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Book Catalogue of the Sparta Museum  1906  A

Download or read book Catalogue of the Sparta Museum 1906 A written by M. N. Tod and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book International Catalogue of Scientific Literature  1901 1914

Download or read book International Catalogue of Scientific Literature 1901 1914 written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book International Catalogue of Scientific Literature

Download or read book International Catalogue of Scientific Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book International Catalogue of Scientific Literature

Download or read book International Catalogue of Scientific Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Classified Catalog of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh  1895 1902  In Three Volumes

Download or read book Classified Catalog of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh 1895 1902 In Three Volumes written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Among Our Books

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  • Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1906
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 662 pages

Download or read book Among Our Books written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Heroic Offerings

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  • Author : Gina Salapata
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2015-02-12
  • ISBN : 047202986X
  • Pages : 433 pages

Download or read book Heroic Offerings written by Gina Salapata and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroic Offerings sheds light on the study of religion in Sparta, one of Greece’s most powerful city-states and the long-term rival of Athens. Sparta’s history is well known, but its archaeology has been much less satisfactorily explored. Through the comprehensive study of a distinctive class of terracotta votive offerings from a specific sanctuary, Gina Salapata explores both coroplastic art and regional religion. By integrating archaeological, historical, literary, and epigraphic sources, she provides important insights into the heroic cults of Lakonia and contributes to an understanding of the political and social functions of local ritual practice. This volume focuses on a large group of decorated terracotta plaques, from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE. These molded plaques were discovered with other offerings in a sanctuary deposit excavated near Sparta more than fifty years ago, but they have remained unpublished until now. They number over 1,500 complete and fragmentary pieces. In technique, style, and iconography they form a homogeneous group unlike any other from mainland Greece. The large number of plaques and variety of types reveal a stable and vigorous coroplastic tradition in Lakonia during the late Archaic and Classical period. Heroic Offerings will be of interest to students and scholars of Greek history, art, and archaeology, to those interested in ancient religious practice in the Mediterranean, and to all inspired by Athens’ chief political rival, Sparta. This volume received financial support from the Archaeological Institute of America.

Book Sparta

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  • Author : Stephen Hodkinson
  • Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
  • Release : 2009-12-31
  • ISBN : 1910589330
  • Pages : 534 pages

Download or read book Sparta written by Stephen Hodkinson and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2009-12-31 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both in antiquity and in modern scholarship, classical Sparta has typically been viewed as an exceptional society, different in many respects from other Greek city-states. This view has recently come under challenge from revisionist historians, led by Stephen Hodkinson. This is the first book devoted explicitly to this lively historical controversy. Historians from Britain, Europe and the USA present different sides of the argument, using a variety of comparative approaches. The focus includes kingship and hegemonic structures, education and commensality, religious institutions and practice, helotage and ethnography. The volume concludes with a wide-ranging debate between Hodkinson and Mogens Herman Hansen (Director of the Copenhagen Polis Centre), on the overall question of whether Sparta was a normal or an exceptional polis.

Book Spartan Women

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  • Author : Sarah B. Pomeroy
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780195130676
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book Spartan Women written by Sarah B. Pomeroy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Sarah Pomeroy seeks to reconstruct the lives and the world of Sparta's women--including how their legal status changed over time and how they held on to their surprising autonomy. Written by one of the leading authorities on women in antiquity, this is the first full-length study of Spartan women.

Book Sparta and Lakonia

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  • Author : Paul Cartledge
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-04-15
  • ISBN : 1135864551
  • Pages : 380 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 380 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.

Book History

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  • Release : 1924
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 720 pages

Download or read book History written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Acropolis Museum

Download or read book Catalogue of the Acropolis Museum written by Stanley Casson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1921, this book contains the second half of the catalogue of the sculptures held in the collection of the Acropolis Museum in Athens. In this volume, Casson lists the sculptural and architectural fragments in the museum dating from after 480 BC. The detailed text is accompanied with drawings and photographs of many of the sculptures listed, including sculptures from the Temple of Athena Nike and several sections of the Parthenon Frieze. A special section at the end by Dorothy Brooke is devoted to the terracotta finds from the Acropolis. This well-presented and thoroughly researched book will be of value to anyone with an interest in ancient Greek art.

