Book Description
This book argues that writers of Old Comedy belonged to recognisable political circles and used their comedy to disparage their political enemies.
Author : Keith Sidwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 31,98 MB
Release : 2009-10-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521519985
This book argues that writers of Old Comedy belonged to recognisable political circles and used their comedy to disparage their political enemies.
Author : Henry Kirke White
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,29 MB
Release : 1823
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Author : Richard Cumberland
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Page : 360 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 1826
Category : Conduct of life
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Author : John Gregory Pike
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Page : 374 pages
File Size : 20,62 MB
Release : 1824
Category : Biography
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Author : Jon Parkin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 40,52 MB
Release : 2007-08-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107321182
Thomas Hobbes is widely acknowledged as the most important political philosopher to have written in English. Originally published in 2007, Taming the Leviathan is a wide-ranging study of the English reception of Hobbes's ideas. In the first book-length treatment of the topic for over forty years, Jon Parkin follows the fate of Hobbes's texts (particularly Leviathan) and the development of his controversial reputation during the seventeenth century, revealing the stakes in the critical discussion of the philosopher and his ideas. Revising the traditional view that Hobbes was simply rejected by his contemporaries, Parkin demonstrates that Hobbes's work was too useful for them to ignore, but too radical to leave unchallenged. His texts therefore had to be controlled, their lessons absorbed and their author discredited. In other words the Leviathan had to be tamed. Taming the Leviathan significantly revised our understanding of the role of Hobbes and Hobbism in seventeenth-century England.
Author : Watson Kirkconnell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1053 pages
File Size : 44,6 MB
Release : 1952-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1487590911
An anthology of translated analogues, in whole or in part, on the theme of paradise lost. The collection is divided into two parts. Part one is the analogues and part two is a descriptive catalogue of all the analogues the author consulted. The book also includes a preface and lengthy introduction. It is an indispensable resource for any serious student or scholar of Milton's Paradise Lost.
Author : Davis Wasgatt Clark
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Page : 592 pages
File Size : 38,79 MB
Release : 1851
Category : Christian martyrs
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Author : John PIKE (Minister of the Gospel, Derby.)
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Page : 204 pages
File Size : 14,13 MB
Release : 1817
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Author : John Gregory Pike
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Page : 242 pages
File Size : 30,13 MB
Release : 1830
Category : Death
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Author : Robert J. Buck
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 28,57 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783515072212
"Die wissenschaftliche Welt wie alle an der Geschichte Griechenlands im klassischen Zeitalter Interessierten ueberhaupt, haben B. fuer einen wertvollen und originellen Beitrag zur althistorischen Diskussion, vor allem aber fuer eine nuetzliche und konzise Monographie ueber eine trotz reicher Detailforschung nur selten in zusammenfassender Form dargestellte Epoche der athenischen Geschichte zu danken." Tyche "Although Thrasybulus of Steiria was a major player in some of the most important events of Athenian history, he has been largely neglected by ancient commentators and modern scholars alike. By way of giving Thrasybulus the attention his deeds warrant, Buck provides in his brief study a Thrasybulus-centered history of the period from 411-389. [...] The reader will find a concise, clearly-written, and well-argued discussion of the events of the period." Bryn Mawr Classical Review Content: Sources and Scholarship � Thrasybulus: His Early Life and Career � Arginusae and the Thirty � The Overthrow of the Thirty and the Restoration of Democracy � The First Two Years of the Corinthian War: Thrasybulus and Conon � The Corinthian War: Thrasybulus and the New Athenian Empire � Thrasybulus and Athens � Chronology .