Download or read book Death by Greek Fire written by B R Stateham and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A raw and inexperienced Roman legion finds itself encamped on a small hill deep in enemy territory. Dalmatian rebels surrounds the legion and is preparing to do battle the moment dawn begins to drive away the night. But disaster of divine proportions descends upon the legion. Apparently a god has decided to punish the Roman legion. A huge explosion rips apart the upper regions of the hill, instantly vaporizing over a third of the legion's strength. All of the commanding officers are dead. All . . . except one. Decimus Julius Virilis is the Camp Perfect of the legion. The third-in-command. Somehow he survives. And now he has the herculean task of whipping his men back into a fighting unit. If he fails, the Dalmatian rebels will descend out of the hills and destroy them all. And he has another herculean task. It comes to his attention the explosion was not caused by some angry god. It was man-made. If he survives the day, and if Roman arms arrives in time to save them all, he must find those who devised this massive and premeditated plan of mass murder and bring them to justice. The harsh justice of only the Roman Army accepts.
Download or read book Death by Greek Fire written by B.R. Stateham and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-12-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After twenty years as a professional soldier, Decimus Julius Virilis - distant kin to the Imperator himself - has been commissioned the third in command of the newly formed Legio XII Brundisium. It's his last assignment before retiring from Caesar Augustus’ legions - and turns out to be much more dangerous than he anticipated. After being shipped off to Dalmatia to fight the rebels waging war against Rome, the untrained legion immediately blunders into a death trap deep in enemy territory, leaving the commanding officer and his lieutenants dead. Decimus is commanded by the heir apparent, Tiberius Caesar, to find the mastermind who planned the diabolical trap and is attempting to plunge the Roman Empire back into a civil war. But can the Roman tribune see the unseen and solve a crime others think is impossible? Set in the time of the Roman Empire, Death By Greek Fire is the first book in B.R. Stateham's 'Decimus Julius Virilis' series of historical mystery novels.
Download or read book Greek Fire Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs written by Adrienne Mayor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A comprehensive look at WMD's antecedents, from flamethrowers of the Peloponnesian War to plague-bearing booby traps.... Rich and entertaining." -Newsweek Featuring a new introduction by the author. Flamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the large-scale spreading of disease... are these terrifying agents and implements of warfare modern inventions? Not by a long shot. Weapons of biological and chemical warfare have been in use for thousands of years, and Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs, Adrienne Mayor's fascinating exploration of the origins of biological and unethical warfare draws extraordinary connections between the mythical worlds of Hercules and the Trojan War, the accounts of Herodotus and Thucydides, and modern methods of war and terrorism. Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs will catapult readers into the dark and fascinating realm of ancient war and mythic treachery-and their devastating consequences.
Download or read book Greek Fire written by Helen Long and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reading Greek Death written by Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a series of in-depth studies of the beliefs, attitudes, and rituals surrounding death in ancient Greece, from the Minoan and Mycenean period to the end of the classical age. Drawing on a wide range of evidence--from literary texts, to inscriptions, to images in art--Sourvinou-Inwood sheds light on many key, still problematic, aspects of Greek life, myth, and literature. She also looks at the problem of "reading" this material within the context of our own culturally-determined beliefs.
Download or read book Death in the Greek World written by Maria Serena Mirto and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines ancient Greek conceptions of death and the afterlife In our contemporary Western society, death has become taboo. Despite its inevitability, we focus on maintaining youthfulness and well-being, while fearing death's intrusion in our daily activities. In contrast, observes Maria Serena Mirto, the ancient Greeks embraced death more openly and effectively, developing a variety of rituals to help them grieve the dead and, in the process, alleviate anxiety and suffering. In this fascinating book, Mirto examines conceptions of death and the afterlife in the ancient Greek world, revealing few similarities-and many differences-between ancient and modern ways of approaching death. Exploring the cultural and religious foundations underlying Greek burial rites and customs, Mirto traces the evolution of these practices during the archaic and classical periods. She explains the relationship between the living and the dead as reflected in grave markers, epitaphs, and burial offerings and discusses the social and political dimensions of burial and lamentation. She also describes shifting beliefs about life after death, showing how concepts of immortality, depicted so memorably in Homer's epics, began to change during the classical period. Death in the Greek World straddles the boundary between literary and religious imagination and synthesizes observations from archaeology, visual art, philosophy, politics, and law. The author places particular emphasis on Homer's epics, the first literary testimony of an understanding of death in ancient Greece. And because these stories are still so central to Western culture, her discussion casts new light on elements we thought we had already understood. Originally written and published in Italian, this English-language translation of Death in the Greek World includes the most recent scholarship on newly discovered texts and objects, and engages the latest theoretical perspectives on the gendered roles of men and women as agents of mourning. The volume also features a new section dealing with hero cults and a new appendix outlining fundamental developments in modern studies of death in the ancient Greek world. Volume 44 in the Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture Maria Serena Mirto is Associate Professor of Classical Philology, Department of Classics, University of Pisa, Italy. A. M. Osborne holds an MA in Modern and Medieval Languages from the University of Cambridge, and an MA with distinction in Literary Translation from the University of East Anglia. A resident of the United Kingdom, she currently translates both academic and literary texts.
Download or read book Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry written by Emily Vermeule and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Greeks devoted a significant portion of their poetic and artistic energy to exploring themes of death. Vermeule examines the facts and fictions of Greek death, including burial and mourning, visions of the underworld, souls and ghosts, the value of heroic death in battle, the quest for immortality, the linked powers of death, sleep, and love, and more. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.
