Download or read book Rome s Debt to Greece written by Alan Wardman and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 2002-07-25 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a study of Roman attitudes to the Greek world, showing what Romans of the governing class thought about Greeks, both past and contemporary. It considers the practical effects of Philhellenism in Rome and surveys Rome's attempts to assimilate Greek literature. Wardman discusses the faults and virtues of the Greeks through Roman eyes; Roman views on use of the Greek language and Greek art; Roman readings of Homer; interpretations of Greek history and historians; evaluations of Greek rhetorical theory; and the problems they faced in turning Greek philosophy into Latin. The book ranges from the age of Cicero to the second century AD and provides an overall, thematically arranged survey. It is designed to be useful to all students of Greek and Roman civilisation and appeal to all who are interested in the reception of Hellenism. Quotations are in translation, so it is readily accessible to those who do not read the ancient languages.

Download or read book Our Debt to Greece and Rome written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Our Debt to Greece and Rome written by Edward Bolland Osborn and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book OUR DEBT TO GREECE AND ROME written by OUR DEBT TO GREECE AND ROME and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Our Debt to Greece and Rome written by and published by . This book was released on 196? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Our debt to Greece and Rome by E B Osborn written by E. B. Osborn and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Our Debt to Greece and Rome written by Marshall Jones Company and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Our debt to Greece and Rome written by Eric Francis Osborn and published by . This book was released on 1924* with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Classical Debt written by Johanna Hanink and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the International Monetary Fund’s first bailout of Greece’s sinking economy in 2010, the phrase “Greek debt” has meant one thing to the country’s creditors. But for millions who claim to prize culture over capital, it means something quite different: the symbolic debt that Western civilization owes to Greece for furnishing its principles of democracy, philosophy, mathematics, and fine art. Where did this other idea of Greek debt come from, Johanna Hanink asks, and why does it remain so compelling today? The Classical Debt investigates our abiding desire to view Greece through the lens of the ancient past. Though classical Athens was in reality a slave-owning imperial power, the city-state of Socrates and Pericles is still widely seen as a utopia of wisdom, justice, and beauty—an idealization that the ancient Athenians themselves assiduously cultivated. Greece’s allure as a travel destination dates back centuries, and Hanink examines many historical accounts that express disappointment with a Greek people who fail to live up to modern fantasies of the ancient past. More than any other movement, the spread of European philhellenism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries carved idealized conceptions of Greece in marble, reinforcing the Western habit of comparing the Greece that is with the Greece that once was. Today, as the European Union teeters and neighboring nations are convulsed by political unrest and civil war, Greece finds itself burdened by economic hardship and an unprecedented refugee crisis. Our idealized image of ancient Greece dangerously shapes how we view these contemporary European problems.

Download or read book Debt in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East written by John Weisweiler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his Debt: The First 5000 Years, the anthropologist David Graeber put forward a new grand narrative of world history. From the Late Bronze Age onwards, all across the Near East and Mediterranean, relationships of mutual obligation were transformed into quantifiable and legally enforceable debts. Graeber suggests that this transformation made possible new economic institutions, such as IOUs, coinage, and chattel slavery. It also led to the emergence of modes of thought that have shaped Eurasian philosophical and religious traditions ever since. Debt in the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East explores the implications of this theory for the history of the Mediterranean and Near East. A distinguished group of ancient historians assesses how well Graeber's interpretations fit current understandings of ancient and late antique economies. At the same time, this volume offers a history of premodern credit systems which takes seriously the dual nature of debt as both quantifiable economic reality and immeasurable social obligation. By exploring the diverse ways in which social relationships were quantified in different ancient and late antique societies, the work introduces a method of writing the history of premodern systems of exchange that departs from the currently dominant paradigm of neo-institutional economics.

Download or read book Euripides and His Influence written by Frank Laurence Lucas and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Our Debt to Greece and Rome Editors G P Hadzsits D M Robinson written by George Depue HADZSITS (and ROBINSON (David Moore)) and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Greek Slogan of Freedom and Early Roman Politics in Greece written by Sviatoslav Dmitriev and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book elucidates the many uses of the slogan of freedom by ancient Greeks, beginning with the Peloponnesian war and continuing throughout the Hellenistic period, and shows in detail how the Romans appropriated and adjusted Greek political vocabulary and practices to establish the pax Romana over the Mediterranean world.

Download or read book Ancient Education and Its Meaning to Us written by John Frederic Dobson and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Social History of Greece and Rome written by Michael Grant and published by Charles Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 1992 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on recent techniques practiced in archaeology and anthropology, Michael Grant reveals the ancient Greece and Rome of the common people--men and women citizens as well as slaves and freedmen and women--and adds a human dimension to more standard accounts of political and military events. "Grant blows the dust off our timeworn images. . . ".--Publishers Weekly.