Download or read book The Way to Chaeronea written by Hugo Montgomery and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1983 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the relations between Athens and Macedonia during some dramatic years in the 4th century B.C. Montgomery analyzes the speeches of the great orator Demosthenes to elucidate the political play behind the Athenian decision to go to war against King Philip II during the Elatea crisis of 338.
Download or read book Plutarch s Cities written by Lucia Athanassaki and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch's Cities is the first comprehensive attempt to assess the significance of the polis in Plutarch's works from several perspectives, namely the polis as a physical entity, a lived experience, and a source of inspiration, the polis as a historical and sociopolitical unit, the polis as a theoretical construct and paradigm to think with. The book's multifocal and multi-perspectival examination of Plutarch's cities - past and present, real and ideal-yields some remarkable corrections of his conventional image. Plutarch was neither an antiquarian nor a philosopher of the desk. He was not oblivious to his surroundings but had a keen interest in painting, sculpture, monuments, and inscriptions, about which he acquired impressive knowledge in order to help him understand and reconstruct the past. Cult and ritual proved equally fertile for Plutarch's visual imagination. Whereas historiography was the backbone of his reconstruction of the past and evaluation of the present, material culture, cult, and ritual were also sources of inspiration to enliven past and present alike. Plato's descriptions of Athenian houses and the Attic landscape were also a source of inspiration, but Plutarch clearly did his own research, based on autopsy and on oral and written sources. Plutarch, Plato's disciple and Apollo's priest, was on balance a pragmatist. He did not resist the temptation to contemplate the ideal city, but he wrote much more about real cities, as he experienced or imagined them.
Download or read book The Province of Achaea in the 2nd Century CE written by Anna Kouremenos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-06 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Province of Achaea in the 2nd Century CE explores the conception and utilization of the Greek past in the Roman province of Achaea in the 2nd century CE, and the reception of the artistic, cultural, and intellectual outputs of this century in later periods. Achaea, often defined by international scholars as "old Greece", was the only Roman province located entirely within the confines of the Modern Greek state. In many ways, Achaea in the 2nd century CE witnessed a second Golden Age, one based on collective historical nostalgia under Roman imperial protection and innovation. The papers in this volume are holistic in scope, with special emphasis on Roman imperial relations with the people of Achaea and their conceptualizations of their past. Material culture, monumental and domestic spaces, and artistic representations are discussed, as well as the literary output of individuals like Plutarch, Herodes Atticus, Aelius Aristides, and others. The debate over Roman influence in various Hellenic cities and the significance of collective historical nostalgia also feature in this volume, as does the utilization of Achaea’s past in the Roman present within the wider empire. As this century has produced the highest percentage of archaeological and literary material from the Roman period in the province under consideration, the time is ripe to position it more firmly in the academic discourse of studies of the Roman Empire. The Province of Achaea in the 2nd Century CE will appeal to scholars, students, and other individuals who are interested in the history, archaeology, art, and literature of the Graeco-Roman world and its reception.
Download or read book Enterprising Endeavour Scorpius Rising written by John LaJoie and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-07-24 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking out an unknown signal transmitted from Earth into interstellar space, the Starship Avalerion has reached Scorpii 18 star system only to discover the lost starship NX-Fearless and itâs not alone. An unprovoked attack brought on by a race called the Nodulians launches Captain Angela Joliea and her crew into action as they try to find a way of escape after their primitive weapons are found useless. As the crew faces the possibility of death, the ship is contacted by the Debari who offer protection. Encountering other species of the Scorpius Realm, they soon discover that war has no boundaries when it comes to the Nodulians.
Download or read book Pyrrho s Way written by Douglas C. Bates and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PYRRHO'S WAY lays out the Pyrrhonist path for modern readers, giving clear guidance on how to apply Pyrrhonist practice to everyday life to achieve inner peace. If Buddhist wisdom has ever appealed to you, but you found Buddhism's paradoxes and endless hours of meditation to be a barrier, Pyrrhonism is for you.
Download or read book Enterprising Endeavour Descendants written by John LaJoie and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossing through a mysterious wormhole, the Starship Avalerion has returned to Earth, or has it? Emerging ahead of the Nodulian invasion force bent on consuming Earth's natural resources, the crew of the lone ship prepares for the battle they know cannot be won alone. Seeking out the last reminants of humanity beneath the landscape of Mars, Captain Angela Joliea and her crew discover the truth behind the disappearance of the defending task force and the fate of those left behind. Facing the implausible chance they may have entered an alternate timeline, the discovery of an unknown descendant holds the key to altering the course of events that will change mankind forever.
Download or read book The Courts of Philip II and Alexander the Great written by Frances Pownall and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent scholarship has recognized that Philip II and Alexander the Great adopted elements of their self-fashioning and court ceremonial from previous empires in the Ancient Near East, but it is generally assumed that the advent of the Macedonian court as a locus of politics and culture occurred only in the post-Alexander landscape of the Hellenistic Successors. This volume of ground-breaking essays by leading scholars on Ancient Macedonia goes beyond existing research questions to assess the profound impact of Philip and Alexander on court culture throughout the ages. The papers in this volume offer a thematic approach, focusing upon key institutional, cultural, social, ideological, and iconographical aspects of the reigns of Philip and Alexander. The authors treat the Macedonian court not only as a historical reality, but also as an object of fascination to contemporary Greeks that ultimately became a topos in later reflections on the lives and careers of Philip and Alexander. This collection of papers provides a paradigm-shifting recognition of the seminal roles of Philip and Alexander in the emergence of a new kind of Macedonian kingship and court culture that was spectacularly successful and transformative.
