The Ionian Islands - 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 Ionian Islands write by Anthony Hirst. This book was released on 2014-06-26. The Ionian Islands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Ionian Islands stretch south from the Adriatic, where Corfu’s Pantokrator mountain overlooks Albania across narrow straits, along the western coast of mainland Greece through Paxi, Kephalonia, Ithaca, Lefkada and Zakynthos, to Kythira, midway between Athens and Crete. Three crucial sea-battles were fought here – Sybota (the first recorded), Actium and Lepanto – an indication of the Ionians’ role as an East-West crossroads, between Western Christendom and the Orthodox and Islamic East. Ruled by Venice in her Stato da Mar (sea-empire), the islands became an independent state, as the Septinsular Republic and then, under British Protection, as the United States of the Ionian Islands. Before the mainland Greeks had a State, the Ionian people were proud of having a university – from 1824 – in Corfu town, a World Heritage Site. The islands were united with the Kingdom of Greece in 1864 – the first addition to its territory. This book (with over thirty illustrations) explores the history, archaeology, languages, customs and culture of the Ionian Islands. Without venturing far from the islands, readers will learn much about this distinctive part of the Mediterranean and Greek world. The chapters range from the mythology of the Bronze Age (Homer’s Scheria, where Odysseus startled Nausicaa as she bathed) to today, concentrating particularly on the British Protectorate (1815–1864). One, illustrated by contemporary maps, deals with descriptions of the islands by a fourteenth-century Venetian writing in Latin. The roles of Jews, Souliot refugees, Greek revolutionaries, rebel peasants in Cephalonia, and workers in Corfu’s port suburb of Mandouki are examined in detail. There are contributions on religion and philosophy, as well as literature, music, painting, and the folk-art of carved walking-canes.
The Ionian Islands and Epirus
The Ionian Islands and Epirus - 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 Ionian Islands and Epirus write by Jim Potts. This book was released on 2010. The Ionian Islands and Epirus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing a portrait of the islands off the coast of Greece, Corfu resident Jim Potts narrates the cultural legacies of this unique place from Homer to modern times.
Explaining the Cosmos
Explaining the Cosmos - 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 Explaining the Cosmos write by Daniel W. Graham. This book was released on 2009-11-20. Explaining the Cosmos available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explaining the Cosmos is a major reinterpretation of Greek scientific thought before Socrates. Focusing on the scientific tradition of philosophy, Daniel Graham argues that Presocratic philosophy is not a mere patchwork of different schools and styles of thought. Rather, there is a discernible and unified Ionian tradition that dominates Presocratic debates. Graham rejects the common interpretation of the early Ionians as "material monists" and also the view of the later Ionians as desperately trying to save scientific philosophy from Parmenides' criticisms. In Graham's view, Parmenides plays a constructive role in shaping the scientific debates of the fifth century BC. Accordingly, the history of Presocratic philosophy can be seen not as a series of dialectical failures, but rather as a series of theoretical advances that led to empirical discoveries. Indeed, the Ionian tradition can be seen as the origin of the scientific conception of the world that we still hold today.
The Ionian Mission
The Ionian Mission - 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 Ionian Mission write by Patrick O'Brian. This book was released on 2007. The Ionian Mission available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback by Harper Perennial with stunning new jackets.
The Ionians and Hellenism
The Ionians and Hellenism - 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 Ionians and Hellenism write by C.J. Emlyn-Jones. This book was released on 2024-08-28. The Ionians and Hellenism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Ionians and Hellenism (1980) presents an assessment of the art, literature and philosophy of the Asia Minor Greeks – the Ionians – in the eighth to sixth centuries B.C. The Ionians are notable both for what they achieved and for the way in which they influenced the rest of the Greek world, but their study has been presented in terms of outstanding individuals, largely due to the early loss of Ionian independence followed by political and cultural absorption into Athens-dominated Classical Greece. This book shows that early Ionian culture from Homer to Ionian philosophers and lyric poets reveals a unified vision both unique and influential.
