With the World's People: Greece. Rome. Southern Italy
Author | : John Clark Ridpath |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Clark Ridpath |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Clark Ridpath |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Beard |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2010-04-30 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0674045866 |
Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Here, acclaimed historian Beard explores what kind of town it was, and what it can reveal about "ordinary" life there.
Author | : George Thomas Bettany |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 970 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Biogeography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sarah Davis-Secord |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2017-06-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501712586 |
In Where Three Worlds Met, Sarah Davis-Secord investigates Sicily's place within the religious, diplomatic, military, commercial, and intellectual networks of the Mediterranean by tracing the patterns of travel, trade, and communication among Christians (Latin and Greek), Muslims, and Jews. By looking at the island across this long expanse of time and during the periods of transition from one dominant culture to another, Davis-Secord uncovers the patterns that defined and redefined the broader Muslim-Christian encounter in the Middle Ages.
Author | : Israel Smith Clare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : World history |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tommaso Astarita |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2006-07-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393254321 |
"Lucid, evocative, and richly detailed." —Jay Parini The history of southern Italy is entirely distinct from that of northern Italy, yet it has never been given its own due. In this authoritative and wholly engrossing history, distinguished scholar Tommaso Astarita "does a masterful job of correcting this error" (Mark Knoblauch, Booklist). From the Normans and Angevins, through Spanish and Bourbon rule, to the unification of Italy in 1860, Astarita rescues Sicily and the worlds south of Rome from the dustier folds of history and restores them to sparkling life. We are introduced to the colorful religious observances, the vibrant historical figures, the diverse population, the ancient ruins, beautiful landscapes, sweet music, and magnificent art—all of which inspired visitors to claim that one had to "see Naples, and then die."
Author | : Oliver Taplin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Classical literature |
ISBN | : 9780192100207 |
The focus of this book--its new perspective--is on the 'receivers' of literature: readers, spectators, and audiences. Twelve contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, explore the various and changing interactions between the makers of literature and their audiences or readers from the earliest Greek poetry to the end of the Roman empires in the Western and Eastern Mediterranean. From the heights of Athens to the hellenistic Greek diaspora, from the great Augustans to the irresistible tide of Christianity, the contributors deploy fresh insights to map out lively and provocative, yet accessible, surveys. They cover the kinds of literature which have shaped western culture--epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy, rhetoric, epigram, elegy, pastoral, satire, biography, epistle, declamation, and panegyric. Who were the audiences, and why did they regard their literature as so important? --jacket.
Author | : James Clackson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2015-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316297802 |
Texts written in Latin, Greek and other languages provide ancient historians with their primary evidence, but the role of language as a source for understanding the ancient world is often overlooked. Language played a key role in state-formation and the spread of Christianity, the construction of ethnicity, and negotiating positions of social status and group membership. Language could reinforce social norms and shed light on taboos. This book presents an accessible account of ways in which linguistic evidence can illuminate topics such as imperialism, ethnicity, social mobility, religion, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, without assuming the reader has any knowledge of Greek or Latin, or of linguistic jargon. It describes the rise of Greek and Latin at the expense of other languages spoken around the Mediterranean and details the social meanings of different styles, and the attitudes of ancient speakers towards linguistic differences.