, one of the world’s leading authorities on ancient religions explores the possibility of natural religion.

Download or read book Latin written by Renato Oniga and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2014 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides a user-friendly guide to the study of the phonological, morphological, and syntactic properties of Latin. It combines clear explanations with rich examples and offers a new approach to the study of Latin from the perspective of contemporary linguistics that will appeal to undergraduate students and researchers alike.

Download or read book Studies in the Origins Development and Interpretation of the Kizzuwatna Rituals written by Jared L. Miller and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2004 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised thesis (doctoral) - Universit'at, W'urzburg, 2003.

Download or read book Bibliotheca Grammaticorum written by Florent A. Tremblay and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Historical Geography of Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Colony Period written by Gojko Barjamovic and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study includes a revised model of the historical geography of Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Colony Period (c. 1969-1715 BC), that is based on topographical, archaeological, and written records. The book challenges traditional views of Anatolian geography by using arguments based on logistics, infrastructure, and the organization of trade to suggest a new interpretation focused on central markets, fluctuating prices, and interlocking regional systems of exchange. The historical implications of this revised geography for Old Assyrian and early Hittite history and Bronze Age archaeology are extensively discussed. The book contains translations and discussions of passages from hundreds of published and unpublished Old Assyrian texts and gives a comprehensive inventory of Anatolian toponyms, accompanied by numerous photographs and maps.

Download or read book Approaches to Homer Ancient and Modern written by Robert J. Rabel and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2005-12-31 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten new essays, from a distinguished cast of (mainly) North American scholars, approach Homer with insights gained from the modern disciplines of psychology and anthropology, narratology, oral theory and cognitive research. But the contributors also attend to ancient modes of approach to the Homeric poems: linguistic and narratological, ethical and psyhological. The volume focuses both on literary technique in the poems, and on the portrayal of characters and peoples, central and marginal.

Download or read book Philosophia Antiqua written by R. W. Sharples and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean written by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopts a pan-Mediterranean approach to the study of medieval medicine and pharmacology, which permits a deeper understanding of broader phenomena such as the transfer of scientific knowledge and cultural exchange. Of great importance to medical historians, medieval historians and scholars of Byzantine, Islamicate, Jewish, and Latin traditions.