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Thais of Athens

Author	: Ivan Yefremov
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2011-05-27
ISBN 10	: 1463537786
Pages	: 638 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (86 users)

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Download or read book Thais of Athens written by Ivan Yefremov and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beautiful hetaera Thais was a real woman who inspired poets, artists and sculptors in Athens, Memphis, Alexandria, Babylon and Ecbatana. She traveled with Alexander the Great's army during his Persian campaign and was the only woman to enter the capitol of Persia - Persepolis.Love, beauty, philosophy, war, religion - all that and more in a historic masterpiece by Ivan Yefremov.

Ancient Violence in the Modern Imagination

Author	: Irene Berti
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date	: 2020-10-15
ISBN 10	: 9781350075399
Pages	: 328 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (753 users)

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Download or read book Ancient Violence in the Modern Imagination written by Irene Berti and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collected essays in this volume focus on the presentation, representation and interpretation of ancient violence – from war to slavery, rape and murder – in the modern visual and performing arts, with special attention to videogames and dance as well as the more usual media of film, literature and theatre. Violence, fury and the dread that they provoke are factors that appear frequently in the ancient sources. The dark side of antiquity, so distant from the ideal of purity and harmony that the classical heritage until recently usually called forth, has repeatedly struck the imagination of artists, writers and scholars across ages and cultures. A global assembly of contributors, from Europe to Brazil and from the US to New Zealand, consider historical and mythical violence in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus and the 2010 TV series of the same name, in Ridley Scott's Gladiator, in the work of Lars von Trier, and in Soviet ballet and the choreography of Martha Graham and Anita Berber. Representations of Roman warfare appear in videogames such as Ryse: Son of Rome and Total War, as well as recent comics, and examples from both these media are analysed in the volume. Finally, interviews with two artists offer insight into the ways in which practitioners understand and engage with the complex reception of these themes.

Alexander the Great: The Death of a God

Author	: Paul Doherty
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2013-06-06
ISBN 10	: 9780755395811
Pages	: 223 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (958 users)

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Download or read book Alexander the Great: The Death of a God written by Paul Doherty and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What - or who - really killed the young conqueror of the known world? Master historian Paul Doherty investigates an outstanding figure who achieved so much before his premature end in this remarkable non-fiction work, Alexander the Great: The Death of a God. Perfect for fans of Philip Freeman and Robin Lane Fox. 'Riveting... compelling... an important contribution to the literature on the period' - Sunday Times Alexander the Great was an enigma, a man who wanted to be a god, a Greek who wanted to be Persian, a defender of liberties who spent most of his life taking away the liberties of others, and a king who could be compassionate yet also had the capacity to ruthlessly wipe out an ancient city. The Death of Alexander scrutinizes the circumstances surrounding the young king's death in the summer palace of the Persian kings. Did Alexander die of alcohol poisoning? Or where there other, more sinister factors involved? The great general had surrounded himself with outstanding captains of war. Was it they who ultimately made a decision to bring this young god's life to a violent, untimely end? What readers are saying about Paul Doherty: 'Doherty proves that he is a scholar as well as a writer of novels' 'I could not stop reading this book by Paul Doherty as it is very well written, immensely readable and fascinating. For me an absolute MUST' 'Pure brilliance'

The Religious Aspects of War in the Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome

Author	: Krzysztof Ulanowski
Publisher	: BRILL
Release Date	: 2016-07-11
ISBN 10	: 9789004324763
Pages	: 439 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (247 users)

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Download or read book The Religious Aspects of War in the Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome written by Krzysztof Ulanowski and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, in minute detail, presents a polyphony of voices, perspectives and opinions, from which emerges a diverse but coherent representation of the complex relationship between religion and war in the Ancient Near East, Greece and Rome.

The Silence of the Sirens

Author	: Leo Ryji
Publisher	: Lulu.com
Release Date	: 2008
ISBN 10	: 9781435715622
Pages	: 214 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (156 users)

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Download or read book The Silence of the Sirens written by Leo Ryji and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blood of Akhilles

Author	: R. M. Meluch
Publisher	: WordFire +ORM
Release Date	: 2017-03-15
ISBN 10	: 9781614755012
Pages	: 440 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (55 users)

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Download or read book Blood of Akhilles written by R. M. Meluch and published by WordFire +ORM. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Philip lies dead in the theatre, struck down like a sacrificial bull on his day of triumph in front of all the subject nations of Hellas. Twenty-year-old Alexander, son of Philip, must seize his father’s throne and, harder still, he must hold it against his many rivals, who are Philip’s veteran generals and noblemen, a royal cousin who was once crowned king in his infancy, and the secret conspirators who moved the assassin’s hand, even as all the conquered cities of Hellas rise from under Philip’s dead heel to reclaim their independence from the despised Makedones. The task is overwhelming, but Alexander has complete faith in his own destiny and he quite literally changes the face of Hellas. Born in the Dog Star’s heat, on the sixth of the month of Loios, the very day that a wonder of the world, the great temple of Artemis at Ephesos, burned to the ground, Alexander was destined for immortality. When such events collide, of gods and kings, such things are never coincidence. Alexander is blood of Akhilles.

Roman Literary Cultures

Author	: Alison Keith
Publisher	: University of Toronto Press
Release Date	: 2016-01-01
ISBN 10	: 9781442629677
Pages	: 365 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (296 users)

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Download or read book Roman Literary Cultures written by Alison Keith and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature, from mid-republican Rome in the second century BC to the Second Sophistic in the second century AD. The contributors explore Latin texts both famous and obscure, from Roman drama and Menippean satire through Latin elegies, epics, and novels to letters issued by Roman emperors and compilations of laws. Each of the essays in this volume combines close reading of Latin literary texts with historical and cultural contextualization, making the collection an accessible and engaging combination of formalist criticism and historicist exegesis that attends to the many ways in which classical Latin literature participated in ancient Roman civic debates.

