Download or read book The Thebans written by Sophocles and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Oedipus, Jocasta and Antigone, and the ancient Greek theme of power, both mortal and godlike.
Download or read book Thebes written by Paul Cartledge and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting, definitive account of the ancient Greek city of Thebes, by the acclaimed author of The Spartans—now in paperback Among the extensive writing available about the history of ancient Greece, there is precious little about the city-state of Thebes. At one point the most powerful city in ancient Greece, Thebes has been long overshadowed by its better-known rivals, Athens and Sparta. In Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece, acclaimed classicist and historian Paul Cartledge brings the city vividly to life and argues that it is central to our understanding of the ancient Greeks’ achievements—whether politically or culturally—and thus to the wider politico-cultural traditions of western Europe, the Americas, and indeed the world. From its role as an ancient political power, to its destruction at the hands of Alexander the Great as punishment for a failed revolt, to its eventual restoration by Alexander’s successor, Cartledge deftly chronicles the rise and fall of the ancient city. He recounts the history with deep clarity and mastery for the subject and makes clear both the di?erences and the interconnections between the Thebes of myth and the Thebes of history. Written in clear prose and illustrated with images in two color inserts, Thebes is a gripping read for students of ancient history and those looking to experience the real city behind the myths of Cadmus, Hercules, and Oedipus.
Download or read book The Spartan and Theban Supremacies written by Charles Sankey and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sacred Band written by James Romm and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thrilling look 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 age, the Theban Sacred Band.
Download or read book Thebans written by Liz Lochhead and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thebans tells the ancient stories of the Kingdom of Thebes. It focuses on Oedipus the King, abandoned as a baby and who later inadvertently kills his father and marries his mother, and Antigone, who dies rather than obey Oedipus' successor and leave her brother's corpse unburied...
Download or read book The Theban Plays written by Sophocles and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1973-04-26 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Oedipus/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone Three towering works of Greek tragedy depicting the inexorable downfall of a doomed royal dynasty The legends surrounding the house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create this powerful trilogy about humanity's struggle against fate. King Oedipus is the devastating portrayal of a ruler who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he does not realize he has committed and then inflicts a brutal punishment upon himself. Oedipus at Colonus provides a fitting conclusion to the life of the aged and blinded king, while Antigone depicts the fall of the next generation, through the conflict between a young woman ruled by her conscience and a king too confident of his own authority. Translated with an Introduction by E. F. WATLING
Download or read book The Cyrop dia Or Institution of Cyrus and the Hellenics Or Grecian History written by Xenophon and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Athens and Boiotia written by Roy van Wijk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radically revises widely held assumptions about the relationship between the Athenians and Boiotians in the Archaic and Classical period.
Download or read book Greeks Bearing Gifts written by Lynette Gail Mitchell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using models from social anthropology as its basis, this book looks at the role of personal relationships in classical Greece and their bearing on interstate politics. It begins with a discussion of what friendship meant in the Greek world of the classical period, and then shows how the models for friendship in the private sphere were mirrored in the public sphere at both domestic and interstate level. As well as relations between Greeks (in particular those in Athens and Sparta), Dr Mitchell looks at Greek relations with those on the margins of the Greek world, particularly the state of Macedon, and with neighbouring non-Greeks such as the Thracians and the Persians. She finds that these other cultures did not always have the same understanding of what friendship was, and that this led to misunderstandings and difficulties in the relations between non-Greeks and Greeks.
Download or read book Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander written by Joseph Roisman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With fresh, new translations and extensive introductions and annotations, this sourcebook provides an inclusive and integrated view of Greek history, from Homer to Alexander the Great. New translations of original sources are contextualized by insightful introductions and annotations Includes a range of literary, artistic and material evidence from the Homeric, Archaic and Classical Ages Focuses on important developments as well as specific themes to create an integrated perspective on the period Links the political and social history of the Greeks to their intellectual accomplishments Includes an up-to-date bibliography of seminal scholarship An accompanying website offers additional evidence and explanations, as well as links to useful online resources
Download or read book Plutarch s Lives of Illustrious Men written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lives of Illustrious Men written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plutarch s Lives The Translation Called Dryden s Corrected from the Greek and Revised by A H Clough written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 1404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Orations of Demosthenes On the crown and On the embassy written by Demosthenes and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cyropaedia Or Institution of Cyrus And The Hellenics Or Grecian History written by Xenophon and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Orations of Demosthenes Orations against Philip Orations on occasions of public deliberation written by Demosthenes and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
