The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius: Rev. 1952 (1967 printing)
Author: Aulus Gellius
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 552
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Author: Aulus Gellius
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 552
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 672
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 672
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Published: 1973
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 720
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Deming
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-01-10
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0786456574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScience is a living, organic activity, the meaning and understanding of which have evolved incrementally over human history. This book, the first in a roughly chronological series, explores the development of the methodology and major ideas of science, in historical context, from ancient times to the decline of classical civilizations around 300 A.D. It includes details specific to the histories of specialized sciences including astronomy, medicine and physics--along with Roman engineering and Greek philosophy. It closely describes the contributions of such individuals as Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Euclid, Archimedes, Ptolemy, Seneca, Pliny the Elder, and Galen.
Author: Frank Santi Russell
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780472110643
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Information Gathering in Classical Greece opens with chapters on tactical, strategic, and covert agents. Methods of communication are explored, from fire-signals to dead-letter drops. Frank Russell categorizes and defines the collectors and sources of information according to their era, methods, and spheres of operation, and he also provides evidence from ancient authors on interrogation and the handling and weighing of information. Counterintelligence is also explored, together with disinformation through "leaks" and agents. The author concludes this fascinating study with observations on the role that intelligence-gathering has in the kind of democratic society for which Greece has always been famous"--Publisher description.
Author: Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 0892365803
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (1760–1834) regarded the Précis of the Lectures on Architecture (1802–5) and its companion volume, the Graphic Portion (1821), as both a basic course for future civil engineers and a treatise. Focusing the practice of architecture on utilitarian and economic values, he assailed the rationale behind classical architectural training: beauty, proportionality, and symbolism. His formal systematization of plans, elevations, and sections transformed architectural design into a selective modular typology in which symmetry and simple geometrical forms prevailed. His emphasis on pragmatic values, to the exclusion of metaphysical concerns, represented architecture as a closed system that subjected its own formal language to logical processes. Now published in English for the first time, the Précis and the Graphic Portion are classics of architectural education.
Author: Patrick R. Crowley
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2019-12-10
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 022664829X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing from a rich corpus of art works, including sarcophagi, tomb paintings, and floor mosaics, Patrick R. Crowley investigates how something as insubstantial as a ghost could be made visible through the material grit of stone and paint. In this fresh and wide-ranging study, he uses the figure of the ghost to offer a new understanding of the status of the image in Roman art and visual culture. Tracing the shifting practices and debates in antiquity about the nature of vision and representation, Crowley shows how images of ghosts make visible structures of beholding and strategies of depiction. Yet the figure of the ghost simultaneously contributes to a broader conceptual history that accounts for how modalities of belief emerged and developed in antiquity. Neither illustrations of ancient beliefs in ghosts nor depictions of afterlife, these images show us something about the visual event of seeing itself. The Phantom Image offers essential insight into ancient art, visual culture, and the history of the image.