Download or read book Discontinuity in Greek Civilization written by Rhys Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Discontinuity in Greek Civilization written by Rhys Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Review of Carpenter Discontinuity in Greek Civilization 1966 written by Vincent Robin d'Arba Desborough and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Discontinuity in Greek Civilization written by Rhys Carpenter and published by Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gods Heroes and Tyrants written by Emmet John Sweeney and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Greek history as found in the textbooks leaves spurious OC dark ageOC gaps where the evidence fails to match historians'' fixed ideas. Dramatic claims regarding everything from the Trojan War to the OC Mask of AgamemnonOC are argued in detail from both an archaeological and a literary perspective, unraveling historical conundrums that have stumped classicists for generations."
Download or read book The Ecology of the Ancient Greek World written by Robert Sallares and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering study in historical population biology, this book offers the first comprehensive ecological history of the ancient Greek world. It proposes a new model for treating the relationship between the population and the land, centering on the distribution and abundance of living organisms.
Download or read book The Aristocratic Temper of Greek Civilization written by Chester G. Starr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-04-30 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely reassessment of the vital social, cultural, and political role of the aristocrat in Greek society, this book by distinguished historian Chester G. Starr provides a concise portrait of the upper classes and their way of life. Arguing that the influence of the aristocrat on ancient Hellenic civilizatioln is undervalued by both modern Western and Marxist scholars, Starr takes a close look at the social spectrum of ancient Greece, examining the consequences of the aristocrats' domination of the ancient polis, their involvement in and patronage of the arts, and their impact on the structure of religion and on the ancient Greeks' visual perception of their pantheon of gods. In a final chapter, Starr concludes that the influence of the aristocratic ideal did not end when ancient civilization flickered out, but rather was reborn in the Renaissance and has had powerful effect on the course of modern Western history.
Download or read book The Origins of Greek Civilization written by Chester G. Starr and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **** A reprint, without changes, of the Knopf edition, 1961 (which is cited in BCL3). Like the original (undoubtedly), this, too, is printed on acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Other Greeks written by Victor Davis Hanson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-12-22 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Hanson shows that the "Greek revolution" was not the rise of a free and democratic urban culture, but rather the historic innovation of the independent family farm."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Ancient Greeks written by John Van Antwerp Fine and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Fine offers a major reassessment of the history of Greece from prehistoric times to the rise of Alexander. Throughout he indicates the nature of the evidence on which our present knowledge is based, masterfully explaining the problems and pitfalls in interpreting ancient accounts.
Download or read book Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece written by William A. Percy and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining impeccable scholarship with accessible, straightforward prose, Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece argues that institutionalized pederasty began after 650 B.C., far later than previous authors have thought, and was initiated as a means of stemming overpopulation in the upper class. William Armstrong Percy III maintains that Cretan sages established a system under which a young warrior in his early twenties took a teenager of his own aristocratic background as a beloved until the age of thirty, when service to the state required the older partner to marry. The practice spread with significant variants to other Greek-speaking areas. In some places it emphasized development of the athletic, warrior individual, while in others both intellectual and civic achievement were its goals. In Athens it became a vehicle of cultural transmission, so that the best of each older cohort selected, loved, and trained the best of the younger. Pederasty was from the beginning both physical and emotional, the highest and most intense type of male bonding. These pederastic bonds, Percy believes, were responsible for the rise of Hellas and the "Greek miracle": in two centuries the population of Attica, a mere 45,000 adult males in six generations, produced an astounding number of great men who laid the enduring foundations of Western thought and civilization.
Download or read book Environmental Problems of the Greeks and Romans written by J. Donald Hughes and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did ancient societies change the environment and how do their actions continue to affect us today? In this dramatically revised and expanded second edition of the work entitled Pan’s Travail, J. Donald Hughes examines the environmental history of the classical period and argues that the decline of ancient civilizations resulted in part from their exploitation of the natural world. Focusing on Greece and Rome, as well as areas subject to their influences, Hughes offers a detailed look at the impact of humans and their technologies on the ecology of the Mediterranean basin. Evidence of deforestation in ancient Greece, the remains of Roman aqueducts and mines, and paintings on centuries-old pottery that depict agricultural activities document ancient actions that resulted in detrimental consequences to the environment. Hughes compares the ancient world's environmental problems to other persistent social problems and discusses attitudes toward nature expressed in Greek and Latin literature. In addition to extensive revisions based on the latest research, this new edition includes photographs from Hughes's worldwide excursions, a new chapter on warfare and the environment, and an updated bibliography.
Download or read book New Directions and Paradigms for the Study of Greek Architecture written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Directions and Paradigms for the Study of Greek Architecture collects chapters by nearly three dozen scholars who describe recent discoveries, new theoretical frameworks, and applications of cutting-edge techniques in their architectural research.
Download or read book The Recurring Dark Ages written by Sing C. Chew and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2007 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this modern era of global environmental crisis, Sing Chew provides a convincing analysis of a 5,000-year history of recurring human and environmental crises_a Dark Ages significant in defining the relationship between nature and culture. The author's message about the coming Dark Ages, as human communities continue to reorganize to meet the contingencies of ecological scarcity and climate changes, is a must-read for those concerned with human interactions and environmental changes, including environmental anthropologists and historians, world historians, geographers, archaeologists, and environmental scientists.
Download or read book The Historical Evolution of World Systems written by C. Chase-Dunn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-02-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise and decline of great powers remains a fascinating topic of vigorous debate. This book brings together leading scholars to explore the historical evolution of world systems through examining the ebb and flow of great powers over time, with particular emphasis on early time periods. The book advances understanding of the regularities in the dynamics of empire and the expansion of political, social and economic interaction networks, from the Bronze Age forward. The authors analyze the expansion and contraction of cross-cultural trade networks and systems of competing and allying political groupings. In premodern times, theses ranged from small local trading networks (even the very small ones of hunting-gathering peoples) to the vast Mongol world-system. Within such systems, there is usually one, or a very few, hegemonic powers. How they achieve dominance and how transitions lead to systems change are important topics, particularly at a time when the United States' position is in flux. The chapters in this book review several recent approaches and present a wealth of new findings.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Greco Roman Mythology written by Mike Dixon-Kennedy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedia of Greco-Roman Mythology presents over 1,400 comprehensive A–Z entries of the myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome. The entries are cross-referenced where appropriate, and an extensive bibliography is provided. Entries include Heracles and Alexander the Great, and geographical features such as the islands of the Blessed and Dardanelles. An unusual feature of this dictionary is the inclusion of astronomical data, linking the myths and legends to the celestial objects named after them. Diverse characters and events from related traditions—Greco-Egyptian, Roman-Celtic, and more—round out the volume. Students of classical Greek and Roman traditions, librarians, and general readers will turn to this volume again and again for authoritative information on the myths and legends of these ancient cultures.
