Philobarbarism
Author: Katarzyna Hagemajer Allen
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 564
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Author: Katarzyna Hagemajer Allen
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 564
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mary Floyd-Wilson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-02-20
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780521810562
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Author: Jane Grogan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020-04-23
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0198767110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThough the subject of classical reception in early modern Europe is a familiar one, modern scholarship has tended to assume the dominance of Greece and Rome in engagements with the classical world during that period. The essays in this volume aim to challenge this prevailing view by arguing for the significance and familiarity of the ancient near east to early modern Europe, establishing the diversity and expansiveness of the classical world known to authors like Shakespeare and Montaigne in what we now call the 'global Renaissance'. However, global Renaissance studies has tended to look away from classical reception, exacerbating the blind spot around the significance of the ancient near east for early modern Europe. Yet this wider classical world supported new modes of humanist thought and unprecedented cross-cultural encounters, as well as informing new forms of writing, such as travel writing and antiquarian treatises; in many cases, and befitting its Herodotean origins, the ancient near east raises questions of travel, empire, religious diversity, cultural relativism, and the history of European culture itself in ways that prompted detailed, engaging, and functional responses by early modern readers and writers. Bringing together a range of approaches from across the fields of classical studies, history, and comparative literature, this volume seeks both to emphasize the transnational, interdisciplinary, and interrogative nature of classical reception, and to make a compelling case for the continued relevance of the texts, concepts, and materials of the ancient near east, specifically, to early modern culture and scholarship.
Author: Thomas Harrison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-26
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1108472753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the many different ways in which Herodotus' Histories were read and understood during a momentous period of world history.
Author: James D. Proctor
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1134656858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book represents a landmark exploration of the common terrain of geography and ethics. Drawing together specially commissioned contributions from distinguished geographers across the UK, North America and Australasia, the place of geography in ethics and of ethics in geography is examined through wide-ranging, thematic chapters. Geography and Ethics is divided into four sections for discussion and exploration of ideas: Ethics and Space; Ethics and Place; Ethics and Nature and Ethics and knowledge, all of which point to the rich interplay between geography and moral philosophy or ethics.
Author: Elizabeth Jane Bellamy
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1442645016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEngland became a centrally important maritime power in the early modern period, and its writers acutely aware of their inhabiting an island often depicted the coastline as a major topic of their works. However, early modern English versifiers had to reconcile this reality with the classical tradition, in which the British Isles were seen as culturally remote compared to the centrally important Mediterranean of antiquity. This was a struggle for writers not only because they used the classical tradition to legitimate their authority, but also because this image dominated cognitive maps of the oceanic world. As the first study of coastlines and early modern English literature, Dire Straits investigates the tensions of the classical tradition's isolation of the British Isles from the domain of poetry. By illustrating how early modern English writers created their works in the context of a longstanding cultural inheritance from antiquity, Elizabeth Jane Bellamy offers a new approach to the history of early modern cartography and its influences on literature.
Author: James S. Romm
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780300072303
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study argues that Herodotus was both a historian and a master storyteller. Romm discusses the historical background of Herodotus' life and work, his moralistic approach to history, his fascination with people and places, his literary powers, and the question of historical truth.
Author: Dmitri Nikulin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-01-26
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1474269133
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Concept of History reflects on the presuppositions behind the contemporary understanding of history that often remain implicit and not spelled out. It is a critique of the modern understanding of history that presents it as universal and teleological, progressively moving forward to an end. Although few contemporary philosophers and historians maintain the view that there is strict universality and teleology in history, the remnants of these positions still affect our understanding of history. But if history is not universal and singular, evolving toward an objective universal end, it should be possible to admit of multiple histories, some of which we appropriate as our own. An another important aspect of this book is that if provides an account of history that is itself both historical and rooted in attempts to narrate and explain history from its inception in antiquity. The book seeks to establish features or constituents of history that might be found in any historical account and might themselves be considered historical invariants in history.
Author: American Philological Association
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 782
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Author: Fiona Hobden
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-08-28
Total Pages: 804
ISBN-13: 9004224378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fourth century author Xenophon -- historian, philosopher, man of action – produced an output notable for diversity of content and consistency of moral outlook. This book explores some of the ethical and historical dimensions of this oeuvre.