Supreme Political Power in Greek Literature of the Fourth Century B.C.
Author: Bella Levitt
Publisher:
Published: 1943
Total Pages: 130
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Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition
Author: Graham Speake
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-01-31
Total Pages: 1941
ISBN-13: 1135942064
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHellenism is the living culture of the Greek-speaking peoples and has a continuing history of more than 3,500 years. The Encyclopedia of Greece and the HellenicTradition contains approximately 900 entries devoted to people, places, periods, events, and themes, examining every aspect of that culture from the Bronze Age to the present day. The focus throughout is on the Greeks themselves, and the continuities within their own cultural tradition. Language and religion are perhaps the most obvious vehicles of continuity; but there have been many others--law, taxation, gardens, music, magic, education, shipping, and countless other elements have all played their part in maintaining this unique culture. Today, Greek arts have blossomed again; Greece has taken its place in the European Union; Greeks control a substantial proportion of the world's merchant marine; and Greek communities in the United States, Australia, and South Africa have carried the Hellenic tradition throughout the world. This is the first reference work to embrace all aspects of that tradition in every period of its existence.
Greek Literature in Translation
Author: George Howe
Publisher:
Published: 1924
Total Pages: 662
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Author: Nigel Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-31
Total Pages: 829
ISBN-13: 113678800X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining every aspect of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the early Byzantine era, this thoroughly cross-referenced and fully indexed work is written by an international group of scholars. This Encyclopedia is derived from the more broadly focused Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, the highly praised two-volume work. Newly edited by Nigel Wilson, this single-volume reference provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the political, cultural, and social life of the people and to the places, ideas, periods, and events that defined ancient Greece.
Ancient Greek Government
Author: Henry Bensinger
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2013-07-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1477708731
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerhaps the most important legacy of the ancient Greeks is their invention of the form of government we hold most dear: Democracy. Ancient Greeces various cities and their forms of government, and the birth of government by the people, are presented in simple, straightforward language. An excellent resource on both ancient Greece and the concept of democracy.
The Return of the King
Author: Victorino Tejera
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContents: Introduction: on the Intellectual History of Democratic Athens. A Modern Defense of Xenophon's Oligarchic Socrates. The Prelude to the Timaeus and the Atlantis Story. On the Ambivalence and Ideology of the Aristotelian Politics. In Search of the Unplatonized, Prescholastic Aristotle. Philosophic Historiography and the Reception-History of Plato and Aristotle. References and Bibliography.
Ancient Tyranny
Author: Sian Lewis
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2006-02-22
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0748626433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTyrants and tyranny are more than the antithesis of democracy and the mark of political failure: they are a dynamic response to social and political pressures.This book examines the autocratic rulers and dynasties of classical Greece and Rome and the changing concepts of tyranny in political thought and culture. It brings together historians, political theorists and philosophers, all offering new perspectives on the autocratic governments of the ancient world.The volume is divided into four parts. Part I looks at the ways in which the term 'tyranny' was used and understood, and the kinds of individual who were called tyrants. Part II focuses on the genesis of tyranny and the social and political circumstances in which tyrants arose. The chapters in Part III examine the presentation of tyrants by themselves and in literature and history. Part IV discusses the achievements of episodic tyranny within the non-autocratic regimes of Sparta and Rome and of autocratic regimes in Persia and the western Mediterranean world.Written by a wide range of leading experts in their field, Ancient Tyranny offers a new and comparative study of tyranny within Greek, Roman and Persian society.
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Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
Published: 1944
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIssues consist of lists of new books added to the library ; also articles about aspects of printing and publishing history, and about exhibitions held in the library, and important acquisitions.
