Athens, Thrace, and the Shaping of Athenian Leadership - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Athens, Thrace, and the Shaping of Athenian Leadership write by Matthew A. Sears. This book was released on 2013-03-25. Athens, Thrace, and the Shaping of Athenian Leadership available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the social, political, and cultural importance of Thrace to prominent Athenian individuals from the mid-sixth to the mid-fourth century BCE. It examines the unique opportunities that ties with Thrace afforded these important men, and the resulting significance of Thrace to the political, cultural, and social history of Athens.
Understanding Greek Warfare
Understanding Greek Warfare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding Greek Warfare write by Matthew A. Sears. This book was released on 2019-02-04. Understanding Greek Warfare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Understanding Greek Warfare offers a wide-ranging survey of Greek warfare, from the Mycenaeans through to the Hellenistic kingdoms’ clashes with Rome. Each chapter provides an overview of a particular theme and historical period, and a detailed discussion of the relevant sources, both ancient and modern. This volume covers not only the development of equipment, tactics, strategy, and the major wars of Greek history – the "drums and trumpets" – it also examines the political, social, and cultural importance of warfare in each period. Each chapter outlines major scholarly debates, such as the true nature of hoplite battle and whether Alexander the Great had a strategic vision beyond conquest, and includes several short selections from the primary literary evidence. Readable yet scholarly, this book is an ideal companion to courses on Greek warfare and society, and offers detailed suggestions for further reading and research. Understanding Greek Warfare will be a crucial resource for students of war in the ancient Greek world, and of the ancient Greeks in general.
Sparta and the Commemoration of War
Sparta and the Commemoration of War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sparta and the Commemoration of War write by Matthew A. Sears. This book was released on 2023-12-31. Sparta and the Commemoration of War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores how the Spartan commemoration of war prompts reconsideration of the contemporary relationship between conflict and memory.
Nemesis
Nemesis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nemesis write by David Stuttard. This book was released on 2018-04-16. Nemesis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. A ward of Pericles and a friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich, bewitchingly handsome and charismatic, a skilled general, and a ruthless politician. He was also a serial traitor, infamous for his dizzying changes of loyalty in the Peloponnesian War. Nemesis tells the story of this extraordinary life and the turbulent world that Alcibiades set out to conquer. David Stuttard recreates ancient Athens at the height of its glory as he follows Alcibiades from childhood to political power. Outraged by Alcibiades’ celebrity lifestyle, his enemies sought every chance to undermine him. Eventually, facing a capital charge of impiety, Alcibiades escaped to the enemy, Sparta. There he traded military intelligence for safety until, suspected of seducing a Spartan queen, he was forced to flee again—this time to Greece’s long-term foes, the Persians. Miraculously, though, he engineered a recall to Athens as Supreme Commander, but—suffering a reversal—he took flight to Thrace, where he lived as a warlord. At last in Anatolia, tracked by his enemies, he died naked and alone in a hail of arrows. As he follows Alcibiades’ journeys crisscrossing the Mediterranean from mainland Greece to Syracuse, Sardis, and Byzantium, Stuttard weaves together the threads of Alcibiades’ adventures against a backdrop of cultural splendor and international chaos. Navigating often contradictory evidence, Nemesis provides a coherent and spellbinding account of a life that has gripped historians, storytellers, and artists for more than two thousand years.
A Companion to Ancient Thrace
A Companion to Ancient Thrace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Companion to Ancient Thrace write by Julia Valeva. This book was released on 2020-01-29. A Companion to Ancient Thrace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Companion to Ancient Thrace presents a series of essays that reveal the newly recognized complexity of the social and cultural phenomena of the peoples inhabiting the Balkan periphery of the Classical world. • Features a rich and detailed overview of Thracian history from the Early Iron Age to Late Antiquity • Includes contributions from leading scholars in the archaeology, art history, and general history of Thrace • Balances consideration of material evidence relating to Ancient Thrace with more traditional literary sources • Integrates a study of Thrace within a broad context that includes the cultures of the eastern Mediterranean, southwest Asia, and southeast Europe/Eurasia • Reflects the impact of new theoretical approaches to economy, ethnicity, and cross-cultural interaction and hybridity in Ancient Thrace
