The Early Greek Alphabets: Origin, Diffusion, Uses, Parker Robert, Steele Philippa M.

Автор: Magdalena Skoblar
Название: Byzantium, Venice and the Medieval Adriatic: Spheres of Maritime Power and Influence, c. 700-1453
ISBN: 1108814646 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108814645
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: The Adriatic has long occupied a liminal position between different cultures, languages and faiths. This book offers the first synthesis of its history between the seventh and the mid-fifteenth century, a period coinciding with the existence of the Byzantine Empire which, as heir to the Roman Empire, lay claim to the region. The period also saw the rise of Venice and it is important to understand the conditions which would lead to her dominance in the late Middle Ages. An international team of historians and archaeologists examines trade, administration and cultural exchange between the Adriatic and Byzantium but also within the region itself, and makes more widely known much previously scattered and localised research and the results of archaeological excavations in both Italy and Croatia. Their bold interpretations offer many stimulating ideas for rethinking the entire history of the Mediterranean during the period.

Автор: Paul Wilkinson
Название: Pompeii: An Archaeological Guide
ISBN: 1350129399 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350129399
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: The resonant ruins of Pompeii are perhaps the most direct route back to the living, breathing world of the ancient Romans. Two million visitors annually now walk the paved streets which re-emerged, miraculously preserved, from their layers of volcanic ash. Yet for all the fame and unique importance of the site, there is a surprising lack of a handy archaeological guide in English to reveal and explain its public spaces and private residences. This compact and user-friendly handbook, written by an expert in the field, helpfully fills that gap. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, diagrams and other images, Pompeii: An Archaeological Guide offers a general introduction to the doomed city followed by an authoritative summary and survey of the buildings, artefacts and paintings themselves. The result is an unrivalled picture, derived from an intimate knowledge of Roman archaeology around the Bay of Naples, of the forum, temples, brothels, bath-houses, bakeries, gymnasia, amphitheatre, necropolis and other site buildings - including perennial favourites like the House of the Faun, named after its celebrated dancing satyr.

Автор: Olaf Almqvist
Название: Chaos, Cosmos and Creation in Early Greek Theogonies: An Ontological Exploration
ISBN: 1350221945 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350221949
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Cosmological narratives like the creation story in the book of Genesis or the modern Big Bang are popularly understood to be descriptions of how the universe was created. However, cosmologies also say a great deal more. Indeed, the majority of cosmologies, ancient and modern, explore not simply how the world was made but how humans relate to their surrounding environment and the often thin line which separates humans from gods and animals.

Combining approaches from classical studies, anthropology, and philosophy, this book studies three competing cosmologies of the early Greek world: Hesiod's Theogony; the Orphic Derveni theogony; and Protagoras' creation myth in Plato's eponymous dialogue. Although all three cosmologies are part of a single mythic tradition and feature a number of similar events and characters, Olaf Almqvist argues they offer very different answers to an ongoing debate on what it is to be human. Engaging closely with the ontological turn in anthropology and in particular with the work of Philippe Descola, this book outlines three key sets of ontological assumptions - analogism, pantheism, and naturalism - found in early Greek literature and explores how these competing ontological assumptions result in contrasting attitudes to rituals such as prayer and sacrifice.

Автор: DAmato Raffaele
Название: Early Iron Age Greek Warrior 1100–700 BC
ISBN: 1472815599 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472815590
Издательство: Osprey
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Описание: The period from 1200 BC onwards saw vast changes in every aspect of life on both the Greek mainland and islands as monarchies disappeared and were replaced by aristocratic rule and a new form of community developed: the city-state. Alongside these changes a new style of warfare developed which was to be the determining factor in land warfare in Greece until the defeat of the Greek city-state by the might of Macedonia at Chaeronea in 338 BC. This mode of warfare was based on a group of heavily armed infantrymen organized in a phalanx formation - the classic hoplite formation - and remained the system throughout the classical Greek period.

This new title details this pivotal period that saw the transition from the Bronze Age warriors of Homer to the origins of the men who fought the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars.

