Socrates in the Agora
Author: Mabel Lang
Publisher: ASCSA
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13:
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Author: Mabel Lang
Publisher: ASCSA
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Delyan Zahariev
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2005-04
Total Pages: 90
ISBN-13: 059535193X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Great Agora is a metaphor--the metaphor of modern, cultivated, hurried, violent, intense, hostile, turbulent and media-dominated life. The book contains implied as well as more explicit critical/satirical approaches to ways and manners of existence that are especially pervasive in certain parts of the world today. The towerful man is another metaphor, that of the one who mindfully asks some questions from within living in the Great Agora. That is, the towerful man is no stranger to the life of the Great Agora--he is part of it. The Great Agora is a book on human mores, ethics, and morals. That is why it speaks in more than one language--in order to more fully reflect Agoric diversity. In addition, the tower provides a view over the Great Agora's homogeneously heterogeneous whole. While the towerful man is in one way or another a distant heir of (Nietzsche's) Zarathustra, not only in height but also in perspicacity, as it were, in sophia.
Author: Christopher P. Dickenson
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-01-23
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9004334750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn the Agora traces the evolution of the main public square of the Greek polis for the six centuries from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC to the height of the Roman Empire and the Herulian invasion of Greece in 267 AD. Drawing on literary, epigraphic and, especially, archaeological evidence, the book takes a comparative approach to consider how the layout and function of agoras in cities throughout Greece changed during centuries that witnessed far reaching transformations in culture, society and political life. The book challenges the popular view of the post-Classical agora as characterised by decline, makes important arguments about how we use evidence to understand ancient public spaces and proposes many new interpretations of individual sites.
Author: Alex Gottesman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-02
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1107041686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines 'informal' politics, such as gossip and political theatrics, and how they related to more 'formal' politics of assembly and courts.
Author: John McK. Camp
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780500276839
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The great public square known as the Agora was the focal point of life in ancient Athens. It acted as the living heart of the community, where citizens met formally to administer civic affairs, and informally to trade or discuss politics or to take part in religious processions and athletic displays. Drawing on the wealth of excavated evidence, richly supplemented by literary and inscriptional references, Professor Camp tells the story of the Agora from Neolithic to medieval times". -Back cover.
Author: Colin M. Whiting
Publisher: Agora Picture Book
Published: 2021-12
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9780876616468
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, readers are shown how dogs fit into ancient Greek society with material from the last 90 years of excavations at the Athenian Agora by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Topics range from how ancient Greeks hunted with dogs and what they considered a proper dog's name to the excavation of tender burials in the Agora and the sacrifice of dogs to the gods of the underworld. Mythological dogs like the three-headed Kerberos appear, as do the pawprints that very real dogs left behind more than a thousand years ago. Dozens of illustrations of pottery, sculpture, and excavated remains enliven the text. Anyone curious about dogs in antiquity and how they relate to dogs in the present day will be sure to find interesting material in this portable, affordable text.
Author: Laura Gawlinski
Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Published: 2014-06-18
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1621390179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten for the general visitor, the Athenian Agora Museum Guide is a companion to the 2010 edition of the Athenian Agora Site Guide and leads the reader through all of the display spaces within the Stoa of Attalos in the Athenian Agora - the terrace, the ground-floor colonnade, and the newly opened upper story. The guide also discusses each case in the museum gallery chronologically, beginning with the prehistoric and continuing with the Geometric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods. Hundreds of artifacts, ranging from common pottery to elite jewelry held in 81 cases, are described and illustrated in color for the very first time. Through focus boxes, readers can learn about marble-working, early burial practices, pottery production, ostracism, home life, and the wells that dotted the ancient site. A timeline, maps, and plans accompany the text. For those who wish to learn more about what they see in the museum, a list of further reading follows each entry.
Author: Craig A. Mauzy
Publisher: ASCSA
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780876619100
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis history relates the archaeological work done by the American School of Classical Studies in Athens on the Agora excavations. Areas covered include the reconstruction of the Church of the Holy Apostles from 1954-1956 and the rebuilding of the Stoa. Each section of photographs is preceded by an introductory text and maps.
Author: American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Publisher:
Published: 1953
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780876612255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sylvie Dumont
Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Published: 2020-02-01
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1621390373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1931 and 1939, central Athens was transformed by the expropriation and demolition of the Vrysaki neighborhood at the foot of the Acropolis. In these few years, more than 5,000 inhabitants were displaced and 348 properties were torn down so that the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) could excavate the ancient Agora; the scale of the project and the degree to which it was documented make this a unique episode in the history of Greek archaeology. Using materials from the ASCSA Archives and a large collection of photographs from the 1930s, this volume details the history of the negotiations, the expropriations, and, most importantly, the Vrysaki neighborhood itself. Illustrating its streets, shops, houses, names, and faces, the author provides a vivid recreation of the community that was Vrysaki.