Discrepancies in Olympiad Dating and Chronological Problems of Archaic Peloponnesian History - 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 Discrepancies in Olympiad Dating and Chronological Problems of Archaic Peloponnesian History write by Pamela-Jane Shaw. This book was released on 2003. Discrepancies in Olympiad Dating and Chronological Problems of Archaic Peloponnesian History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nach den Erkenntnissen der Autorin existierten in der griechischen Antike mindestens zwei verschiedene Zahlweisen der ersten und deshalb auch der folgenden Olympiaden. Durch die Argumente ihrer Arbeit erfahren so manche umstrittenen Daten eine neue chronologische Einordnung. Werden ihre Schlussfolgerungen akzeptiert, ist vieles aus der archaischen griechischen Geschichte neu zu schreiben. In jedem Fall legt hier die Autorin, Sch lerin von Professor P. J. Rhodes, eine ebenso detaillierte wie komplexe, sorgfaltige wie originelle und wissenschaftlich mutige Arbeit vor, die auf Jahre hinaus eine rege Forschungsdiskussion nach sich ziehen wird. Ce livre aaconstitue un instrument de travail precieux par le regroupement de references. (a) On dispose ici dun outil propre a alimenter bien des discussions de detail.o LAntiquite Classique
Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World
Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World - 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 Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World write by Zinon Papakonstantinou. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sport has been practised in the Greco-Roman world at least since the second millennium BC. It was socially integrated and was practised in the context of ceremonial performances, physical education and established local and international competitions including, most famously, the Olympic Games. In recent years, the continuous re-assessment of old and new evidence in conjunction with the development of new methodological perspectives have created the need for a fresh examination of central aspects of ancient sport in a single volume. This book fills that gap in ancient sport scholarship. When did the ancient Olympics begin? How is sport depicted in the work of the fifth-century historian Herodotus? What was the association between sport and war in fifth- and fourth-century BC Athens? What were the social and political implications of the practice of Greek-style sport in third-century BC Ptolemaic Egypt? How were Roman gladiatorial shows perceived and transformed in the Greek-speaking east? And what were the conditions of sport participation by boys and girls in ancient Rome? These are some of the questions that this book, written by an international cast of distinguished scholars on ancient sport, attempts to answer. Covering a wide chronological and geographical scope (ancient Mediterranean from the early first millennium BC to fourth century AD), individual articles re-examine old and new evidence, and offer stimulating, original interpretations of key aspects of ancient sport in its political, military, cultural, social, ceremonial and ideological setting. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
A Tall Order. Writing the Social History of the Ancient World
A Tall Order. Writing the Social History of the Ancient World - 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 Tall Order. Writing the Social History of the Ancient World write by Jean-Jacques Aubert. This book was released on 2012-06-28. A Tall Order. Writing the Social History of the Ancient World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume commemorates the 65th birthday of William Vernon Harris (on September 13, 2003), when a group of his former students agreed to honor him with a collection of essays that would represent the wide variety of interests and influences of our advisor and friend. The fifteen papers in fact range chronologically from the first Olympics to late antiquity and discuss various questions of imperialism, law, economy, and religion in the ancient Mediterranean world. The essays share a social historical perspective from which they challenge as many commonly accepted notions in ancient history. The contributors acknowledge their intellectual debt to the formative scholarly acumen of William V. Harris, which adds up to the "tall order" of engaging with his work.
Numbers and Numeracy in the Greek Polis
Numbers and Numeracy in the Greek Polis - 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 Numbers and Numeracy in the Greek Polis write by . This book was released on 2021-12-20. Numbers and Numeracy in the Greek Polis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a wide-ranging study of numbers as a social and cultural phenomenon in ancient Greece, revealing both the instrumentality of numbers to polis life and the complex cultural meanings inherent in their use.
The Spartan Regime
The Spartan Regime - 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 The Spartan Regime write by Paul Anthony Rahe. This book was released on 2016-01-01. The Spartan Regime available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An authoritative and refreshingly original consideration of the government and culture of ancient Sparta and her place in Greek history For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nature of a civilization described as a combination of democracy and oligarchy by Aristotle, considered an ideal of liberty in the ages of Machiavelli and Rousseau, and viewed as a forerunner of the modern totalitarian state by many twentieth-century scholars has long remained a mystery. In a bold new approach to historical study, noted historian Paul Rahe attempts to unravel the Spartan riddle by deploying the regime-oriented political science of the ancient Greeks, pioneered by Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Xenophon, and Polybius, in order to provide a more coherent picture of government, art, culture, and daily life in Lacedaemon than has previously appeared in print, and to explore the grand strategy the Spartans devised before the arrival of the Persians in the Aegean.