Автор: Goldhill, Simon (university Of Cambridge)
Название: Christian invention of time
ISBN: 1316512908 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316512906
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: With trademark versatility and brilliance, world-renowned classicist Simon Goldhill explores how Christianity transformed humanity`s relationship with time in late antiquity. New ways of conceptualizing and experiencing time were developed, and even today we live in the shadow of this revolution.

Название: Archaic Greece: New Approaches and New Evidence
ISBN: 1914535316 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781914535314
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: How and why did the Greek city-states come into being? The study of Greece in the Archaic period is changing due to new discoveries and interpretations. The 14 essays presented here explore many aspects of this rapidly changing world. The essays detail re-interpretations of archaeological material, emphasize the diversity in patterns of settlement, sancturies and burial practices of the Greek-speaking world and trace the complex trends and motivations underlying the expanding exchange of goods and the settlement of new communities.

Local studies of archaeology and iconography revise our image of the peculiarity of Spartan society, and texts, from Homer and Hesiod to a newly discovered poem of Simonides, are given fresh interpretations, as are significant developments in maritime warfare, the roles of literacy and law-making in Crete, the emergence of a less violent lifestyle and the articulation of rational political thought.

Автор: Biggs, Frederick M.
Название: Chaucer`s decameron and the origin of the canterbury tales
ISBN: 1843844753 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781843844754
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
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Описание: A major and original contribution to the debate as to Chaucer`s use and knowledge of Boccaccio, finding a new source for the "Shipman`s Tale".

Автор: Lacey M. Wallace
Название: The Origin of Roman London
ISBN: 1108730019 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108730013
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book makes a fundamental contribution to the study of urbanism in the Roman provinces with a detailed and copiously illustrated archaeological account of the first decade of one of the best-excavated cities in the Roman Empire. It draws on both published and archived archaeological evidence, to which it applies a novel methodology.

Автор: Philippa M. Steele
Название: Exploring Writing Systems and Practices in Bronze Age Aegean
ISBN: 1789259010 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789259018
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: Writing does not begin and end with the encoding of an idea into a group of symbols. It is practised by people who have learnt its principles and acquired the tools and skills for doing it, in a particular context that affects what they do and how they do it. Nor are these practices static, as those involved exploit opportunities to adapt old features and develop new ones. The act of writing then has tangible and visible consequences not only for the writers but also for those encountering what has been produced, whether they can read its content or not – with potential for a wider social visibility that can in turn affect the success and longevity of the writing system itself. With a focus on the syllabic systems of the Bronze Age Aegean, this book attempts to bring together different perspectives to create an innovative interdisciplinary outlook on what is involved in writing: from structuralist views of writing as systems of signs with their linguistic values, to archaeological and anthropological approaches to writing as a socially grounded practice. The main chapters focus on the concepts of script adoption and adaptation; different methods of logographic writing; and the vitality of writing traditions, with repercussions for the modern world. Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 677758), and based in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.

Название: Social and cultural contexts of historic writing practices
ISBN: 1789254787 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789254785
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: New ways of approaching the study of writing in the past.

Автор: Yelena S., S.
Название: My first turkmen alphabets picture book with english translations
ISBN: 0369600908 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780369600905
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Описание: There has been much debate in scholarship over the factors determining the outcome of legal hearings in Athens and specifically the extent to which judicial panels were influenced by non-legal considerations in addition to, or even instead of, questions of law. Ancient rhetorical theory devoted much attention to character and it is this aspect of A

Автор: Warren Michelle R.
Название: Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet
ISBN: 150360800X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781503608009
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragments, or damaged through well-intentioned preservation efforts. In this book, Michelle Warren tells the story of one such manuscript—an Arthurian romance with textual origins in twelfth-century England now diffused across the twenty-first century internet. This trajectory has been propelled by a succession of technologies—from paper manufacture to printing to computers. Together, they have made literary history itself a cultural technology indebted to colonial capitalism.