Travel back to a time when divine beings mixed with mortals, when heroes battled sorcerers, and nature was a mysterious realm ruled by beautiful and dangerous deities. From the legends of Hercules and the Titans, to the tales of the underworld and the destruction of Troy, this elegant collection contains more than 40 fascinating tales retold by a selection of expert storytellers. Beautifully illustrated with dramatic scenes from master artists of previous centuries, these enduring myths have for...
Zeitschrift Für Die Alterthumswissenschaft, 1818, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint)
by Theodor Bergk
Ancient Greece was the model that guided the emergence of many facets of the modern sports movement, including most notably the Olympics. Yet the process whereby aspects of the ancient world were appropriated and manipulated by sport authorities of nation-states, athletic organizations and their leaders as well as by sports enthusiasts is only very partially understood. This volume takes modern Greece as a case-study and explores, in depth, issues related to the reception and use of classical a...
Der Felsaltar Des Hoechsten Zeus, Oder Das Pelasgikon Zu Athen, Bisher Genannt Die Pnyx
by Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker
Antiphon and Andocides: Speeches (Antiphontis et Andocidis Orationes) (Oxford Classical Texts)
This is the first Oxford Classical Text of the speeches of Antiphon and Andocides, two Athenian orators of the fifth century BCE. An influential statesman, Antiphon of Rhamnus also wrote speeches for clients in court cases, of which three are extant, and three tetralogies consisting of speeches for hypothetical murder trials arguing for both prosecution and defence. The first oration of Andocides is our principal source about two scandals from the eve of the Athenian expedition against Syracuse...
Within the newly thriving field of ancient Greek and Roman performance and dance studies, The Anatomy of Dance Discourse offers a fresh and original perspective on ancient perceptions of dance. Focusing on the second century CE, it provides an overview of the dance discourse of this period and explores the conceptualization of dance across an array of different texts, from Plutarch and Lucian of Samosata, to the apocryphal Acts of John, Longus, and Apuleius. The volume is divided into two part...
Grossplastik Aus Bronze in Olympia (Olympische Forschungen, #9)
by Peter C Bol
An overview of the principles affecting the private and common carriage of cargo, examining bills of lading, deviation, exemptions from liability, seaworthiness, and stowage of cargo. Included is a full text of charter parties, arranged according to these categories: bareboat; fertilizer; grain; meat; passenger; scrap; sugar; coal; general; livestock; ore; salt; wool; steel; tanker; and yachts. The price quoted includes three months of updates.
Kommentar (Sammlung Wissenschaftlicher Commentare (Swc))
by Professor Joachim Latacz
For two centuries classical Athens enjoyed almost uninterrupted democratic government. This was not a parliamentary democracy of the modern sort but a direct democracy in which all citizens were free to participate in the business of government. Throughout this period Athens was the cultural centre of Greece and one of the major Greek powers. This book traces the development and operation of the political system and explores its underlying principles. Christopher Carey assesses the ancient sourc...
The History of Justin, Taken Out of the Four and Forty Books of Trogus Pompeius
Movement, Sensory Spaces, and Religious Experience in Roman Antiquity (Studies in Roman Space and Urbanism)
This is the first volume to bring together the fields of ancient religions, sensory studies and movement studies, with the objective of introducing sensory studies as a methodological approach to religion. The volume's main theme is human movement through physical space as it pertains to religious experience in the ancient world. Each chapter discusses a more specific treatment of this theme, such as pilgrimage towards a sacred place or some physicalised aspect of ancient ritual such as the aura...
II. In Search of the Divine Centre (Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture)
by Werner Jaeger
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Hellenism in Byzantium (Greek Culture in the Roman World)
by Anthony Kaldellis
This text was the first systematic study of what it meant to be 'Greek' in late antiquity and Byzantium, an identity that could alternatively become national, religious, philosophical, or cultural. Through close readings of the sources, Professor Kaldellis surveys the space that Hellenism occupied in each period; the broader debates in which it was caught up; and the historical causes of its successive transformations. The first section (100-400) shows how Romanisation and Christianisation led t...
Textualization of Experience (Studies in Classical Literature and Culture, #12)
by Pawel Majewski
The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthagininas, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians
Callimachus was one of the most important Greek poets, and can also be one of the most rewarding to read. He was an important figure in the history of ancient literature and an influential presence in later ancient poetry, including Catullus and Vergil. Yet his work is not read and enjoyed as much as it could be. This new volume in the popular Ancients in Action series seeks to bring Callimachus to a wide audience, addressing the problems with currently available scholarship, which assumes a pro...