Topics on Greek and Roman History
Author: Arthur Lewis Goodrich
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 184
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The Staff of Oedipus
Author: Martha L. Rose
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2013-10-04
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 0472035738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAncient Greek images of disability permeate the Western consciousness: Homer, Teiresias, and Oedipus immediately come to mind. But The Staff of Oedipus looks at disability in the ancient world through the lens of disability studies, and reveals that our interpretations of disability in the ancient world are often skewed. These false assumptions in turn lend weight to modern-day discriminatory attitudes toward disability. Martha L. Rose considers a range of disabilities and the narratives surrounding them. She examines not only ancient literature, but also papyrus, skeletal material, inscriptions, sculpture, and painting, and draws upon modern work, including autobiographies of people with disabilities, medical research, and theoretical work in disability studies. Her study uncovers the realities of daily life for people with disabilities in ancient Greece and challenges the translation of the term adunatos (unable) as "disabled," with all its modern associations.
O'farrell: Michel Foucault (paper)
Author: Clare O'Farrell
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2005-10-10
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780761961642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClare O'Farrell offers an introduction to Foucault's enormous, diverse & challenging output.
pt. 1 & 2. Greece and Rome
Author: Frederick Charles Copleston
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Author: Steele Brand
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2019-09-10
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 1421429861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sweeping political and cultural history, Killing for the Republic closes with a compelling argument in favor of resurrecting the citizen-soldier ideal in modern America.
The Jewish Dialogue with Greece and Rome
Author: Tessa Rajak
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-12-10
Total Pages: 599
ISBN-13: 9047400194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwenty-seven interdisciplinary essays on aspects of Judaism in the Greco-Roman world, exemplifying a wide range of techniques, by a well-known scholar. Three are previously unpublished, including a reappraisal of the Judaism and Hellenism debate and a study of the Sardis synagogue. The book's overall coherence derives from the author's long-standing interests in the analysis of texts as documents of cultural and religious interaction, and in how Jewish communities were woven into the social fabric of Greek cities in the Hellenistic and Roman East. The four sections are: Greeks and Jews, Josephus, The Jewish Diaspora and Epigraphy, and finally Beyond the Greeks and Romans, essays which extend into Christian literature and on to the nineteenth century reception of the Judaism/Hellenism dichotomy. Scholars and students from a wide variety of backgrounds will benefit. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.
Insults in Classical Athens
Author: Deborah Kamen
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2020-08-25
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 0299328007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScholarly investigations of the rich field of verbal and extraverbal Athenian insults have typically been undertaken piecemeal. Deborah Kamen provides an overview of this vast terrain and synthesizes the rules, content, functions, and consequences of insulting fellow Athenians. The result is the first volume to map out the full spectrum of insults, from obscene banter at festivals, to invective in the courtroom, to slander and even hubristic assaults on another's honor. While the classical city celebrated the democratic equality of "autochthonous" citizens, it counted a large population of noncitizens as inhabitants, so that ancient Athenians developed a preoccupation with negotiating, affirming, and restricting citizenship. Kamen raises key questions about what it meant to be a citizen in democratic Athens and demonstrates how insults were deployed to police the boundaries of acceptable behavior. In doing so, she illuminates surprising differences between antiquity and today and sheds light on the ways a democratic society valuing "free speech" can nonetheless curb language considered damaging to the community as a whole.
British Drama: pt 1-2. Tragedies. v.2, pt. 1-2. Comedies. v.3. Operas and Farces
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Published: 1804
Total Pages: 444
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Author: Kimberly Kagan
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780472031283
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A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome
Author: Georgia L. Irby
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2016-01-19
Total Pages: 1112
ISBN-13: 1118373049
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome brings a fresh perspective to the study of these disciplines in the ancient world, with 60 chapters examining these topics from a variety of critical and technical perspectives. Brings a fresh perspective to the study of science, technology, and medicine in the ancient world, with 60 chapters examining these topics from a variety of critical and technical perspectives Begins coverage in 600 BCE and includes sections on the later Roman Empire and beyond, featuring discussion of the transmission and reception of these ideas into the Renaissance Investigates key disciplines, concepts, and movements in ancient science, technology, and medicine within the historical, cultural, and philosophical contexts of Greek and Roman society Organizes its content in two halves: the first focuses on mathematical and natural sciences; the second focuses on cultural applications and interdisciplinary themes 2 Volumes
