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Author : Eleanor Guralnick
Publisher :
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,13 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Financial statements
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Author : Gisela Marie Augusta Richter
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 18,40 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Art
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Author : Jeffrey M. Hurwit
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 10,65 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780801494017
This handsomely illustrated book offers a broad synthesis of Archaic Greek culture. Unlike other books dealing with the art and architecture of the Archaic period, it places these subjects in their historical, social, literary, and intellectual contexts. Origins and originality constitute a central theme, for during this period representational and narrative art, monumental sculpture and architecture, epic, lyric, and dramatic poetry, the city-state (polis), tyranny and early democracy, and natural philosophy were all born.
Author : William A. Percy
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 17,9 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780252067402
Combining impeccable scholarship with accessible, straightforward prose, Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece argues that institutionalized pederasty began after 650 B.C., far later than previous authors have thought, and was initiated as a means of stemming overpopulation in the upper class. William Armstrong Percy III maintains that Cretan sages established a system under which a young warrior in his early twenties took a teenager of his own aristocratic background as a beloved until the age of thirty, when service to the state required the older partner to marry. The practice spread with significant variants to other Greek-speaking areas. In some places it emphasized development of the athletic, warrior individual, while in others both intellectual and civic achievement were its goals. In Athens it became a vehicle of cultural transmission, so that the best of each older cohort selected, loved, and trained the best of the younger. Pederasty was from the beginning both physical and emotional, the highest and most intense type of male bonding. These pederastic bonds, Percy believes, were responsible for the rise of Hellas and the "Greek miracle": in two centuries the population of Attica, a mere 45,000 adult males in six generations, produced an astounding number of great men who laid the enduring foundations of Western thought and civilization.
Author : Lin Foxhall
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Arts, Classical
ISBN : 9780415146357
Thinking Men explores artistic and intellectual expression in the classical world as the self representation of man. It starts from the premise that the history of classical antiquity as the ancients tell it is a history of men. However, the focus of this volume is the creation, re-creation and iteration of that male self as presented in language, poetry, drama, philosophical and scientific thought and art: man constructing himself as subject in classical antiquity and beyond. This beautifully illustrated volume, which contains a preface by Nathalie Kampen, provides a thought-provoking and stimulating insight into the representations of men in Classical culture.
Author : Michael Shanks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 23,41 MB
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521602853
A contribution to recent debates on emerging Greek city states in the first millennium BC.
Author : Ann O Koloski-Ostrow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1134603851
The articles in Naked Truths demonstrate the application of feminist theory to a diverse repertory of classical art: they offer topical and controversial readings on the material culture of the ancient Mediterranean. This volume presents a timely, provocative and beautifully illustrated re-evaluation of how the issues of gender, identity and sexuality reveal 'naked truths' about fundamental human values and social realities, through the compelling symbolism of the body.
Author : James Whitley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 17,22 MB
Release : 2001-10-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521627337
A synthesis of research on the material culture of Greece in the Archaic and Classical periods.
Author : Robin Osborne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 36,73 MB
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0197644449
This book introduces the history and archaeology of ancient Athens in the period from 800-500 BCE. Following the standard arrangement of the Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World series, author Robin Osborne deals successively with the sources; environmental setting; material culture (settlement pattern, burial customs, ceramic production); political, legal, and diplomatic history; economy and demography; social and religious customs; and cultural history (including history of sculpture) of archaic Athens. He provides not only a full and up-to-date guide to all these various aspects of Athenian history and archaeology, but also an integrated history which shows how all the different aspects intersect. Osborne guides the reader through an exciting story of the way in which the territory of Attica was re-occupied after the collapse of Bronze Age civilization, how Athens emerged as the dominant settlement, how the claims of family, place, and wealth were played out against one another, and how the Athenians came to place themselves both in relation to the wider Greek world and in relation to the gods. The account is illustrated with abundant maps and halftone images that bring the world of Athens to life. The political and cultural achievements of classical Athens (democracy, tragedy, the Parthenon and its sculpture) rested upon the foundations created in the archaic period, but Osborne shows that archaic Athens did not merely provide foundations for what came later but offered a fascinating history and culture of its own.
Author : Finley Hooper
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 11,44 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814315972
A history of ancient Greek life and thought from the Mycenaean kings to Alexander, Aristotle and Diogenes.