The Dictionary Historical and Critical of Mr. Peter Bayle

Author	: Pierre Bayle
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1738
ISBN 10	: UVA:X004782083
Pages	: 1028 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (782 users)

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Download or read book The Dictionary Historical and Critical of Mr. Peter Bayle written by Pierre Bayle and published by . This book was released on 1738 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Creating a Hellenistic World

Author	: Andrew Erskine
Publisher	: ISD LLC
Release Date	: 2010-12-31
ISBN 10	: 9781910589243
Pages	: 372 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (892 users)

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Download or read book Creating a Hellenistic World written by Andrew Erskine and published by ISD LLC. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander's conquest of the Persian empire had far-reaching impact, in space and time. Much of the territory that he seized would remain under the control of Macedonian kings until the arrival of the Romans. But Macedonian power also brought with it Greeks and Greek culture. In this book, leading scholars in the field explore the creation of this Hellenistic world, its cultural, political and economic transformations, and how far these were a consequence of Alexander's conquests. New kingdoms were established, new cities such as Alexandria and Antioch were founded, art and literature discovered fresh patrons. Egyptians and Iranians had to come to terms with Graeco-Macedonian rulers and settlers, while Greeks and Macedonians learned the ways of more ancient cultures. The essays presented here offer an exciting interdisciplinary approach to the study of this emerging Hellenistic world, its newness but also its oldness, both real and imagined.

Alexander the Great, a Battle for Truth and Fiction

Author	: David Grant
Publisher	: Pen and Sword Military
Release Date	: 2022-06-30
ISBN 10	: 9781399094726
Pages	: 336 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (947 users)

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Download or read book Alexander the Great, a Battle for Truth and Fiction written by David Grant and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of what we ‘know’ about Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) comes from the pages of much later historians, writing 300 years or more after these events. But these Roman-era writers drew on the accounts of earlier authors who were contemporary with Alexander, some of whom took part in the momentous events they described. David Grant examines the fragments of these earlier eyewitness testimonies which are preserved as undercurrents in the later works. He traces their influence and monopoly of the ‘truth’ and spotlights their manipulation of events to reveal how the Wars of the Successors shaped the agendas of these writers. It becomes clear that Alexander’s courtiers were no-less ambitious than than their king and wanted to showcase their role in the epic conquest of the Persian Empire to enhance their credibility and legitimacy in their own quests for power. In particular, Grant reveals why reports of the dying king’s last wishes conflict, and he explains why testimony relegated to ‘romance’ may house credible grains of truth. The author also skillfully explains how manuscripts became further corrupted in their journey from the ancient world to the modern day. In summary, this work by a recognized expert on the period highlights why legacy of Alexander is built on very shaky foundations.

Sexual Life In Ancient Greece

Author	: Hans Licht
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2013-10-28
ISBN 10	: 9781136182266
Pages	: 479 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (822 users)

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Download or read book Sexual Life In Ancient Greece written by Hans Licht and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. From Ancient Greece, modern Western civilisation has derived many of its artistic philosophical and pollical ideas. But, in certain areas of sexual tolerance and inventiveness, we still have much to learn from the land and age which produced the most flourishing and creative culture of the ancient world. Professor Hans Licht, in this erudite and fascinating book, discusses in full every aspect of the Ancient Greek's sexual life.

The History of Timon of Athens, the Man-hater ...

Author	: Thomas Shadwell
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1678
ISBN 10	: BL:A0021472972
Pages	: 108 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (472 users)

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The Golden Hope

Author	: Robert H. Fuller
Publisher	: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date	: 2020-07-20
ISBN 10	: 9783752330069
Pages	: 318 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (3 users)

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Download or read book The Golden Hope written by Robert H. Fuller and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Golden Hope by Robert H. Fuller

When A Young Man Falls in Love

Author	: Vincent J. Rosivach
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2012-10-12
ISBN 10	: 9781134668465
Pages	: 274 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (684 users)

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Download or read book When A Young Man Falls in Love written by Vincent J. Rosivach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When A Young Man Falls in Love examines the plays of New Comedy to reveal how the sexual relationships between the male and female protagonists are essentially exploitative. It poses important questions about the dramatic portrayal of women in the Greek and Roman worlds.

Terence's Comedies

Author	: Terence
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1810
ISBN 10	: COLUMBIA:0036687596
Pages	: 420 pages
Rating	: 4.B/5 ( users)

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Download or read book Terence's Comedies written by Terence and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pincerna, ex Terentio, with Engl. notices to assist the representation. (For the use of the school of the Oratory). Cardinal [J.H.] Newman's ed

Author	: Publius Terentius (Afer)
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1883
ISBN 10	: OXFORD:590969585
Pages	: 92 pages
Rating	: 4.D/5 (99 users)

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Download or read book Pincerna, ex Terentio, with Engl. notices to assist the representation. (For the use of the school of the Oratory). Cardinal [J.H.] Newman's ed written by Publius Terentius (Afer) and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ancient Guide to Modern Life

Author	: Natalie Haynes
Publisher	: Abrams
Release Date	: 2012-04-24
ISBN 10	: 9781468300796
Pages	: 205 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (7 users)

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Download or read book The Ancient Guide to Modern Life written by Natalie Haynes and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.