Author: Roderick Beaton
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1541618289
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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A sweeping history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to today More than two thousand years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sparta, laid the foundation for much of modern science, the arts, politics, and law. But the influence of the Greeks did not end with the rise and fall of this classical civilization. As historian Roderick Beaton illustrates, over three millennia Greek speakers produced a series of civilizations that were rooted in southeastern Europe but again and again ranged widely across the globe. In The Greeks, Beaton traces this history from the Bronze Age Mycenaeans who built powerful fortresses at home and strong trade routes abroad, to the dramatic Eurasian conquests of Alexander the Great, to the pious Byzantines who sought to export Christianity worldwide, to today’s Greek diaspora, which flourishes on five continents. The product of decades of research, this is the story of the Greeks and their global impact told as never before.
Author: Jean-Pierre Vernant
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226853833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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What do we mean when we speak of ancient Greeks? A person from the Archaic period? The war hero celebrated by Homer? Or the fourth century "political animal" described by Aristotle? In this book, leading scholars show what it meant to be Greek during the classical period of Greek civilization. The Greeks offers the most complete portraits available of typical Greek personages from Athens to Sparta, Arcadia, Thessaly and Epirus to the city-states of Asia Minor, to the colonies of the Black Sea, southern Italy, and Sicily. Looking at the citizen, the religious believer, the soldier, the servant, the peasant, and others, they show what—in the Greek relationships with the divine, with nature, with others, and with the self—made him "different" in his ways of acting, thinking, and feeling. The contributors to this volume are Jean-Pierre Vernant, Claude Mosse, Yvon Garlan, Giuseppe Cambiano, Luciano Canfora, James Redfield, Charles Segal, Oswyn Murray, Mario Vegetti, and Philippe Borgeaud.
Author: Christopher Stray
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198810806
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 481
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Everyone who studies or researches ancient Greek uses the Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott: this volume brings together essays on all aspects of the history, constitution, and problematics of this extraordinary work, in order to better understand its significance for both Greek studies and the theory and practice of lexicography.
Author: Greece
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Author: Richard Valpy (D.D.)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Author: Greece. [Appendix.]
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Author: George Grote
Publisher:
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Author: George Grote
Publisher:
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Author: George Grote
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Author: Adolf Holm
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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