Author: James Augustus St. JohnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece
Author: James Augustus St. JohnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Ancient Greece
Author: Sarah B. PomeroyPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199846047
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Political, Social, and Cultural History is a comprehensive and balanced history, covering the political, military, social, cultural, and economic history of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Era.
Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture
Author: Werner JaegerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195364910
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Werner Jaeger's classic three-volume work, originally published in 1939, is now available in paperback. Paideia, the shaping of Greek character through a union of civilization, tradition, literature, and philosophy is the basis for Jaeger's evaluation of Hellenic culture. Volume I describes the foundation, growth, and crisis of Greek culture during the archaic and classical epochs, ending with the collapse of the Athenian empire. The second and third volumes of the work deal with the intellectual history of ancient Greece in the Age of Plato, the 4th century B.C.--the age in which Greece lost everything that is valued in this world--state, power, liberty--but still clung to the concept of paideia. As its last great poet, Menander summarized the primary role of this ideal in Greek culture when he said: "The possession which no one can take away from man is paideia."
History of Greek Culture
Author: Jacob BurckhardtPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486148629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Monumental survey explores regional variations, virtues, and faults of city-states, discusses the fine arts, examines poesy and music, and presents perceptive accounts of enduring Greek achievements in philosophy, science, and oratory. 80 photographs, 25 black-and-white illustrations.
Catalogue of the Miscellaneous Library of William B. Mann ...
Author: William Benson MannA Culture of Freedom
Author: Christian MeierPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199588031
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
The book takes us on a tour through the rich spectrum of Greek life and culture, from their epic and lyric poetry, political thought and philosophy, to their social life, military traditions, sport, and religious festivals, and finally to the early stages of Greek democracy. Running as a connecting thread throughout is a people's attempt to create a society based upon the concept of freedom rather than naked power.
Men of the Time
Author: Alaric Alexander WattsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Men of the Time
Author: Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind
Author: Edith HallPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393244121
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
"Wonderful…a thoughtful discussion of what made [the Greeks] so important, in their own time and in ours." —Natalie Haynes, Independent The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient Greeks, acclaimed classics scholar Edith Hall offers a bold synthesis of the full 2,000 years of Hellenic history to show how the ancient Greeks were the right people, at the right time, to take up the baton of human progress. Hall portrays a uniquely rebellious, inquisitive, individualistic people whose ideas and creations continue to enthrall thinkers centuries after the Greek world was conquered by Rome. These are the Greeks as you’ve never seen them before.
Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens
Author: Robin WaterfieldPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198727887
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
A fascinating, accessible, and up-to-date history of the Ancient Greeks. Covering the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods, and centred around the disunity of the Greeks, their underlying cultural unity, and their eventual political unification.