Essays In Greek History
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| Author | : William Kendrick Pritchett |
| Publisher | : Brill |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
The Professor Emeritus of Greek at Berkeley offers six original papers, the titles of which are indicative of the contents: - The Alleged Battle of Oinoa. - The General's Exhortations in Greek Warfare. - The General on the Battlefield. - Thucydides and Pylos. - The Roads of Akarnania. - Circumventions of the Thermopylai Pass. These studies are a by-product of Pritchett's studies on Greek military practices and Greek topography, and will be of interest to students of Greek historiography, since all involve problems of text and the veracity of the historians. The three topographical chapters, which are based on extensive autopsy and include some new discoveries, are accompanied with photographs and sketchmaps.
| Author | : Ewen Bowie |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 886 |
| Release | : 2022-01-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1009213407 |
In this book one of the world's leading Hellenists brings together his many contributions over four decades to our understanding of early Greek literature, above all of elegiac poetry and its relation to fifth-century prose historiography, but also of early Greek epic, iambic, melic and epigrammatic poetry. Many chapters have become seminal, e.g. that which first proposed the importance of now-lost long narrative elegies, and others exploring their performance contexts when papyri published in 1992 and 2005 yielded fragments of such long poems by Simonides and Archilochus. Another chapter argues against the widespread view that Sappho composed and performed chiefly for audiences of young girls, suggesting instead that she was a virtuoso singer and lyre-player, entertaining men in the elite symposia whose verbal and musical components are explored in several other chapters of the book. Two more volumes of collected papers will follow devoted to later Greek literature and culture.
| Author | : Antony Erich Raubitschek |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 424 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
This collection of writings presents the work of one of the century's most influential classical scholars. Bringing together for the first time Raubitschek's most significant publications, the book provides rich insights into the ancient authors and monuments as they were meant to be understood in antiquity.
| Author | : Eric Robertson Dodds |
| Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Civilization, Greco-Roman |
| ISBN | : 9780198143772 |
These essays represent the full range of Dodds' literary and philosophical interests, and his ability to combine profound scholarship with the lucid humanity of a teacher convinced of the value of Greek studies to the modern world.
| Author | : T. P. Wiseman |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 476 |
| Release | : 2006-01-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780197263235 |
The study of Greco-Roman civilisation is as exciting and innovative today as it has ever been. This intriguing collection of essays by contemporary classicists reveals new discoveries, new interpretations and new ways of exploring the experiences of the ancient world. Through one and a half millennia of literature, politics, philosophy, law, religion and art, the classical world formed the origin of western culture and thought. This book emphasises the many ways in which it continues to engage with contemporary life. Offering a wide variety of authorial style, the chapters range in subject matter from contemporary poets' exploitation of Greek and Latin authors, via newly discovered literary texts and art works, to modern arguments about ancient democracy and slavery, and close readings of the great poets and philosophers of antiquity. This engaging book reflects the current rejuvenation of classical studies and will fascinate anyone with an interest in western history.
| Author | : Arnaldo Momigliano |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 407 |
| Release | : 2012-07-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0226533859 |
"Originally published 1977 by Basil Blackwell Oxford in Great Britain and by Wesleyan University Press in the United States."
| Author | : Michael H. Jameson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 496 |
| Release | : 2014-10-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1316123197 |
This volume assembles fourteen highly influential articles written by Michael H. Jameson over a period of nearly fifty years, edited and updated by the author himself. They represent both the scope and the signature style of Jameson's engagement with the subject of ancient Greek religion. The collection complements the original publications in two ways: firstly, it makes the articles more accessible; and secondly, the volume offers readers a unique opportunity to observe that over almost five decades of scholarship Jameson developed a distinctive method, a signature style, a particular perspective, a way of looking that could perhaps be fittingly called a 'Jamesonian approach' to the study of Greek religion. This approach, recognizable in each article individually, becomes unmistakable through the concentration of papers collected here. The particulars of the Jamesonian approach are insightfully discussed in the five introductory essays written for this volume by leading world authorities on polis religion.
| Author | : William Wians |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2010-07-02 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1438427433 |
Explores the philosophical dimensions present in the works of ancient Greek poets and playwrights.
| Author | : S. D. Lambert |
| Publisher | : Classical Press of Wales |
| Total Pages | : 390 |
| Release | : 2011-12-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1910589217 |
Sociable Man, which celebrates the work of Nick Fisher, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University, contains essays by leading classicists, ancient historians and archaeologists on the theme of ancient Greek social behaviour. Fifteen original papers reflect the diversity and the unities in the honorand's interests: politics and law (Hans van Wees on Solon's law of hybris, John K. Davies on the biography of a fourth-century Athenian politician); social values, including honour, dishonour and hybris (Stephen Lambert on honorific inscriptions, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones on domestic violence, Louis Rawlings on a dog named Hybris, James Whitley on victory dedications, Douglas Cairns on ransom and revenge in Homer); social relations in the Athenian navy (Sam Potts); gender and power (Janett Morgan on gendering of domestic space, Sian Lewis on women and tyranny, Ruth Westgate on animal imagery in mosaics); citizen identity, Athenian (Robin Osborne on the influence of Attic local environments on citizen formation) and Arcadian (James Roy on the Arcadian reputation for backwardness); and sexuality (David Konstan on Alciphron and the invention of pornography, Emma Stafford on masturbation). The papers will be essential reading for researchers and students of ancient Greek literature, history and archaeology. The book also includes tributes by Paul Cartledge and P. J. Shaw, respectively, on Fisher's place in research and teaching of ancient Greek social history.
| Author | : David M Halperin |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 235 |
| Release | : 2012-07-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 113660877X |
Halperin's subject is the erotics of male culture in ancient Greece. Arguing that the modern concept of "homosexuality" is an inadequate tool for the interpretation of these features of sexual life in antiquity, Halperin offers an alternative account that accords greater prominence to the indigenous terms in which sexual experiences were constituted in the ancient Mediterranean world. Wittily and provocatively written, Halperin's meticulously drawn windows onto ancient sexuality give us a new meaning to the concept of "Greek love."
