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| Author | : Garrett Ryan |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2021-09-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1633887030 |
Why didn't the ancient Greeks or Romans wear pants? How did they shave? How likely were they to drink fine wine, use birth control, or survive surgery? In a series of short and humorous essays, Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants explores some of the questions about the Greeks and Romans that ancient historian Garrett Ryan has answered in the classroom and online. Unlike most books on the classical world, the focus is not on famous figures or events, but on the fascinating details of daily life. Learn the answers to: How tall were the ancient Greeks and Romans? How long did they live? What kind of pets did they have? How dangerous were their cities? Did they believe their myths? Did they believe in ghosts, monsters, and/or aliens? Did they jog or lift weights? How did they capture animals for the Colosseum? Were there secret police, spies, or assassins? What happened to the city of Rome after the Empire collapsed? Can any families trace their ancestry back to the Greeks or Romans?
| Author | : Mireille M. Lee |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 2015-01-12 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1316194957 |
This is the first general monograph on ancient Greek dress in English to be published in more than a century. By applying modern dress theory to the ancient evidence, this book reconstructs the social meanings attached to the dressed body in ancient Greece. Whereas many scholars have focused on individual aspects of ancient Greek dress, from the perspectives of literary, visual, and archaeological sources, this volume synthesizes the diverse evidence and offers fresh insights into this essential aspect of ancient society. Intended to be accessible to nonspecialists as well as classicists, and students as well as academic professionals, this book will find a wide audience.
| Author | : Bertrand Lançon |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780415929769 |
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Author | : Vladimir Sollogub |
| Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Total Pages | : 205 |
| Release | : 2020-11-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0822987929 |
Translated by Michael R. Katz In this 19th century Russian social novella, two contrasting characters—one a western-educated intellectual, the other a hidebound country squire—find themselves thrown together on a long cross country journey in a primitive but sturdy carriage—a tarantas. Their shared observations as the troubled panorama of the Russian countryside rolls past is the basis for this commentary on the country’s prospects for social change. Renowned translator Michal R. Katz offers the first new translation of this overlooked novella since the late 1800s, shortly after original publication.
| Author | : Paul Chrystal |
| Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
| Total Pages | : 347 |
| Release | : 2016-05-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 144565413X |
From the Spartans to Alexander the Great, Paul Chrystal brings the murky world of sex with the Ancient Greeks to life.
| Author | : Chester G. Starr |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 444 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780393307795 |
**** A reprint, without changes, of the Knopf edition, 1961 (which is cited in BCL3). Like the original (undoubtedly), this, too, is printed on acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
| Author | : P. A. L. Greenhalgh |
| Publisher | : CUP Archive |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 1973 |
| Genre | : Greece |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : David Walsh |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 158 |
| Release | : 2018-11-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004383069 |
In The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity David Walsh examines how and why the cult of Mithras vanished from the Roman Empire by the early 5th century C.E.
| Author | : Garrett Ryan |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2021-07-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000424952 |
This volume uses the travels of Roman governors to explore how authority was defined in and by the public places of Greek cities. By demonstrating that the places where imperial officials and local notables met were integral to the strategies by which they communicated with one another, Greek Cities and Roman Governors sheds new light on the significance of civic space in the Roman provinces. It also presents a fresh perspective on the monumental cityscapes of Roman Asia Minor, epicenter of the greatest building boom in classical history. Though of special interest to scholars and students of Roman Asia Minor, Greek Cities and Roman Governors offers broad insights into Roman imperialism and the ancient city.
| Author | : Orly Lewis |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 391 |
| Release | : 2017-02-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004337431 |
The distinction that Praxagoras of Cos (4th-3rd c. BC) made between arteries and veins and his views on pulsation and pneuma are two significant turning points in the history of ideas and medicine. In this book Orly Lewis presents the fragmentary evidence for this topic and offers a fresh analysis of Praxagoras’ views on the soul and the functions of the heart and pneuma. In so doing, she highlights the empirical basis of Praxagoras’ views and his engagement with earlier medical debates and with Aristotle’s physiology. The study consists of an edition and translation of the relevant fragments (some absent from the standard 1958 edition) followed by a commentary and a synthetic analysis of Praxagoras’ views and their place in the history of medicine and ideas. The book has been awarded the Young Historian Prize of the Académie Internationale d’Histoire de Sciences (2019).
