Neither Athens Nor Sparta?
Author: John P. Lovell
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 392
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The Plague of War
Author: Jennifer Tolbert Roberts
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 0199996644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major new history of the violent, protracted conflict between ancient Athens and Sparta.
Quarterly Review of Military Literature
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 102
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Landmark Thucydides
Author: Thucydides
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-04
Total Pages: 760
ISBN-13: 1416590870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles two decades of war between Athens and Sparta.
Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition
Author: Graham Speake
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-01-31
Total Pages: 2407
ISBN-13: 1135942137
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 Hellenic Tradition 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.
Plato Within Your Grasp
Author: Brian Proffitt
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2004-05-21
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 0544187814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhilosophy's greatest luminaries brought down to earth. Plato Within Your Grasp offers fast, easy access to the life and works of the acknowledged father of Western philosophy. In fewer than 100 pages, you'll get all the essentials in everyday language. A short biographical sketch sets the scene, followed by chapters illuminating Plato's overall philosophy and his most important writings. For students and lifelong learners seeking an entry point into this astonishingly diverse thinker's ideas, Plato Within Your Grasp is the springboard to enriched understanding. Inside you'll find all the vital details, including: Life * Family and upbringing * Influence of Socrates * Athenian culture and society Philosophy * Overview of key works, themes, and impact * Socratic, mature, and late periods * Individual chapters on Apology and Meno * Book-by-book explanation of The Republic Additional Resources * Tracking down Plato's major works * Collections, biographies, and critical writings * Plato on the Internet Get a grip-Plato is within your grasp!
Sea Change at Annapolis
Author: H. Michael Gelfand
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009-09-15
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0807877476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince 1845, the United States Naval Academy has prepared professional military leaders at its Annapolis, Maryland, campus. Although it remains steeped in a culture of tradition and discipline, the Academy is not impervious to change. Dispelling the myth that the Academy is a bastion of tradition unmarked by progress, H. Michael Gelfand examines challenges to the Naval Academy's culture from both inside and outside the Academy's walls between 1949 and 2000, an era of dramatic social change in American history. Drawing on more than two hundred oral histories, extensive archival research, and his own participatory observation at the Academy, Gelfand demonstrates that events at Annapolis reflect the transformation of American culture and society at large in the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. In eight chapters, he discusses recruiting and minority midshipmen, the end of mandatory attendance at religious services, women's experiences as they sought and achieved admission and later served as midshipmen, and the responses of multiple generations of midshipmen to societal changes, particularly during the Vietnam War era. This cultural history not only sheds light on events at the Naval Academy but also offers a novel perspective on democratic ideals in the United States.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-03-25
Total Pages: 629
ISBN-13: 1134359985
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1837, this is the most important and readable of the Victorian histories of ancient Greece. This new edition includes the text of a never-before-published 'third volume'.
World Yearbook of Education 2005
Author: David Coulby
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-01-14
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1134275145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume deals with two major and apparently opposing forces within education and society: globalization and nationalism. Globalization is often considered in economic terms - of continued growth of international trade and a concentration of wealth in corporate hands - yet it also encompasses technological, political and cultural change. The World Yearbook of Education 2005 explores the role of the education sector in our globalized knowledge economy, and considers the political implications of this in terms of monopolarity and the cultural consequences of homogenization and Americanization. The other strand of this study - nationalism - remains a persistent force within education and society in all parts of the world, and this volume examines the extent to which it can fuel conflict at all levels through prejudice and intolerance. Concentrating on the epistemological consequences of nationalism, leading international thinkers examine the extent to which it is reflected in the curricula of schools and universities around the world. Finally, the complex relationship between globalization and nationalism is explored, and contributors explore the part that educational institutions and practices play in forming both agendas. A wide range of perspectives are employed, including post-colonial discourse, classical economics and sociological theory. Nationalism and globalization are both ongoing processes, and this volume makes a case for the central role of education in both - through its potential to influence change and to act as benevolent force in shaping a global community.
