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Book Homer and the Monuments

Download or read book Homer and the Monuments written by Hilda Lockhart Lorimer and published by London, Macmillan. This book was released on 1950 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An archaeological study of Aegean civilization intended for the student of Homer.

Book Homeric Seafaring

    Book Details:
  • Author : Samuel Mark
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 2005-02-09
  • ISBN : 9781585443918
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Homeric Seafaring written by Samuel Mark and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive history of Homer’s references to ships and seafaring, author Samuel Mark reveals patterns in the way that Greeks built ships and approached the sea between 850 and 750 b.c. To discuss and clarify the terms used by Homer, Mark draws on scholarly literature as well as examples from recent excavations of ancient shipwrecks. Mark begins by emphasizing the importance of the household during a period in which chiefs ruled and Greek nobles disdained merchants and considered seafaring a necessary but less than distinguished activity. His chapter on Odysseus’s construction of a ship includes discussions of the types of wood used. He concludes that most Greek ships were of laced, rather than pegged mortise-and-tenon construction. Mark goes on to discuss characteristics of Homeric ships and their stern ornaments, oars, quarter rudders, masts, mast-steps, keels, ropes, cables, and planks. Mark reaches several surprising conclusions: that in an agricultural society, seafaring was a common activity, even among the nobles; that hugging the coast could be more treacherous than sailing across open sea; that Homeric ships were built mainly to be sailed, instead of rowed; that sea battles were relatively common; that helmsmen were crucial to a safe voyage; and that harbors were little more than natural anchorages. Mark’s discussion of Homer’s geography covers theories that posit Odysseus sailing in the Adriatic and Mediterranean Seas and even on the Atlantic Ocean. As befits a study whose subjects are partly historical, partly archaeological, and partly myth and legend, Mark’s conclusions are tentative. Yet, this comprehensive and meticulous study of Homer’s references to ships and seafaring is sure to become a standard study on the subject.

Book A Commentary on Homer s Odyssey

Download or read book A Commentary on Homer s Odyssey written by Alfred Heubeck and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1988 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three volume commentary also includes an introduction discussing previous research on the Odyssey, its relation to the Iliad, the epic dialect, and the transmission of the text.

Book A Commentary on Homer s Odyssey  Introduction and Books I VIII

Download or read book A Commentary on Homer s Odyssey Introduction and Books I VIII written by Alfred Heubeck and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ancient Unedited Monuments

Download or read book Ancient Unedited Monuments written by and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ancient Unedited Monuments

Download or read book Ancient Unedited Monuments written by James V ..... Millingen and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Homer s Trojan Theater

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  • Author : Jenny Strauss Clay
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2011-02-10
  • ISBN : 1139494651
  • Pages : 147 pages

Download or read book Homer s Trojan Theater written by Jenny Strauss Clay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-10 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving away from the verbal and thematic repetitions that have dominated Homeric studies and exploiting the insights of cognitive psychology, this highly innovative and accessible study focuses on the visual poetics of the Iliad as the narrative is envisioned by the poet and rendered visible. It does so through a close analysis of the often-neglected 'Battle Books'. They here emerge as a coherently visualized narrative sequence rather than as a random series of combats, and this approach reveals, for instance, the significance of Sarpedon's attack on the Achaean Wall and Patroclus' path to destruction. In addition, Professor Strauss Clay suggests new ways of approaching ancient narratives: not only with one's ear, but also with one's eyes. She further argues that the loci system of mnemonics, usually attributed to Simonides, is already fully exploited by the Iliad poet to keep track of his cast of characters and to organize his narrative.

Book Ancient Unedited Monuments

Download or read book Ancient Unedited Monuments written by James Millingen and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ancient Unedited Monuments  II  Series

Download or read book Ancient Unedited Monuments II Series written by James Millingen and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Printing of Greek in the Fifteenth Century

Download or read book The Printing of Greek in the Fifteenth Century written by Robert Proctor and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Magna Graecia

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  • Author : Michael J. Bennett
  • Publisher : Hudson Hills
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780940717718
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Magna Graecia written by Michael J. Bennett and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 2002 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent book presents 82 masterpieces of Greek vase painting and sculpture in terrocotta, stone, and bronze from the eight great museum collections of the South of Italy and Sicily. 170 colour illustrations

Book Centerburg Tales

Download or read book Centerburg Tales written by Robert McCloskey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1977-10-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centerburg might be your town. Grampa Hercules and his never-ending tall tales, Dulcy Dooner, the uncooperative citizen, unbusinesslike Uncle Ulysses and his friendly lunchroom, the flustered sheriff, the pompous judge—they are all as American as they come. But there's a subtle and delightful difference. In Centerburg, along with the routine of day-to-day living, the most preposterous things keep happening. But nothing fazes Homer Price! Ragweeds taller than fire ladders, music that sets a whole town dancing—he solves these problems calmly and efficiently. Homer Price is a boy with a good supply of common sense—and ingenuity! Homer's Grampa Hercules is a delightful old rascal and his extravagent reminiscences of his youth are the starting point of many of the episodes. The chapter titles are as enticing as the chapters themselves: The Hide-a-Ride, Looking for Gold, Ever So Much More So, Experiment 13, Grampa Hercules and the Gravitty-Bitties, Pie and Punch and You-Know-Whats. Mr. McCloskey's characters have warmth and kindness and a healthy curiosity; but they are not above a few minor faults and foibles. They are unmistakenably alive. Like Mr. McCloskey himself, they are perpetually amused by the everyday hazards and discrepancies around them.

Book Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World

Download or read book Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World written by Guy D. Middleton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recounts the fascinating lives of thirty real women of the ancient Mediterranean from the Palaeolithic to the Byzantines. Accessible, engagingly written and up-to-date in its scholarship, it will be key reading for students and researchers in Ancient History, Archaeology and Mediterranean Studies, as well as in Women's History.

Book Ancient Unedited Monuments  I  Series

Download or read book Ancient Unedited Monuments I Series written by James Millingen and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Homer  Troy and the Turks

Download or read book Homer Troy and the Turks written by Günay Uslu and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homer's stories of Troy are part of the foundations of Western culture. What's less well known is that they also inspired Ottoman-Turkish cultural traditions. Yet even with all the historical and archaeological research into Homer and Troy, most scholars today rely heavily on Western sources, giving Ottoman work in the field short shrift. This book helps right that balance, exploring Ottoman-Turkish involvement and interest in the subject between 1870, when Heinrich Schliemann began his excavations in search of Troy on Ottoman soil, and the battle of Gallipoli in 1915, which gave the Turks their own version of the heroic epic of Troy.

Book A Brief History of Ancient Peoples  with an Account of their Monuments  Literature  and Manners

Download or read book A Brief History of Ancient Peoples with an Account of their Monuments Literature and Manners written by Joel Dorman Steele and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-26 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Book The Journal of Hellenic Studies

Download or read book The Journal of Hellenic Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1-8, 1880-87, plates published separately and numbered I-LXXXIII.