Author : Chi, Jennifer Y., and Pedro Azara, eds.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 12,21 MB
Release : 2015-03-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691166463
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, New York, February 12-June 7, 2015.
Author : Arnaldo Momigliano
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 40,58 MB
Release : 2012-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226533859
"Originally published 1977 by Basil Blackwell Oxford in Great Britain and by Wesleyan University Press in the United States."
Author : Stephen G. Hyslop
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 23,81 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1426206526
History comes alive in this engaging and lavishly illustrated chronicle, which spans world events and people from ancient times to the 21st century. The voices of the great and humble speak to us through songs, documents, edicts, poetry, letters, menus, and even graffiti, revealing each era's conflicts, daily life, arts, science, religion, and enduring influence. Interactive design focuses on the tangible artifacts of history, and magnificent illustrations--including period art, archival photographs, and expertly rendered scenes of long-ago events--bring vivid immediacy and eye appeal to every colorful spread. With its unique emphasis on voices from the past, its competitive price point, and its inviting, innovative design, Eyewitness to History is poised to be THE pick for value-minded customers looking for an absorbing take on world history.
Author : Natalie Haynes
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 23,5 MB
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1468300792
“A wonderfully whimsical yet instructional view of Greco-Roman history.” —Kirkus Reviews In this thoroughly engaging book, Natalie Haynes brings her scholarship and wit to the most fascinating true stories of the ancient world. The Ancient Guide to Modern Life not only reveals the origins of our culture in areas including philosophy, politics, language, and art, it also draws illuminating connections between antiquity and our present time, to demonstrate that the Greeks and Romans were not so different from ourselves: Is Bart Simpson the successor to Aristophanes? Do the Beckhams have parallel lives with The Satiricon’s Trimalchio? Along the way Haynes debunks myths (gladiators didn’t salute the emperor before their deaths, and the last words of Julius Caesar weren’t “et tu, brute?”). From Athens to Zeno's paradox, this irresistible guide shows how the history and wisdom of the ancient world can inform and enrich our lives today. “A romp through some of the best-known, and some of the more obscure, writers, thought, and stories of Greece and Rome.” —Times Literary Supplement
Author : Robert Bator
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822532170
A historical exploration of events and daily life in Istanbul in both ancient and modern times.
Author : Bernard Knox
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 22,73 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN :
Linked by the events of Bernard Knox's remarkable life, the twenty-five chapters of "Essays Ancient and Modern" cover subjects ranging from Hesiod, Homer, and Thucydides to Auden, Forster, and the Spanish Civil War. With a masterful eye for the telling detail, Knox continually reminds us that we share the present with antiquity's living past. A soldier in Italy finds a battered book in the rubble of a bombed-out firehouse-- and opens it to read Virgil's denunciation of war. An illiterate Greek bard composes a garbled Homeric song to celebrate the recent heroism of local partisans. A traveler heading north from modern Athens must choose between the Sacred Way-- or the NATO Road.
Author : Dawn Kotapish
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822532163
A historical exploration of events and daily life in Athens in both ancient and modern times.
Author : Pietro Basso
Publisher : Verso
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 36,59 MB
Release : 2003-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781859845653
The West suffers from intense work pressure, longer and less well paid hours. This text is a sociological analysis of the relationship between overwork and unemployment. The only possible response, the author claims, is a renewal of the working class struggle.
Author : Aaron Turner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110627302
The distinction between ancient and modern modes of historical thought is characterized by the growing complexity of the discipline of history in modernity. Consequently, the epistemological and methodological standard of ancient historiography is typically held as inferior against the modern ideal. This book serves to address this apparent deficit. Its scope is three-fold. Firstly, it aims at encountering ancient modes of historical and historiographical thought within the province of their own horizon. Secondly, this book considers the possibility of a dialogue between ancient and modern philosophies of history concerning the influence of ancient historical thought on the development of modern philosophy of history and the utility of modern philosophy of history in the interpretation of ancient historiography. Thirdly, this book explores the continuities and discontinuities in historical method and thought from antiquity to modernity. Ultimately, this volume demonstrates the necessity of re-evaluating our assumptions about the relation of ancient and modern historical thought and lays the groundwork for a more fruitful dialogue in the future.
Author : Robin Waterfield
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 38,78 MB
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1447207173
An up-to-date accessible history of the phenomenal rise and fall of the greatest city of antiquity, describing its rise to pre-eminence and rapid demise as the greatest of all Greek tragedies. The first history of the city to continue the story through 1500 years of obscurity to its romantic revival under Byron's influence and up to the present day, is eminently qualified to write this book. A classicist by training, he has translated many of the key texts for Penguin Classics and OUP, is intimate with the latest scholarship and travels to Greece every year.
