Greece category: 2003 books
House Ascendant
Odysseus & His Family in the Early Thirteenth Century Bc.
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
House Ascendant
presents the comings-of-age of the epic hero and his best friend by homeland Greece; theyre both famous from The Odyssey by Homer, although the book assumes our readers have not the least knowledge of them. So, accordingly, from Odysseus birth while under the care of his mother...
by Emma Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Giving access to the latest critical thinking on the subject, Medea is a comprehensive guide to sources that paints a vivid portrait of the Greek sorceress Medea, famed in myth for the murder of her children after she is banished from her own home and replaced by a new wife. Emma Griffiths brings...
Hereditas
Seven Essays on the Modern Experience of the Classical
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Is Ancient Greece still meaningful to the twenty-first-century world? The vitality of the classical tradition, which has been a long-enduring and important element in our culture, is the concern of the seven scholars who in this book present their answers to this question. In various ways their essays...
by Eric H. Cline
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The Greek Bronze Age, roughly 3000 to 1000 BCE, witnessed the flourishing of the Minoan and Mycenean civilizations, the earliest expansion of trade in the Aegean and wider Mediterranean Sea, the development of artistic techniques in a variety of media, and the evolution of early Greek religious practices...
Atlantis
The Origin of a Legend
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
This absorbing book explores the possibility that the Atlantis story represents a distortion of a number of myths and legends already present in the ancient Greece and Egypt of the time. Putting more emphasis on Diodorus Siculus' account of the Atlantians, who places this people somewhere in Africa,...
The Baltic Origins of Homer's Epic Tales
The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Migration of Myth
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2005
Compelling evidence that the events of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey took place in the Baltic and not the Mediterranean
• Reveals how a climate change forced the migration of a people and their myth to ancient Greece
• Identifies the true geographic sites of Troy and Ithaca in the Baltic...
by Fiona McHardy
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Revenge was an all important part of the ancient Athenian mentality, intruding on all forms of life - even where we might not expect to find it today. Revenge was of prime importance as a means of survival for the people of early Greece and remained in force during the rise of the 'poleis'. The revenge...
Views of Rome
A Greek Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Who were the ancient Romans? Views of Rome addresses this question by offering a collection of thirty-five annotated excerpts from Greek prose authors. As Adam Serfass explains in his introduction, these authors’ characterizations of the Romans run the gamut from fellow Hellenes, civilizers, and...
Postcolonial Amazons
Female Masculinity and Courage in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Scholars have long been divided on the question of whether the Amazons of Greek legend actually existed. Notably, Soviet archaeologists' discoveries of the bodies of women warriors in the 1980s appeared to directly contradict western classicists' denial of the veracity of the Amazon myth, and there...
by Mary F. Nixon-Roulet
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
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Of all people in the world the Grecians did most for art, and to the ancient Hellenes we owe much that is beautiful in art and interesting in history. Of modern Greece we know but little, the country of isles and bays, of fruits and flowers, and kindly...
by John Gill
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Athens is an historical anomaly. Excavations date its first settlement to over seven thousand years ago, yet it only became the capital of Greece in 1834. During the intervening centuries it was occupied by almost every mobile culture in Europe: from its earliest likely settlers, tribes from what...
The Oracle
Ancient Delphi and the Science Behind Its Lost Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
A gripping modern-day detective story about the scientific quest to understand the Oracle of Delphi
Like Walking the Bible, this fascinating book turns a modern eye on an enduring legend. The Oracle of Delphi was one of the most influential figures in ancient Greece. Human mistress of the god...
The Ages of Homer
A Tribute to Emily Townsend Vermeule
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey have fascinated listeners and readers for over twenty-five centuries. In this volume of original essays, collected to honor the distinguished career of Emily T. Vermeule, thirty-four leading experts in Homeric studies and related fields provide up-to-date, multidisciplinary...
by Kathryn-Magnolia Feeley
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
All legal cases that have resulted in the actual return of ancient artefacts had fundamentally two issues in common. Firstly, there is a particular person or identified group that has a claim on the artefacts and secondly, those artefacts are of continuous religious significance to that particular...