Asianic Elements in Greek Civilization; the Gifford Lectures in the University of Edinburgh, 1915-16

Asianic Elements in Greek Civilization; the Gifford Lectures in the University of Edinburgh, 1915-16
Author: Sir William Mitchell Ramsay
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781014216830

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Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the Konya Archaeological Museum

Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the Konya Archaeological Museum
Author: B. H. McLean
Publisher: British Institute at Ankara
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2002-12-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1912090597

The city of Konya (ancient Iconium) has long been one of the most important Anatolian centres. In the late first century BC it was refounded as a Roman colony, and the centuries of the Roman Empire were among the most prosperous for the region. This volume provides texts and commentaries for the 231 Greek and ten Latin inscriptions now housed in the city's archaeological museum. The collection comprises 92 inscriptions from Konya itself and 149 from the surrounding region, nearly two thirds of them previously unpublished. Almost two hundred further inscriptions from Konya are listed and indexed at the end of the volume, so that for the first time there is a complete index of all people known from the ancient city of Iconium. The texts here shed an irreplaceable light on city and country society around a major centre from the early Roman to the Byzantine period, and the photographs at the end of the volume illustrate most of the characteristic inscribed monuments for the first time.

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author: Yale University
Publisher:
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1928
Genre:
ISBN:

Thales of Miletus

Thales of Miletus
Author: Patricia F. O'Grady
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1351895370

'What is the basic building block of the universe?' Thales of Miletus was the first to ask this fundamental, yet to be answered, question in the sixth century B.C. This book offers an in-depth account of the answers he gave and of his adventure into many areas of learning: philosophy, science, mathematics and astronomy. Thales proved that the events of nature were comprehensible to man and could be explained without the intervention of mythological beings. Henceforth they became subject to investigation, experiment, questioning and discussion. Presenting for the first time in the English language a comprehensive study of Thales of Miletus, Patricia O'Grady brings Thales out of pre-Socratic shadows into historical illumination and explores why this historical figure has proved to be of lasting significance.