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Author: Bistra Johnson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 0955687500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDreamy Veronica, Oxford University graduate, finds herself back in time and in true 'Alice in Wonderland' fashion, starts exploring her new surroundings. Following in her footsteps, we enter the uncharted territory of the ancient Thracians.
Author: Philip Ward
Publisher: The Oleander Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780906672631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBulgaria: A Travel Guide takes tourists through a country rapidly blossoming into a travel hot spot. A compelling and unique supplement to the traditional travel guide, Ward's book is a delightful account of his experiences in Bulgaria, offering intriguing insight into the country's history and culture. Bulgaria is traditionally famed for its sunny beaches, the Black Sea's golden sands, and skiing in picturesque mountain resorts. Encouraging traveler creativity, this book guides the reader through lesser-known sites such as the beautiful "museum towns." When staying at the "museum town" of Melnik, for example, one should not shy away from striking up conversation with locals at Chinarite, the popular neighborhood restaurant. Ward also suggests that while visiting the renowned "Sunny Beach," tourists visit the scenic Nesebur Peninsula. Whether people watching in Lenin Square, which Ward describes as "teeming with everyday Bulgarian life," or touring the National History Museum in Sofia, the country's capital, travelers are sure to encounter people and places unknown to the average visitor.
Author: Eugene N. Borza
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-07-21
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 0691215944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn tracing the emergence of the Macedonian kingdom from its origins as a Balkan backwater to a major European and Asian power, Eugene Borza offers to specialists and lay readers alike a revealing account of a relatively unexplored segment of ancient history. He draws from recent archaeological discoveries and an enhanced understanding of historical geography to form a narrative that provides a material-culture setting for political events. Examining the dynamics of Macedonian relations with the Greek city-states, he suggests that the Macedonians, although they gradually incorporated aspects of Greek culture into their own society, maintained a distinct ethnicity as a Balkan people. "Borza has taken the trouble to know Macedonia: the land, its prehistory, its position in the Balkans, and its turbulent modern history. All contribute...to our understanding of the emergence of Macedon.... Borza has employed two of the historian's most valuable tools, autopsy and common sense, to produce a well-balanced introduction to the state that altered the course of Greek and Near Eastern history."--Waldemar Heckel, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Author: Mary BOWLEY
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Published: 1850
Total Pages: 650
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Berel Lang
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780847696932
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of original essays by scholars from a diverse range of fields, examines issues of race in a variety of historical and geographical settings, ranging from classical Greece to the contemporary Americas, Europe and Asia. The authors provide an important perspective on race both in its theoretical origins and in its actual appearances while paying close attention to the ways in which the study of race itself has been carried on or ignored by various disciplines.
Author: Yulia Ustinova
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-08-27
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9004295909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first systematic study of the cults of the Bosporan Kingdom, which existed in South Russia in the first centuries AD. The research is based on a variety of sources: archaeological evidence and inscriptions, largely unknown to the non-Russian readers, as well as historical and literary texts. The religion of the Bosporus is viewed in this monograph as a blend of Greek and indigenous Iranian traditions. Its first part is dedicated to the cult of Celestial Aphrodite. The second part examines the controversial cult of the Most High God and its alledged Jewish affinities. The book, illustrated with thirty figures, is an important contribution to the understanding of the religious life in Greek colonies, and the history of Eastern Mediterranean in Late Antiquity.
Author: Larissa Bonfante
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-04-29
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 0521194040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeals with the reality of the indigenous peoples of Europe - Thracians, Scythians, Celts, Germans, Etruscans, and other peoples of Italy, the Alps, and beyond.
Author: Barbara Weiden Boyd
Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 086516584X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Geoffrey de Ste. Croix
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2004-03-26
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 0191514497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn these interconnected essays the late Geoffrey de Ste. Croix defends the institutions of the Athenian democracy, showing that they were much more practical, rational, and impartial than has usually been acknowledged. A major essay provides a new view of Aristotle's use of sources in The Constitution of the Athenians, on which so much of our knowledge of Athenian constitutional history depends. Ste. Croix also argues that commercial factors had much less influence on Greek politics than modern scholars tend to assume, and that there was no such thing in any Greek state as a `commercial aristocracy'. As always, he works out these general positions with the utmost lucidity and pungency, and in meticulous detail. Though written in the 1960s, these hitherto unpublished essays by a great radical historian will still constitute a major contribution to contemporary debate. The editors and other specialists have supplied an updating Afterword to each chapter, and the book contains a thorough index.
Author: Zara Martirosova Torlone
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2017-04-17
Total Pages: 615
ISBN-13: 111883271X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe is the first comprehensive English ]language study of the reception of classical antiquity in Eastern and Central Europe. This groundbreaking work offers detailed case studies of thirteen countries that are fully contextualized historically, locally, and regionally. The first English-language collection of research and scholarship on Greco-Roman heritage in Eastern and Central Europe Written and edited by an international group of seasoned and up-and-coming scholars with vast subject-matter experience and expertise Essays from leading scholars in the field provide broad insight into the reception of the classical world within specific cultural and geographical areas Discusses the reception of many aspects of Greco-Roman heritage, such as prose/philosophy, poetry, material culture Offers broad and significant insights into the complicated engagement many countries of Eastern and Central Europe have had and continue to have with Greco-Roman antiquity
