Suchergebnisse

Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Note to the Reader -- Part I: The Idea of Hellenism: What the Greeks Created -- 1 The Scheme of Things Entire -- 2 The Idea of Hellenism -- 3 Wine, Sex and the Symposium -- 4 Theatres: Festivals, Entertainments and Meetings -- 5 Temples: Gods, Feasts and Safe Deposits -- Part II: The Ideal of Homer and the Ideas of the Philosophers -- 1 Troy: The Legend and the Book -- 2 Troy: The Book and the Ideals -- 3 Miletus: The Nature of the Universe -- 4 Ionia and Western Greece: Laws, Numbers and Reality -- 5 Athens: Socrates, Plato and Other Worlds -- 6 Aristotle and this World: Nature, Life and Ethics -- 7 Epicurus: The Garden and the Wilderness -- 8 Stoicism: Duty and the Laws of Nature -- 9 Neoplatonism: The Last Protest -- 10 The End of Classical Antiquity -- Part III: Cities and Citizens: A Gazetteer -- Abdera -- Acragas -- Alexandria -- Aphrodisias -- Assos -- Athens -- Chalcedon -- Chios -- Clazomenae -- Cnidus -- Colophon -- Croton -- Cyrene -- Elea -- Ephesus -- Halicarnassus -- Herculaneum -- Kos -- Lesbos (Mytilene) -- Miletus -- Oinoanda -- Pergamon -- Priene -- Rhodes -- Rome -- Samos -- Stageira -- Troy -- Maps -- Copyright.

"Ancient Empires is a relatively brief yet comprehensive and even-handed overview of the ancient Near East, the Mediterranean, and Europe, including the Greco-Roman world, Late Antiquity, and the early Muslin period. The book emphasizes the central, if problematic, connection between political and ideological power in both empire-formation and resistance. By defining the ancient world as a period strectching from the Bronze Age into the early Muslim world, it is broader in scope than competing books; yet at the same time its tight thematic concentration keeps the narrative engagingly focused"--

"The Mycenaean civilization of the Greek Bronze Age was identified 150 years ago, yet its origins remain obscure. Jack L. Davis, codirector of ongoing excavations at the Palace of Nestor at Pylos takes readers on a tour of the beginnings of Mycenaean civilization through a case study of this important site. In collaboration with Sharon R. Stocker, Davis demonstrates that this ancient place was a major node for the exchange of ideas between the already established Minoan civilization, centered on the island of Crete, and the Greek mainland. Davis and Stocker show how this adoption of Minoan culture created an ideology of power focused on a single individual, one that celebrated his military prowess and invested him with divine authority--a figure instantly recognizable to readers of Homer and students of Greek history. A Greek State in Formation makes the powerful case that a knowledge of the Greek Bronze Age is indispensable to the Classics curriculum"--

Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners--frequently through hostile stereotypes, distortions, and caricature. In this provocative book, Erich Gruen demonstrates how the ancients found connections rather than contrasts, how they expressed admiration for the achievements and principles of other societies, and how they discerned--and even invented--kinship relations and shared roots with diverse peoples. 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. Providing extraordinary insight into the ancient world, this controversial book explores how ancient attitudes toward the Other often expressed mutuality and connection, and not simply contrast and alienation.

A study of the reception of Greek and Latin culture in France in the 16th and 17th centuries. There are surveys on topics as diverse as the role of French travellers to classical lands in transforming perceptible reality into narrative textuality, and the influence of ancient law in France.

"Antiquity: Greeks and Romans in Context provides a chronological introduction to the history of ancient Mediterranean civilizations within the larger context of its contemporary Eurasian world. Innovative approach organizes Greek and Roman history into a single chronology Combines the traditional historical story with subjects that are central to modern research into the ancient world including a range of social, cultural, and political topics Facilitates an understanding of the ancient Mediterranean world as a unity, just as the Mediterranean world is in its turn presented as part of a larger whole Covers the entire ancient Mediterranean world from pre-history through to the rise of Islam in the seventh century A.D. Features a diverse collection of images, maps, diagrams, tables, and a chronological chart to aid comprehension English translation of a well-known Dutch book, De oudheid, now in its third edition "--