Kategoria BISAC: History >> Ancient - Greece

Drawing on case studies and presenting archaeological evidence throughout, Alan Greaves presents a welcome survey of the origins and development of Miletos.

Focusing on the archaic era and exploring a wide range of issues including physical environment, colonizations, the economy, and its role as a centre of philosophy and learning, Greaves examines Miletos from prehistory to its medieval decline.

While preserving the basic narrative of the "Iliad," this selection also highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological content, and will prove especially useful in surveys of world literature.

The role of athletics in ancient Greece extended well beyond the realms of kinesiology, competition, and entertainment. In teaching and philosophy, athletic practices overlapped with rhetorical ones and formed a shared mode of knowledge production. Bodily Arts examines this intriguing intersection, offering an important context for understanding the attitudes of ancient Greeks toward themselves and their environment.

In classical society, rhetoric was an activity, one that was in essence "performed." Detailing how athletics came to be rhetoric's "twin art" in the bodily...

Humane ideals were central to the image Athenians had of themselves and their city during the classical period. Tragic plays, which formed a part of civic education, often promoted pity and compassion. But it is less clear to what extent Athenians embraced such ideals in daily life. How were they expected to respond, emotionally and pragmatically, to the suffering of other people? Under what circumstances? At what risk to themselves?

In this book, Rachel Hall Sternberg draws on evidence from Greek oratory and historiography of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE to study the moral...

The volume is divided into two parts: 'Empire and Nation-State' and 'Nation and Civil Society' and covers issues such as Turkish and Greek nationalism, the formation of the Greek State, the impact of the Greek War of Independence in transforming the Ottoman Empire, civil society in Greece during the post-World War II period, the concept...

A thrilling story that has inspired novelists and filmmakers: The real-life Spartacus is even more amazing than his fictional counterparts. A slave from Thrace (modern day Bulgaria),...

Maria Marcinkowska-Rosol legt die erste umfassende Untersuchung zur Konzeption des Denkens und Erkennens im Lehrgedicht des Parmenides von Elea vor, einem der wichtigsten fruhgriechischen Philosophen (6.-5. Jh. v.Chr.). Es gelingt ihr, einige der zentralen Fragen der Parmenides-Forschung schlussig zu beantworten, besonders die nach dem Verhaltnis von Denken und Sein, nach der Gesamtaussage des Parmeideischen Gedichts und nach dem Zusammenhang seiner beiden Teile.

• Band in neuer Reihe Studia Praesocratica
• Neue Interpretation
• Thema ist das bis heute umstrittene...

Mit den Commentaria et Lexica Graeca in Papyris reperta wird der Fachwelt ein einzigartiges papyrologisches Sammelwerk vorgelegt. Die bisher verstreut publizierten, auf Papyrus erhaltenen Teile antiker griechischer Kommentare - d.h. der Hypomnemata und Randnotizen zu griechischen Autoren sowie der Glossare und Lexika - werden in diesem Lexikon alphabetisch zusammengefuhrt.

Zu jedem im Lexikon erfassten Fragment erhalt der Benutzer zunachst einen Uberblick uber Herkunft, Entstehungszeit und derzeitigen Aufbewahrungsort sowie uber alle dazu bisher erschienenen Publikationen. Darauf...