Greeks Romans Bearing Gifts

Author : Carl J. Richard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0742556247

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Greeks & Romans Bearing Gifts by Carl J. Richard Pdf

This lively and engaging book is the only popular work to explore the profound impact of Ancient Greece and Rome on the Founding Fathers. The classical education they imbibed as young students inspired them to undertake the American Revolution and influenced their approach to a host of constitutional and practical issues crucial to the shaping of the new American republic. Recounting the stirring stories the founders encountered in their favorite histories of Greece and Rome, renowned scholar Carl J. Richard explores what they learned from these vivid tales and how they applied these lessons to their own heroic quest to win American independence and establish a durable republic. Richard explains how the founders learned the importance of individual rights from the absence of those rights in Sparta, the superiority of republican government to monarchy from the Greek victory over the Persians, the perils of democracy from the instability of Athens, the need for a strong central government from the fall of Greece to Macedon and Rome, the importance of virtue to the success of a republic from early Rome, the need for eternal vigilance against ambitious individuals from the fall of the Roman republic, and the preciousness of liberty from its destruction by the Roman emperors. Crucial to the decisions that shaped the United States, these lessons remain invaluable today for every citizen concerned with America's future course.

Author : Lynette Gail Mitchell,Lynette G. Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521893305

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Greeks Bearing Gifts by Lynette Gail Mitchell,Lynette G. Mitchell Pdf

This book examines the political role of personal relationships in classical Greece.

Author : Carl J. Richard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742567894

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Greeks & Romans Bearing Gifts by Carl J. Richard Pdf

This lively and engaging book is the only popular work to explore the profound impact of Ancient Greece and Rome on the Founding Fathers. The classical education they imbibed as young students inspired them to undertake the American Revolution and influenced their approach to a host of constitutional and practical issues crucial to the shaping of the new American republic. Recounting the stirring stories the founders encountered in their favorite histories of Greece and Rome, renowned scholar Carl J. Richard explores what they learned from these vivid tales and how they applied these lessons to their own heroic quest to win American independence and establish a durable republic. Richard explains how the founders learned the importance of individual rights from the absence of those rights in Sparta, the superiority of republican government to monarchy from the Greek victory over the Persians, the perils of democracy from the instability of Athens, the need for a strong central government from the fall of Greece to Macedon and Rome, the importance of virtue to the success of a republic from early Rome, the need for eternal vigilance against ambitious individuals from the fall of the Roman republic, and the preciousness of liberty from its destruction by the Roman emperors. Crucial to the decisions that shaped the United States, these lessons remain invaluable today for every citizen concerned with America's future course.

Author : Philip Kerr
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698413146

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Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr Pdf

An NPR Book of the Year A Crime Reads Best Crime Book of 2018 A vicious murder puts Bernie Gunther on the trail of World War 2 criminals in Greece in this riveting historical thriller in Philip Kerr's New York Times bestselling series. Munich, 1956. Bernie Gunther has a new name, a chip on his shoulder, and a dead-end career when an old friend arrives to repay a debt and encourages "Christoph Ganz" to take a job as a claims adjuster in a major German insurance company with a client in Athens, Greece. Under the cover of his new identity, Bernie begins to investigate a claim by Siegfried Witzel, a brutish former Wehrmacht soldier who served in Greece during the war. Witzel's claimed losses are large , and, even worse, they may be the stolen spoils of Greek Jews deported to Auschwitz. But when Bernie tries to confront Witzel, he finds that someone else has gotten to him first, leaving a corpse in his place. Enter Lieutenant Leventis, who recognizes in this case the highly grotesque style of a killer he investigated during the height of the war. Back then, a young Leventis suspected an S.S. officer whose connection to the German government made him untouchable. He's kept that man's name in his memory all these years, waiting for his second chance at justice... Working together, Leventis and Bernie hope to put their cases--new and old--to bed. But there's a much more sinister truth to acknowledge: A killer has returned to Athens...one who may have never left.

Author : Bernard Evslin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Mythology, Greek
ISBN : OCLC:12791760

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Greeks Bearing Gifts by Bernard Evslin Pdf

Author : David A. Lupher
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004351196

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Greeks, Romans, and Pilgrims by David A. Lupher Pdf

Greeks, Romans, and Pilgrims examines the availability, circulation, and uses of classical knowledge in the earliest period of the settlement of New England, demonstrating the surprising awareness of Greek and Roman culture by the socially humble “Pilgrims” of Plymouth Plantation.

