The Destruction Of Cities In The Ancient Greek World
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The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World
Author | : Sylvian Fachard,Edward M. Harris |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2021-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108495547 |
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The book studies examples of destruction of Ancient Greek cities and provides examples of human resilience and economic recovery following catastrophe.
Thebes
Author | : Paul Cartledge |
Publsiher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020-09-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781468316070 |
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The riveting, definitive account of the ancient Greek city of Thebes, by the acclaimed author of The Spartans—now in paperback Among the extensive writing available about the history of ancient Greece, there is precious little about the city-state of Thebes. At one point the most powerful city in ancient Greece, Thebes has been long overshadowed by its better-known rivals, Athens and Sparta. In Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece, acclaimed classicist and historian Paul Cartledge brings the city vividly to life and argues that it is central to our understanding of the ancient Greeks’ achievements—whether politically or culturally—and thus to the wider politico-cultural traditions of western Europe, the Americas, and indeed the world. From its role as an ancient political power, to its destruction at the hands of Alexander the Great as punishment for a failed revolt, to its eventual restoration by Alexander’s successor, Cartledge deftly chronicles the rise and fall of the ancient city. He recounts the history with deep clarity and mastery for the subject and makes clear both the di?erences and the interconnections between the Thebes of myth and the Thebes of history. Written in clear prose and illustrated with images in two color inserts, Thebes is a gripping read for students of ancient history and those looking to experience the real city behind the myths of Cadmus, Hercules, and Oedipus.
The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World
Author | : Paul Cartledge,Paul Christesen |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 657 |
Release | : 2024-04-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199383610 |
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The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and was remarkable for both its diversity and its uniformity. As Greeks dispersed throughout the Mediterranean, the different environmental and human ecosystems they encountered created important differences among widely scattered settlements: each Greek community developed its own unique set of socio-political institutions and social practices. Nonetheless, despite their dispersal and diversity, Greek communities were bound together by a network of commercial, cultural, diplomatic, and military ties and shared important commonalities, most notably language and religion. The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World, a collaborative effort by more than forty eminent scholars, offers twenty-one detailed and comprehensive studies of key sites from across the Greek world in the period between c. 750 and c. 480 BCE. During that period, Greeks confronted a series of demographic, political, social, and economic challenges and generated an array of responses that transformed the ways in which they lived, worked, and interacted. Much of what is now seen as distinctive about Greek culture--such as democracy, stone temples, and nude athletics--first developed during the Archaic period. The series is organized alphabetically by polis. Volume I contains detailed and up-to-date studies of Argos, Chalcis and Eretria, Chios-Lesbos-Samos, and Corcyra. Together with the other volumes in the series, the Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World offers a new and unique resource for the study of ancient Greece that will transform how we understand a crucial era in antiquity.
The Great Cities of the Ancient World in Their Glory and Their Desolation With Illustrations
Author | : Theodore Alois Buckley |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1852 |
Genre | : Cities and towns, Ancient |
ISBN | : BL:A0022396415 |
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The Greek City States
Author | : P. J. Rhodes |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 2007-04-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781139462129 |
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Political activity and political thinking began in the cities and other states of ancient Greece, and terms such as tyranny, aristocracy, oligarchy, democracy and politics itself are Greek words for concepts first discussed in Greece. Rhodes presents in translation a selection of texts illustrating the formal mechanisms and informal workings of the Greek states in all their variety. From the states described by Homer out of which the classical Greeks believed their states had developed, through the archaic period which saw the rise and fall of tyrants and the gradual broadening of citizen bodies, to the classical period of the fifth and fourth centuries, Rhodes also looks beyond that to the Hellenistic and Roman periods in which the Greeks tried to preserve their way of life in a world of great powers. For this second edition the book has been thoroughly revised and three new chapters added.
Broken Cities
Author | : Martin Devecka |
Publsiher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781421438429 |
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Drawing on literature, legal texts, epigraphic evidence, and the narratives embodied in monuments and painting, Broken Cities is an expansive and nuanced study that holds great significance for the field of historiography.
The Fall of Cities in the Mediterranean
Author | : Mary R. Bachvarova,Dorota Dutsch,Ann Suter |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2016-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107031968 |
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This book explores some of the most prominent literary responses to the collective trauma of a fallen city.
War and Society in the Greek World
Author | : Dr John Rich,John Rich,Graham Shipley |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2012-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781134807833 |
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The role of warfare is central to our understanding of the ancient Greek world. In this book and the companion work, War and Society in the Roman World, the wider social context of war is explored. This volume examines its impact on Greek society from Homeric times to the age of Alexander and his successors and discusses the significance of the causes and profits of war, the links between war, piracy and slavery, and trade, and the ideology of warfare in literature and sculpture.