In Search Of The Greeks Second Edition

Author : James Renshaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472526236

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In Search of the Greeks (Second Edition) by James Renshaw Pdf

In Search of the Greeks offers an engaging introduction to the societies of Classical Greece. Making extensive use of ancient sources and illustrated with some hundred and fifty photographs, drawings, maps and plans, many now for the first time in colour, the book introduces key topics of ancient Greece. The new edition opens with a new chapter that provides an historical overview of the key events, figures and eras, and continues with updated chapters on key topics in Greek history: religion and thought, Athenian democracy, Athenian society, Athenian drama, the Olympic Games and Sparta. Activity boxes and further reading lists throughout each chapter aid students' understanding of the subject. Appendices provide further information on Greek currency values, Greek musical instruments and the Greek calendar. Review questions throughout this book challenge students to read further and reflect on some of the most important social, political and cultural issues of classical Greece. Many topics raise issues of contemporary relevance, such as the rights of citizens in a democracy, forced marriage and approaches to education. The book is supported by a website which, contains comprehensive resources on the social, political and cultural issues of classical Greece.

Author : James Renshaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474299930

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In Search of the Romans (Second Edition) by James Renshaw Pdf

In Search of the Romans is a lively and informative introduction to ancient Rome. Making extensive use of ancient sources and copiously illustrated with photographs, drawings, maps and plans, now for the first time in colour, its opening two chapters guide the reader through the events of Roman history, from the foundation of the city to the fall of the empire. Subsequent chapters introduce the most important aspects of the Roman world: the army and the provinces, religion, society, and entertainment; the final two chapters focus on Pompeii and Herculaneum, the two cities destroyed by Vesuvius. New to this edition are sections on the Augustan principate, on the Roman army, on life in the provinces and on engineering innovations, while the existing text is revised throughout. The narrative includes descriptions of many individuals from the Roman world, drawn from a variety of social settings. Activity boxes and further reading lists throughout each chapter aid students' understanding of the subject. Review questions challenge students to read further and reflect on some of the most important social, political and cultural issues of ancient Rome, as well as to compare them with those of their own society. The new edition is supported by a website that includes images, maps and timelines, further reading and related links.

Author : James Renshaw
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781853996993

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In Search of the Greeks by James Renshaw Pdf

Offers an introduction to the societies of Classical Greece. This book introduces six key areas of ancient Greece: Greek religion, the Olympic Games, Athenian drama, Athenian society, Athenian democracy, and Sparta. It reflects on some of the social, political and cultural issues of classical Greece.

Author : Oswyn Murray
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 067422132X

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Early Greece by Oswyn Murray Pdf

Murray traces the emergence of urbanisation and social and political structures from the Mycenean and legendary origins of Greece through to the Persian Wars.

Author : Stephen Bonnycastle
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1551110830

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In Search of Authority, second edition by Stephen Bonnycastle Pdf

Author : Ian Morris,Barry B. Powell
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015063278256

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The Greeks by Ian Morris,Barry B. Powell Pdf

Organized chronologically, this book presents a complete picture of Greek civilization as a history. It features sections on the art, architecture, literature, and thought of each period. Names and dates are provided, and cultural achievements and social transformations that accompanied the cascade of historical events are carefully examined. This comprehensive, balanced treatment of ancient Greece covers its history from the prehistoric through the Mycenaean Period, the Dark Ages, the Classical Period, the Hellenistic, and the absorption of Greek culture by Rome. For an understanding of Greek history-its culture and the people-as a whole.

Author : P. J. Rhodes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139462129

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The Greek City States by P. J. Rhodes Pdf

Political activity and political thinking began in the cities and other states of ancient Greece, and terms such as tyranny, aristocracy, oligarchy, democracy and politics itself are Greek words for concepts first discussed in Greece. Rhodes presents in translation a selection of texts illustrating the formal mechanisms and informal workings of the Greek states in all their variety. From the states described by Homer out of which the classical Greeks believed their states had developed, through the archaic period which saw the rise and fall of tyrants and the gradual broadening of citizen bodies, to the classical period of the fifth and fourth centuries, Rhodes also looks beyond that to the Hellenistic and Roman periods in which the Greeks tried to preserve their way of life in a world of great powers. For this second edition the book has been thoroughly revised and three new chapters added.

Author : P. J. Rhodes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444358582

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A History of the Classical Greek World by P. J. Rhodes Pdf

Thoroughly updated and revised, the second edition of this successful and widely praised textbook offers an account of the ‘classical’ period of Greek history, from the aftermath of the Persian Wars in 478 BC to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. Two important new chapters have been added, covering life and culture in the classical Greek world Features new pedagogical tools, including textboxes, and a comprehensive chronological table of the West, mainland Greece, and the Aegean Enlarged and additional maps and illustrative material Covers the history of an important period, including: the flourishing of democracy in Athens; the Peloponnesian war, and the conquests of Alexander the Great Focuses on the evidence for the period, and how the evidence is to be interpreted

Author : Marjorie Quennell,C. H. B. Quennell
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787204126

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Everyday Things in Ancient Greece [Second Edition] by Marjorie Quennell,C. H. B. Quennell Pdf

