Author: Sir John Pentland MahaffyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The Greek World Under Roman Sway
Author: Sir John Pentland MahaffyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Literature in the Greek World
Author: Oliver TaplinPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192893031
Category : Authors and readers
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
'Our present appreciation of Greek and Roman literature should be informed and influenced by consideration of what it was originally appreciated for. The past, for all its alienness, affects and changes the present.'The focus of this book - its new perspective - is on the 'receivers' of literature: readers, spectators, and audiences. Six contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, explore the various and changing interactions between the makers of literature and their audiences or readers from theearliest Greek poetry through to the drama, history, and philosophy of Greece under Roman rule.The contributors deploy fresh insights to map out lively and provocative, yet accessible, surveys. They cover the kinds of literature which have shaped western culture - epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy, rhetoric, epigram, elegy, pastoral, satire, biography, epistle, declamation,and panegyric. Who were the audiences, and why did they regard their literature as so important?
The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic
Author: Harriet I. FlowerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107032245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.
The Greek World Under Roman Sway
Author: John Pentland MahaffyPublisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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The Historians' History of the World: Greece to the Roman conquest
Author: Henry Smith WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World History
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Rome, the Greek World, and the East
Author: Fergus MillarPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
This volume completes the three-volume collection of Fergus Millar's essays, which, together with his books, transformed the study of the Roman Empire by shifting the focus of inquiry onto the broader Mediterranean world and beyond. The eighteen essays presented here include Millar's classic contributions to our understanding of the impact of Rome on the peoples, cultures, and religions of the eastern Mediterranean, and the extent to which Graeco-Roman culture acted as a vehicle for the self-expression of the indigenous cultures. In an epilogue written to conclude the collection, Millar argues for rethinking the focus of "ancient history" itself and for considering the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean from the first millennium B.C. to the Islamic conquests a valid scholarly framework and an appropriate educational syllabus for the study of antiquity. English translations of extended ancient passages in Greek, Latin, and Semitic languages in all the essays make Millar's most important articles accessible for the first time to specialists and nonspecialists alike.
The Silver Age of the Greek World
Author: John Pentland MahaffyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The Literary World
Author: The Greek Stones Speak
Author: Paul Lachlan MacKendrickPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393301113
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Schliemann's excavation is but the opening chapter in this exciting story of what modern science has revealed about the ancient cultures of the Aegeans and Grecians. It is a story that begins with the potsherds of Neolithic villages and climaxes in the glories of Lyric, Classical and Hellenistic Greece. Among its fascinating events is Ventris' deciphering of the archaic Linear B script, a breakthrough which revealed the secrets of the fabulous Minoan civlization. Wedding the complex techniques of such archaeological methods as the carbon-14 dating of artifacts to an astonishingly complete cultural history of man in Greece, the author has produced a lavishly illustrated study that will interest nonprofessionals as much as archaeologists, historians, travelers and students of the fine arts.
The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Liutprand-Moralities
Author: Albert HauckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description