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| Author | : V. Ehrenberg |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 534 |
| Release | : 2014-05-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1136783938 |
From Solon to Socrates is a magisterial narrative introduction to what is generally regarded as the most important period of Greek history. Stressing the unity of Greek history and the centrality of Athens, Victor Ehrenberg covers a rich and diverse range of political, economic, military and cultural issues in the Greek world, from the early history of the Greeks, including early Sparta and the wars with Persia, to the ascendancy of Athens and the Peloponnesian War.
| Author | : Olga Palagia |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2022-12-19 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9004528539 |
| Author | : Froma I. Zeitlin |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 498 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780226979229 |
Zeitlin explores the diversity and complexity of these interactions through the most influential literary texts of the archaic and classical periods, from epic (Homer) and didactic poetry (Hesiod) to the productions of tragedy and comedy in fifth-century Athens.
| Author | : G. W. Bowersock |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 363 |
| Release | : 2023-04-28 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0520914783 |
Using pagan prose fiction produced in Greek and Latin during the early Christian era, Bowersock investigates the complex relationship among perceived and presented "historical" and "fictional" truths. Bowersock's superb lecturing style is successfully transferred into writing with force and eloquence, as he weaves accounts from a wide range of sources into his text, illuminating social attitudes of the period and persuasively arguing that fiction of the period was influenced by the emerging Christian Gospel narratives. In the second half of the first century emerges a new kind of fiction including outlandish tales of travel, romance and comic novels. Bowersock concentrates on secular literature, illuminating not only its literary motifs, but also reconstructing the societal context as one engrossed in fabrications and all kinds of revisions or rewriting. Using these less familiar materials as his points of reference, he reads into familiar Christian material, making linkages and casting new light on familiar subjects, as well as providing some provocative interpretations of familiar Christian texts. Bowersock uses close historical and literary analyses of specific passages of works, and pays attention to larger and more general issues and questions around the relationship between fiction and history and how we read them. This book will be of basic intellectual concern to all raised in the environment of Christian belief. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995. Using pagan prose fiction produced in Greek and Latin during the early Christian era, Bowersock investigates the complex relationship among perceived and presented "historical" and "fictional" truths. Bowersock's superb lecturing style is successfully tra
| Author | : Robert E. A. Palmer |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 1970-10-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0521077028 |
An examination of the development of archaic Rome which successfully united disparate cultures and integrated them into political life. The author discusses the nature of the evidence and the theories of ancient and modern historians, reconstructs the organisation of the archaic state and traces the deterioration of the curiae.
| Author | : Alexander P.D. Mourelatos |
| Publisher | : Parmenides Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 469 |
| Release | : 2008-05-12 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1930972547 |
Mourelatos' study of the fragments of Parmenides' poem combines traditional philological reconstruction with the approaches of literary criticism and philosophical analysis in order to reveal the thought structure and expressive unity of the best preserved and most important, influential, and coherent text of Greek philosophy before Plato. Through philosophical, philological, and literary analysis, Mourelatos examines the morphology of images and metaphors in Parmenides' text with the aim of articulating and interpreting the poem's key concepts and component arguments. Relevant antecedents and parallels from the tradition of epic poetry, especially from Homer's Odyssey, are explored in depth.
| Author | : Victor Ehrenberg |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 628 |
| Release | : 2010-10-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1136922520 |
From Solon to Socrates is a magisterial narrative introduction to what is generally regarded as the most important period of Greek history. Stressing the unity of Greek history and the centrality of Athens, Victor Ehrenberg covers a rich and diverse range of political, economic, military and cultural issues in the Greek world, from the early history of the Greeks, including early Sparta and the wars with Persia, to the ascendancy of Athens and the Peloponnesian War.
| Author | : Geoffrey C. R. Schmalz |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 393 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 900417009X |
While there is now renewed interest in the history of Athens under the Roman empire, the Augustan and Julio-Claudian periods remain relatively neglected in terms of extended study. Thus the only comprehensive historical works on the period and its epigraphy remain those of Paul Graindor, which were published before the discovery of the Athenian Agora and its epigraphical wealth. This study aims to help provide a basis for new research on early Roman Athens, in the form of an epigraphical and historical reference work, in two parts. The Epigraphical Catalogue (Part I) represents both a companion and supplement to the Attic corpus of the "Inscriptiones Graecae" (Minor Editio) as it pertains to the Augustan and Julio-Claudian period. The Prosopographical Catalogue (Part II) offers an updated prosopography of the period as it relates to the material of the Epigraphical Catalogue. An appendix provides a chronological list of the period's major office-holders, liturgists, and priesthoods.
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| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 1968 |
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| Author | : Kurt Raaflaub |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 2004-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780226701011 |
Although there is constant conflict over its meanings and limits, political freedom itself is considered a fundamental and universal value throughout the modern world. For most of human history, however, this was not the case. In this book, Kurt Raaflaub asks the essential question: when, why, and under what circumstances did the concept of freedom originate? To find out, Raaflaub analyses ancient Greek texts from Homer to Thucydides in their social and political contexts. Archaic Greece, he concludes, had little use for the idea of political freedom; the concept arose instead during the great confrontation between Greeks and Persians in the early fifth century BCE. Raaflaub then examines the relationship of freedom with other concepts, such as equality, citizenship, and law, and pursues subsequent uses of the idea—often, paradoxically, as a tool of domination, propaganda, and ideology. Raaflaub's book thus illuminates both the history of ancient Greek society and the evolution of one of humankind's most important values, and will be of great interest to anyone who wants to understand the conceptual fabric that still shapes our world views.