First published in 1954, this is the Second Edition of the single-volume amalgamation of husband-and-wife team Marjorie and Charles Quinnells’ three-volume anthology on Greek antiquity, originally between 1929-1932: Everyday Things in Homeric Greece, Everyday Things in Archaic Greece, and Everyday Things in Classical Greece. Part I tells of the Trojan War and of the heroes who sustained the Greeks in their early struggles, with Homer cited as the main source. Part II deals with the Archaic period (about 560 to 480 B.C.) ending with the great struggle between Greeks and Persians which culminated in the victory of the Greeks at Salamis, as related in the History of Herodotus. Part III begins with the story of how the Greeks went to work after Salamis and built on the well-laid foundations a civilization which ever since has been regarded as Classical and closes with the account in the History of Thucydides of the struggle between Athens and Sparta and the failure of the Athenian Expedition to Sicily. A comprehensive study of Ancient Greek History, revised in this edition by Greek authority Kathleen Freeman. “In this book we have attempted to show some of the beautiful products of these artists, and their use in everyday life. It is our hope that the boys and girls who read it will discover that the Greeks were not a people extremely foreign and remote, who spoke a difficult language, but folk much like themselves, who lived and worked and played in the surroundings and among the objects we have depicted and described.”—Preface

Author : Alan D. DeSantis
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780813172774

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Inside Greek U. by Alan D. DeSantis Pdf

Popular culture portrays college Greek organizations as a training ground for malevolent young aristocrats. Films such as Animal House, Revenge of the Nerds, Old School, and Legally Blonde reinforce this stereotype, but they fail to depict the enduring influence of these organizations on their members. Inside Greek U. provides an in-depth investigation of how fraternities and sororities bolster traditional, and potentially damaging, definitions of gender and sexuality. Using evidence gathered in hundreds of focus group sessions and personal interviews, as well as his years of experience as a faculty advisor to Greek organizations, Alan D. DeSantis offers unprecedented access to the world of fraternities and sororities. DeSantis, himself once a member of a fraternity, shows the profoundly limited gender roles available to Greeks: "real men" are taught to be unemotional, sexually promiscuous, and violent; "nice girls," to be nurturing, domestic, and pure. These rigid formulations often lead to destructive attitudes and behaviors, such as eating disorders, date rape, sexual misconduct, and homophobia. Inside Greek U. shows that the Greek experience does not end on graduation day, but that these narrow definitions of gender and sexuality impede students' intellectual and emotional development and limit their range of choices long after graduation. Ten percent of all college students join a Greek organization, and many of the nation's business and political leaders are former members. DeSantis acknowledges that thousands of students join Greek organizations each year in search of meaning, acceptance, friendship, and engagement, and he illuminates the pressures and challenges that contemporary college students face. Inside Greek U. demonstrates how deeply Greek organizations influence their members and suggests how, with reform the worst excesses of the system, fraternities and sororities could serve as a positive influence on individuals and campus life.

Author : Cynthia W. Shelmerdine,Susan C. Shelmerdine
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781585109623

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Introduction to Greek by Cynthia W. Shelmerdine,Susan C. Shelmerdine Pdf

A widely adopted textbook for first-year Classical Greek, Introduction to Greek has been rethought from the ground up in this third edition to make it even more effective and user friendly. Features include:Streamlined coverage of grammar with fewer chaptersReorganized and clarified presentation of grammarA greater number and wider range of exercisesAdditional adapted and unadapted ancient sentences and readingsReduced vocabulary with focus on high-frequency wordsExtra self-tutorial translation exercises with an answer key

Author : Carl A. P. Ruck
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0262680319

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Ancient Greek by Carl A. P. Ruck Pdf

This new edition of Carl Ruck's text keeps its experimental approach and felicitous style, while including substantial changes that make the material easier to teach and learn. The book has been consolidated into a more concise and direct format so that the material can be covered in less time, and the somewhat intimidating aural-oral emphasis that characterized the first edition has been reduced. These improvements, together with the accessibility inherent in the structural approach to grammar, make Ancient Greek: A New Approachuseful not only as an innovative text in the text in the classroom but for general self-instruction as well.

Author : Maurice Balme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06
Category : Greek language, Hellenistic (300 B.C.-600 A.D.)
ISBN : 0195168097

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Teacher's Handbook for Athenaze by Maurice Balme Pdf

Author : Armand D'Angour
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139500616

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The Greeks and the New by Armand D'Angour Pdf

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 : Barry Cunliffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191067211

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The Ancient Celts, Second Edition by Barry Cunliffe Pdf

Fierce warriors and skilled craftsmen, the Celts were famous throughout the Ancient Mediterranean World. They were the archetypal barbarians from the north and were feared by both Greeks and Romans. For two and a half thousand years they have continued to fascinate those who have come into contact with them, yet their origins have remained a mystery and even today are the subject of heated debate among historians and archaeologists. Barry Cunliffe's classic study of the ancient Celtic world was first published in 1997. Since then huge advances have taken place in our knowledge: new finds, new ways of using DNA records to understand Celtic origins, new ideas about the proto-urban nature of early chieftains' strongholds, All these developments are part of this fully updated , and completely redesigned edition. Cunliffe explores the archaeological reality of these bold warriors and skilled craftsmen of barbarian Europe who inspired fear in both the Greeks and the Romans. He investigates the texts of the classical writers and contrasts their view of the Celts with current archaeological findings. Tracing the emergence of chiefdoms and the fifth- to third-century migrations as far as Bosnia and the Czech Republic, he assesses the disparity between the traditional story and the most recent historical and archaeological evidence on the Celts. Other aspects of Celtic identity such as the cultural diversity of the tribes, their social and religious systems, art, language and law, are also examined. From the picture that emerges, we are — crucially — able to distinguish between the original Celts, and those tribes which were 'Celtized', giving us an invaluable insight into the true identity of this ancient people.