Recreating Ancient History

Author : Karl A. E.. Enenkel,Jan de Jong,Jeanine de Landtsheer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004496422

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Recreating Ancient History by Karl A. E.. Enenkel,Jan de Jong,Jeanine de Landtsheer Pdf

The papers in this volume offer examples of how historians, writers, playwrights, and painters in the early modern period used ancient history as a rich field of raw material that could be used, recycled, and adapted to new needs and purposes. They focused on classical antiquity as a source from which they could recreate the past as a way of understanding and legitimizing the present. The contributors to this volume have addressed a number of important, common issues that span a wide range of subjects from fifteenth-century Italian painting to the teaching of Greek history in eighteenth-century Germany. This volume is of interest for historians of the early modern period from all disciplines and for all those interested in the reception of classical antiquity. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.

Author : Kasia Szpakowska
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405118569

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Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Kasia Szpakowska Pdf

Using the life of a young girl and her family as a model, this book recreates the daily life of the middle-class residents of the ancient town of Lahun during Egypt’s Middle Kingdom period. This perfect snapshot in time has been painstakingly recreated using recently published textual data and archaeological findings. Provides an illuminating and engaging re-construction of what daily life was like in ancient Egypt Describes the main issues of everyday life in the town - from education, work, and food preparation to religious rituals, healing techniques, marriages, births, and deaths Authentically recreated through the use of recently published textual data and archaeological findings directly from the settlement of Lahun and other sites Includes photographs and illustrations of actual artifacts from the settlement of Lahun

Author : Mikhail Rostovtzeff
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : History
ISBN : 0819621625

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A History of the Ancient World by Mikhail Rostovtzeff Pdf

Author : Marta Garcia Morcillo,Pauline Hanesworth,Óscar Lapeña Marchena
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135013165

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Imagining Ancient Cities in Film by Marta Garcia Morcillo,Pauline Hanesworth,Óscar Lapeña Marchena Pdf

In film imagery, urban spaces show up not only as spatial settings of a story, but also as projected ideas and forms that aim to recreate and capture the spirit of cultures, societies and epochs. Some cinematic cities have even managed to transcend fiction to become part of modern collective memory. Can we imagine a futuristic city not inspired at least remotely by Fritz Lang’s Metropolis? In the same way, ancient Babylon, Troy and Rome can hardly be shaped in popular imagination without conscious or subconscious references to the striking visions of Griffiths’ Intolerance, Petersen’s Troy and Scott’s Gladiator, to mention only a few influential examples. Imagining Ancient Cities in Film explores for the first time in scholarship film representations of cities of the Ancient World from early cinema to the 21st century. The volume analyzes the different choices made by filmmakers, art designers and screen writers to recreate ancient urban spaces as more or less convincing settings of mythical and historical events. In looking behind and beyond intended archaeological accuracy, symbolic fantasy, primitivism, exoticism and Hollywood-esque monumentality, this volume pays particular attention to the depiction of cities as faces of ancient civilizations, but also as containers of moral ideas and cultural fashions deeply rooted in the contemporary zeitgeist and in continuously revisited traditions.

Author : Craig Kallendorf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780199810796

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Classical Tradition: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by Craig Kallendorf Pdf

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of European history and culture between the 14th and 17th centuries. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibliographies.com.

Author : Gary Forsythe
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781480954250

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Primary Sources for Ancient History by Gary Forsythe Pdf

Primary Sources for Ancient History: Volume I: The Ancient Near East and Greece By: Gary Forsythe Despite being condensed into neat identities of the Near East and Greece, these two titles cover a wide-ranging period of time, peoples, lands, and philosophies. Indeed, at first glance these peoples might have nothing in common except for their profound impact on our own world. In these comprehensive readings, however, we understand how all people struggled to define their relationship with their rulers, their gods, and their neighbors. Primary Sources for Ancient History, Volume I: The Ancient Near East and Greece is a comprehensive selection of ancient writings to supplement a narrative history. Beginning with the Old Babylonian Kingdom of nearly four millennia ago and moving chronologically and geographically to the Egyptian Pharaohs, the dispossessed Jewish nations, the fractured city-kingdoms of Ancient Greece, to end with Alexander’s domination of the known world, this book is comprehensive in scope. Every major period and people has at least one reading. From the Law Code of Hammurabi engraved on a stone pillar to scraps of Greek poetry, from Babylonia epics to tallies of food at religious festivals, these readings allow the personalities and actions of tyrants, philosophers, poets, and gods to take center stage. The same events and leaders can be seen through different peoples and viewpoints, giving a rich perspective. The Ancient Near East and Greece is a valuable resource for understanding the forces - religious, political, and cultural - that have developed the modern world.

