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Book The Arkadians

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lloyd Alexander
  • Publisher : Turtleback Books
  • Release : 1997-06
  • ISBN : 9780613028080
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Arkadians written by Lloyd Alexander and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1997-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. To escape the wrath of the king and his wicked soothsayers, an honest young man joins a poet-turned-jackass and a young girl with mystical powers on a series of epic adventures.

Book The Arkadians

Download or read book The Arkadians written by Lloyd Alexander and published by Dutton Juvenile. This book was released on 1995 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To escape the wrath of the king and his wicked soothsayers, an honest young man joins with a poet-turned-jackass and a young girl with mystical powers on a series of epic adventures"--Title page verso.

Book Arkadia

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  • Author : Thomas Heine Nielsen
  • Publisher : Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9788778761606
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book Arkadia written by Thomas Heine Nielsen and published by Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. This book was released on 1999 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sociable Man

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  • Author : S. D. Lambert
  • Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
  • Release : 2011-12-31
  • ISBN : 1910589217
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book Sociable Man written by S. D. Lambert and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociable Man, which celebrates the work of Nick Fisher, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University, contains essays by leading classicists, ancient historians and archaeologists on the theme of ancient Greek social behaviour. Fifteen original papers reflect the diversity and the unities in the honorand's interests: politics and law (Hans van Wees on Solon's law of hybris, John K. Davies on the biography of a fourth-century Athenian politician); social values, including honour, dishonour and hybris (Stephen Lambert on honorific inscriptions, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones on domestic violence, Louis Rawlings on a dog named Hybris, James Whitley on victory dedications, Douglas Cairns on ransom and revenge in Homer); social relations in the Athenian navy (Sam Potts); gender and power (Janett Morgan on gendering of domestic space, Sian Lewis on women and tyranny, Ruth Westgate on animal imagery in mosaics); citizen identity, Athenian (Robin Osborne on the influence of Attic local environments on citizen formation) and Arcadian (James Roy on the Arcadian reputation for backwardness); and sexuality (David Konstan on Alciphron and the invention of pornography, Emma Stafford on masturbation). The papers will be essential reading for researchers and students of ancient Greek literature, history and archaeology. The book also includes tributes by Paul Cartledge and P. J. Shaw, respectively, on Fisher's place in research and teaching of ancient Greek social history.

Book A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean

Download or read book A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean written by Jeremy McInerney and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean presents a comprehensive collection of essays contributed by Classical Studies scholars that explore questions relating to ethnicity in the ancient Mediterranean world. Covers topics of ethnicity in civilizations ranging from ancient Egypt and Israel, to Greece and Rome, and into Late Antiquity Features cutting-edge research on ethnicity relating to Philistine, Etruscan, and Phoenician identities Reveals the explicit relationships between ancient and modern ethnicities Introduces an interpretation of ethnicity as an active component of social identity Represents a fundamental questioning of formally accepted and fixed categories in the field

Book The Temple of Apollo Bassitas  The architecture

Download or read book The Temple of Apollo Bassitas The architecture written by Frederick A. Cooper and published by ASCSA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This substantial volume aims to provide `a comprehensive description of each and every physical attribute of the architecture of the original temple'.

Book Seeds  Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2018

Download or read book Seeds Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2018 written by Mark McWilliams and published by Oxford Food Symposium. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection contains papers presented on the theme of Seeds at the 2018 Oxford Food Symposium. Thirty-six articles by forty-one authors are included.

Book The Greek World  479 323 BC

Download or read book The Greek World 479 323 BC written by Simon Hornblower and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek World479'¬ ;323 BChas been an indispensable guide to classical Greek history since its first publication. Simon Hornblower has comprehensively re-written and revised his original text, bringing it up-to-date for a new generation of readers. The extensive changes include: two important new chapters '¬ ;Argos, and the Peloponnesian War the incorporation of further primary sources more than thirty new illustrations the insertion of user-friendly subheadings a completely updated bibliography. With valuable coverage of the broader Mediterranean world in which Greek culture flourished, as well as close examination of Athens, Sparta, and the other great city-states of Greece itself, this third edition of a classic work is a more essential read than ever before.

Book The Hellenistic Peloponnese

Download or read book The Hellenistic Peloponnese written by Ioanna Kralli and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existing treatments of Peloponnesian history are fragmented by poleis and period. This book offers a comprehensive narrative of the political history of the entire Peloponnese from 371 to 146 BC, using both literary and epigraphic evidence. In the Hellenistic Peloponnese a long shadow was cast by the geo-political changes of the 4th century. Many continuities trace back to the forty years after Leuktra (371-330). Internal divisions and alliances are interwoven with the interventions of external powers: Thebans, Macedonian rulers, and finally the Romans. The author's findings reveal remarkable consistencies in the history of the Peloponnese. After Sparta's long-invincible army was defeated at the battle of Leuktra, there was much in Sparta's influence which was far from crushed. Not only did Sparta's confidence persist, as she agitated for centuries to renew her power; other states of the Peloponnese conducted their own foreign policies in reaction either to Sparta's decline or, especially, to her resurgence - and to the prospect of further resurgence still. The book reveals continuity as regards Sparta in the foreign policies of Elis, most of Arkadia, Messenia, and the Achaian Confederacy. These definite patterns formed Peloponnesian history far beyond the narrow relation of each community to Sparta: they also shaped the relation of most major Peloponnesian powers to each other.

