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Book Slavery in Ancient Greece

Download or read book Slavery in Ancient Greece written by Yvon Garlan and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Feeding the Democracy

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  • Author : Alfonso Moreno
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2007-10-25
  • ISBN : 0191607789
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book Feeding the Democracy written by Alfonso Moreno and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reliance of democracies on vital supplies of energy from distant and non-democratic sources is probably the most pressing and dangerous problem of modern times, but it is not a new phenomenon. Classical Athens, the birthplace of democracy and the largest and historically most important of the ancient Greek city-states, depended for its survival on the constant importation of grain from overseas lands as remote as Ukraine and southern Russia, and this trade was ultimately controlled by powerful politicians, wealthy landowners, and kings. Alfonso Moreno examines how this resource need determined Athenian foreign policy, prompting recourse to military conquest and ruthless resettlements, and how uncomfortable realities (especially elite control) were made acceptable to popular audiences.This study of ancient trade and politics reveals a Greek world as globalized as our own, and convulsed by the same problems that such interdependence and sophistication entail.

Book Isis

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  • Author : George Sarton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 774 pages

Download or read book Isis written by George Sarton and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brief table of contents of vols. I-XX" in v. 21, p. [502]-618.

Book The American Historical Review

Download or read book The American Historical Review written by John Franklin Jameson and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.

Book Social Forces

Download or read book Social Forces written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Policing Athens

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  • Author : Virginia J. Hunter
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2019-01-15
  • ISBN : 0691656894
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Policing Athens written by Virginia J. Hunter and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From household gossip to public beatings, this social history explores the many channels through which Athenian maintained public order. Virginia Hunter draws mostly on Attic court proceedings, which allowed for a wide range of evidence, including common rumors about a defendant's character and testimony, obtained under torture, of slaves against their masters. She describes Athenian "policing" as a form of social control that took place across a range of private and public levels. Not only does policing appear to have a collective enterprise, but its methods were embedded in a variety of social institutions, resulting in the blurring of the line between state and society. Hunter's inquiry into topics such as household authority, disputes among kin, the presence of slaves in the house, gossip in the home and neighborhood, and forms of public punishment reveals a continuum extending from self-regulation among kn and punititve actions enforced by the state. Recognizing the bias of legal documents toward the wealthy, Hunter concentrates on exposing the voices of the less powerful and less privileged members of society, including women and slaves. In so doing she is among the first to address systematically such important issues as the authority of women, self-help, and corporal punishment. Virginia J. Hunter is Professor of History at York University. She is author of Past and Process in Herodotus and Thucydides (Princeton) and Thucydides, the Artful Reporter (Toronto). Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Hellenic History

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  • Author : George Willis Botsford
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1939
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 508 pages

Download or read book Hellenic History written by George Willis Botsford and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Classical World

Download or read book The Classical World written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy written by Martin Revermann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek comedy flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, both in and beyond Athens. Aristophanes and Menander are the best-known writers whose work is in part extant, but many other dramatists are known from surviving fragments of their plays. This sophisticated but accessible introduction explores the genre as a whole, integrating literary questions (such as characterisation, dramatic technique or diction) with contextual ones (for example audience response, festival context, interface with ritual or political frames). In addition, it also discusses relevant historical issues (political, socio-economic and legal) as well as the artistic and archaeological evidence. The result provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature which will be of help to students at all levels and from a variety of disciplines but will also provide stimulus for further research.

Book The Economics of Ancient Greece

Download or read book The Economics of Ancient Greece written by Humfrey Michell and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1963 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Economics of Ancient Greece

Download or read book The Economics of Ancient Greece written by H. Michell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1940, this book provides an overview of the economy of ancient Greece, with a particular focus on the economy of Athens and its eventual empire. Michell uses literary and epigraphic evidence to detail the main types of revenue generation prevalent in mainland Greece and the Greek islands, such as mining and foreign trade, and provides an introduction discussing the impact of other factors on the Greek economy, including infanticide and Greek economic thought. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in ancient economics and money-making in ancient Greece.

Book The Growth of the Athenian Economy

Download or read book The Growth of the Athenian Economy written by A French and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Between the early sixth and the late fifth century a transformation took place in the fortunes of Athens. Unimportant in the affairs of Greece at the beginning of the sixth century she drew her livelihood from a peasant economy which had become depressed and chaotic. A century later she was leading the Greek confederate states against the forces of Persia itself. By the middle of the fifth century she was the richest, the most powerful, and the most feared state in Europe: visible signs of her wealth and power were the structures, then beginning to rise, which were to make her the wonder of her own age and of millennia to come. It is the aim of this study briefly to document, and if possible to explain this transformation, as far as the surviving data permit.

Book Journal of Economic and Business History

Download or read book Journal of Economic and Business History written by and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book University of Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences

Download or read book University of Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historical Outlook

Download or read book Historical Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: