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Book Mythology   Monuments of Ancient Athens

Download or read book Mythology Monuments of Ancient Athens written by Pausanias and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mythology   Monuments of Ancient Athens

Download or read book Mythology Monuments of Ancient Athens written by Pausanias and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Tyrant slayers of Ancient Athens

Download or read book The Tyrant slayers of Ancient Athens written by Vincent Azoulay and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This investigation relies on a rash bet: to write the biography of two of the most famous statues in Antiquity, the Tyrannicides. By recreating the eventful life of these statues, from their birth to their disappearance, Vincent Azoulay reveals that they were much more than a simple reflection: an acting symbol that models and makes history.

Book Trophies of Victory

    Book Details:
  • Author : T. Leslie Shear Jr.
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2016-08-16
  • ISBN : 0691170576
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book Trophies of Victory written by T. Leslie Shear Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek military victories at Marathon, Salamis, and Plataia during the Persian Wars profoundly shaped fifth-century politics and culture. By long tradition, the victors commemorated their deliverance by dedicating thank-offerings in the sanctuaries of their gods, and the Athenians erected no fewer than ten new temples and other buildings. Because these buildings were all at some stage of construction during the political ascendency of Perikles, in the third quarter of the fifth century, modern writers refer to them collectively as the Periklean building program. In Trophies of Victory, T. Leslie Shear, Jr., who directed archaeological excavations at the Athenian Agora for more than twenty-five years, provides the first comprehensive account of the Periklean buildings as a group. This richly illustrated book examines each building in detail, including its archaeological reconstruction, architectural design, sculptural decoration, chronology, and construction history. Shear emphasizes the Parthenon's revolutionary features and how they influenced smaller contemporary temples. He examines inscriptions that show how every aspect of public works was strictly controlled by the Athenian Assembly. In the case of the buildings on the Acropolis and the Telesterion at Eleusis, he looks at accounts of their overseers, which illuminate the administration, financing, and organization of public works. Throughout, the book provides new details about how the Periklean buildings proclaimed Athenian military prowess, aggrandized the city's cults and festivals, and laid claim to its religious and cultural primacy in the Greek world.

Book The Athenian Institution of the Khoregia

Download or read book The Athenian Institution of the Khoregia written by Peter Wilson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-18 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major study of a central cultural institution of classical Athens.

Book A Handbook of Greek Archaeology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harold North Fowler
  • Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
  • Release : 1909
  • ISBN : 9780819620095
  • Pages : 564 pages

Download or read book A Handbook of Greek Archaeology written by Harold North Fowler and published by Biblo & Tannen Publishers. This book was released on 1909 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reset in Stone

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  • Author : Sarah A. Rous
  • Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
  • Release : 2019-11-12
  • ISBN : 0299322807
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book Reset in Stone written by Sarah A. Rous and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Athenians were known to reuse stone artifacts, architectural blocks, and public statuary in the creation of new buildings and monuments. However, these construction decisions went beyond mere pragmatics: they were often a visible mechanism for shaping communal memory, especially in periods of profound and challenging social or political transformation. Sarah Rous develops the concept of upcycling to refer to this meaningful reclamation, the intentionality of reemploying each particular object for its specific new context. The upcycling approach drives innovative reinterpretations of diverse cases, including column drums built into fortification walls, recut inscriptions, monument renovations, and the wholesale relocation of buildings. Using archaeological, literary, and epigraphic evidence from more than eight centuries of Athenian history, Rous's investigation connects seemingly disparate instances of the reuse of building materials. She focuses on agency, offering an alternative to the traditional discourse on spolia. Reset in Stone illuminates a vital practice through which Athenians shaped social memory in the physical realm, literally building their past into their city.

Book Annual Report of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction

Download or read book Annual Report of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction written by New York (State). Department of Public Instruction and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of New York

Download or read book Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of New York written by New York (State). Dept. of Public Instruction and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of New York

Download or read book Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of New York written by New York (State). Dept. of Public Instruction and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis

Download or read book Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis written by Vanda Zajko and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Freud published the Interpretation of Dreams in 1900 and utilized Sophocles' Oedipus Rex to work through his developing ideas about the psycho-sexual development of children, it has been virtually impossible to think about psychoanalysis without reference to classical myth. Myth has the capacity to transcend the context of any particular retelling, continuing to transform our understanding of the present. Throughout the twentieth century, experts on the ancient world have turned to the insights of psychoanalytic criticism to supplement and inform their readings of classical myth and literature. This volume examines the inter-relationship of classical myth and psychoanalysis from the generation before Freud to the present day, engaging with debates about the role of classical myth in modernity, the importance of psychoanalytic ideas for cultural critique, and its ongoing relevance to ways of conceiving the self. The chapters trace the historical roots of terms in everyday usage, such as narcissism and the phallic symbol, in the reception of Classical Greece, and cover a variety of both classical and psychoanalytic texts.

Book Department of the Classics and Department of Indic Philology

Download or read book Department of the Classics and Department of Indic Philology written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Book American Journal of Archaeology

Download or read book American Journal of Archaeology written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Journal of Education

Download or read book The Journal of Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Comedy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aristophanes
  • Publisher : Methuen Drama
  • Release : 1994-03-14
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book New Comedy written by Aristophanes and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 1994-03-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains: Women in power; Wealth; The malcontent; The woman from Samos.