Download or read book The Orators and Their Treatment of the Recent Past written by Aggelos Kapellos and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the representation of the recent past in classical Athenian oratory and investigates the ability of the orators to interpret it according to their interests; the inability of the Athenians to make an objective assessment of it; and the unwillingness of the citizens to hear the truth, make self-criticism and take responsibility for bad results. Twenty-eight scholars have written chapters to this end, dealing with a wide range of themes, in terms both of contents and of chronology, from the fifth to the fourth century B.C. Each contributor has written a chapter that analyzes one or more historical events mentioned or alluded in the corpus of the Attic orators and covers the three species of Attic oratory. Chapters that treat other issues collectively are also included. The common feature of each contribution is an outline of the recent events that took place and influenced the citizens and/or the city of Athens and its juxtaposition with their rhetorical treatment by the orators either by comparing the rhetorical texts with the historical sources and/or by examining the rhetorical means through which the speakers model the recent past. This book aims at advanced students and professional scholars. This volume focuses on the representation of the recent past in classical Athenian oratory and investigates: the ability of the orators to interpret it according to their interests; the inability of the Athenians to make an objective assessment of persons and events of the recent past and their unwillingness to hear the truth, make self-criticism and take responsibility for bad results.
Download or read book De corona written by Demosthenes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demosthenes' speech On the Crown is one of the finest artistic achievements of Greek prose. Delivered in an Athenian court in 330 BCE, and circulated in written form soon afterwards, the speech made an immediate impression on contemporary Greeks and for centuries served the writers and speakers of antiquity as the primary model of forceful argument and vigorous style. In this volume Harvey Yunis presents a new edition of the speech. The book contains an introductory essay outlining the historical situation that gave rise to the speech, the nature of Demosthenes' rhetorical art, and the history of the text. A new Greek text of the speech is accompanied by a select textual apparatus. The greater part of the book consists of a commentary, which elucidates the text and makes clear how Demosthenes achieved his objectives.
Download or read book Great Captains of Antiquity written by Richard A. Gabriel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-11-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabriel expands upon the groundbreaking work of B. H. Lidell-Hart's Great Captains by offering detailed portraits of six great captains of the ancient world who met the challenges of their age and shaped the future of their societies, and civilization itself, through their actions. He analyzes the lives of Thutmose III of Egypt, Sargon II of Assyria, Philip II of Macedon, Hannibal of Carthage, Scipio Africanus of Republican Rome, and Caesar Augustus of Imperial Rome for the lessons contemporary leaders, particularly military leaders, can learn. While all were great military men, with the exception of Caesar Augustus, they were also great political leaders who, in this capacity more often than through their feats of arms, shaped their societies. All were educated men, and all possessed the quality of imaginative reasoning. A provocative analysis for scholars, students, and general readers of military history and the ancient world. Military personnel will find the parallels to current military organization and thinking particularly valuable.
Download or read book A History of Boeotia written by Robert J. Buck and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1979 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Buck's history examines the archaeological record, takes a fresh look at what the ancients said about the Boeotians and at the references of classicists of more recent times, retells the legends, and reconstructs the history of the region from the heroic Bronze Age to the Pelopponesian War.
Download or read book The Sacred Band written by James Romm and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From classicist James Romm comes a “striking…fascinating” (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great’s destruction of Thebes—and the saga of the greatest military corps of the time, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed of 150 pairs of male lovers. The story of the Sacred Band, an elite 300-man corps recruited from pairs of lovers, highlights a chaotic era of ancient Greek history, four decades marked by battles, ideological disputes, and the rise of vicious strongmen. At stake was freedom, democracy, and the fate of Thebes, at this time the leading power of the Greek world. The tale begins in 379 BC, with a group of Theban patriots sneaking into occupied Thebes. Disguised in women’s clothing, they cut down the agents of Sparta, the state that had cowed much of Greece with its military might. To counter the Spartans, this group of patriots would form the Sacred Band, a corps whose history plays out against a backdrop of Theban democracy, of desperate power struggles between leading city-states, and the new prominence of eros, sexual love, in Greek public life. After four decades without a defeat, the Sacred Band was annihilated by the forces of Philip II of Macedon and his son Alexander in the Battle of Chaeronea—extinguishing Greek liberty for two thousand years. Buried on the battlefield where they fell, they were rediscovered in 1880—some skeletons still in pairs, with arms linked together. From violent combat in city streets to massive clashes on open ground, from ruthless tyrants to bold women who held their era in thrall, The Sacred Band recounts “in fluent, accessible prose” (The Wall Street Journal) the twists and turns of a crucial historical moment: the end of the treasured freedom of ancient Greece.
Download or read book Alexander the Great written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Translation written by Pausanias and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pausanias s Description of Greece written by James George Frazer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir James Frazer's 1898 six-volume translation of and commentary on Pausanias, the second-century CE traveller and antiquarian.
Download or read book Pausanias s Description of Greece Translation written by Pausânias and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Philip II of Macedon written by Alfred S. Bradford and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1992-10-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip II of Macedon is a unique compilation of fragments of ancient writings, epitomies, and passages from the orators that together form a contemporary biography of one of the most influential figures of the ancient world. Alfred Bradford has collected, translated, and integrated all the significant classical writings about Philip II, the father of Alexander the Great, and he presents them in a readable and lively manner, telling the story of Philip from his precarious childhood, when his life was threatened by his own mother, to his bloody death, when he was murdered by a bodyguard. Philip II, the conqueror of Athens, was the dominant man of his time. A great military tactician and strategist--as evidenced by the analysis of the Battle of Chaeronea provided in this book--Philip built the army that Alexander the Great used to conquer the known world. Knowledge of Philip's life and military achievements is requisite for an understanding of Macedonia and Greece during the Age of Philip. Illustrated with maps by Alfred Bradford and drawings (based on ancient artifacts) by Pamela Bradford, this compelling biography will be of interest to students of ancient history as well as to military historians.