Book Gregory of Nazianzus

Download or read book Gregory of Nazianzus written by Jostein Børtnes and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory of Nazianzus (ca. 330-390) is one of the three Greek church fathers from Cappadocia. This book explores both his theology and his general importance as an independent thinker, profile writer, orator, and poet. Gregory has often been in the shadow of the other Cappadocians - Basil of Ceasarea and Gregory of Nyssa.

Book A Companion to Sparta

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  • Author : Anton Powell
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2017-10-18
  • ISBN : 1119072387
  • Pages : 840 pages

Download or read book A Companion to Sparta written by Anton Powell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume A Companion to Sparta presents the first comprehensive, multi-authored series of essays to address all aspects of Spartan history and society from its origins in the Greek Dark Ages to the late Roman Empire. Offers a lucid, comprehensive introduction to all aspects of Sparta, a community recognised by contemporary cities as the greatest power in classical Greece Features in-depth coverage of Sparta history and culture contributed by an international cast including almost every noted specialist and scholar in the field Provides over a dozen images of Spartan art that reveal the evolution of everyday life in Sparta Sheds new light on a modern controversy relating to changes in Spartan society from the Archaic to Classical periods

Book The Polis as an Urban Centre and as a Political Community

Download or read book The Polis as an Urban Centre and as a Political Community written by Mogens Herman Hansen and published by Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. This book was released on 1997 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sparta  Unfit for Empire

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  • Author : Godfrey Hutchinson
  • Publisher : Frontline Books
  • Release : 2014-11-17
  • ISBN : 1473845890
  • Pages : 422 pages

Download or read book Sparta Unfit for Empire written by Godfrey Hutchinson and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of the Peloponnesian War saw Sparta emerge as the dominant power in the Greek world. Had she used this position wisely her hegemony might have been secure. As it was, she embarked on actions that her former allies, Thebes and Korinth, refused to support. The rise of Thebes as a threatening power to Sparta's control of Greece was largely the result of the brilliant exploits of Epaminondas and Pelopidas whose obvious examination of Spartan tactics allowed them to provide counters to them. While noting the political issues, Godfrey Hutchinson's focus is upon the strategic and tactical elements of warfare in a period almost wholly coinciding with the reign of the brilliant commander, Agesilaos, one of the joint kings of Sparta, who, astonishingly, campaigned successfully into his eighties.

Book Classica et Mediaevalia vol 49

Download or read book Classica et Mediaevalia vol 49 written by Ole Thomsen and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 1999-02-17 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classica et Mediaevalia - Volume 49

Book Polis   Politics

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  • Author : Pernille Flensted-Jensen
  • Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9788772896281
  • Pages : 426 pages

Download or read book Polis Politics written by Pernille Flensted-Jensen and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 35 articles devoted to different aspects of the Greek polis and is intended not only as a present for Mogens Herman Hansen on his sixtieth birthday, but also as a way of thanking him for his significant contributions to the field of Greek history over the past three decades.

Book Archaic and Classical Greece

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  • Author : Michael H. Crawford
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1983-01-13
  • ISBN : 1139935623
  • Pages : 587 pages

Download or read book Archaic and Classical Greece written by Michael H. Crawford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-01-13 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to collect in one comprehensive volume a representative selection of ancient sources in translation, with commentary, on the history, institutions, society and economy of the Greek world from c. 750 to 338 BC - that is, the period best known and most important for the evolution of the polis, a form of political community which combined the aspects of city and state in a physical and psychological unity unparalleled either before or since. For us, the inheritors of much that the Greeks created, there is an inherent interest in the way in which they organised their society during these centuries. Although this book assumes no knowledge of Greek, the reader is introduced to a range of key Greek words and concepts which offer a direct insight into the mentality, both collective and individual, of the times. The sources themselves (all of which have been translated by the authors) are supported by introductory commentary, notes, bibliographies, chronological tables and maps. All students and teachers of the history of ancient Greece or of classical civilisation generally will find this book an invaluable tool.

Book Sparta and Lakonia

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  • Author : Paul Cartledge
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-04-15
  • ISBN : 1135864489
  • Pages : 373 pages

Download or read book Sparta and Lakonia written by Paul Cartledge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fully revised and updated edition of his groundbreaking study, Paul Cartledge uncovers the realities behind the potent myth of Sparta. The book explores both the city-state of Sparta and the territory of Lakonia which it unified and exploited. Combining the more traditional written sources with archaeological and environmental perspectives, its coverage extends from the apogee of Mycenaean culture, to Sparta's crucial defeat at the battle of Mantinea in 362 BC.