The Roman Way
The Roman Way

Author: Edith Hamilton

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2017-07-25

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 0393634558

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"No one in modern times has shown us more vividly than Edith Hamilton 'the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome.'" —New York Times In this now-classic history of Roman civilization, Edith Hamilton vividly depicts Roman life and spirit as they are revealed by the greatest writers of the age. Among these literary guides are Cicero, who left an incomparable collection of letters; Catullus, who was the quintessential poet of love; Horace, who chronicled a cruel and materialistic Rome; and the Romantics: Virgil, Livy, and Seneca. Hamilton concludes her work by contrasting the high-mindedness of Stoicism with the collapse of values as witnessed by the historian Tacitus and the satirist Juvenal.

The Greek Way
The Greek Way

Author: Edith Hamilton

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2010-10-25

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0393081869

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Edith Hamilton buoyantly captures the spirit and achievements of the Greek civilization for our modern world. In The Greek Way, Edith Hamilton captures with "Homeric power and simplicity" (New York Times) the spirit of the golden age of Greece in the fifth century BC, the time of its highest achievements. She explores the Greek aesthetics of sculpture and writing and the lack of ornamentation in both. She examines the works of Homer, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripides, among others; the philosophy of Socrates and Plato’s role in preserving it; the historical accounts by Herodotus and Thucydides on the Greek wars with Persia and Sparta and by Xenophon on civilized living.

The Echo of Greece
The Echo of Greece

Author: Edith Hamilton

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780393002317

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Tells of Greek life during the 4th century, the type of men it produced, and important events which took place.

The Greek Way
The Greek Way

Author: Edith Hamilton

Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 9780393041620

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A picture of Greek thought and arts as revealed in the works of the writers of the Periclean Age

The Greek Way
The Greek Way

Author: Edith Hamilton

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-08-01

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Greek Way" by Edith Hamilton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora

Author: R. Drew Griffith

Publisher:

Published: 2011-07-01

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780978465223

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Ancient Greece and Rome aren't usually remembered for their sense of humor. However, in reality the ancient Greeks and Romans often refused to take themselves seriously. The authors chronicle the more bizarre activities of the ancient world, venturing out as far as Egypt, Babylon, and Scandinavia, ranging everywhere from moochers to quacks to shrews to perhaps the oldest laundromat joke in history.

Body Language in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Body Language in the Greek and Roman Worlds

Author: Douglas Cairns

Publisher: Classical Press of Wales

Published: 2005-12-31

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1910589640

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A distinguished cast of scholars discusses models of gesture and non-verbal communication as they apply to Greek and Roman culture, literature and art. Topics include dress and costume in the Homeric poems; the importance of looking, eye-contact, and face-to-face orientation in Greek society; the construction of facial expression in Greek and Roman epic; the significance of gesture and body language in the visual meaning of ancient sculpture; the evidence for gesture and performance style in the texts of ancient drama; the erotic significance of feet and footprints; and the role of gesture in Roman law. The volume seeks to apply a sense of history as well as of theory in interpreting non-verbal communication. It looks both at the cross-cultural and at the culturally specific in its treatment of this important but long-neglected aspect of Classical Studies.

Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds

Author: Oliver Taplin

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 620

ISBN-13: 9780192100207

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The focus of this book--its new perspective--is on the 'receivers' of literature: readers, spectators, and audiences. Twelve contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, explore the various and changing interactions between the makers of literature and their audiences or readers from the earliest Greek poetry to the end of the Roman empires in the Western and Eastern Mediterranean. From the heights of Athens to the hellenistic Greek diaspora, from the great Augustans to the irresistible tide of Christianity, the contributors deploy fresh insights to map out lively and provocative, yet accessible, surveys. They cover the kinds of literature which have shaped western culture--epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy, rhetoric, epigram, elegy, pastoral, satire, biography, epistle, declamation, and panegyric. Who were the audiences, and why did they regard their literature as so important? --jacket.

Taken at the Flood
Taken at the Flood

Author: Robin Waterfield

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0199916896

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Addressing a marginalized era of Greek and Roman history, Taken at the Flood offers a compelling narrative of Rome's conquest of Greece.