The Genius of the Ancient Greeks (Genius of the Ancients) (The Genius of)
by Izzi Howell
Which genius ideas and inventions began with the ancient Greeks? What did they develop that we use to this day? Find out how the ancient Greeks organised their society, trained their soldiers, used their ships for trade and transport and built their temples. Discover their brilliant developments in architecture, politics, art, medicine, theatre and sport that have influenced the way we live today.The Genius Of series helps children aged 9 plus to explore the major discoveries, inventions, inf...
Die Studie verfolgt die Absicht, die bislang wissenschaftlich weitgehend 'stiefmutterlich' behandelten arkadischen Poleis Pheneos und Lousoi in ihrer historischen Entwicklung zu verfolgen. Dies geschieht auf der Basis von antiken literarischen und epigraphischen Quellen und archaologischen Evidenzen. Im Laufe dreier Surveys konnte der Bestand an archaologischen Zeugnissen vervielfacht werden. Eine Synopse des erschlossenen Quellenmaterials gestattet Einblicke in die politische Geschichte und gib...
Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, During the Middle of the Fourth Century Before the Christian Era; 6
House X at Kommos (PREHISTORY MONOGRAPHS, #35)
House X is by far the largest and best appointed of the Minoan houses excavated at Kommos in south-central Crete, a Minoan harbor and settlement that later became the site of a Greek sanctuary. Situated on the seacoast of the western Mesara Plain, Kommos faces west toward the Libyan Sea. House X stands on the southern edge of the Minoan town, separated by a large slab-paved road from the monumental civic buildings built and used between the Protopalatial and Postpalatial periods. The description...
A history of Western Philosophy that concentrates on major figures in each historical period, combining exposition with direct quotations from the philosophers themselves. The text places philosophers in appropriate cultural context and shows how their theories reflect the concerns of their times.
This volume collects important examples of Greek literary portraiture. The Characters of Theophrastus consists of thirty fictional sketches of men who are each dominated by a single fault, such as arrogance, boorishness, or superstition. The Hellenistic poet Herodas wrote mimes, a popular entertainment in which one actor or a small group portrayed a situation from everyday life, concentrating on depiction of character rather than on plot. The volume also includes a new translation and text of ex...
Professor Willetts describes the development of Cretan civilization from the arrival of the Neolithic farmers and their settlements during the early Bronze Age, through the spectacular Minoan civilization of the Bronze Age, down to the Dorian aristocracy of the Iron Age which ended in the Roman Conquest of the first century BC. He then analyses and interprets the social and political institutions, the art and religion, of the Minoan and Dorian phases and the invention of writing and the establis...
Beautes de l'Histoire Grecque, Ou Tableau Des Evenemens Qui Ont Immortalise Les Grecs
by Rene-Jean Durdent
Studien Aus Dem Gebiete Der Griechischen Privataltertümer, Vol. 1
by Karl Sartori
Histoire de l'Ecole d'Alexandrie, Comparee Aux Principales Ecoles Contemporaines, Vol. 2
by Jacques Matter
The Greek Myths described what the ancient Greeks believed about their history, their ancestry and their gods. The myths were rooted in a real world, a compact physical environment of inhospitable, rugged mountains separating small agricultural plains, that occupy what is now central and southern Greece. Myths, Games and Conflict is an exploration of that landscape and of the myths themselves. Allan Brooks has spent twenty five years exploring rural Greece. In this book he brings the myths and t...