Book Literacy in Ancient Sparta

Download or read book Literacy in Ancient Sparta written by Terrence A. Boring and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-06-22 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gymnasium of Virtue

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  • Author : Nigel M. Kennell
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2000-11-09
  • ISBN : 0807862452
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book The Gymnasium of Virtue written by Nigel M. Kennell and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gymnasium of Virtue is the first book devoted exclusively to the study of education in ancient Sparta, covering the period from the sixth century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. Nigel Kennell refutes the popular notion that classical Spartan education was a conservative amalgam of "primitive" customs not found elsewhere in Greece. He argues instead that later political and cultural movements made the system appear to be more distinctive than it actually had been, as a means of asserting Sparta's claim to be a unique society. Using epigraphical, literary, and archaeological evidence, Kennell describes the development of all aspects of Spartan education, including the age-grade system and physical contests that were integral to the system. He shows that Spartan education reached its apogee in the early Roman Empire, when Spartans sought to distinguish themselves from other Greeks. He attributes many of the changes instituted later in the period to one person--the philosopher Sphaerus the Borysthenite, who was an adviser to the revolutionary king Cleomenes III in the third century B.C.

Book Children in Antiquity

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  • Author : Lesley A. Beaumont
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2020-12-30
  • ISBN : 1134870752
  • Pages : 839 pages

Download or read book Children in Antiquity written by Lesley A. Beaumont and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection employs a multi-disciplinary approach treating ancient childhood in a holistic manner according to diachronic, regional and thematic perspectives. This multi-disciplinary approach encompasses classical studies, Egyptology, ancient history and the broad spectrum of archaeology, including iconography and bioarchaeology. With a chronological range of the Bronze Age to Byzantium and regional coverage of Egypt, Greece, and Italy this is the largest survey of childhood yet undertaken for the ancient world. Within this chronological and regional framework both the social construction of childhood and the child’s life experience are explored through the key topics of the definition of childhood, daily life, religion and ritual, death, and the information provided by bioarchaeology. No other volume to date provides such a comprehensive, systematic and cross-cultural study of childhood in the ancient Mediterranean world. In particular, its focus on the identification of society-specific definitions of childhood and the incorporation of the bioarchaeological perspective makes this work a unique and innovative study. Children in Antiquity provides an invaluable and unrivalled resource for anyone working on all aspects of the lives and deaths of children in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Book Sparta

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2023-06-30
  • ISBN : 100938273X
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Sparta written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of primary texts on Sparta, with accompanying maps, illustrations, glossary, chronology and explanatory notes. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in English translation and has been written and reviewed by experienced teachers. The texts selected include extracts from the important literary sources but also numerous inscriptions, many of these being otherwise difficult for students to access.

Book Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece

Download or read book Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece written by Carol Dougherty and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-23 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together essays by archaeologists, historians, and literary scholars in a comprehensive examination of the Greek archaic age. A time of dramatic and revolutionary change when many of the institutions and thought patterns that would shape Greek culture evolved, this period has become the object of renewed scholarly interest in recent years. Yet it has resisted reconstruction, largely because its documentation is less complete than that of the classical period. In order to read the text of archaic Greece, the contributors here apply new methods--including anthropology, literary theory, and cultural history--to central issues, among them the interpretation of ritual, the origins of hero cult and its relation to politics, the evolving ideologies of colonization and athletic victory, the representation of statesmen and sages, and the serendipitous development of democracy. With their interdisciplinary approaches, the various essays demonstrate the interdependence of politics, religion, and economics in this period; the importance of public performance for negotiating social interaction; and the creative use of the past to structure a changing present. Cultural Poetics in Ancient Greece offers a vigorous and coherent response to the scholarly challenges of the archaic period.