Author : Christopher Ligota,Jean-Louis Quantin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199284313

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History of Scholarship by Christopher Ligota,Jean-Louis Quantin Pdf

The history of scholarship has undergone a complete renewal in recent years, and is now a major branch of research with vast territories to explore; a substantial introduction to History of Scholarship surveys the past vicissitudes of the history of scholarship and its current expansion.The authors, all specialists of international standing, come from a variety of backgrounds: classical studies, history of religions, philosophy, early modern intellectual and religioushistory. Their papers illustrate a variety of themes and approaches, including Renaissance antiquarianism and philology; the rise of the notion of criticism; Biblical and patristic scholarship, and its implications for both confessional orthodoxy and eighteeenth-century free thought; the history of philosophy;and German historiographical thought in both the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. This challenging volume constitutes a collection of remarkable quality, helping to establish the history of scholarship as a more broadly acknowledged, worthwhile field of study in its own right.

Author : Nancy G. Siraisi
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472037469

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History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning by Nancy G. Siraisi Pdf

A path-breaking work at last available in paper, History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning is Nancy G. Siraisi’s examination of the intersections of medically trained authors and history from 1450 to 1650. Rather than studying medicine and history as separate traditions, Siraisi calls attention to their mutual interaction in the rapidly changing world of Renaissance erudition. With remarkably detailed scholarship, Siraisi investigates doctors’ efforts to explore the legacies handed down to them from ancient medical and anatomical writings.

Author : Freyja Cox Jensen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004233034

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Reading the Roman Republic in Early Modern England by Freyja Cox Jensen Pdf

Placing the reading of history in its cultural and educational context, and examining the processes by which ideas about ancient Rome circulated, this study provides the first assessment of the significance of Roman history, broadly conceived, in early modern England.

Author : Hutton Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : History, Ancient
ISBN : STANFORD:36105049339901

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Readings in Ancient History by Hutton Webster Pdf

Author : Hutton Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Greece
ISBN : NYPL:33433071395051

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Ancient History by Hutton Webster Pdf

Author : Sharon L. James,Sheila Dillon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405192842

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A Companion to Women in the Ancient World by Sharon L. James,Sheila Dillon Pdf

A COMPANION TO WOMEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD A Companion to Women in the Ancient World is the first interdisciplinary, methodologically based collection of readings to address the study of women in the ancient world while weaving textual, visual, and archaeological evidence into its approach. Prominent scholars tackle the myriad problems inherent in the interpretation of the evidence, and consider the biases and interpretive categories inherited from centuries of scholarship. Essays and case studies cover an unprecedented breadth of chronological and geographical range, genres, and themes. Illuminating and insightful, A Companion to Women in the Ancient World both challenges preconceived notions and paves the way for new directions in research on women in antiquity.

Author : Dominic M. Machado
Publisher : Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9788413406381

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Voluntas Militum: Community, Collective Action, and Popular Power in the Armies of the Middle Republic (300–100 BCE) by Dominic M. Machado Pdf

Scholars, military men, and casual observers alike have devoted significant energy to understanding how the armies of the Roman Middle Republic (300 – 100 BCE) were able to function so effectively, examining their organization, hierarchy, recruitment, tactics, and ideology in close detail. But what about the concerns, interests, and goals of the soldiers who powered it? The present study argues that the military forces of the Middle Republic were not simply cogs in the Roman military machine, but rather dynamic and diverse social units that played a key role in shaping an ever-changing Mediterranean world. Indeed, the soldiers in the armies of this period not only developed connections with one another, but also formed bonds with non-military personnel who traveled with as well as inhabitants of the places where they campaigned. The connections soldiers developed while on campaign gave them significant power and agency as a group. Throughout the third and second centuries BCE, soldiers took collective actions, ranging from mutiny to defection to looting, to ensure that their economic, social, and political interests were advanced and protected. Recognizing the communities that Roman soldiers formed and the power that they exerted not only reframes our understanding of the Middle Republic and its armies, but fundamentally alters how we conceptualize the turbulent years of the Late Republic and the massive social, political, and military changes that followed.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004191839

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(Un)masking the Realities of Power by Anonim Pdf

Starting from Justus Lipsius's Monita et exempla politica (1605), this book offers a collection of essays dealing with the disputed Macchiavellian, Tacitean or Neostoic character of Lipsius's political thought, and its impact on the dynamics of political discourse in Early Modern Europe.

Author : G. Rajakumar,Ke-Lin Du,Chandrasekar Vuppalapati,Grigorios N. Beligiannis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 807 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811918445

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Intelligent Communication Technologies and Virtual Mobile Networks by G. Rajakumar,Ke-Lin Du,Chandrasekar Vuppalapati,Grigorios N. Beligiannis Pdf

The book is a collection of high-quality research papers presented at Intelligent Communication Technologies and Virtual Mobile Networks (ICICV), held at Francis Xavier Engineering College, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India, during February 10–11, 2022. The book shares knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of communication technology and mobile networks. The book covers innovative and cutting-edge work of researchers, developers and practitioners from academia and industry working in the area of computer networks, network protocols and wireless networks, data communication technologies and network security.