In Search of the Romans (Second Edition), James Renshaw

Автор: James Renshaw
Название: In Search of the Greeks (Second Edition)
ISBN: 1472530268 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472530264
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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In Search of the Greeks offers an engaging introduction to the societies of Classical Greece. Making extensive use of ancient sources and illustrated with some hundred and fifty photographs, drawings, maps and plans, many now for the first time in colour, the book introduces key topics of ancient Greece. The new edition opens with a new chapter that provides an historical overview of the key events, figures and eras, and continues with updated chapters on key topics in Greek history: religion and thought, Athenian democracy, Athenian society, Athenian drama, the Olympic Games and Sparta. Activity boxes and further reading lists throughout each chapter aid students' understanding of the subject. Appendices provide further information on Greek currency values, Greek musical instruments and the Greek calendar.

Review questions throughout this book challenge students to read further and reflect on some of the most important social, political and cultural issues of classical Greece. Many topics raise issues of contemporary relevance, such as the rights of citizens in a democracy, forced marriage and approaches to education.
The book is supported by a website which, contains comprehensive resources on the social, political and cultural issues of classical Greece.

Автор: Quinn Josephine
Название: In Search of the Phoenicians
ISBN: 0691175276 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691175270
Издательство: Wiley
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Who were the ancient Phoenicians, and did they actually exist?

The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were has long remained a mystery. In Search of the Phoenicians makes the startling claim that the "Phoenicians" never actually existed. Taking readers from the ancient world to today, this monumental book argues that the notion of these sailors as a coherent people with a shared identity, history, and culture is a product of modern nationalist ideologies--and a notion very much at odds with the ancient sources.

Josephine Quinn shows how the belief in this historical mirage has blinded us to the compelling identities and communities these people really constructed for themselves in the ancient Mediterranean, based not on ethnicity or nationhood but on cities, family, colonial ties, and religious practices. She traces how the idea of "being Phoenician" first emerged in support of the imperial ambitions of Carthage and then Rome, and only crystallized as a component of modern national identities in contexts as far-flung as Ireland and Lebanon.

In Search of the Phoenicians delves into the ancient literary, epigraphic, numismatic, and artistic evidence for the construction of identities by and for the Phoenicians, ranging from the Levant to the Atlantic, and from the Bronze Age to late antiquity and beyond. A momentous scholarly achievement, this book also explores the prose, poetry, plays, painting, and polemic that have enshrined these fabled seafarers in nationalist histories from sixteenth-century England to twenty-first century Tunisia.

Автор: Radasanu Andrea
Название: In Search of Humanity: Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin
ISBN: 0739184164 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739184165
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Описание: This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, brings together internationally renowned scholars to provide a wide context and discuss various aspects of the virtue of "humanity" through the history of political philosophy.

Автор: Uden James
Название: The Invisible Satirist: Juvenal and Second-Century Rome
ISBN: 0199387273 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199387274
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Offers a new interpretation of the complete Satires of Juvenal.

Автор: Manley John
Название: Romans
ISBN: 1444183869 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781444183863
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: Why do the Romans still matter?

Автор: Whitmarsh Timothy
Название: Beyond the Second Sophistic
ISBN: 0520276817 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520276819
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: The "Second Sophistic" traditionally refers to a period at the height of the Roman Empire`s power that witnessed a flourishing of Greek rhetoric and oratory, and since the 19th century it has often been viewed as a defense of Hellenic civilization against the domination of Rome. This book proposes a very different model.