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| Author | : S. J. Heyworth |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2007-10-04 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 019921803X |
A collection of ground-breaking and scholarly papers on Latin literature by a number of distinguished classicists, produced in memory of Don Fowler, who died in 1999 at the age of 46. The essays are concerned with the reception of the classical world, extending into the realms of modern philosophy, art history, and cultural studies.
| Author | : Alexander Tzonis |
| Publisher | : Flammarion-Pere Castor |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : |
"Classical Greek Architecture is a definitive account of classical architecture, its influences, and its significance for the structures of today from leading scholar Alexander Tzonis. The work contains a wealth of contemporary and vintage photographs from major archives that, together with numerous line drawings of the monuments and sites of Ancient Greece, provide a breath-taking introduction to visual thinking and architectural culture".--BOOKJACKET.
| Author | : James I. Porter |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 412 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780472087792 |
Distinguished international scholars examine the neglected issue of the body and its status in classical antiquity
| Author | : Irving Sloane |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 104 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780933224148 |
| Author | : George E. Martin |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 1461206294 |
Geometric constructions have been a popular part of mathematics throughout history. The first chapter here is informal and starts from scratch, introducing all the geometric constructions from high school that have been forgotten or were never learned. The second chapter formalises Plato's game, and examines problems from antiquity such as the impossibility of trisecting an arbitrary angle. After that, variations on Plato's theme are explored: using only a ruler, a compass, toothpicks, a ruler and dividers, a marked rule, or a tomahawk, ending in a chapter on geometric constructions by paperfolding. The author writes in a charming style and nicely intersperses history and philosophy within the mathematics, teaching a little geometry and a little algebra along the way. This is as much an algebra book as it is a geometry book, yet since all the algebra and geometry needed is developed within the text, very little mathematical background is required. This text has been class tested for several semesters with a master's level class for secondary teachers.
| Author | : Deborah Tarn Steiner |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 785 |
| Release | : 2021-04-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108916147 |
Why did the Greeks of the archaic and early Classical period join in choruses that sang and danced on public and private occasions? This book offers a wide-ranging exploration of representations of chorality in the poetry, art and material remains of early Greece in order to demonstrate the centrality of the activity in the social, religious and technological practices of individuals and communities. Moving from a consideration of choral archetypes, among them cauldrons, columns, Gorgons, ships and halcyons, the discussion then turns to an investigation of how participation in choral song and dance shaped communal experience and interacted with a variety of disparate spheres that include weaving, cataloguing, temple architecture and inscribing. The study ends with a treatment of the role of choral activity in generating epiphanies and allowing viewers and participants access to realms that typically lie beyond their perception.
| Author | : Antonia Ruppel |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 0521767628 |
A thorough examination of the nature and function of absolute constructions in Greek, Latin and Sanskrit.
| Author | : Ad Meskens |
| Publisher | : Birkhäuser |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2017-02-02 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 3319428632 |
In this book the classical Greek construction problems are explored in a didactical, enquiry based fashion using Interactive Geometry Software (IGS). The book traces the history of these problems, stating them in modern terminology. By focusing on constructions and the use of IGS the reader is confronted with the same problems that ancient mathematicians once faced. The reader can step into the footsteps of Euclid, Viète and Cusanus amongst others and then by experimenting and discovering geometric relationships far exceed their accomplishments. Exploring these problems with the neusis-method lets him discover a class of interesting curves. By experimenting he will gain a deeper understanding of how mathematics is created. More than 100 exercises guide him through methods which were developed to try and solve the problems. The exercises are at the level of undergraduate students and only require knowledge of elementary Euclidean geometry and pre-calculus algebra. It is especially well-suited for those students who are thinking of becoming a mathematics teacher and for mathematics teachers.
| Author | : Robert Hannah |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 177 |
| Release | : 2013-11-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1849667519 |
The smooth functioning of an ordered society depends on the possession of a means of regularising its activities over time. That means is a calendar, and its regularity is a function of how well it models the more or less regular movements of the celestial bodies - of the moon, the sun or the stars. Greek and Roman Calendars examines the ancient calendar as just such a time-piece, whose elements are readily described in astronomical and mathematical terms. The story of these calendars is one of a continuous struggle to maintain a correspondence with the regularity of the seasons and the sun, despite the fact that the calendars were usually based on the irregular moon. But on another, more human level, Greek and Roman Calendars steps beyond the merely mathematical and studies the calendar as a social instrument, which people used to organise their activities. It sets the calendars of the Greeks and Romans on a stage occupied by real people, who developed and lived with these time-pieces for a variety of purposes - agricultural, religious, political and economic.This is also a story of intersecting cultures, of Greeks with Greeks, of Greeks with Persians and Egyptians, and of Greeks with Romans, in which various calendaric traditions clashed or compromised.
| Author | : K. J. Horadam |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 069111921X |
In Hadamard Matrices and Their Applications, K. J. Horadam provides the first unified account of cocyclic Hadamard matrices and their applications in signal and data processing. This original work is based on the development of an algebraic link between Hadamard matrices and the cohomology of finite groups that was discovered fifteen years ago. The book translates physical applications into terms a pure mathematician will appreciate, and theoretical structures into ones an applied mathematician, computer scientist, or communications engineer can adapt and use. The first half of the book explains the state of our knowledge of Hadamard matrices and two important generalizations: matrices with group entries and multidimensional Hadamard arrays. It focuses on their applications in engineering and computer science, as signal transforms, spreading sequences, error-correcting codes, and cryptographic primitives. The book's second half presents the new results in cocyclic Hadamard matrices and their applications. Full expression of this theory has been realized only recently, in the Five-fold Constellation. This identifies cocyclic generalized Hadamard matrices with particular "stars" in four other areas of mathematics and engineering: group cohomology, incidence structures, combinatorics, and signal correlation. Pointing the way to possible new developments in a field ripe for further research, this book formulates and discusses ninety open questions.
