Author: John Pentland MahaffyPublisher:
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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The Silver Age of the Greek World
Author: John Pentland MahaffyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Magic in the Ancient Greek World
Author: Derek CollinsPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470695722
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Original and comprehensive, Magic in the Ancient Greek World takes the reader inside both the social imagination and the ritual reality that made magic possible in ancient Greece. Explores the widespread use of spells, drugs, curse tablets, and figurines, and the practitioners of magic in the ancient world Uncovers how magic worked. Was it down to mere superstition? Did the subject need to believe in order for it to have an effect? Focuses on detailed case studies of individual types of magic Examines the central role of magic in Greek life
The Greek World of Apuleius
Author: Gerald SandyPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004330321
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The first three chapters of this book elucidate the scholastic goals of both classical cultures during the Roman Imperial period. Apuleius' works share the stage in these chapters with representatives of the second-century Greek cultural paradigm. They define patterns of discourse and fit selected examples of analogous Apuleian strategies into the broader cultural framework. Subsequent chapters focus closely on the complete Apuleian corpus under the general headings of Apuleius in the roles of orator, philosopher and novelist. Two of Apuleius' philosophical works and his novel the Golden Ass provide an unparalleled opportunity to analyze the methods of translation and adaptation employed by the major Latin writer of the second half of the second century.
The New Cultural Atlas of the Greek World
Author: Tim CookePublisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761478782
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Examine the ancient Greek world through expertly designed maps and site drawings, bringing history to life.
From Realism to the Silver Age
Author: Margaret SamuPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501757040
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
This volume of thirteen essays presents rigorous new research by western and Russian scholars on Russian art of the nienteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Over More than three decades after the publication of Elizabeth Valkenier's pioneering monograph, Russian Realist Art, this impressive collection showcases the latest methodology and subjects of inquiry, expanding the parameters of what has become an area of enormous intellectual and popular appeal. Major artists including Ilia Repin, Valentin Serov, and Wassily Kandinsky are considered afresh, as are the Peredvizhnik and Mir iskusstva movements and the Abramtsevo community. The book also breaks new ground to embrace subjects such as Russian graphic satire and children's book illustration, as well as stimulating aspects of patronage and display. Collectively, the essays include a range of approaches, from close textual readings to institutional critique. They also develop major themes inspired by Valkenier's work, among them: the emergence and evolution of cultural institutions, the development of aesthetic discourse and artistic terminology, debates between the Academy of Arts and its challengers, art criticism and the Russian press, and the resonance of various forms of nationalism within the art world. These and other questions engage multiple disciplines—those of art history, Slavic Russian studies, and cultural history, among others—and promise to fuel a vibrant and ascendant field.
The Dial
Author: Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
The Complete Story of Civilization
Author: Will DurantPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476779716
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 11051
Book Description
The Complete Story of Civilization by Will Durant represents the most comprehensive attempt in our times to embrace the vast panorama of man’s history and culture. This eleven volume set includes: Volume One: Our Oriental Heritage; Volume Two: The Life of Greece; Volume Three: Caesar and Christ; Volume Four: The Age of Faith; Volume Five: The Renaissance; Volume Six: The Reformation; Volume Seven: The Age of Reason Begins; Volume Eight: The Age of Louis XIV; Volume Nine: The Age of Voltaire; Volume Ten: Rousseau and Revolution; Volume Eleven: The Age of Napoleon
The Universities of Ancient Greece
Author: John W.H. WaldenPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 104003683X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The Universities of Ancient Greece (1912) examines Greek education in the Classical world, from the pre-Alexandrian times to the last three centuries B.C. ‘Universities’ are defined as congregations of professors and students, as well as the organized bodies at places such as Alexandria (at the Museum), the Capitolium at Constantinople, at Athens and Antioch.
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