Author: Frances Anne Pownall
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472025678
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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Because of the didactic nature of the historical genre, many scholars ancient and modern have seen connections between history and rhetoric. So far, discussion has centered on fifth-century authors -- Herodotus and Thucydides, along with the sophists and early philosophers. Pownall extends the focus of this discussion into an important period. By focusing on key intellectuals and historians of the fourth century (Plato and the major historians -- Xenophon, Ephorus, and Theopompus), she examines how these prose writers created an aristocratic version of the past as an alternative to the democratic version of the oratorical tradition. Frances Pownall is Professor of History and Classics, University of Alberta.
Author: Euripides
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Author: William Smith
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1328
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Author: Marlene K. Sokolon
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438484720
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Responding to Plato's challenge to defend the political thought of poetic sources, Marlene K. Sokolon explores Euripides's understanding of justice in nine of his surviving tragedies. Drawing on Greek mythological stories, Euripides examines several competing ideas of justice, from the ancient ethic of helping friends and harming enemies to justice as merit and relativist views of might makes right. Reflecting Dionysus, the paradoxical god of Greek theater, Euripides reveals the human experience of understanding justice to be limited, multifaceted, and contradictory. His approach underscores the value of understanding justice not only as a rational idea or theory, but also as an integral part of the continuous and unfinished dialogue of political community. As the first book devoted to Euripidean justice, Seeing with Free Eyes adds to the growing interest in how citizens in democracies use storytelling genres to think about important political questions, such as "What is justice?"
Author: Luke Roman
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438126395
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 561
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Greek and Roman mythology has fascinated people for more than two millennia, and its influence on cultures throughout Europe, America, North Africa, and the Middle East attests to the universal appeal of the stories. This title examines the best-known figures of Greek and Roman mythology together with the great works of classic literature.
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521086912
Category : Balkan Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
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Author: Euripides
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Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Author: Plutarch
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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Author: Robert J. Forman
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780893566593
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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An essential companion for the student of literature. Works selected include the best-known works of the classical Greek and Roman theatre.
Author: Daniela Dueck
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317445856
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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The Routledge Companion to Strabo explores the works of Strabo of Amasia (c. 64 BCE – c. CE 24), a Greek author writing at the prime of Roman expansion and political empowerment. While his earlier historiographical composition is almost entirely lost, his major opus of the Geography includes an encyclopaedic look at the entire world known at the time: numerous ethnographic, topographic, historical, mythological, botanical, and zoological details, and much more. This volume offers various insights to the literary and historical context of the man and his world. The Companion, in twenty-eight chapters written by an international group of scholars, examines several aspects of Strabo’s personality, the political and scholarly environment in which he was active, his choices as an author, and his ideas of history and geography. This selection of ongoing Strabonian studies is an invaluable resource not just for students and scholars of Strabo himself, but also for anyone interested in ancient geography and in the world of the early Roman Empire.
