The Greeks

Author: Roderick Beaton
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571353584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444

Book Description
'Monumental . . . A wonderful book.' Peter Frankopan'Magisterial . . . remarkable.' Guardian'Erudite and highly readable . . . An authoritative guide to the countless ways in which Greek words and ideas have shaped the modern world.' Financial TimesThe Greeks is a story which takes us from the archaeological treasures of the Bronze Age Aegean and myths of gods and heroes, to the politics of the European Union today. It is a story of inventions, such as the alphabet, philosophy and science, but also of reinvention: of cultures which merged and multiplied, and adapted to catastrophic change. It is the epic, revelatory history of the Greek-speaking people and their global impact told as never before.

The Greeks

Author: Jean-Pierre Vernant
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226853833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
What do we mean when we speak of ancient Greeks? A person from the Archaic period? The war hero celebrated by Homer? Or the fourth century "political animal" described by Aristotle? In this book, leading scholars show what it meant to be Greek during the classical period of Greek civilization. The Greeks offers the most complete portraits available of typical Greek personages from Athens to Sparta, Arcadia, Thessaly and Epirus to the city-states of Asia Minor, to the colonies of the Black Sea, southern Italy, and Sicily. Looking at the citizen, the religious believer, the soldier, the servant, the peasant, and others, they show what—in the Greek relationships with the divine, with nature, with others, and with the self—made him "different" in his ways of acting, thinking, and feeling. The contributors to this volume are Jean-Pierre Vernant, Claude Mosse, Yvon Garlan, Giuseppe Cambiano, Luciano Canfora, James Redfield, Charles Segal, Oswyn Murray, Mario Vegetti, and Philippe Borgeaud.

The Greeks

Author: Humphrey Davy Findley Kitto
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

The Gods of The Greeks

Author: Károly Kerényi
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787201082
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476

Book Description
Drawing on a wealth of sources, from Hesiod to Pausanias and from the Orphic Hymns to Proclus, Professor Kerényi provides a clear and scholarly exposition of all the most important Greek myths. After a brief introduction, the complex genealogies of the gods lead him from the begettings of the Titans, from Aphrodite under all her titles and aspects, to the reign of Zeus, to Apollo and Hermes, touching the affairs of Pan, nymphs, satyrs, cosmogonies and the birth of mankind, until he reaches the ineffable mysteries of Dionysos. The lively and highly readable narrative is complemented by an appendix of detailed references to all the original texts and a fine selection of illustrations taken from vase paintings. ‘...learned, admirably documented, exhaustive...’—TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ‘...it most emphatically must be the book that many have long been waiting for...’—STEPHEN SPENDER ‘Kerényi’s effort to reinterpret mythology...arises out of the conviction that an appreciation of the mythical world will help Western man to regain his lost sense of religious values....(His) theory of myth and his actual interpretations of mythical themes...help to point the way to...a new kind of humanism.’—A. Altman, Philosophy

The Book of the Ancient Greeks

Author: Dorothy Mills
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 480

Book Description
A continuation of the author's "Book of the ancient world" and similar to it in scope and form. It covers the period from the coming of the Greeks to 146 B.C.

The Greeks

Author: Diane Harris Cline
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 142621670X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
"Companion to the PBS series The Greeks"--Dust jacket.

The Greeks and Greek Civilization

Author: Jacob Burckhardt
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312244477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498

Book Description
In 1872 Burckhardt, one of the preeminent historians of classical and Renaissance culture, presented this revolutionary work, which portrays ancient Greek culture as an aristocratic world and tyrannical state with minimal personal freedoms. This landmark culmination of 30 years of scholarship offers a rich cultural history of a fascinating society.

Foolishness to the Greeks

Author: Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 1467419087
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 181

Book Description
How can biblical authority be a reality for those shaped by the modern world? This book treats the First World as a mission field, offering a unique perspective on the relationship between the gospel and current society by presenting an outsider's view of contemporary Western culture.

Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks

Author: Carol S. Lipson
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 079148503X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Focusing on ancient rhetoric outside of the dominant Western tradition, this collection examines rhetorical practices in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, and China. The book uncovers alternate ways of understanding human behavior and explores how these rhetorical practices both reflected and influenced their cultures. The essays address issues of historiography and raise questions about the application of Western rhetorical concepts to these very different ancient cultures. A chapter on suggestions for teaching each of these ancient rhetorics is included.

Greek Ways

Author: Bruce S. Thornton
Publisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1893554570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
Writing with wit and erudition, Thornton discusses in fascinating detail those areas of Greek life--sexuality and sexual roles; slavery and war; philosophy and politics--that some modern critics have made into Rcontested sites.S He also reclaims the importance of those core ideas the Greeks invented, ideas about human fate and purpose that have shaped the modern world.