Author: Rudolf J. Strutz Publisher: jr-design ISBN: Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 48
Book Description
Hundreds of travel guide and travel accounts are flooding the market. Printed or in electronic form, in part, very extensive and detailed. But what if you are planning a short vacation, or simply a round trip to and not nearly have the time to work through hundreds of facts and details? All who wish to enjoy the beauty of the region and the wonderful artwork this series of books is dedicated to. The first book deals with the Aegean Coast and here in particular with the places Priene, Miletus and Didyma.
Author: Kleopatra Ferla Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
"This book is intended for scholar and layman alike. To complement its wide-ranging architectural themes, Priene includes an introductory historical note, a chapter on sculpture and pottery, illustrative appendices, an extensive bibliography and fine quality drawings that use the most up-to-date electronic software to process data from the original research material. The results are unique: colour is used to suggest a more naturalistic view of architectural elements; differing interpretations of monuments are juxtaposed; and separate tables relating to the orders of the major buildings are clearly presented."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Jan Zacharias Van Rookhuijzen Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110612534 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 390
Book Description
In his Histories, Herodotus of Halicarnassus gave an account of Xerxes’ invasion of Greece (480 BCE). Among the information in this work features a rich topography of the places visited by the army, as well as of the battlefields. Apparently there existed a certain demand among the Greeks to behold the exact places where they believed that the Greeks had fallen, gods had appeared, or Xerxes had watched over his men. This book argues that Herodotus’ topography, long taken at face value as if it provided unambiguous access to the historical sites of the war, may partly be a product of Greek imagination in the approximately fifty years between the Xerxes’ invasion and its publication, with the landscape functioning as a catalyst. This innovative approach leads to a new understanding of the topography of the invasion, and of the ways in which Greeks in the late fifth century BCE understood the world around them. It also prompts new suggestions about the real-world locations of various places mentioned in Herodotus’ text.
Author: Jan N. Bremmer Publisher: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 0748642897 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 552
Book Description
This collection offers a fresh look at the nature and development of the Greek gods in the period from Homer until Late Antiquity The Greek gods are still very much present in modern consciousness. Although Apollo and Dionysos, Artemis and Aphrodite, Zeus and Hermes are household names, it is much less clear what these divinities meant and stood for in ancient Greece. In fact, they have been very much neglected in modern scholarship. Bremmer and Erskine bring together a team of international scholars with the aim of remedying this situation and generating new approaches to the nature and development of the Greek gods in the period from Homer until Late Antiquity. The Gods of Ancient Greece looks at individual gods, but also asks to what extent cult, myth and literary genre determine the nature of a divinity and presents a synchronic and diachronic view of the gods as they functioned in Greek culture until the triumph of Christianity.
Author: Sheila L. Ager Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520913493 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 789
Book Description
A great deal of information has come to light over the past several decades about the role of arbitration between the Greek states. Arbitration and mediation were, in fact, central institutions in Hellenistic public life. In this comprehensive study, Sheila Ager brings together the scattered body of literary and epigraphical sources on arbitration, together with up-to-date bibliographic references, and commentary. The sources collected here range widely; Ager presents an exhaustive record of documents ranging from the settlement of a minor territorial squabble between two tiny city-states to the resolution of major conflicts separating the great powers of the day. In addition, Ager's introduction sets the documents in historical context and outlines distinctions among categories of arbitration. The work also includes indices to literary passages, inscriptions, persons, places, subjects, and Greek and Latin terms in the documents. This collection of many previously inaccessible texts will become a primary resource for any scholar or student working in the field of Hellenistic history.
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