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Author : Pausanias
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Greece
ISBN : HARVARD:32044005535448
Author : Pausanias
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0195346831
Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote around the second century AD, during the period when Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire. While fragments from this period abound, Pausanias' Periegesis ("description") of Greece is the only fully preserved text of travel writing to have survived. This collection uses Pausanias as a multifaceted lens yielding indispensable information about the cultural world of Roman Greece.
Author : Christian Habicht
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520342200
A Greek who lived in Asia Minor during the second century A.D., Pausanias traveled through Greece and wrote an invaluable description of its classical sites that is a treasure trove of information on archaeology, religion, history, and art. Although ignored during his own time, Pausanias is increasingly important in ours—to historians, tourists, and archaeologists. Christian Habicht offers a wide-ranging study of Pausanias' work and personality. He investigates his background, chronology, and methods, and also discusses Pausanias' value as a guide for modern scholars and travellers, his attitude toward the Roman world he lived in, and his reception among critics in modern times. A new preface summarizes the most recent scholarship.
Author : Jeremy Friedman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674269767
A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide. In the first decades after World War II, many newly independent Asian and African countries and established Latin American states pursued a socialist development model. Jeremy Friedman traces the socialist experiment over forty years through the experience of five countries: Indonesia, Chile, Tanzania, Angola, and Iran. These states sought paths to socialism without formal adherence to the Soviet bloc or the programs that Soviets, East Germans, Cubans, Chinese, and other outsiders tried to promote. Instead, they attempted to forge new models of socialist development through their own trial and error, together with the help of existing socialist countries, demonstrating the flexibility and adaptability of socialism. All five countries would become Cold War battlegrounds and regional models, as new policies in one shaped evolving conceptions of development in another. Lessons from the collapse of democracy in Indonesia were later applied in Chile, just as the challenge of political Islam in Indonesia informed the policies of the left in Iran. Efforts to build agrarian economies in West Africa influenced Tanzania’s approach to socialism, which in turn influenced the trajectory of the Angolan model. Ripe for Revolution shows socialism as more adaptable and pragmatic than often supposed. When we view it through the prism of a Stalinist orthodoxy, we miss its real effects and legacies, both good and bad. To understand how socialism succeeds and fails, and to grasp its evolution and potential horizons, we must do more than read manifestos. We must attend to history.
Author : Maria Pretzler
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781849667777
In this book, Maria Pretzler combines a thorough introduction to Pausanias with exciting new perspectives. She considers the process and influences that shaped the "Periegesis", and maps out its literary and cultural context. Pausanias' text records contemporary interpretations of monuments and traditions, and is concerned with the identity and history of Greece, issues that were crucial concerns for Greeks under Roman rule. Parallels with various texts of the period offer insights into Pausanias' attitudes as well as illustrating important aspects of Second Sophistic culture. A discussion of Greek texts that deal with fictional or actual travel experiences provides a background for a detailed study of the Periegesis as travel literature. Pausanias' treatment of geography and his descriptions of landscapes, cities and artworks are considered in detail, and there is also a study of his methods as a historian. The final chapters deal with Pausanias' impact on modern approaches to Greece and ancient Greek culture.
Author : Pausanias
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Greece
ISBN : UOM:39015047520435
Author : Pausanias
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1984-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 014044226X
The second volume of the time-honored travel book about Greece, written 2,000 years ago Written by a Greek traveller in the second century ad for a principally Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is a comprehensive, extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook for tourists of the age. Concentrating on buildings, tombs and statues, it also describes in detail the myths, religious beliefs and historical background behind the monuments considered. In doing so, it preserves Greek legends, quotes classical literature and poetry that would otherwise have been lost, and offers a fascinating depiction of the glory of classical Greece immediately before its third-century decline. This, the second of two volumes, explores Southern Greece including Sparta, Arkadia, Bassae and the games at Olympia. An inspiration to travellers and writers across the ages, including Byron and Shelley, it remains one of the most influential of all travel books. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Pausanias
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Greece
ISBN : HARVARD:32044034949370
Author : Pausanias
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Greece
ISBN : CORNELL:31924108200662
Author : William Hutton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0521847206
The Periegesis Hellados (Description of Greece) by Pausanias is the most important example of non-fictional travel literature in ancient Greek. With this work Professor Hutton provides the first book-length literary study of the Periegesis Hellados in nearly one hundred years. He examines Pausanias' arrangement and expression of his material and evaluates his authorial choices in light of the contemporary literary currents of the day and in light of the cultural milieu of the Roman empire in the time of Hadrian and the Antonines. The descriptions offered in the Periegesis Hellados are also examined in the context of the archaeological evidence available for the places Pausanias visited. This study reveals Pausanias to be a surprisingly sophisticated literary craftsman and a unique witness to Greek identity at a time when that identity was never more conflicted.
Author : William Gell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1810
Category : Argolis (Greece)
ISBN : OXFORD:503314901
Author : Pausanias
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Greece
ISBN : UCBK:C099403988
Author : Pausanias Pausanias,A. R. Shilleto
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1376761556
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Author : Kathryn Gin Lum
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674275799
An innovative history that shows how the religious idea of the heathen in need of salvation undergirds American conceptions of race. If an eighteenth-century parson told you that the difference between “civilization and heathenism is sky-high and star-far,” the words would hardly come as a shock. But that statement was written by an American missionary in 1971. In a sweeping historical narrative, Kathryn Gin Lum shows how the idea of the heathen has been maintained from the colonial era to the present in religious and secular discourses—discourses, specifically, of race. Americans long viewed the world as a realm of suffering heathens whose lands and lives needed their intervention to flourish. The term “heathen” fell out of common use by the early 1900s, leading some to imagine that racial categories had replaced religious differences. But the ideas underlying the figure of the heathen did not disappear. Americans still treat large swaths of the world as “other” due to their assumed need for conversion to American ways. Purported heathens have also contributed to the ongoing significance of the concept, promoting solidarity through their opposition to white American Christianity. Gin Lum looks to figures like Chinese American activist Wong Chin Foo and Ihanktonwan Dakota writer Zitkála-Šá, who proudly claimed the label of “heathen” for themselves. Race continues to operate as a heathen inheritance in the United States, animating Americans’ sense of being a world apart from an undifferentiated mass of needy, suffering peoples. Heathen thus reveals a key source of American exceptionalism and a prism through which Americans have defined themselves as a progressive and humanitarian nation even as supposed heathens have drawn on the same to counter this national myth.
Author : Pausânias,Arthur Richard Shilleto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3337490298
