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Author : Alan B. Lloyd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 9004041796
Author : Alan B. LLoyd
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004301351
Preliminary material -- COMMENTARY -- APPENDIX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- GENERAL INDEX -- LINGUISTIC INDEXES.
Author : Brian Muhs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107113367
The first economic history of ancient Egypt employing a New Institutional Economics approach and covering the entire pharaonic period, 3000-30 BCE.
Author : David Asheri,Alan Lloyd,Aldo Corcella
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198149569
Herodotus, one of the earliest and greatest of Western prose authors, set out in the late fifth century BC to describe the world as he knew it. This commentary by leading scholars, originally published in Italian, has been fully revised by the original authors and is now presented for English readers.
Author : Barry J. Kemp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134563883
Completely revised and updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, this second edition of Barry J. Kemp's popular text presents a compelling reassessment of what gave ancient Egypt its distinctive and enduring characteristics. Ranging across Ancient Egyptian material culture, social and economic experiences, and the mindset of its people, the book also includes two new chapters exploring the last ten centuries of Ancient Egyptian civilization and who, in ethnic terms, the ancients were. Fully illustrated, the book draws on both ancient written materials and decades of excavation evidence, transforming our understanding of this remarkable civilization. Broad ranging yet impressively detailed, Kemp’s work is an indispensable text for all students of Ancient Egypt.
Author : Marjorie M. Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Bas-relief
ISBN : 3447044861
At the beginning of the 18th Dynasnasty, the interaction among members of the royal family began to change. Royal sons were occasionally depicted with their fathers, and by the Amarna period princesses were represented in the presence of the king and queen. One of the most striking examples of this new direction is the frequent depiction of Ramesses II with his children. Marjorie Martin Fisher has compiled all background information and examined all known material about Ramesses II's sons.
Author : Henry Aubin
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385672276
In 701 BC, the powerful Assyrian army laid siege to Jerusalem, threatening the Hebrew kingdom with destruction. What saved the City of David? The Bible credits divine intervention. Modern scholars have long speculated that a plague spread through the ranks of the Assyrian soldiers, forcing them to withdraw. Now, in this ground-breaking account, award-winning author Henry Aubin argues that it was the Kushites, the black Africans who formed Egypt’s 25th dynasty, who saved Jerusalem, the birthplace of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. In his powerful, wide-ranging analysis, Aubin shows how Western scholarship turned its back on the theory of black African involvement. The account of the long-forgotten African and Hebrew alliance that rescued Jerusalem will change the face of Jewish and African history and contribute to a fresh understanding of our world today.
Author : Anton Powell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134698646
Studying from the Mycenean to the late Hellenistic period, this work includes new articles by twenty-seven specialists of ancient Greece, and presents an examination of the Greek cultures of mainland Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt and Italy. With the chapters sharing the theme of social history, this fascinating book focuses on women, the poor, and the slaves – all traditionally seen as beyond the margins of powerand includes the study of figures who were on the literal margins of the Greek world. Bringing to the forefront the research into areas previously thought of as marginal, Anton Powell sheds new light on vital topics and authors who are central to the study of Greek culture. Plato’s reforms are illuminated through a consideration of his impatient and revolutionary attitude to women, and Powell also examines how the most potent symbol of central Greek history – the Parthenon – can be understood as a political symbol when viewed with the knowledge of the cosmetic techniques used by classical Athenian women. The Greek World is a stimulating and enlightening interaction of social and political history, comprehensive, and unique to boot, students will undoubtedly benefit from the insight and knowledge it imparts.
