Author: John Pentland MahaffyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Greek Life and Thought
Author: John Pentland MahaffyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Greek Life and Thought from the Death of Alexander to the Roman Conquest
Author: MahaffyA History of Greece
Author: George Willis BotsfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
A History of the Orient and Greece
Author: George Willis BotsfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
A History of the Ancient World
Author: George Willis BotsfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
The End That Does
Author: Cathy GutierrezPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317488806
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Millennial movements have had a significant impact on history and lie behind many artistic and scientific views of the world. 'The End that Does' tracks the interplay of the arts, sciences, and millennial imagination across 3000 years. The volume presents essays ranging across the study of ancient ritualistic sacrifice, utopian technology and the American millennial dream, science fiction, and the apocalypse of the tabloids. The End that Does will be invaluable to any student or scholar interested in the history of millennialism.
Rome: Its Rise and Fall
Author: Philip Van Ness MyersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
The Academy and Literature
Author: Cavafy's Hellenistic Antiquities
Author: Takis KayalisPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031349024
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This book reinterprets C. P. Cavafy’s historical and archaeological poetics by correlating his work to major cultural, political and sexualized receptions of antiquity that marked the turn of the 20th century. Focusing on selected poems which stage readings of Hellenistic and late ancient texts and material objects, this study probes the poet's personal library and archive to trace his scholarly sources and scrutinize their contribution to his creative practice. A new understanding of Cavafy's historicism emerges by comparing his poetics to a broad array of discourses and intellectual pursuits of his time; these range from antiquarianism, physiognomy and Egyptomania to cultural appropriations of the classics which sought to legitimate British colonial rule as well as homoerotic desire. As this volume demonstrates, Cavafy embraced antiquarianism as an empathetic and passionate way of relating to the past and shaped it into a method that allowed his poetry to render modern meanings to Hellenistic antiquities.
Collapse or Survival
Author: Elisa PeregoPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 178925101X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In the present-day world order, political disintegration, the faltering of economic systems, the controversial yet dramatic consequences of global warming and pollution, and the spread of poverty and social disruption in Western countries have rendered ‘collapse’ one of the hottest topics in the humanities and social sciences. In the frenetic run for identifying the global causes and large-scale consequences of collapse, however, instances of crisis taking place at the micro-scale are not always explored by scholars addressing these issues in present and past societies, while the ‘voices’ of the marginal/non-élite subjects that might be the main victims of collapse are often silenced in ancient history and archaeology. Within this framework Collapse or Survival explores localized phenomena of crisis, unrest, and survival in the ancient Mediterranean with a focus on the first millennium BC. In a time span characterized by unprecedented high levels of dynamism, mobility, and social change throughout that region, the area selected for analysis represents a unique convergence point where states rise and fall, long-distance trade networks develop and disintegrate, and patterns of human mobility catalyze cultural change at different rates. The central Mediterranean also comprises a wealth of recently excavated and highly contextualized material evidence, casting new light on the agency of individuals and groups who endeavored to cope with crisis situations in different geographical and temporal settings. Contributors provide novel definitions of ‘collapse’ and reconsider notions of crisis and social change by taking a broader perspective that is not necessarily centred on élites. Individual chapters analyze how both high-status and non-élite social agents responded to socio-political rupture, unrest, depopulation, economic crisis, the disintegration of kinship systems, interruption in long-term trade networks, and destruction in war.