Author : Micha Bzinkowski
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Charon (Greek mythology) in literature
ISBN : 9788323343301
This book focuses on the figure of Charos, widespread throughout the Hellenic world, including Cyprus and the Pontus region, and the folk mythology of modern Greece. Michał Bzinkowski, analyzing Greek demotic songs, especially mirologia (dirges) and the songs of the Underworld and Charos, as well as an Acritic cycle of alleged Byzantine origin, sets out to ascertain the characteristics of this enigmatic and ambiguous personage.
Author : Willis Barnstone
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 35,29 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Adrian Frutiger
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 32,65 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Discusses the elements of a sign, and looks at pictograms, alphabets, calligraphy, monograms, text type, numerical signs, symbols, and trademarks.
Author : Wendy Christensen
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 45,9 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Civilization, Ancient
ISBN : 143810314X
The great civilization that grew up around the Nile River had sophisticated irrigation systems that held back the desert, writing and record keeping that kept track of every event in the region, and some of the greatest architects and engineers the world
Author : Edith Hall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199298890
An examination of ancient Greek drama, and its relationship to the society in which it was produced. By focusing on the ways in which the plays treat gender, ethnicity, and class, and on their theatrical conventions, Edith Hall offers an extended study of the Greek theatrical masterpieces within their original social context.
Author : A. T. Olmstead
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release : 2022-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0226826333
Out of a lifetime of study of the ancient Near East, Professor Olmstead has gathered previously unknown material into the story of the life, times, and thought of the Persians, told for the first time from the Persian rather than the traditional Greek point of view. "The fullest and most reliable presentation of the history of the Persian Empire in existence."—M. Rostovtzeff
Author : J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 1996-09-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892362928
One of the great seats of learning and repositories of knowledge in the ancient world, Alexandria, and the great school of thought to which it gave its name, made a vital contribution to the development of intellectual and cultural heritage in the Occidental world. This book brings together twenty papers delivered at a symposium held at the J. Paul Getty Museum on the subject of Alexandria and Alexandrianism. Subjects range from “The Library of Alexandria and Ancient Egyptian Learning” and “Alexander’s Alexandria” to “Alexandria and the Origins of Baroque Architecture.” With nearly two hundred illustrations, this handsome volume presents some of the world’s leading scholars on the continuing influence and fascination of this great city. The distinguished contributors include Peter Green, R. R. R. Smith, and the late Bernard Bothmer.
Author : Dimitris Papanikolaou
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 11,49 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Music and literature
ISBN : 1904350623
This book shows how the model of singing poets becomes then an organizing principle for a system of national popular music. It responds to the growing call for the teaching of the textual networks of popular music within the domains of literary and cultural studies.
Author : David Looseley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 18,15 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1781382573
The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. This book suggests new ways of understanding her, her myth and her meanings over time at home and abroad, by proposing the notion of an 'imagined Piaf.
Author : Christian Marek
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 39,6 MB
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0691182906
This monumental book provides the first comprehensive history of Asia Minor from prehistory to the Roman imperial period. In this English-language edition of the critically acclaimed German book, Christian Marek masterfully employs ancient sources to illuminate civic institutions, urban and rural society, agriculture, trade and money, the influential Greek writers of the Second Sophistic, the notoriously bloody exhibitions of the gladiatorial arena, and more.