Download or read book Greek Fire written by Oliver Taplin and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1989 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores what has been made out of ancient Greece, and how the modern world has been inspired by, reacted against, imitated, transformed, parodied, recycled, subverted or received Greek culture. It is a brilliant attempt by one of our leading classical scholars to show why a new and fluid view of the Greek ideal - quite different from that of Renaissance painters or Victorian builders - is surfacing in our lives today and what the phenomenon might signify to us as we approach the twenty-first century. Visually spectacular and constantly surprising, this book is linked with a series of television documentaries made by Transatlantic Films with Channel 4.
Download or read book Fire Ice and Physics written by Rebecca C. Thompson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the science in George R. R. Martin’s fantastical world, from the physics of an ice wall to the genetics of the Targaryens and Lannisters Game of Thrones is a fantasy that features a lot of made-up science—fabricated climatology (when is winter coming?), astronomy, metallurgy, chemistry, and biology. Most fans of George R. R. Martin’s fantastical world accept it all as part of the magic. A trained scientist, watching the fake science in Game of Thrones, might think, “But how would it work?” In Fire, Ice, and Physics, Rebecca Thompson turns a scientist’s eye on Game of Thrones, exploring, among other things, the science of an ice wall, the genetics of the Targaryen and Lannister families, and the biology of beheading. Thompson, a PhD in physics and an enthusiastic Game of Thrones fan, uses the fantasy science of the show as a gateway to some interesting real science, introducing GOT fandom to a new dimension of appreciation. Thompson starts at the beginning, with winter, explaining seasons and the very elliptical orbit of the Earth that might cause winter to come (or not come). She tells us that ice can behave like ketchup, compares regular steel to Valyrian steel, explains that dragons are “bats, but with fire,” and considers Targaryen inbreeding. Finally she offers scientific explanations of the various types of fatal justice meted out, including beheading, hanging, poisoning (reporting that the effects of “the Strangler,” administered to Joffrey at the Purple Wedding, resemble the effects of strychnine), skull crushing, and burning at the stake. Even the most faithful Game of Thrones fans will learn new and interesting things about the show from Thompson’s entertaining and engaging account. Fire, Ice, and Physics is an essential companion for all future bingeing.
Download or read book The Great Fire of Rome written by Joseph J. Walsh and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers interested in ancient (and modern) Rome, urban life, and civic disasters, among other things, will be fascinated by this book.
Download or read book Greek Fire written by Clara Rising and published by Xlibris Corp. This book was released on 2006-06-30 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the peaceful summits of Delphi to the political turmoil that spawned democracy, the story of Athens becomes a paradigm, if not a photocopy predicting the history of western civilization. To understand Pericles, who lived its dreams, is a lesson in forbearance for our own time. Guts and imagination built "the glory that was Greece." Despite war and plague, defeat and disaster, an idea was born that is still the hope of mankind. We glibly accept our freedom as a birthright, but never has that freedom seemed more precarious or more precious than now, in the 21st century. To meet the people who caused democrary to happen-the cunning Themistocles, the steadfast Leonidas, the legendary Cleisthenes-is an experience as enduring as Mt. Parnassus. Enduring too, is the love between Pericles and Aspasia, a beautiful, brilliant girl from Miletus, in Ionia. Their love affair is one of the greatest in ancient history. Some have said that Aspasia inspired the building of the Parthenon. The Parthenon, too, becomes a character, with its own secrets, including the 192 horesman on its inner frieze-the exact number of Greeks buried at Marathon-and a treasury room at the western end that once held the golden throne used by Xerxes to watch his victory at Salamis, which became, instead, the defeat that ended Persia's tyranny over Greece. THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY: The Story of Pericles is the result of five years' intensive research. Technically, it is fiction, but the author agrees, with Gore Vidal, that the term "fiction" does not necessarily mean "false." On the contrary, the imagination necessary to transfer fact into something that can be felt with emotions is often closer to thetruth than cold statistics. Or at least Clara Rising (Ph.D. English/Philosophy, retired professor of Humanities) thinks so. Mother of four, grandmother of six, great-grandmother of one, in her 80th year she rides an Arabian who became the model for the little mare Pericles canters in Chapter One.
Download or read book The Standard History of the World written by John Herbert Clifford and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Greek Fire Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs written by Adrienne Mayor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of war Flamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the large-scale spreading of disease: are these terrifying agents of warfare modern inventions? Not by a long shot. In this riveting history of the origins of unconventional war, Adrienne Mayor shows that cultures around the world have used biological and chemical weapons for thousands of years—and debated the morality of doing so. Drawing extraordinary connections between the mythical worlds of Hercules and the Trojan War, the accounts of Herodotus and Thucydides, and modern methods of war and terrorism, this richly illustrated history catapults readers into the dark and fascinating realm of ancient war and mythic treachery.
Download or read book The Taktika of Leo VI written by Leo VI (Emperor of the East) and published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern critical edition of the complete text of the 'Takita', including a facing English translation, explanatory notes, and extensive indexes.
Download or read book The Standard History of the World by Great Historians written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern history written by Israel Smith Clare and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book News Coverage of Global Disasters written by Michael McCluskey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: News Coverage of Global Disasters: Journalism’s Power to Aid Healing and Recovery addresses an under-explored aspect of news, arguing that journalism helps people heal and recover in the aftermath of significant traumas. This comparative analysis draws from local and international news in eight countries around the world that suffered a natural disaster in 2018. The book evaluates ten news themes that aid healing, coping, hope and recovery during and after a natural disaster. Analysis shows that these ten characteristics are a common element within news, transcending national borders. The book brings together contemporary theories of news choice and practice with examination of the journalistic culture within each country. Analysis also includes contextual and structural factors within each country and national disaster. Evaluation shows some characteristics of a common journalistic culture and other patterns primarily due to unique elements of a national culture. The book mixes quantitative and qualitative data to provide a rich analysis. It also fills a gap in international comparative studies of news content.
