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Author: Roderick Beaton Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571353584 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 444
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'Monumental . . . A wonderful book.' Peter Frankopan'Magisterial . . . remarkable.' Guardian'Erudite and highly readable . . . An authoritative guide to the countless ways in which Greek words and ideas have shaped the modern world.' Financial TimesThe Greeks is a story which takes us from the archaeological treasures of the Bronze Age Aegean and myths of gods and heroes, to the politics of the European Union today. It is a story of inventions, such as the alphabet, philosophy and science, but also of reinvention: of cultures which merged and multiplied, and adapted to catastrophic change. It is the epic, revelatory history of the Greek-speaking people and their global impact told as never before.
Author: Roderick Beaton Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571353584 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 444
Book Description
'Monumental . . . A wonderful book.' Peter Frankopan'Magisterial . . . remarkable.' Guardian'Erudite and highly readable . . . An authoritative guide to the countless ways in which Greek words and ideas have shaped the modern world.' Financial TimesThe Greeks is a story which takes us from the archaeological treasures of the Bronze Age Aegean and myths of gods and heroes, to the politics of the European Union today. It is a story of inventions, such as the alphabet, philosophy and science, but also of reinvention: of cultures which merged and multiplied, and adapted to catastrophic change. It is the epic, revelatory history of the Greek-speaking people and their global impact told as never before.
Author: Jean-Pierre Vernant Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226853833 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 332
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What do we mean when we speak of ancient Greeks? A person from the Archaic period? The war hero celebrated by Homer? Or the fourth century "political animal" described by Aristotle? In this book, leading scholars show what it meant to be Greek during the classical period of Greek civilization. The Greeks offers the most complete portraits available of typical Greek personages from Athens to Sparta, Arcadia, Thessaly and Epirus to the city-states of Asia Minor, to the colonies of the Black Sea, southern Italy, and Sicily. Looking at the citizen, the religious believer, the soldier, the servant, the peasant, and others, they show what—in the Greek relationships with the divine, with nature, with others, and with the self—made him "different" in his ways of acting, thinking, and feeling. The contributors to this volume are Jean-Pierre Vernant, Claude Mosse, Yvon Garlan, Giuseppe Cambiano, Luciano Canfora, James Redfield, Charles Segal, Oswyn Murray, Mario Vegetti, and Philippe Borgeaud.
Author: Christopher Stray Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192538810 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 456
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The Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott is one of the most famous dictionaries in the world, and for the past century-and-a-half has been a constant and indispensable presence in teaching, learning, and research on ancient Greek throughout the English-speaking world and beyond. Despite continuous modification and updating, it is still recognizably a Victorian creation; at the same time, however, it carries undiminished authority both for its account of the Greek language and for its system of organizing and presenting linguistic data. The present volume brings together essays by twenty-two scholars on all aspects of the history, constitution, and problematics of this extraordinary work, enabling the reader both to understand its complex history and to appreciate it as a monument to the challenges and pitfalls of classical scholarship. The contributors have combined a variety of approaches and methodologies - historical, philological, theoretical - in order to situate the book within the various disciplines to which it is relevant, from semantics, lexicography, and historical linguistics, to literary theory, Victorian studies, and the history of the book. Paying tribute to the Lexicon's enormous effect on the evolving theory and practice of lexicography, it also includes a section looking forward to new developments in dictionary-making in the digital age, bringing comprehensively up to date the question of what the future holds for this fascinating and perplexing monument to the challenges of understanding an ancient language.
Author: Mazimum C Jerri Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 120
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Ancient Greece (Hellas) was in many ways the birthplace of Western civilization. It was Greece that gave the world the idea of democracy, Western philosophy, the Olympics, and influential works of Western literature. Situated at the junction of North Africa, Western Europe, and Asia, Greek culture and philosophy have played a large role in shaping the development of Western and world history.Over the years, the boundaries of Greece have shifted, but the country is made up of key regions - Macedonia, Athens, Central Greece, the Peloponnese, Thessaly, Epirus, the Aegean Islands, Thrace, Crete, and the Ionian Islands.Below is a list of some famous people from Ancient Greece discussed in this book:1. Homer (c. 8th Century B.C. )2. Solon (638 BC - 558 BC) 3. Sappho( c 570 BC)4. Pythagoras (c. 570 BC - c 495 BC)5. Cleisthenes ( 570 BC - 558 BC )6. Aeschylus (524 BC - c.455 BC)7. Sophocles (497 BC - 406 BC)8. Pericles (495 - 429 BC)9. Herodotus (c. 484-425 BC) 10. Euripides c. 480 - 406 BC)11. Socrateswriter (469 - 399 BC)12. Hippocrates 460BC - 377BC)13. Aristophanes 446 BCE - c. 386 BCE14. Platohistorical (424 - 348 BC) 15. Dionysius I, (c.432-367)16. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) 17. Alexander the Great (356 - 323 BC)18. Euclid (c. 325 - 265 BC) 19. Archimedes (287 B.C - 212)20. Cleopatra (69 -30 BC)
Author: Robert Garland Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 069117380X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 344
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Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement was essential to the survival, success, and sheer sustainability of their society, and that this wandering became a defining characteristic of their culture. Addressing a neglected but essential subject, Wandering Greeks focuses on the diaspora of tens of thousands of people between about 700 and 325 BCE, demonstrating the degree to which Greeks were liable to be forced to leave their homes due to political upheaval, oppression, poverty, warfare, or simply a desire to better themselves. Attempting to enter into the mind-set of these wanderers, the book provides an insightful and sympathetic account of what it meant for ancient Greeks to part from everyone and everything they held dear, to start a new life elsewhere—or even to become homeless, living on the open road or on the high seas with no end to their journey in sight. Each chapter identifies a specific kind of "wanderer," including the overseas settler, the deportee, the evacuee, the asylum-seeker, the fugitive, the economic migrant, and the itinerant, and the book also addresses repatriation and the idea of the "portable polis." The result is a vivid and unique portrait of ancient Greece as a culture of displaced persons.
Author: Roderick Beaton
Author: Roderick Beaton
Author: Jean-Pierre Vernant
Author: John Henry Haaren
Author: Christopher Stray
Author: Mazimum C Jerri
Author: Greece
Author: Richard Valpy (D.D.)
Author: Robert Garland
Author: George Grote
Author: Greece. [Appendix.]