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Author | : Sophocles |
Publisher | : Dramatic Publishing |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Antigone (Greek mythology) |
ISBN | : 9780871292049 |
The story of Oedipus, Jocasta and Antigone, and the ancient Greek theme of power, both mortal and godlike.
Author | : Charles Sankey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Greece |
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Author | : James Romm |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2021-06-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501198017 |
The thrilling look into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great's destruction of Thebes--and the saga of the greatest military corps of the age, the Theban Sacred Band.
Author | : Paul Cartledge |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020-09-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1468316079 |
The riveting, definitive account of the ancient Greek city of Thebes, by the acclaimed author of The Spartans—now in paperback Among the extensive writing available about the history of ancient Greece, there is precious little about the city-state of Thebes. At one point the most powerful city in ancient Greece, Thebes has been long overshadowed by its better-known rivals, Athens and Sparta. In Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece, acclaimed classicist and historian Paul Cartledge brings the city vividly to life and argues that it is central to our understanding of the ancient Greeks’ achievements—whether politically or culturally—and thus to the wider politico-cultural traditions of western Europe, the Americas, and indeed the world. From its role as an ancient political power, to its destruction at the hands of Alexander the Great as punishment for a failed revolt, to its eventual restoration by Alexander’s successor, Cartledge deftly chronicles the rise and fall of the ancient city. He recounts the history with deep clarity and mastery for the subject and makes clear both the di?erences and the interconnections between the Thebes of myth and the Thebes of history. Written in clear prose and illustrated with images in two color inserts, Thebes is a gripping read for students of ancient history and those looking to experience the real city behind the myths of Cadmus, Hercules, and Oedipus.
Author | : George Grote |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Greece |
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Author | : Roy van Wijk |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 479 |
Release | : 2024-01-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 100934059X |
Radically revises widely held assumptions about the relationship between the Athenians and Boiotians in the Archaic and Classical period.
Author | : Sophocles |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 1973-04-26 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0141905646 |
King Oedipus/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone Three towering works of Greek tragedy depicting the inexorable downfall of a doomed royal dynasty The legends surrounding the house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create this powerful trilogy about humanity's struggle against fate. King Oedipus is the devastating portrayal of a ruler who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he does not realize he has committed and then inflicts a brutal punishment upon himself. Oedipus at Colonus provides a fitting conclusion to the life of the aged and blinded king, while Antigone depicts the fall of the next generation, through the conflict between a young woman ruled by her conscience and a king too confident of his own authority. Translated with an Introduction by E. F. WATLING
Author | : Xenophon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 1872 |
Genre | : Greece |
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Author | : Xenophon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lynette Gail Mitchell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2002-05-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521893305 |
Using models from social anthropology as its basis, this book looks at the role of personal relationships in classical Greece and their bearing on interstate politics. It begins with a discussion of what friendship meant in the Greek world of the classical period, and then shows how the models for friendship in the private sphere were mirrored in the public sphere at both domestic and interstate level. As well as relations between Greeks (in particular those in Athens and Sparta), Dr Mitchell looks at Greek relations with those on the margins of the Greek world, particularly the state of Macedon, and with neighbouring non-Greeks such as the Thracians and the Persians. She finds that these other cultures did not always have the same understanding of what friendship was, and that this led to misunderstandings and difficulties in the relations between non-Greeks and Greeks.