A History Of The Greek And Roman World Routledge Revivals

Author : George B. Grundy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317704355

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A History of the Greek and Roman World (Routledge Revivals) by George B. Grundy Pdf

A History of the Greek and Roman World, first published in 1926, presents the story of Graeco-Roman antiquity from its earliest recorded origins to the height of the Roman imperium. It aims to bring into prominence the internal dynamism - political, cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic – which animated the ancient peoples at different periods of their history, and to draw attention to the physical, socio-economic and religious conditions under which they lived. Written in a style which will likely be unfamiliar to modern readers, Grundy’s historical portrait is painted with broad brush-strokes, offering not only compelling narrative but also incisive commentary on the individuals and societies which occupy the foreground. A History of the Greek and Roman World will be of interest for the general enthusiast as well as students, who may value such a radically different approach to the interpretation of antiquity compared to the conventions which prevail amongst contemporary scholars.

Author : G B Grundy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2024-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032767456

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A History of the Greek and Roman World by G B Grundy Pdf

A History of the Greek and Roman World (1926) is a single-volume sweeping examination of the Greek and Roman civilisations from 2000 B.C. to the second century A.D. It covers all parts of the Greek and Roman worlds, and all aspects of their societies over the different time periods: culture, politics and religion.

Author : George B. Grundy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317704348

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A History of the Greek and Roman World (Routledge Revivals) by George B. Grundy Pdf

A History of the Greek and Roman World, first published in 1926, presents the story of Graeco-Roman antiquity from its earliest recorded origins to the height of the Roman imperium. It aims to bring into prominence the internal dynamism - political, cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic – which animated the ancient peoples at different periods of their history, and to draw attention to the physical, socio-economic and religious conditions under which they lived. Written in a style which will likely be unfamiliar to modern readers, Grundy’s historical portrait is painted with broad brush-strokes, offering not only compelling narrative but also incisive commentary on the individuals and societies which occupy the foreground. A History of the Greek and Roman World will be of interest for the general enthusiast as well as students, who may value such a radically different approach to the interpretation of antiquity compared to the conventions which prevail amongst contemporary scholars.

Author : George Beardoe Grundy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Greece
ISBN : LCCN:lc26005750

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A History of the Greek and Roman World by George Beardoe Grundy Pdf

Author : Graham Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317747314

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Ancient Fiction (Routledge Revivals) by Graham Anderson Pdf

A number of ancient novelists were skilful storytellers and resourceful literary artists, and their works are often carefully individualised presentations of an ancient and distinguished heritage. Ancient Fiction, first published in 1984, examines the tales retold by these novelists in light of more recently discovered Near Eastern texts, and in this way offers a tentative solution to Rohde’s celebrated problem about the origins of the Greek novel. Among the surprises that emerge are an ancient stratum of the Arabian Nights and a possible Tristan-Romance, as well as an animal Satyricon and a human Golden Ass. This new framework is, however, incidental to an examination of the achievements of ancient novelists in their own right. In presenting character, structuring narrative, imposing a veneer of sophistication or contriving a religious ethos, these writers demonstrate that their work is worthy of sympathetic study, rather dismissal as the pulp fiction of the ancient world.

Author : E. J. Owens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1138834211

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The City in the Greek and Roman World by E. J. Owens Pdf

Drawing on archaeology, literary and epigraphic evidence, professional and technical literature, and descriptions of cities by travellers and geographers, the author traces the developments of town planning, revealing the importance of the city to political, religious, and social life in the Greek and Roman world.

Author : Guy Maclean Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317808374

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The Sacred Identity of Ephesos (Routledge Revivals) by Guy Maclean Rogers Pdf

The Sacred Identity of Ephesos offers a full-length interpretation of one of the largest known bequests in the Classical world, made to the city of Ephesos in AD 104 by a wealthy Roman equestrian, and challenges some of the basic assumptions made about the significance of the Greek cultural renaissance known as the ‘Second Sophistic’. Professor Rogers shows how the civic rituals created by the foundation symbolised a contemporary social hierarchy, and how the ruling class used foundation myths - the birth of the goddess Artemis in a grove above the city – as a tangible source of power, to be wielded over new citizens and new gods. Utilising an innovative methodology for analysing large inscriptions, Professor Rogers argues that the Ephesians used their past to define their present during the Roman Empire, shedding new light on how second-century Greeks maintained their identities in relation to Romans, Christians, and Jews.

Author : Thomas Wiedemann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317749110

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Adults and Children in the Roman Empire (Routledge Revivals) by Thomas Wiedemann Pdf

There is little evidence to enable us to reconstruct what it felt like to be a child in the Roman world. We do, however, have ample evidence about the feelings and expectations that adults had for children over the centuries between the end of the Roman republic and late antiquity. Thomas Wiedemann draws on this evidence to describe a range of attitudes towards children in the classical period, identifying three areas where greater individuality was assigned to children: through political office-holding; through education; and, for Christians, through membership of the Church in baptism. These developments in both pagan and Christian practices reflect wider social changes in the Roman world during the first four centuries of the Christian era. Of obvious value to classicists, Adults and Children in the Roman Empire, first published in 1989, is also indispensable for anthropologists, and well as those interested in ecclesiastical and social history.

