Ancient Theatre and Performance Culture around the Black Sea

Ancient Theatre and Performance Culture around the Black Sea
Author: David Braund
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 583
Release: 2019-11-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107170591

Presents a landmark study combining key specialists around the region with well-established international scholars, from a wide range of disciplines.

Schools Of Hellas An Essay On The Practice And Theory Of Ancient Greek Education From 600 To 300 B C

Schools Of Hellas An Essay On The Practice And Theory Of Ancient Greek Education From 600 To 300 B C
Author: Kenneth J Freeman
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781019461914

Kenneth J. Freeman and M.J. Rendall's seminal study of ancient Greek education is a landmark work of classical scholarship. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the authors provide a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the educational practices and theories of the ancient Greeks, from the Homeric period to the end of the classical era. Essential reading for anyone interested in classical education or the history of ideas. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Coming Race

The Coming Race
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 530
Release: 1878
Genre: Civilization, Subterranean
ISBN:

Mixanthrôpoi

Mixanthrôpoi
Author: Emma Aston
Publisher: Presses universitaires de Liège
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2017-10-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 2821895631

Many of the beings in this book – Cheiron, Pan, Acheloos, the Sirens and others – will be familiar from the narratives of Greek mythology, in which fabulous anatomies abound. However, they have never previously been studied together from a religious perspective, as recipients of cult and as members of the ancient pantheon. This book is the first major treatment of the use of part-animal – mixanthropic – form in the representation and visual imagination of Greek gods and goddesses, and of its significance with regard to divine character and function. What did it mean to depict deities in a form so strongly associated in the ancient imagination with monstrous adversaries? How did iconography, myth and ritual interact in particular sites of worship? Drawing together literary and visual material, this study establishes the themes dominant in the worship of divine mixanthropes, and argues that, so far from being insignificant curiosities, they make possible a greater understanding of the fabric of ancient religious practice, in particular the tense and challenging relationship between divinity and visual representation.

Forty Rivers

Forty Rivers
Author: Jørgen Bakke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2007
Genre:
ISBN: 9788230805824