Author: John Pentland MahaffyPublisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Glory that was Greece
Author: John Clarke StobartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Survey of Greek Civilization
Author: John Pentland MahaffyPublisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Civilization Before Greece and Rome
Author: H. W. F. SaggsPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300174168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
For many centuries it was accepted that civilization began with the Greeks and Romans. During the last two hundred years, however, archaeological discoveries in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete, Syria, Anatolia, Iran, and the Indus Valley have revealed that rich cultures existed in these regions some two thousand years before the Greco-Roman era. In this fascinating work, H.W.F Saggs presents a wide-ranging survey of the more notable achievements of these societies, showing how much the ancient peoples of the Near and Middle East have influenced the patterns of our daily lives. Saggs discussesthe the invention of writing, tracing it from the earliest pictograms (designed for account-keeping) to the Phoenician alphabet, the source of the Greek and all European alphabets. He investigates teh curricula, teaching methods, and values of the schools from which scribes graduated. Analyzing the provisions of some of the law codes, he illustrates the operation of international law and the international trade that it made possible. Saggs highlights the creative ways that these ancient peoples used their natural resources, describing the vast works in stone created by the Egyptians, the development of technology in bronze and iron, and the introduction of useful plants into regions outside their natural habitat. In chapters on mathematics, astronomy, and medicine, he offers interesting explanations about how modern calculations of time derive from the ancient world, how the Egyptians practiced scientific surgery, and how the Babylonians used algebra. The book concludes with a discussion of ancient religion, showing its evolution from the most primitive forms toward monotheism.
Greek Civilization
Author: Brian A SparkesPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0631205586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
It covers all the major themes of Ancient Greek history, set in the context of both the preceding and following periods.
The Western Greeks
Author: Giovanni Pugliese CarratelliPublisher:
ISBN: 9780500237267
Category : Civilization, Western
Languages : en
Pages : 799
Book Description
This publication celebrates a major exhibition shown at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice in 1996 - a detailed study of Greek civilisation in the Western world. From the 8th century BC, Greece enjoyed an era of exceptional development and colonial expansion. New settlements sprang up along the west coast of Italy, from the Bay of Naples and the Gulf of Tarentum southwards to Sicily. Prosperity came quickly to these Western colonies: art, architecture, politics, religion, literature and science flourished as a result of a dynamic fusion of cultures, marking the beginning of an age of intense creativity. This book contains visual and textual documentation of this formative period of Greek history. Based on the collection of artefacts in the Palazzo Grassi exhibition, it contains photographs and 60 essays to survey the subject in broad detail. Following a chronological path, the book traces the diffusion of Greek influence in the West, exploring every aspect of the new societies from town planning and economy to the evolution of the Greek alphabet; from the maritime adventures of the first Achaen navigators to the revolutionary thought of the first philosophers.
Wandering Greeks
Author: Robert GarlandPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069117380X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
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.
Ancient Greek France
Author: A. Trevor HodgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
As far back as 600 B.C., long before the Romans, cities such as Marseilles, Antibes, Nice, and Monte Carlo were founded by settlers who emigrated from mainland Greece and the older Greek colonies of the Ionian coast in Asia Minor. Tracing the history of Provence and the French Riviera back to its earliest roots, Trevor Hodge gathers together the evidence for this far-flung outpost of ancient Greek civilization. Starting with a survey of Phocaea, the Ionian metropolis, Ancient Greek France follows the settlers' fleet overseas to Provence and the foundation there of Massalia-modern Marseilles. Subsequent chapters outline Massalia's topography, archaeology, history, economy, politics, and culture. The book provides site-by-site commentary on the other, later Greek colonies along the Mediterranean coast between Ampurias, in Spain, and Monaco, and a study of the Celts of inland Gaul and their relations, both commercial and cultural, with the Greek colonists. Hodge assesses the characteristics and achievements of Massalia, and considers the place it held in the Greek imagination. A readable, original contribution, this book will appeal to scholars and students of ancient history, archaeologists, general readers, and travelers interested in the south of France.
A Survey of Greek Civilization
Author: John Pentland MahaffyPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337682989
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times
Author: Thomas R. MartinPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300160054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
"First edition 1996. Updated in 2000 with new suggested readings and illustrations"--Title page verso.
The Book of the Ancient Greeks
Author: Dorothy MillsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description