Author: William Sandys Wright VauxPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385487188
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Ancient History from the Monuments. Persia from the Earliest Period to the Arab Conquest
Author: William Sandys Wright VauxPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385487188
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Ancient history from the monuments: Greek cities & islands of Asia Minor
Author: W. S. W. VauxPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
The author of this book about ancient history in Turkey and Greece, was a scholar of the subject and had worked for many years in the department of antiquities in The British Museum. The book is divided geographically into sections. Each area is described in some depth and the ruins and statues are examined in order to gain an insight into the lives of the people in ancient times.
The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor
Author: Getzel M. CohenPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520914087
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
This compendium provides historical narratives, detailed references, citations, and commentaries on all the cities founded or refounded in Europe, The Islands, and Asia Minor during the Hellenistic period. Organized coherently in more than 180 entries, it is one of the most significant reference works in the field of Greek history to be completed in the past decade.
The Greek Cities of Magna Graecia and Sicily
Author: Luca CerchiaiPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892367511
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
After colonizing the Aegean islands and the coast of Asia Minor, the ancient Greeks turned toward southern Italy and Sicily, driven by the unrest that troubled their homeland in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C. The new arrivals brought with them their language, as well as their cultural and religious traditions and the institution of the polis. In Italy they created an autonomous political community that eventually surpassed the cities of Greece in wealth, military power, and architectural and cultural splendor. Such forefathers of Western philosophy as Pythagoras, Parmenides, and Archimedes lived and worked within this civilization. The Greek Cities of Magna Graecia and Sicily presents an overview of Greek colonization in Italy and the principal historical events that took place in this area from the Archaic period until the ascendancy of the Romans. This comprehensive survey is followed by a review of the major archaeological sites in the region.
Children of Achilles
Author: John FreelyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857736302
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Since the days of Troy historic lands of Asia Minor have been home to Greeks. They are steeped in a rich fusion of Greek and Turkish culture and the histories of both are irrevocably entwined, fatefully connected. "Children of Achilles" tells the epic and ultimately tragic story of the Greek presence in Anatolia, beginning with the Trojan War and culminating in 1923 with the devastating population exchange that followed the Turkish War of Independence. The once magnificent, now ruined, cities that cluster along the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts of Turkey are reminders of a civilization that produced the first Hellenic enlightenment, giving birth to Homer, Herodotus and the first philosophers of nature. For more three millennia the Anatolian Greeks preserved their identity and culture as the tides of history washed over them, enduring conflicts that historians since Herodotus have seen as an unending clash of civilizations between East and West. Today, the memory of the Greek diaspora from Asia Minor lives on in the music of rebetika, the threnodies known as amanadas, and the poetry of Seferis, and even now the descendants of those exiles speak with nostalgia of 'i kath'imas Anatoli' - our own Anatolia, their lost homeland. This, told for the first time, is their story, from glorious beginnings to a bitter end, a story that continues to echo through the ages and across continents.
In the Land of a Thousand Gods
Author: Christian MarekPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691182906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
This monumental book provides the first comprehensive history of Asia Minor from prehistory to the Roman imperial period. In this English-language edition of the critically acclaimed German book, Christian Marek masterfully employs ancient sources to illuminate civic institutions, urban and rural society, agriculture, trade and money, the influential Greek writers of the Second Sophistic, the notoriously bloody exhibitions of the gladiatorial arena, and more.
Ancient History, Literature and Art
Author: Julia Harris BentleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Greek Fortifications of Asia Minor 500–130 BC
Author: Konstantin S NossovPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 184908128X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Sandwiched between the heart of ancient Greece and the lands of Persia, the Greek cities of Western Anatolia were the spark that ignited some of the most iconic conflicts of the ancient world. Fought over repeatedly in the 5th century BC, their conquest by the Persians provided a casus belli for Alexander the Great to cross the Hellespont in 334 BC and launch the battle of Granicus and the sieges of Miletus and Halicarnassus. A blend of Greek and Asian styles of military architecture, these fortified cities were revolutionary in their multi-linear construction – successive defensive walls – with loopholes and mural arches. Konstantin Nossov illustrates the evolution of Greek fortifications and the influences of the region they bordered in this fascinating study.
Old and New Islam in Greece
Author: Konstantinos TsitselikisPublisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9004221522
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Providing an interdisciplinary look at Greece’s Muslim minority and migrant communities, this book provides an exhaustive legal analysis of regulations and broadens our understanding of the political management of ethnic and religious otherness, while placing these phenomena in historical context.
A History of the Greek City States, 700-338 B. C.
Author: Raphael SealeyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520031777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
This book introduces the reader to the serious study of Greek history, concentrating more on problems than on narrative. The topics selected have been prominent in modern research and references to important discussions of these have been provided. Outlined are controversial issues of which differing views can be defended. Mr. Sealey's preference is for interpretations which see Greek history as the interaction of personalities, rather than for those which see it as a struggle for economic classes or of abstract ideas. Sealey assumes that the Greek cities of the archaic and classical periods did not inherit any political institutions from the Bronze Age; that the extensive invasions that brought Mycenaean civilization to an end destroyed political habits as effectively as stone palaces. Accordingly, he believes that the Greeks of the historic period were engaged in the fundamental enterprise of building organized society out of nothing. The first chapters of this work deal with the stops taken by the early tyrants, in Sparta and Athens, toward constructing stable organs of authority and of political expression. In later chapters, interest shifts to relations that developed between the states and especially to the development of lasting alliances. Attention is given to the Peloponnesian League, to the Persian Wars, to the Delian League, and to the Second Athenian Sea League of the fourth century.