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Author: Carroll Moulton
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a history of ancient Greece and Rome as well as information about the literature and daily life of these early civilizations.
Author: Robert George Alexander Weir
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Pythian Games are not as well known as the Olympic Games but were nonetheless important over a period of more than a thousand years of Greek and Roman history (c.580 BC to AD 395). In this study Robert Weir examines the rise and significance of this festival of athletics, horsemanship, music and drama held at or near the Delphic temple every four years. The chapters assess the nature of the games and those taking part, its administration and financing, the experience of the visitor, and asks why individuals took part and why people chose to attend the games. Weir argues that, contrary to theories of decline, religious aspects of the games in particular ensured its continued relevance throughout the Roman period although some changes were necessary in line with the demands of the emperor and imperial ideology. The final chapters look at this imperial intervention and at festivals outside Delphi and the spread of its influence.
Author: Michael Gagarin
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 3369
ISBN-13: 0195170725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brian De Jongh
Publisher:
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 458
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreece has always possessed a special significance for the foreign visitor and the author intends this book primarily "to help the traveller ... to identify the surviving monuments of the Mycenaean, Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic ages and look at them in terms of their historical context against the background of their natural setting." Appendices include advise on hotels, restaurants and shops, a list of feasts and holidays, a glossary and chronological tables.
Author: Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022-03-02
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9781032014852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Province of Achaea in the 2nd Century CE explores the conception and utilization of the Greek past in the Roman province of Achaea in the 2nd century CE, and the reception of the artistic, cultural, and intellectual outputs of this century in later periods. Achaea, often defined by international scholars as old Greece, was the only Roman province located entirely within the confines of the Modern Greek state. In many ways, Achaea in the 2nd Century CE witnessed a second Golden Age, one based on collective historical nostalgia under Roman imperial protection and innovation. The papers in this volume are holistic in scope, with special emphasis on Roman imperial relations with the people of Achaea and their conceptualizations of their past. Material culture, monumental and domestic spaces, and artistic representations are discussed, as well as the literary output of individuals like Plutarch, Herodes Atticus, Aelius Aristides, and others. The debate over Roman influence in various Hellenic cities and the significance of collective historical nostalgia also feature in this volume, as does the utilization of Achaea's past in the Roman present within the wider empire. As this century has produced the highest percentage of archaeological and literary material from the Roman period in the province under consideration, the time is ripe to position it more firmly in the academic discourse of studies of the Roman Empire. The Province of Achaea in the 2nd Century CE will appeal to scholars, students, and other individuals who are interested in the history, archaeology, art, and literature of the Graeco-Roman world and its reception.
Author: William Hutton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-10-20
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780521847209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Periegesis Hellados (Description of Greece) by Pausanias is the most important example of non-fictional travel literature in ancient Greek. With this work Professor Hutton provides the first book-length literary study of the Periegesis Hellados in nearly one hundred years. He examines Pausanias' arrangement and expression of his material and evaluates his authorial choices in light of the contemporary literary currents of the day and in light of the cultural milieu of the Roman empire in the time of Hadrian and the Antonines. The descriptions offered in the Periegesis Hellados are also examined in the context of the archaeological evidence available for the places Pausanias visited. This study reveals Pausanias to be a surprisingly sophisticated literary craftsman and a unique witness to Greek identity at a time when that identity was never more conflicted.
Author: Michael Scott
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-10-20
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 0691169845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotation This work engages with the complex archaeological development of the religious sanctuaries of Delphi and Olympia. It investigates the physical remains of both sanctuaries to show how different visitors interacted with the sacred spaces of Delphi and Olympia in an important variety of ways during the archaic and classical periods.
Author: Georgios K. Giannakis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2017-12-18
Total Pages: 618
ISBN-13: 3110532131
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new collective volume with over twenty important studies on less well-studied dialects of ancient Greek, particularly of the northern regions. The book covers geographically a broad area of the classical Greek world ranging from Central Greece to the overseas Greek colonies of Thrace and the Black Sea. Particular emphasis is placed on the epichoric varieties of areas on the northern fringe of the classical Greek world, including Thessaly, Epirus and Macedonia. Recent advances in research are taken into consideration in providing state-of-the art accounts of these understudied dialects, but also of more well-known dialects like Lesbian. In addition, other papers address special intriguing topics in these, but also in other dialects, such as Thessalian, Lesbian and Ionic, or focus on important multi-dialectal corpora such as the oracular tablets from Dodona. Finally, a number of studies examine broader topics like the supraregional Doric koinai or the concept of dialect continuum, or even explore the possibility of an ancient Balkansprachbund, which included Greek too. This new reference work covers a gap in current research and will be indispensable for people interested in Greek dialectology and ancient Greek in general.
Author: Anna Kouremenos
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9781003178828
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Province of Achaea in the 2nd Century CE explores the conception and utilization of the Greek past in the Roman province of Achaea in the 2nd century CE, and the reception of the artistic, cultural, and intellectual outputs of this century in later periods. Achaea, often defined by international scholars as "old Greece", was the only Roman province located entirely within the confines of the Modern Greek state. In many ways, Achaea in the 2nd Century CE witnessed a second Golden Age, one based on collective historical nostalgia under Roman imperial protection and innovation. The papers in this volume are holistic in scope, with special emphasis on Roman imperial relations with the people of Achaea and their conceptualizations of their past. Material culture, monumental and domestic spaces, and artistic representations are discussed, as well as the literary output of individuals like Plutarch, Herodes Atticus, Aelius Aristides, and others. The debate over Roman influence in various Hellenic cities and the significance of collective historical nostalgia also feature in this volume, as does the utilization of Achaea's past in the Roman present within the wider empire. As this century has produced the highest percentage of archaeological and literary material from the Roman period in the province under consideration, the time is ripe to position it more firmly in the academic discourse of studies of the Roman Empire. The Province of Achaea in the 2nd Century CE will appeal to scholars, students, and other individuals who are interested in the history, archaeology, art, and literature of the Graeco-Roman world and its reception"--
Author: Carroll Moulton
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a history of ancient Greece and Rome as well as information about the literature and daily life of these early civilizations.
