Wandering Greeks - 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 Wandering Greeks write by Robert Garland. This book was released on 2016-09-13. Wandering Greeks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement was essential to the survival, success, and sheer sustainability of their society, and that this wandering became a defining characteristic of their culture. Addressing a neglected but essential subject, Wandering Greeks focuses on the diaspora of tens of thousands of people between about 700 and 325 BCE, demonstrating the degree to which Greeks were liable to be forced to leave their homes due to political upheaval, oppression, poverty, warfare, or simply a desire to better themselves. Attempting to enter into the mind-set of these wanderers, the book provides an insightful and sympathetic account of what it meant for ancient Greeks to part from everyone and everything they held dear, to start a new life elsewhere—or even to become homeless, living on the open road or on the high seas with no end to their journey in sight. Each chapter identifies a specific kind of "wanderer," including the overseas settler, the deportee, the evacuee, the asylum-seeker, the fugitive, the economic migrant, and the itinerant, and the book also addresses repatriation and the idea of the "portable polis." The result is a vivid and unique portrait of ancient Greece as a culture of displaced persons.
Wandering in Ancient Greek Culture
Wandering in Ancient Greek Culture - 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 Wandering in Ancient Greek Culture write by Silvia Montiglio. This book was released on 2005-08-22. Wandering in Ancient Greek Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Examining the act of wandering through many lenses, Wandering in Ancient Greek Culture addresses questions such as: Why did the Greeks associate the figure of the wanderer with the condition of exile? How was the expansion of the world under Rome reflected in the connotations of wandering? Does a person learn by wandering, or is wandering a deviation from the truth? In the end, this matchless volume shows how the transformations that affected the figure of the wanderer coincided with new perceptions of the world and of travel, and invites us to consider its definition and import today."--BOOK JACKET.
Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture
Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture - 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 Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture write by Richard Hunter. This book was released on 2009-02-19. Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the phenomenon of wandering poets, setting them within the wider context of ancient networks of exchange, patronage and affiliation.
The Wandering Uterus
The Wandering Uterus - 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 Wandering Uterus write by Cheryl L. Meyer. This book was released on 1997-02-01. The Wandering Uterus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the FDA review of RU-486 to the recent growth of fertility clinics to the rights of lesbian parents, women's reproductive lives are aggressively regulated by law and medicine. While a great deal has been written on such issues as abortion and postpartum depression, no single volume has offered a broad discussion of the interface between the legal, medical, and political aspects of women's reproduction in a manner accessible and informative to non-specialists.The Wandering Uterus fills that gap. Taking her title from an ancient Greek belief that women's health problems were caused by a wandering uterus that needed to be confined and controlled, Meyer exposes the way in which myths and prejudice about female sexuality continue to influence the practice of law and medicine today.This book offers new insights and provides a wealth of up-to- date information on a subject that changes every day. The text is divided into three main parts: political issues of pre- conception, the politics of pregnancy, and the politics of motherhood. Throughout, Meyer argues passionately that while technology and medicine must progress, they should not be allowed to do so at women's expense.
Wandering Myths
Wandering Myths - 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 Wandering Myths write by Lucy Gaynor Audley-Miller. This book was released on 2018-10-08. Wandering Myths available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In spite of the growing amount of important new work being carried out on uses of myth in particular ancient contexts, their appeal and reception beyond the framework of one culture have rarely been the primary object of enquiry in contemporary debate. Highlighting the fact that ancient societies were linked by their shared use of mythological narratives, Wandering Myths aims to advance our understanding of the mechanisms by which such tales were disseminated cross-culturally and to investigate how they gained local resonances. In order to assess both wider geographic circulations and to explore specific local features and interpretations, a regional approach is adopted, with a particular focus on Anatolia, the Near East and Italy. Contributions are drawn from a range of disciplines, and cross a wide chronological span, but all are interlinked by their engagement with questions focusing on the factors that guided the processes of reception and steered the facets of local interpretation. The Preface and Epilogue evaluate the material in a synoptic way and frame the challenging questions and views expressed in the Introduction.
