Fifty Years of Sathers

Fifty Years of Sathers PDF Author: Sterling Dow
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520329937
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 107

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum

Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum PDF Author: Vice-Chancellor K J Dover
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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A Skeptic Among Scholars

A Skeptic Among Scholars PDF Author: August Frugé
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520914414
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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When August Frugé joined the University of California Press in 1944, it was part of the University's printing department, publishing a modest number of books a year, mainly monographs by UC faculty members. When he retired as director 32 years later, the Press had been transformed into one of the largest, most distinguished university presses in the country, publishing more than 150 books annually in fields ranging from ancient history to contemporary film criticism, by notable authors from all over the world. August Frugé's memoir provides an exciting intellectual and topical story of the building of this great press. Along the way, it recalls battles for independence from the University administration, the Press's distinctive early style of book design, and many of the authors and staff who helped shape the Press in its formative years.

The Small Stuff of Roman Antiquity

The Small Stuff of Roman Antiquity PDF Author: Emily Gowers
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520413148
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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"Why are the small and unimportant relics of Roman antiquity often the most enduring, in both material form and our affections? Through close encounters with minor things such as insects, brief lives, quibbles, irritants, and jokes, Emily Gowers provocatively argues that much of what the Romans dismissed as superfluous or peripheral in fact took up immense imaginative space. There is much to learn from what didn't or shouldn't matter. It was often through the small stuff that the Romans most acutely probed and challenged their society's overarching values and priorities and its sense of proportion and justice. By marking the spots where the apparently pointless becomes significant, this book radically adjusts our understanding of the Romans and their world, as well as our own minor feelings and intimate preoccupations"--

The Mycenaean Origin of Greek Mythology

The Mycenaean Origin of Greek Mythology PDF Author: Martin Nilsson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520335899
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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The last major work of the giant of the field. Martin P. Nilsson set himself the task of tracing the elements of Greekmythology, as they appear in Homer's Iliad, to their source in Mycenaean culture, a much earlier period. His conclusions, drawn from a very limited empirical material - archaeology, very few relevant Linear B texts - are remarkably compelling. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.

The Mycenaean Origin of Greek Mythology

The Mycenaean Origin of Greek Mythology PDF Author: Martin Persson Nilsson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780520019515
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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"Nilsson studied the geographical aspects of the Greek myths. He proved that almost without exception, the places in the myths, especially those in the great cycle of stories, are the very same places as those now known from archaeology to have been important Bronze-Age sites ... Nilsson made it amply clear, in a host of interesting details which he worked out with ingenuity and almost always good sense, that the memory of the great Bronze-Age centres survived, and that the stories told of them ... truly reflected, in Classical times, the Mykenaian Age. To have discovered this great bridge was the triumphant achievement of Nilsson." [Back cover].

The Immigrant and the University

The Immigrant and the University PDF Author: Karin Sveen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520276485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Translation of the author's Mannen i Montgomery street: portrett av en norsk emigrant.

An Archaeology of Greece

An Archaeology of Greece PDF Author: Anthony M. Snodgrass
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520912780
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 235

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Classical archaeology probably enjoys a wider appeal than any other branch of classical or archaeological studies. As an intellectual and academic discipline, however, its esteem has not matched its popularity. Here, Anthony Snodgrass argues that classical archaeology has a rare potential in the whole field of the study of the past to make innovative discoveries and apply modern approaches by widening the aims of the discipline.

No Boundaries

No Boundaries PDF Author: Lillian Hoddeson
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252072031
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Like any great university, the University of Illinois owes its prominence to the excellence of its faculty. In Lillian Hoddeson's No Boundaries, twenty-three scholars provide easily accessible vignettes about University of Illinois faculty who have made major contributions to their fields, to knowledge, and to the world. Here are many of the most inspiring--and often most amusing--people whose work elevated the University of Illinois into a world leader in a variety of areas. Their lives demonstrate again and again that the work of the University takes place as much away from campus as on it: Oscar Lewis's pioneering studies of poverty in Mexico, for example, Ralph Grim's geological work in Africa, and Nathan Newmark's architectural work in Mexico City. Here also are insights into the remarkable careers of classicist William Oldfather, chemist Roger Adams, the amazing double Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Bardeen, and accounts of Katharine Sharp's work that made the University of Illinois Library into a national treasure. Also included are the legendary contributions of the University of Illinois to computer science, biochemistry, history, literary study, and electronic music.

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series PDF Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1400

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The record of each copyright registration listed in the Catalog includes a description of the work copyrighted and data relating to the copyright claim (the name of the copyright claimant as given in the application for registration, the copyright date, the copyright registration number, etc.).