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Author | : George B. Grundy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 794 |
Release | : 2014-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317704347 |
A History of the Greek and Roman World, first published in 1926, presents the story of Graeco-Roman antiquity from its earliest recorded origins to the height of the Roman imperium. It aims to bring into prominence the internal dynamism - political, cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic – which animated the ancient peoples at different periods of their history, and to draw attention to the physical, socio-economic and religious conditions under which they lived. Written in a style which will likely be unfamiliar to modern readers, Grundy’s historical portrait is painted with broad brush-strokes, offering not only compelling narrative but also incisive commentary on the individuals and societies which occupy the foreground. A History of the Greek and Roman World will be of interest for the general enthusiast as well as students, who may value such a radically different approach to the interpretation of antiquity compared to the conventions which prevail amongst contemporary scholars.
Author | : George B. Grundy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 547 |
Release | : 2014-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317704355 |
A History of the Greek and Roman World, first published in 1926, presents the story of Graeco-Roman antiquity from its earliest recorded origins to the height of the Roman imperium. It aims to bring into prominence the internal dynamism - political, cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic – which animated the ancient peoples at different periods of their history, and to draw attention to the physical, socio-economic and religious conditions under which they lived. Written in a style which will likely be unfamiliar to modern readers, Grundy’s historical portrait is painted with broad brush-strokes, offering not only compelling narrative but also incisive commentary on the individuals and societies which occupy the foreground. A History of the Greek and Roman World will be of interest for the general enthusiast as well as students, who may value such a radically different approach to the interpretation of antiquity compared to the conventions which prevail amongst contemporary scholars.
Author | : M. Cary |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781032763651 |
Life and Thought in the Greek and Roman World (1961) provides a comprehensive sketch of Greek and Roman civilization. It describes the geographic, political and social background, and sets forth its main achievements in the fields of language and literature, scholarship and education, science and philosophy, art and religion.
Author | : George Beardoe Grundy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : |
Author | : G.B. Grundy |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2024-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1040035388 |
A History of the Greek and Roman World (1926) is a single-volume sweeping examination of the Greek and Roman civilisations from 2000 B.C. to the second century A.D. It covers all parts of the Greek and Roman worlds, and all aspects of their societies over the different time periods: culture, politics and religion.
Author | : Thomas Wiedemann |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2014-03-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317749111 |
There is little evidence to enable us to reconstruct what it felt like to be a child in the Roman world. We do, however, have ample evidence about the feelings and expectations that adults had for children over the centuries between the end of the Roman republic and late antiquity. Thomas Wiedemann draws on this evidence to describe a range of attitudes towards children in the classical period, identifying three areas where greater individuality was assigned to children: through political office-holding; through education; and, for Christians, through membership of the Church in baptism. These developments in both pagan and Christian practices reflect wider social changes in the Roman world during the first four centuries of the Christian era. Of obvious value to classicists, Adults and Children in the Roman Empire, first published in 1989, is also indispensable for anthropologists, and well as those interested in ecclesiastical and social history.
Author | : Guy Maclean Rogers |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2014-08-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317808363 |
The Sacred Identity of Ephesos offers a full-length interpretation of one of the largest known bequests in the Classical world, made to the city of Ephesos in AD 104 by a wealthy Roman equestrian, and challenges some of the basic assumptions made about the significance of the Greek cultural renaissance known as the ‘Second Sophistic’. Professor Rogers shows how the civic rituals created by the foundation symbolised a contemporary social hierarchy, and how the ruling class used foundation myths - the birth of the goddess Artemis in a grove above the city – as a tangible source of power, to be wielded over new citizens and new gods. Utilising an innovative methodology for analysing large inscriptions, Professor Rogers argues that the Ephesians used their past to define their present during the Roman Empire, shedding new light on how second-century Greeks maintained their identities in relation to Romans, Christians, and Jews.
Author | : Sue Blundell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2016-02-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317751094 |
It has been much disputed to what extent thinkers in Greek and Roman antiquity adhered to ideas of evolution and progress in human affairs. Did they lack any conception of process in time, or did they anticipate Darwinian and Lamarckian hypotheses? The Origins of Civilization in Greek and Roman Thought, first published in1986, comprehensively examines this issue. Beginning with creation myths – Mother Earth and Pandora, the anti-progressive ideas of the Golden Age, and the cyclical theories of Orphism – Professor Blundell goes on to explore the origins of scientific speculation among the Pre-Socratics, its development into the teleological science of Aristotle, and the advent of the progressivist views of the Stoics. Attention is also given to the ‘primitivist’ debate, involving ideas about the noble savage and reflections of such speculation in poetry, and finally the relationship between nature and culture in ancient thought is investigated.
Author | : Graham Anderson |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
In addition to Longus, this work considers Achilles Tatius, Xenophon of Ephesus, Helioforus and Chariton as ancient novelists, and discusses Christian works containing a high proportion of romantic material, including Joseph and Aseneth and The Acts of Thomas.
Author | : Graham Anderson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2014-06-23 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1317747321 |
A number of ancient novelists were skilful storytellers and resourceful literary artists, and their works are often carefully individualised presentations of an ancient and distinguished heritage. Ancient Fiction, first published in 1984, examines the tales retold by these novelists in light of more recently discovered Near Eastern texts, and in this way offers a tentative solution to Rohde’s celebrated problem about the origins of the Greek novel. Among the surprises that emerge are an ancient stratum of the Arabian Nights and a possible Tristan-Romance, as well as an animal Satyricon and a human Golden Ass. This new framework is, however, incidental to an examination of the achievements of ancient novelists in their own right. In presenting character, structuring narrative, imposing a veneer of sophistication or contriving a religious ethos, these writers demonstrate that their work is worthy of sympathetic study, rather dismissal as the pulp fiction of the ancient world.