Imaginary Greece

Imaginary Greece
Author: R. G. A. Buxton
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1994-06-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521338654

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This is a study of Greek mythology in relation to its original contexts. Part one deals with the contexts in which myths were narrated: the home, public festivals, the lesche. Part two, the heart of the book, examines the relation between the realities of Greek life and the fantasies of mythology: the landscape, the family and religion are taken as case-studies. Part three focuses on the function of myth-telling, both as seen by the Greeks themselves and as perceived by later observers. The author sees his role as that of a cultural historian trying to recover the contexts and horizons of expectation which simultaneously make possible and limit meaning. He seeks to demonstrate how the seemingly endless variations of Greek mythology are a product of a particular community, situated in a particular landscape, and with these particular institutions.

Imaginary Kings

Imaginary Kings
Author: Olivier Hekster
Publsiher: Franz Steiner Verlag
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 3515087656

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This volume looks at various ways in which royal images functioned within different ideological frameworks in the ancient Near East, Greece and Rome. It argues that visibility lies at the heart of power, especially under monarchic rule. The contributions highlight how, throughout the ancient Mediterranean, patterns can be detected in the use of royal images. There seem to have been continuous (re)negotiations between innovation and tradition, East and West, and between aerealAe and aeimaginaryAe kings. Contents Richard Fowler / Olivier Hekster: Imagining kings: From Persia to Rome Lindsay Allen: Le roi imaginaire: An audience with the Achaemenid king Peter Thonemann: The tragic king: Demetrios Poliorketes and the city of Athens Margherita Facella: Roman perception of Commagenian royalty Matthew Gisborne: A curia of kings: Sulla and royal imagery Richard Fowler: aeMost fortunate rootsAe: Tradition and legitimacy in Parthian royal ideology Olivier Hekster: Captured in the gaze of power: Visibility, games and Roman imperial representation Ted Kaizer: Kingly priests in the Roman Near East? Bibliography Index

Imaginary Athens

Imaginary Athens
Author: Jin-Sung Chun
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2020-11-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781000262216

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This book comprehensively examines architecture, urban planning, and civic perception in three modern cities as they transform into national capitals through an entangled, transnational process that involves an imaginative geography based on embellished memories of classical Athens. Schinkel’s classicist architecture in Berlin, especially the principle of tectonics at its core, came to be adopted effectively at faraway cities in East Asia, merging with the notion of national polity as Imperial Japan sought to reinvent Tokyo and mutating into an inevitable reflection of modern civilization upon reaching colonial Seoul, all of which give reason to ruminate over the phantasmagoria of modernity.

Imagined Communities in Greece and Turkey

Imagined Communities in Greece and Turkey
Author: Emine Yesim Bedlek
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2015-12-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780857728005

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In 1923 the Turkish government, under its new leader Kemal Ataturk, signed a renegotiated Balkan Wars treaty with the major powers of the day and Greece. This treaty provided for the forced exchange of 1.3 million Christians from Anatolia to Greece, in return for 30,000 Greek Muslims. The mass migration that ensued was a humanitarian catastrophe - of the 1.3 million Christians relocated it is estimated only 150,000 were successfully integrated into the Greek state. Furthermore, because the treaty was ethnicity-blind, tens of thousands of Muslim Greeks (ethnically and linguistically) were forced into Turkey against their will. Both the Greek and Turkish leadership saw this exchange as crucial to the state-strengthening projects both powers were engaged in after the First World War. Here, Emine Bedlek approaches this enormous shift in national thinking through literary texts - addressing the themes of loss, identity, memory and trauma which both populations experienced. The result is a new understanding of the tensions between religious and ethnic identity in modern Turkey.

Imaginary Greece

Imaginary Greece
Author: R. G. A. Buxton
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 250
Release: 1994
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: OCLC:802728115

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Classical Greece 500 323 BC

Classical Greece  500 323 BC
Author: Robin Osborne,Timothy Charles William Blanning
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780198731542

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The complete Short Oxford History of Europe (series editor: Professor T C W Blanning) will cover the history of Europe from Classical Greece to the present in eleven volumes. In each, experts write to their strengths tackling the key issues, including society, economy, religion, politics, and culture, head-on in chapters that will be at once wide-ranging surveys and searching analyses. Each book is specifically designed with the non-specialist reader in mind; but the authority of the contributors and the vigour of the interpretations will make them necessary and challenging reading for fellow.

Greek Religion and Culture the Bible and the Ancient Near East

Greek Religion and Culture  the Bible and the Ancient Near East
Author: Jan Bremmer
Publsiher: BRILL
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2008-04-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789047432715

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This book greatly enhances our knowledge of the interrelationship of Greek religion & culture and the Ancient Near East by offering important analyses of Greek myths, divinities and terms like ‘magic’ and 'paradise', but also of the Greek contribution to the Christian notion of atonement.

Greek Nymphs

Greek Nymphs
Author: Jennifer Larson,Jennifer Lynn Larson
Publsiher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780195144659

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This book is a comprehensive study of the nymph in the ancient Greek world. It examines nymphs as both religious and mythopoetic figures, tracing their development and significance in Greek culture from Homer through the Hellenistic period."."