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Author : Conn Iggulden
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405937375

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The Gates of Athens by Conn Iggulden Pdf

BE TRANSPORTED TO THE EPIC WORLD OF THE ATHENIANS WITH CONN IGGULDEN'S LATEST LEGENDARY TALE 'Astonishing, convincing and compelling, with ferocious battles that bring the Ancient World of Greece alive' 5***** Reader Review ______ A STATESMAN IS BORN, NOT MADE . . . Marathon. A Persian king stands at last on Greek soil. His Immortals have come to raze the cities of the west. The Athenians are hopelessly outnumbered. The gods are silent. All they have is the shield line. Xanthippus takes a breath. If they cannot stand, all Greece will fall. Thermopylae. Ten years later, Athens has betrayed its favourite son. When the Persians return, when they cross the Hellespont to take revenge on the Greeks, will Xanthippus come home to save his people? Athens cannot stand alone a second time. In desperation, the city calls on men of Sparta to block the pass at Thermopylae. To give them time. To give them hope. Featuring two of the most famous battles of the Ancient World, The Gates of Athens is a bravura piece of storytelling about a people driven to preserve their freedom at any cost. ______ Readers are raving about The Gates of Athens: 'What a brilliantly addictive read' 5***** Reader Review 'This author never fails to deliver!' 5***** Reader Review 'Another brilliant historical novel from the master of the craft' 5***** Reader Review 'It's like being on the battlefield' 5***** Reader Review PRAISE FOR CONN IGGULDEN 'The pace is nail-biting and the set-dressing magnificent' Times 'Pacy . . . and packed with action' Sunday Times 'One of our finest historical novelists' Daily Express 'Iggulden is in a class of his own when it comes to epic, historical fiction' Daily Mirror

Author : K.M. Setton
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : 9785885014076

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Athens in the Middle Ages by K.M. Setton Pdf

Author : Homer A. Thompson
Publisher : ASCSA
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0876616341

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The Stoa of Attalos II in Athens by Homer A. Thompson Pdf

Named after its donor, the King of Pergamon, the Stoa of Attalos was originally built around 150 B.C. Between 1953 and 1956 this long, columned, marble building was rebuilt by the American School of Classical Studies to store and display finds from the Agora excavations. Using original materials and techniques, the modern builders learned much about the construction and purpose of the stoa, a ubiquitous classical building type. This heavily illustrated account presents some of their findings.

Author : John Ingram Lockhart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000354300

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Attica and Athens: Translated from the German of K.O. Müller, Grotefend, and Others by John Ingram Lockhart Pdf

Author : Susan B. Matheson
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 0299138704

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Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens by Susan B. Matheson Pdf

Matheson provides the first comprehensive chronology for Polygnotos's own works, and then analyzes the distinctive, evolving Polygnotan style first isolated by Sir John Beazley, comparing this style to that of contemporary Athenian workshops and demonstrating its seminal influence on the later vase painting of southern Italy.

Author : Gustav Gilbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : HARVARD:HWRHNT

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The Constitutional Antiquities of Sparta and Athens by Gustav Gilbert Pdf

Author : Eirini M. Dimitriadou
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770883

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Early Athens by Eirini M. Dimitriadou Pdf

This volume is one of the most important works on ancient Athens in the last fifty years. The focus is on the early city, from the end of the Bronze Age--ca. 1200 BCE--to the Archaic period, when Athens became the largest city of the Classical period, only to be destroyed by the Persians in 480/479 BCE. From a systematic study of all the excavation reports and surveys in central Athens, the author has synthesized a detailed diachronic overview of the city from the Submycenaean period through the Archaic. It is a treasure trove of information for archaeologists who work in this period. Of great value as well are the detailed maps included, which present features of ancient settlements and cemeteries, the repositories of the human physical record. Over eighty additional large-scale, interactive maps are available online to complement the book.

Author : Ian Worthington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190263560

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Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece by Ian Worthington Pdf

Demosthenes (384-322 BC) profoundly shaped one of the most eventful epochs in antiquity. His political career spanned three decades, during which time Greece fell victim to Macedonian control, first under Philip II and then Alexander the Great. Demosthenes' courageous defiance of Macedonian imperialism cost him his life but earned him a reputation as one of history's outstanding patriots. He also enjoyed a brilliant and lucrative career as a speechwriter, and his rhetorical skills are still emulated today by statesmen and politicians. Yet he was a sickly child with a challenging speech impediment, who was swindled out of much of his family's estate by unscrupulous guardians. His story is therefore one of triumph over adversity.