Author : Carl J. Richard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742567801

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Why We're All Romans by Carl J. Richard Pdf

This engaging yet deeply informed work not only examines Roman history and the multitude of Roman achievements in rich and colorful detail but also delineates their crucial and lasting impact on Western civilization. Noted historian Carl J. Richard argues that although we Westerners are "all Greeks" in politics, science, philosophy, and literature and "all Hebrews" in morality and spirituality, it was the Romans who made us Greeks and Hebrews. As the author convincingly shows, from the Middle Ages on, most Westerners received Greek ideas from Roman sources. Similarly, when the Western world adopted the ethical monotheism of the Hebrews, it did so at the instigation of a Roman citizen named Paul, who took advantage of the peace, unity, stability, and roads of the empire to proselytize the previously pagan Gentiles, who quickly became a majority of the religion's adherents. Although the Roman government of the first century crucified Christ and persecuted Christians, Rome's fourth- and fifth-century leaders encouraged the spread of Christianity throughout the Western world. In addition to making original contributions to administration, law, engineering, and architecture, the Romans modified and often improved the ideas they assimilated. Without the Roman sense of social responsibility to temper the individualism of Hellenistic Greece, classical culture might have perished, and without the Roman masses to proselytize and the social and material conditions necessary to this evangelism, Christianity itself might not have survived.

Author : Carl J. Richard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0674314263

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The Founders and the Classics by Carl J. Richard Pdf

The influence of Greek and Roman authors on our American forefathers finally becomes clear in this fascinating book—the first comprehensive study of the founders’ classical reading.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004443006

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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Athenian Democracy by Anonim Pdf

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Athenian Democracy delivers a fresh and wide-ranging analysis of the uses and reinterpretations of ancient Greek democracy from the late Middle Ages to the XXI century, offering a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to this important topic.

Author : K. P. Van Anglen
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474429672

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Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age by K. P. Van Anglen Pdf

Examines the role that cinema played in imagining Hong Kong and Taiwan's place in the world

Author : Joseph Farrell,Michael C. J. Putnam
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118785126

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A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition by Joseph Farrell,Michael C. J. Putnam Pdf

A Companion to Vergil’s Aeneid and its Tradition presents a collection of original interpretive essays that represent an innovative addition to the body of Vergil scholarship. Provides fresh approaches to traditional Vergil scholarship and new insights into unfamiliar aspects of Vergil's textual history Features contributions by an international team of the most distinguished scholars Represents a distinctively original approach to Vergil scholarship

Author : Jed W. Atkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107107007

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Roman Political Thought by Jed W. Atkins Pdf

A thematic introduction to Roman political thought that shows the Romans' enduring contribution to key political ideas.

Author : Gregory S. Aldrete,Alicia Aldrete
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350100527

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The Long Shadow of Antiquity by Gregory S. Aldrete,Alicia Aldrete Pdf

A vivid exploration of the many ways the classical world remains relevant today, this is a passionate justification of why we continue to read about and study the lives and works of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Challenging the way the phrase 'That's just ancient history' is used to dismiss something as being irrelevant, Greg and Alicia Aldrete demonstrate just how much ancient Greece and Rome have influenced and shaped our world today in ways both large and small. From the more commonly known influences on politics, law, literature and timekeeping through to the everyday rituals and routines we take for granted when we exercise, dine, marry and dress, we are rooted in the ancient world. Even the political upheaval, celebrity obsession and blurring of public and private boundaries that we see in current news betray ancient characteristics - now brought to the fore here in a new final chapter. If you have ever wondered how far exactly we still walk in the footsteps of the ancients or wanted to understand how study of the classical world can inform and explain our lives today, this is the book for you.

Author : Hans Beck
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118303177

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A Companion to Ancient Greek Government by Hans Beck Pdf

This comprehensive volume details the variety of constitutions and types of governing bodies in the ancient Greek world. A collection of original scholarship on ancient Greek governing structures and institutions Explores the multiple manifestations of state action throughout the Greek world Discusses the evolution of government from the Archaic Age to the Hellenistic period, ancient typologies of government, its various branches, principles and procedures and realms of governance Creates a unique synthesis on the spatial and memorial connotations of government by combining the latest institutional research with more recent trends in cultural scholarship

Author : Anthony A. Peacock
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498553483

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Vindicating the Commercial Republic by Anthony A. Peacock Pdf

This book provides a sweeping reinterpretation of The Federalist, using the ancient historian Thucydides' account of ancient commercial Athens as an interpretive guide. It argues that The Federalist highlights the importance of a new commercial republic that promotes a culture of enterprise to shape both America’s civil and military character.