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Author : Robert Gorman,Vanessa B Gorman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472052295
Traces the principle that luxury corrupts its possessor as seen through a millennium of Greek literature
Author : Chrysanthi Gallou,Stephen Hodkinson
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910589847
A Spartan lifestyle proverbially describes austerity; ancient Greek luxury was associated with Ionia and the oriental world. The contributions to this book, first presented at a conference held by the University of Nottingham's Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies, reverse the stereotype and explore the role of luxury and wealth at Sparta and among its Peloponnesian neighbors from the Iron Age to the Hellenistic period. Using literary, archaeological, epigraphic and numismatic evidence, an international team of specialists investigates the definition and changing meanings of the term luxury and its nearest ancient Greek equivalents, providing new insights into Sparta's supposed abstention from luxury, and the way that this was portrayed by ancient writers. They analyse wealth production and private and public spending, emphasising features that were distinctive to Sparta and the Peloponnese compared with other parts of ancient Greece. Other chapters investigate issues still familiar in the contemporary world: economic crisis and debt, austerity measures, and relief provisions for the poor.
Author : Joshua P. Nudell
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472133376
A dedicated study of Classical Ionia
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004682702
Plundering and taking home precious objects from a defeated enemy was a widespread activity in the Greek and Hellenistic-Roman world. In this volume literary critics, historians and archaeologists join forces in investigating this phenomenon in terms of appropriation and cultural change. In-depth interpretations of famous ancient spoliations, like that of the Greeks after Plataea or the Romans after the capture of Jerusalem, reveal a fascinating paradox: while the material record shows an eager incorporation of new objects, the texts display abhorrence of the negative effects they were thought to bring along. As this volume demonstrates, both reactions testify to the crucial innovative impact objects from abroad may have.
Author : Jacqueline de Romilly
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226143125
Offers profiles of ancient Greek writers, including Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, and Plutarch, and traces the development of Greek literature.
Author : K. Scarlett Kingsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781009338523
Herodotus' Histories was composed well before the genre of Greek historiography emerged as a distinct narrative enterprise. This book explores it within its fifth-century context alongside the extant fragments of Presocratic treatises as well as philosophizing tragedy and comedy. It argues for the Histories' competitive engagement with contemporary intellectual culture and demonstrates its ambition as an experimental prose work, tracing its responses to key debates on relativism, human nature, and epistemology. In addition to expanding the intellectual milieu of which the Histories is a part and restoring its place in Presocratic thought, K. Scarlett Kingsley elucidates fourth-century philosophy's subsequent engagement with the work. In doing so, she contributes to a revision of the sharp separation between the ancient genres of philosophy and history. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Author : Cecil Maurice Bowra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Greek literature
ISBN : UCAL:B4369023
Analysis of what made the Greeks supreme in epic poetry, tragedy, philosophy, oratory, and the writing of history.
Author : Charles Rowan Beye
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Greek literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106001527339
Author : Maria Gerolemou,Giulia Maria Chesi
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781835536438
A collection of papers that introduces the notion of the technosoma (techno body) into discussions on the representations of the body in classical antiquity. By applying the category of the technosoma to the ‘natural’ body, this volume explicitly narrows down the discussion of the technical and the natural to the physiological body. In doing so, the present collection focuses on body technologies in the specific form of beautification and body enhancement techniques, as well as medical and surgical treatments. The volume elucidates two main points. Firstly, ancient techno bodies show that the categories of gender and sexuality are at the core of the intersection of the natural and the technical, and intersect with notions of race, age, speciesism, class and education, and dis/ability. Secondly, the collection argues that new body technologies have in fact a very ancient history that can help to address the challenges of contemporary technological innovation. To this end, the volume showcases the intersection of ‘natural’ bodies with technology, gender, sexuality and reproduction. On the one hand, techno bodies tend to align with normative ideas about gender, and sexuality. On the other hand, body modification and/or enhancement techniques work hand in hand with economic and political power and knowledge, thus they often produce techno bodies that are shaped according to individual needs, i.e. according to a certain lifestyle. Consequently, techno bodies threaten to alter traditional ideas of masculinity, femininity, male and female sexuality and beauty.
Author : Sophie Trenkner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107438255
Originally published in 1958, this book examines the place of the Athenian novella in ancient literature from pre-Classical literature through to tragedy, comedy and rhetoric. Trenkner attempts to reconstruct the novella of the Attic period from the surviving traces in other sources in order to bridge the gap between the novelle of Herodotus and the better-known late Hellenistic novel. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the genesis of the ancient Greek novel.
Author : John Pentland Mahaffy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Greek literature
ISBN : PRNC:32101064226994
Author : Charles R. Beye
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501745461
Charles R. Beye here offers a lively and challenging overview of Greek literature from Homer to Apollonius of Rhodes, providing a coherent social and historical background to the era. Beye stresses the great distance that separates the twentieth century from the age and audience for which ancient Greek literature was intended. He emphasizes those aspects of antiquity which are apt to be most alien to modern-day readers, particularly the oral nature of early poetry and the public and political—and hence manipulative, conformist, and conventional—quality of much of the literature. He also notes the openly imitative practices of early authors and establishes the Homeric epics as the dominant informing feature of subsequent literature.
Author : Frank Byron Jevons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Greek literature
ISBN : PRNC:32101064227067
Author : Armand D'Angour
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139500616
The Greeks have long been regarded as innovators across a wide range of fields in literature, culture, philosophy, politics and science. However, little attention has been paid to how they thought and felt about novelty and innovation itself, and to relating this to the forces of traditionalism and conservatism which were also present across all the various societies within ancient Greece. What inspired the Greeks to embark on their unique and enduring innovations? How did they think and feel about the new? This book represents the first serious attempt to address these issues, and deals with the phenomenon across all periods and areas of classical Greek history and thought. Each chapter concentrates on a different area of culture or thought, while the book as a whole argues that much of the impulse towards innovation came from the life of the polis which provided its setting.
Author : John J. Winkler,Gordon Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1982-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521239479
A body of Greek literature collected in an attempt to draw attention to often underrated literary excellence.