Author : Livingstone
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789047400929
This volume contains the first scholarly commentary on the puzzling work Busiris – part mythological jeu d’esprit, part rhetorical treatise and part self-promoting polemic – by the Greek educator and rhetorician Isocrates (436-338 BC). The commentary reveals Isocrates’ strategies in advertising his own political rhetoric as a middle way between amoral ‘sophistic’ education and the abstruse studies of Plato’s Academy. Introductory chapters situate Busiris within the lively intellectual marketplace of 4th-century Athens, showing how the work parodies Plato’s Republic, and how its revisionist treatment of the monster-king Busiris reflects Athenian fascination with the ‘alien wisdom’ of Egypt. As a whole, the book casts new light both on Isocrates himself, revealed as an agile and witty polemicist, and on the struggle between rhetoric and philosophy from which Hellenism and modern humanities were born.
Author : Egbert J. Bakker,Irene J.F. de Jong,Hans van Wees
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004217584
Herodotus’ Histories can be read in many ways. Their literary qualities, never in dispute, can be more fully appreciated in the light of recent developments in the study of pragmatics, narratology, and orality. Their intellectual status has been radically reassessed: no longer regarded as naïve and ‘archaic’, the Histories are now seen as very much a product of the intellectual climate of their own day - not only subject to contemporary literary, religious, moral and social influences, but actively contributing to the great debates of their time. Their reliability as historical and ethnographic accounts, a matter of controversy even in antiquity, is being debated with renewed vigour and increasing sophistication. This Companion offers an up-to-date and in-depth overview of all these current approaches to Herodotus’ remarkable work.
Author : Erich S. Gruen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01
Category : History
ISBN : 069114852X
Gruen shows how the ancients incorporated the traditions of foreign nations, and imagined blood ties and associations with distant cultures through myth, legend, and fictive histories. He looks at a host of creative tales, including those describing the founding of Thebes by the Phoenician Cadmus, Rome's embrace of Trojan and Arcadian origins, and Abraham as ancestor to the Spartans. Gruen gives in-depth readings of major texts by Aeschylus, Herodotus, Xenophon, Plutarch, Julius Caesar, Tacitus, and others, in addition to portions of the Hebrew Bible, revealing how they offer richly nuanced portraits of the alien that go well beyond stereotypes and caricature. --Book Jacket.
Author : Jan Haywood,Naoise Mac Sweeney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781350012707
In this new volume, Jan Haywood and Naoíse Mac Sweeney investigate the position of Homer's Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition through a series of detailed case studies. From ancient Mesopotamia to twenty-first century America, these examples are drawn from a range of historical and cultural contexts; and from Athenian pot paintings to twelfth-century German scholarship, they engage with a range of different media and genres. Inspired by the dialogues inherent in the process of reception, the book adopts a dialogic structure. In each chapter, paired essays by Haywood and Mac Sweeney offer contrasting authorial voices addressing a single theme, thereby drawing out connections and dissonances between a diverse suite of classical and post-classical Iliadic receptions. The resulting book offers new insights, both into individual instances of Iliadic reception in particular historical contexts, but also into the workings of a complex story tradition. The centrality of the Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition is shown to be a function of conscious engagement not only with Iliadic content, but also with Iliadic status and the iconic idea of the Homeric.
Author : Norma Thompson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300062605
The subtitle of this book is `Arion's Leap' and it is from this example of the puzzling fictionality of some of Herodotus' histories that the author starts her exploration (Arion was the singer who leapt into the sea to escape from Corinthian pirates and was rescued by dolphins). Scholars have long wrestled with Herodotus' practice of placing fanciful stories alongside factual ones, but Thompson suggests that rather than displaying a primitive conception of history, such a practice indicates a profound grasp of political theory and an understanding of the way that central stories can become the core of a political community. This major reconsideration of Herodotus' art draws his work into the modern historical debate, and the author uses the writings of Martin Bernal, Fran�ois Hartog and Edward Said to shed new light on Herodotus' conception of history.
Author : Rosalind Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0521012414
An examination of Herodotus' Histories in the context of the intellectual developments of his time.
Author : Thomas Harrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0199253552
This work places Herodotus' religious beliefs at the centre of his conception of history, but by seeing instances of scepticism and of belief in relation to one another redresses the recent emphasis on the centrality of ritual.
