Author: Virginia Schomp
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761446446
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Explores the mythology of the ancient Persians, one of historys greatest civilizations.
The World of Persian Literary Humanism
Author: Hamid Dabashi
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674067592
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Humanism has mostly considered the question “What does it mean to be human?” from a Western perspective. Dabashi asks it anew from a non-European perspective, in a groundbreaking study of 1,400 years of Persian literary humanism. He presents the unfolding of this vast tradition as the creative and subversive subconscious of Islamic civilization.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674067592
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Humanism has mostly considered the question “What does it mean to be human?” from a Western perspective. Dabashi asks it anew from a non-European perspective, in a groundbreaking study of 1,400 years of Persian literary humanism. He presents the unfolding of this vast tradition as the creative and subversive subconscious of Islamic civilization.
Princeton's Great Persian Book of Kings
Author: Marianna Shreve Simpson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300215748
Category : Epic poetry, Persian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Princeton University Art Museum, October 3, 2015-January 24, 2016.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300215748
Category : Epic poetry, Persian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Princeton University Art Museum, October 3, 2015-January 24, 2016.
The Ancient Persians
Author: Virginia Schomp
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761446446
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Explores the mythology of the ancient Persians, one of historys greatest civilizations.
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761446446
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Explores the mythology of the ancient Persians, one of historys greatest civilizations.
Procopius of Caesarea: The Persian Wars
Author: Geoffrey Greatrex
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316730980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Procopius was the major historian of the reign of Justinian and one of the most important historians of Late Antiquity. This is the first stand-alone English translation of his work Persian Wars. It offers a new translation, which has at its basis one published fifty years ago by Averil Cameron. The Persian Wars, despite the title, is a wide-ranging work that reports the history and geography not only of Mesopotamia and the Caucasus, but also of southern Arabia and Ethiopia, Iran and Central Asia, and Constantinople itself. This book is equipped with notes, maps and plans, an introduction, and a translation of a further Greek text, that of Nonnosus, which overlaps with Procopius'. It will be of benefit to specialists and the general reader alike.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316730980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Procopius was the major historian of the reign of Justinian and one of the most important historians of Late Antiquity. This is the first stand-alone English translation of his work Persian Wars. It offers a new translation, which has at its basis one published fifty years ago by Averil Cameron. The Persian Wars, despite the title, is a wide-ranging work that reports the history and geography not only of Mesopotamia and the Caucasus, but also of southern Arabia and Ethiopia, Iran and Central Asia, and Constantinople itself. This book is equipped with notes, maps and plans, an introduction, and a translation of a further Greek text, that of Nonnosus, which overlaps with Procopius'. It will be of benefit to specialists and the general reader alike.
A Grammar of the Persian Language
Author: John Thompson Platts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabic language
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabic language
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Looking at Persians
Author: David Stuttard
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350227935
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Aeschylus' Persians is unique in being the only extant Greek tragedy on an historical subject: Greece's victory in 480 BC over the great Persian King, Xerxes, eight years before the play was written and first performed in 472 BC. Looking at Persians examines how Aeschylus responded to such a turning point in Athenian history and how his audience may have reacted to his play. As well as considering the play's relationship with earlier lost tragedies and discussing its central themes, including war, nature and the value of human life, the volume considers how Persians may have been staged in fifth-century Athens and how it has been performed today. The twelve essays presented here are written by prominent international academics and offer insightful analyses of the play from the perspectives of performance, history and society. Intended for readers ranging from school students and undergraduates to teachers and those interested in drama (including practitioners), this volume also includes an accurate, accessible and performance-friendly English translation of Persians by David Stuttard.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350227935
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Aeschylus' Persians is unique in being the only extant Greek tragedy on an historical subject: Greece's victory in 480 BC over the great Persian King, Xerxes, eight years before the play was written and first performed in 472 BC. Looking at Persians examines how Aeschylus responded to such a turning point in Athenian history and how his audience may have reacted to his play. As well as considering the play's relationship with earlier lost tragedies and discussing its central themes, including war, nature and the value of human life, the volume considers how Persians may have been staged in fifth-century Athens and how it has been performed today. The twelve essays presented here are written by prominent international academics and offer insightful analyses of the play from the perspectives of performance, history and society. Intended for readers ranging from school students and undergraduates to teachers and those interested in drama (including practitioners), this volume also includes an accurate, accessible and performance-friendly English translation of Persians by David Stuttard.
Classical Traditions and Modern Meanings
Author: Stefan Sperl
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004102958
Category : Qasidas
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004102958
Category : Qasidas
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Multilingual Information Access Evaluation I - Text Retrieval Experiments
Author: Carol Peters
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 364215753X
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 701
Book Description
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 10th Workshop of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2010, held in Corfu, Greece, in September/October 2009. The volume reports experiments on various types of textual document collections. It is divided into six main sections presenting the results of the following tracks: Multilingual Document Retrieval (Ad-Hoc), Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF), Multilingual Information Filtering (INFILE@CLEF), Intellectual Property (CLEF-IP) and Log File Analysis (LogCLEF), plus the activities of the MorphoChallenge Program.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 364215753X
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 701
Book Description
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 10th Workshop of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2010, held in Corfu, Greece, in September/October 2009. The volume reports experiments on various types of textual document collections. It is divided into six main sections presenting the results of the following tracks: Multilingual Document Retrieval (Ad-Hoc), Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF), Multilingual Information Filtering (INFILE@CLEF), Intellectual Property (CLEF-IP) and Log File Analysis (LogCLEF), plus the activities of the MorphoChallenge Program.
The Sacred Anthology
Author: Moncure Daniel Conway
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oriental literature
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oriental literature
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
The Persians and Other Plays
Author: Aeschylus
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141955899
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. The Persians, the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from recent Athenian history, depicts the final defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis, through the eyes of the Persian court of King Xerxes, becoming a tragic lesson in tyranny. In Prometheus Bound, the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. Seven Against Thebes shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus, while The Suppliants relates the pursuit of the fifty daughters of Danaus by the fifty sons of Aegyptus, and their final rescue by a heroic king.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141955899
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. The Persians, the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from recent Athenian history, depicts the final defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis, through the eyes of the Persian court of King Xerxes, becoming a tragic lesson in tyranny. In Prometheus Bound, the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. Seven Against Thebes shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus, while The Suppliants relates the pursuit of the fifty daughters of Danaus by the fifty sons of Aegyptus, and their final rescue by a heroic king.