wyszukanych pozycji: 128
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Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece
ISBN: 9780521377423 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book explores the role of written and oral communication in Greece and is the first systematic and sustained treatment at this level. It examines the recent theoretical debates about literacy and orality and explores the uses of writing and oral communication, and their interaction, in ancient Greece. It sets the significance of written and oral communication as much as possible in their social and historical context, and stresses the specifically Greek characteristics in their use. It draws together the results of recent studies and suggests further avenues of inquiry. All ancient...
This book explores the role of written and oral communication in Greece and is the first systematic and sustained treatment at this level. It examines...
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184,41 |
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Banking and Business in the Roman World
ISBN: 9780521389327 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is the first book to present a synthetic view of Roman banking and financial life from the fourth century BC to the end of the third century AD. It describes the business deals of the elite and the professional bankers and the interventions of the state. It shows to what extent the spirit of profit and enterprise predominated over the traditional values of Rome, what economic role these financiers played, and how that role compares with that of their later counterparts.
This is the first book to present a synthetic view of Roman banking and financial life from the fourth century BC to the end of the third century AD. ...
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165,67 |
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Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens
ISBN: 9780521388375 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book examines the legal regulation of violence and the role of litigation in Athenian society. Using comparative anthropological and historical perspectives, David Cohen challenges traditional evolutionary and functionalist accounts of the development of legal process. Examining Athenian theories of social conflict and the rule of law, as well as actual litigation involving the regulation of violence, the book emphasizes the way in which the judicial process operates in an agonistic society.
This book examines the legal regulation of violence and the role of litigation in Athenian society. Using comparative anthropological and historical p...
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165,67 |
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Sport and Society in Ancient Greece
ISBN: 9780521497909 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book is the only up-to-date general introduction to ancient Greek sport now available in English. Its subjects include the origins and history of the Olympic games, athletic nudity, professionalism, and the place of women in Greek sport. Accessible to nonspecialists, its overall perspective and discussions of many particular problems will also interest experts in Greek history and sport studies.
This book is the only up-to-date general introduction to ancient Greek sport now available in English. Its subjects include the origins and history of...
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146,92 |
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Trade in Classical Antiquity
ISBN: 9780521632799 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Historians have long argued about the place of trade in classical antiquity: was it the life-blood of a complex, Mediterranean-wide economic system, or a thin veneer on the surface of an underdeveloped agrarian society? Trade underpinned the growth of Athenian and Roman power, helping to supply armies and cities. It furnished the goods that ancient elites needed to maintain their dominance - and yet, those same elites generally regarded trade and traders as a threat to social order. Trade, like the patterns of consumption that determined its development, was implicated in wider debates about...
Historians have long argued about the place of trade in classical antiquity: was it the life-blood of a complex, Mediterranean-wide economic system, o...
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259,41 |
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Food and Society in Classical Antiquity
ISBN: 9780521645881 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is a broad-based, comprehensive general study of food in antiquity. The book deals with food as food or nutrition, the discussion revolving around the concrete issues of food availability and the nutritional status of the population. It also treats the nonfood uses of food, focusing on the role of food in forming and marking the social hierarchy. Food defines the group, whether social, religious, philosophical or political.
This is a broad-based, comprehensive general study of food in antiquity. The book deals with food as food or nutrition, the discussion revolving aroun...
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Democracy: A Life
ISBN: 9780198815136 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The 2,500 year story of democracy: how it has survived, how it has been practised, and how it has been imagined, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century.
The 2,500 year story of democracy: how it has survived, how it has been practised, and how it has been imagined, from ancient Greece to the twenty-fir...
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78,49 |
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Ancient Greece: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780199601349 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This highly original introduction to ancient Greece uses the history of eleven major Greek cities to illuminate the most important and informative aspects of Greek culture. Cartledge highlights the role of such renowned cities as Athens (birthplace of democracy) and Sparta, but he also examines Argos, Thebes, Syracuse in Sicily, and Alexandria in Egypt, as well as lesser known locales such as Miletus (home of the West's first intellectual, Thales) and Massalia (Marseilles today), where the Greeks introduced the wine grape to the French. The author uses these cities to illuminate major themes,...
This highly original introduction to ancient Greece uses the history of eleven major Greek cities to illuminate the most important and informative asp...
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50,46 |