Author : Fik Meijer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317701101

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A History of Seafaring in the Classical World (Routledge Revivals) by Fik Meijer Pdf

A History of Seafaring in the Classical World, first published in 1986, presents a complete treatment of all aspects of the maritime history of the Classical world, designed for the use of students as well as scholars. Beginning with Crete and Mycenae in the third millennium BC, the author expounds a concise history of seafaring up to the sixth century AD. The development of ship design and of the different types of ship, the varied purposes of shipping, and the status and conditions of sailors are all discussed. Many of the most important sea battles are investigated, and the book is illustrated with a number of line drawings and photographs. Greek and Latin word are only used if they are technical terms, ensuring A History of Seafaring in the Classical World is accessible to students of ancient history who are not familiar with the Classical languages.

Author : David Braund
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317669579

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Augustus to Nero (Routledge Revivals) by David Braund Pdf

The years from the battle of Actium to the death of Nero stand at the very heart of Roman history. Yet the sources of this key period, particularly the inscriptions, papyri and coins, are not readily accessible. Crucial new discoveries remain buried in learned periodicals, and now that the study of the ancient world is widespread among those without Latin and Greek, the lack of translations is proving a serious handicap. Augustus to Nero, first published in 1985, contains numerous texts not only for students of traditional political history, but also of those interested in social and economic history. An introductory essay establishes a broad methodological framework within which each text may be understood. The focus throughout is on less well-known literary evidence: for example, the significant poetry of Crinagoras and Calpurnius Siculus. Inaccessible sources are here collected and translated: brief notes are supplied to help the reader.

Author : Sue Blundell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317751090

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The Origins of Civilization in Greek and Roman Thought (Routledge Revivals) by Sue Blundell Pdf

It has been much disputed to what extent thinkers in Greek and Roman antiquity adhered to ideas of evolution and progress in human affairs. Did they lack any conception of process in time, or did they anticipate Darwinian and Lamarckian hypotheses? The Origins of Civilization in Greek and Roman Thought, first published in1986, comprehensively examines this issue. Beginning with creation myths – Mother Earth and Pandora, the anti-progressive ideas of the Golden Age, and the cyclical theories of Orphism – Professor Blundell goes on to explore the origins of scientific speculation among the Pre-Socratics, its development into the teleological science of Aristotle, and the advent of the progressivist views of the Stoics. Attention is also given to the ‘primitivist’ debate, involving ideas about the noble savage and reflections of such speculation in poetry, and finally the relationship between nature and culture in ancient thought is investigated.

Author : Missimo Pallottino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317696827

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A History of Earliest Italy (Routledge Revivals) by Missimo Pallottino Pdf

In A History of Earliest Italy, first published in 1984, Professor Pallottino illumines the wide variety of peoples, languages, and traditions of culture and trade that constituted the pre-Roman Italic world. Since the written sources are fragmentary, archaeology provides the central reservoir for evidence of the societies and institutions of the varied peoples of early Italy. This incisive and immensely readable account unfolds from the Bronze Age to the unification of the Italian peninsula and Sicily by Rome following the flourishing Archaic period. It examines the relationships among the peoples of the peninsula and the influence of Mycenae and Greece in trade and colonisation. In telling the story of the early stages of the eternal dialogue between national vocation and local diversity in Italy, Professor Pallottino demonstrates that it is no less deserving of our attention than its contemporary Greek and later imperial Roman counterparts.

Author : Professor Thomas E J Wiedemann,Thomas Wiedemann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138014206

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Greek and Roman Slavery (Routledge Revivals) by Professor Thomas E J Wiedemann,Thomas Wiedemann Pdf

Interest in ancient slavery has grown steadily in recent decades: partly in response to the Marxist interpretation of slavery as one of the characteristic types of economic system, partly as a comparison and contrast to New World slavery and the preconceptions associated with it. Greek and Roman Slavery, first published in 1981, provides readers interested in ancient slavery with a selection of major texts from Greek and Latin literature to which modern scholarship constantly refers, translated into accessible contemporary English, as well as some epigraphical and other non-literary material. Intended as a supplement and not a substitute for a systematic treatment of the subject, each extract is preceded by an introduction, indicating its significance and offering modest historical interpretation. There is no better collection of relevant ancient sources, in a form suitable for students or specialists who are unfamiliar with the classical languages, than Wiedemanne(tm)s Greek and Roman Slavery.

Author : Onno Van Nijf,Fik Meijer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317575986

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Trade, Transport and Society in the Ancient World (Routledge Revivals) by Onno Van Nijf,Fik Meijer Pdf

This book, first published in 1992, presents an introduction to the nature of trade and transport in antiquity through a selection of translated literary, papyrological, epigraphical and legal sources. These texts illustrate a range of aspects of ancient trade and transport: from the role of the authorities, to the status of traders, to the capacity and speed of ancient ships. It is clear that the actual means of transportation were crucial; the book illustrates the limitations of ancient transport technology and the consequences for the development of commerce. It focuses first on different aspects of transport over land and then on transport by river and concludes with a discussion of several aspects of ancient seafaring, This book is ideal for students of ancient history.

Author : Robert Byron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136462290

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The Byzantine Achievement (Routledge Revivals) by Robert Byron Pdf

First published in 1929, this highly influential study offers a historical perspective on the Byzantine Empire, from the establishment of Constantinople by Emperor Constantine around 330 AD, through to the fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Byron’s work considers the empire in its entirety, assessing the highs and lows across a thousand year period. He provides insights into trade, culture, the organs of state, religion, the imperial rulers, and the battle with the Ottoman Empire, which would ultimately end in the fall of the Byzantine Empire and the end of the final remnants of the Roman Empire.