Author : Evangeline Maria O'Connor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:32000011329663

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An Index to the Works of Shakespeare by Evangeline Maria O'Connor Pdf

Author : Roger Brock,Stephen Hodkinson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000-12-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191541445

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Alternatives to Athens by Roger Brock,Stephen Hodkinson Pdf

In 1993 the world celebrated the 2500th anniversary of the birth of democracy in ancient Athens, whose polis - or citizen state - is often viewed as the model ancient Greek state. In an age when democracy has apparently triumphed following the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, we tend to forget that the democratic citizen-state was only one of many forms of political community in Greek antiquity. This volume, originally a seminar series at the universities of Leeds and Manchester, aims to redress the balance. Eighteen essays by established and younger historians examine alternative political systems and ideologies oligarchies, monarchies, mixed constitutions along with diverse forms of communal and regional associations such as ethnoi, amphiktyonies, and confederacies. The papers, which span the length and breadth of the Hellenic world from the Balkans and Anatolia to Magna Graecia and north Africa, highlight the immense political flexibility and diversity of ancient Greek civilization.

Author : Christopher Carey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136621895

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Trials from Classical Athens by Christopher Carey Pdf

The ancient Athenian legal system is both excitingly familiar and disturbingly alien to the modern reader. It functions within a democracy which shares many of our core values but operates in a disconcertingly different way. Trials from Classical Athens assembles a number of surviving speeches written for trials in Athenian courts, dealing with themes which range from murder and assault, through slander and sexual misconduct to property and trade disputes and minor actions for damage. The texts illuminate key aspects both of Athenian social and political life and the functioning of the Athenian legal system. This new and revised volume adds to the existing selection of key forensic speeches with three new translations accompanied by lucid explanatory notes. The introduction is augmented with a section on Athenian democracy to make the book more accessible to those unfamiliar with the Athenian political system. To aid accessibility further a new glossary is included as well as illustrations for the first time. Providing a unique and guided introduction to the Athenian legal system and explaining how the system reveals the values and social life of Classical Athens, Trials from Classical Athens remains a fundamental resource for students of Ancient Greek history and anyone interested in the law, social history and oratory of the Ancient Greek world.

Author : James Fredal
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0809325942

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Rhetorical Action in Ancient Athens by James Fredal Pdf

Twenty-eight illustrations are included."--Jacket.

Author : Xenophon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Greece
ISBN : PURD:32754063046670

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The Cyropaedia, Or, Institution of Cyrus ; And, The Hellenics, Or, Grecian History by Xenophon Pdf

Author : Nathan T. Arrington
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691175201

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Athens at the Margins by Nathan T. Arrington Pdf

How the interactions of non-elites influenced Athenian material culture and society The seventh century BC in ancient Greece is referred to as the Orientalizing period because of the strong presence of Near Eastern elements in art and culture. Conventional narratives argue that goods and knowledge flowed from East to West through cosmopolitan elites. Rejecting this explanation, Athens at the Margins proposes a new narrative of the origins behind the style and its significance, investigating how material culture shaped the ways people and communities thought of themselves. Athens and the region of Attica belonged to an interconnected Mediterranean, in which people, goods, and ideas moved in unexpected directions. Network thinking provides a way to conceive of this mobility, which generated a style of pottery that was heterogeneous and dynamic. Although the elite had power, they were unable to agree on the norms of conspicuous consumption and status display. A range of social actors used objects, contributing to cultural change and to the socially mediated production of meaning. Historiography and the analysis of evidence from a wide range of contexts—cemeteries, sanctuaries, workshops, and symposia—offers the possibility to step outside the aesthetic frameworks imposed by classical Greek masterpieces and to expand the canon of Greek art. Highlighting the results of new excavations and looking at the interactions of people with material culture, Athens at the Margins provocatively shifts perspectives on Greek art and its relationship to the eastern Mediterranean.

Author : Alick Robin Walsham Harrison
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 087220412X

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The Law of Athens by Alick Robin Walsham Harrison Pdf

Volume I, completed in 1968, gives a systematic account of classical Athenian law concerning family and property. Volume II, on the law of obligations and of procedure, was unfinished at the time of the author's death in 1969. The part which concerns procedure was virtually complete and, edited by D. M. MacDowell, appeared in 1971. MacDowell has provided a new Foreword for this edition as well as a select bibliography (from 1967 to the present), which appears in both volumes. Together these distinguished works form the most detailed study of Athenian law in the last half-century.