Book Description
Includes section "Comptes rendus".
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Byzantine Empire
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Includes section "Comptes rendus".
Author : Sarah Bassett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1108498183
The collected essays explore late antique and Byzantine Constantinople in matters sacred, political, cultural, and commercial.
Author : Mogens Herman Hansen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1413 pages
File Size : 18,93 MB
Release : 2004-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0198140991
This is the first ever documented study of the 1,035 identifiable Greek city states (poleis) of the Archaic and Classical periods (c.650-325 BC). Previous studies of the Greek polis have focused on Athens and Sparta, and the result has been a view of Greek society dominated by Sophokles', Plato's, and Demosthenes' view of what the polis was. This study includes descriptions of Athens and Sparta, but its main purpose is to explore the history andorganization of the thousand other city states.The main part of the book is a regionally organized inventory of all identifiable poleis covering the Greek world from Spain to the Caucasus and from the Crimea to Libya. This inventory is the work of 47 specialists, and is divided into 46 chapters, each covering a region. Each chapter contains an account of the region, a list of second-order settlements, and an alphabetically ordered description of the poleis. This description covers such topics as polis status,territory, settlement pattern, urban centre, city walls and monumental architecture, population, military strength, constitution, alliance membership, colonization, coinage, and Panhellenic victors.The first part of the book is a description of the method and principles applied in the construction of the inventory and an analysis of some of the results to be obtained by a comparative study of the 1,035 poleis included in it. The ancient Greek concept of polis is distinguished from the modern term `city state', which historians use to cover many other historic civilizations, from ancient Sumeria to the West African cultures absorbed by the nineteenth-century colonializingpowers. The focus of this project is what the Greeks themselves considered a polis to be.
Author : Professor of Classics Benjamin Isaac
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9004672443
Author : Paul Cartledge
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,13 MB
Release : 2009-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0191571571
The contribution of the Ancient Greeks to modern western culture is incalculable. In the worlds of art, architecture, myth, literature, and philosophy, the world we live in would be unrecognizably different without the formative influence of Ancient Greek models. Ancient Greek civilization was defined by the city - in Greek, the polis, from which we derive 'politics'. It is above all this feature of Greek civilization that has formed its most enduring legacy, spawning such key terms as aristocracy, oligarchy, tyranny and - last but by no means least - democracy. This highly stimulating introduction to Ancient Greece takes the polis as its starting point. Paul Cartledge uses the history of eleven major Greek cities to illuminate the most important and informative themes in Ancient Greek history, from the first documented use of the Greek language around 1400 BCE, through the glories of the Classical and Hellenistic periods, to the foundation of the Byzantine empire in around CE 330. Covering everything from politics, trade, and travel to slavery, gender, religion, and philosophy, it provides the ideal concise introduction to the history and culture of this remarkable civilization that helped give birth to the world as we know it.
Author : Great Britain. Courts
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Page : 638 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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Author : André Gerolymatos
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 2019-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1498583393
This history of ancient diplomacy demonstrates how the ancient Greeks used guest-friendship as a mechanism of diplomacy. Ancient proxenoi were the equivalent of contemporary consul-generals and they served some of the same purposes. The proxenoi conducted the diplomatic affairs of the state they represented and looked after the interests of the city-state that had adopted them. In times of war the proxenoi maintained spies and supplied intelligence on the movements of fleets and armies.
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Page : 892 pages
File Size : 40,89 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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Page : 892 pages
File Size : 41,16 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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Author : Phillip Harding
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 2007-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1134304471
A leading authority in the field, Phillip Harding presents the very first English translations of the six Athenian writers known as the Atthidographers. In his vivid and detailed history, Harding examines the remaining fragments of these historical writers' work – in chronological order – and how these writings, dating from the fifth and fourth century BC, reveal an invaluable wealth of information about early Athenian history, legend, religion, customs and anecdotes. Harding also goes on to study how these histories of Athens and its people were the source for later surviving historians such as Plutarch and Diodorus. With the aid of linking text and detailed annotation, anyone with an interest in Athenian history, classical Greece need look no further.