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Author : Robin Osborne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521879163
Examines the changes in Athenian culture at the end of the fifth century BC.
Author : Robin Osborne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521844215
This book constructs a distinctive view of classical Athens, a view which takes seriously the evidence of archaeology and of art history.
Author : Simon Goldhill,Robin Osborne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521862127
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Author : Senior Lecturer in Ancient History and Greek Archaeology Antony Spawforth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Acculturation
ISBN : 1139191039
1. Introduction: Greece and the Augustan age; 2. Athenian eloquence and Spartan arms; 3. The noblest actions of the Greeks; 4. The gifts of the gods; 5. Constructed beauty; 6. Hadrian and the legacy of Augustus; Conclusion. - "This book examines the impact of the Roman cultural revolution under Augustus on the Roman province of Greece. It argues that the transformation of Roman Greece into a classicizing 'museum' was a specific response of the provincial Greek elites to the cultural politics of the Roman imperial monarchy. Against a background of Roman debates about Greek culture and Roman decadence, Augustus promoted the ideal of a Roman debt to a 'classical' Greece rooted in Europe and morally opposed to a stereotyped Asia. In Greece the regime signalled its admiration for Athens, Sparta, Olympia and Plataea as symbols of these past Greek glories. Cued by the Augustan monarchy, provincial-Greek notables expressed their Roman orientation by competitive cultural work (revival of ritual; restoration of buildings) aimed at further emphasising Greece's 'classical' legacy. Reprised by Hadrian, the Augustan construction of 'classical' Greece helped to promote the archaism typifying Greek culture under the principate"
Author : Julia L. Shear
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521760447
This book explores how democracy in Athens was recreated and the city rebuilt following the oligarchic revolutions of the fifth century BC.
Author : David Pritchard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521190336
Analyses how the democracy of the classical Athenians revolutionized military practices and underwrote their unprecedented commitment to war-making.
Author : Rebecca Futo Kennedy,Molly Jones-Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317415695
The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds explores how environment was thought to shape ethnicity and identity, discussing developments in early natural philosophy and historical ethnographies. Defining ‘environment’ broadly to include not only physical but also cultural environments, natural and constructed, the volume considers the multifarious ways in which environment was understood to shape the culture and physical characteristics of peoples, as well as how the ancients manipulated their environments to achieve a desired identity. This diverse collection includes studies not only of the Greco-Roman world, but also ancient China and the European, Jewish and Arab inheritors and transmitters of classical thought. In recent years, work in this subject has been confined mostly to the discussion of texts that reflect an approach to the barbarian as ‘other’. The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds takes the discussion of ethnicity on a fresh course, contextualising the concept of the barbarian within rational discourses such as cartography, medicine, and mathematical sciences, an approach that allows us to more clearly discern the varied and nuanced approaches to ethnic identity which abounded in antiquity. The innovative and thought-provoking material in this volume realises new directions in the study of identity in the Classical and Medieval worlds.
Author : Nick Fisher,Hans van Wees
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910589250
Ancient peoples, like modern, spent much of their lives engaged in and thinking about competitions: both organised competitions with rules, audiences and winners, such as Olympic and gladiatorial games, and informal, indefinite, often violent, competition for fundamental goals such as power, wealth and honour. The varied papers in this book form a case for viewing competition for superiority as a major force in ancient history, including the earliest human societies and the Assyrian and Aztec empires. Papers on Greek history explore the idea of competitiveness as peculiarly Greek, the intense and complex quarrel at the heart of Homer's Iliad, and the importance of formal competitions in the creation of new political and social identities in archaic Sicyon and classical Athens. Papers on the Roman world shed fresh light on Republican elections, through a telling parallel from Renaissance Venice, on modes of competitive display of wealth and power evident in elite villas in Italy in the imperial period, and on the ambiguities in the competitive self-representations of athletes, sophists and emperors.
Author : Josiah Ober
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0691001901
Eleven essays on Athenian democracy written and published between 1983 and 1993.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009383387
This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of primary texts on Athenian democracy, which flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, with an accompanying glossary and introductory notes. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in English translation and has been written and reviewed by experienced teachers. The texts selected include extracts from the important literary sources as well as some key inscriptions, some of which were previously difficult for students to access.
Author : Robin Osborne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009383394
This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of primary texts on Athenian democracy, which flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, with an accompanying glossary and introductory notes. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in English translation and has been written and reviewed by experienced teachers. The texts selected include extracts from the important literary sources as well as some key inscriptions, some of which were previously difficult for students to access.
Author : Vincent Azoulay,Janet Lloyd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780190663582
This investigation relies on a rash bet: to write the biography of two of the most famous statues in Antiquity, the Tyrannicides. Representing the murderers of the tyrant Hipparchus in full action, these statues erected on the Agora of Athens have been in turn worshipped, outraged, and imitated. They have known hours of glory and moments of hardships, which have transformed them into true icons of Athenian democracy. The subject of this book is the remarkable story of this group statue and the ever-changing significance of its tyrant-slaying subjects. The first part of this book, in six chapters, tells the story of the murder of Hipparchus and of the statues of the two tyrannicides from the end of the sixth century to the aftermath of the restoration of democracy in 403. The second part, in three chapters, chronicles the fate and influence of the statues from the fourth century to the end of the Roman Empire. These chapters are followed by an epilogue that reveals new life for the statues in modern art and culture, including how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union made use of their iconography. By tracing the long trajectory of the tyrannicides-in deed and art-Azoulay provides a rich and fascinating microhistory that will be of interest to readers of classical art and history.
Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781509522248
What is Cultural History? has established itself as an essential guide to what cultural historians do and how they do it. Now fully updated in its third edition, leading historian Peter Burke offers afresh his accessible account of the past, present and future of cultural history, as it has been practised not only in the English-speaking world, but also in Continental Europe, Asia, South America and elsewhere. Burke begins by discussing the ‘classic’ phase of cultural history, associated with Jacob Burckhardt and Johan Huizinga, and the Marxist reaction to it, from Frederick Antal to Edward Thompson. He then charts the rise of cultural history in more recent times, concentrating on the work of the last generation, often described as the ‘New Cultural History’. He places cultural history in its own cultural context, noting links between new approaches to historical thought and writing and the rise of feminism, postcolonial studies and an everyday discourse in which the idea of culture plays an increasingly important part. The new edition also surveys the latest developments in the field and considers the directions that cultural history has been taking in the twenty-first century and may take in the future. This landmark book will continue to be essential reading for students of history, anthropology, cultural studies and literary studies.
Author : Francesca Granelli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788315739
Tracing the relationships and networks of trust in Western European revolutionary situations from the Ancient Greeks to the French Revolution and beyond, Francesca Granelli here shows the essential role of trust in both revolution and government, arguing that without trust, both governments and revolutionary movements are liable to fail. The first study to combine the important of trust and the significance of revolution, this book offers a new lens through which to interpret revolution, in an essential work book for all scholars of political science and historians of revolution.
Author : John Marincola
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748654666
This volume in The Edinburgh Leventis Studies series collects the papers presented at the sixth A. G. Leventis conference, It engages with new research and new approaches to the Greek past, and brings the fruits of that research to a wider audience.
