An English Translation Of Claudius Aelianus Varia Historia
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An English Translation Of Claudius Aelianus Varia Historia
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Author : Aelian
language : en
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Release Date : 1997
An English Translation Of Claudius Aelianus Varia Historia written by Aelian and has been published by Edwin Mellen Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
Varia Historia is a miscellany of anecdotes, lists, apophthegms, biographical sketches, and descriptions of natural wonders. The present volume presents Aelian in such a way that his program for selection and compilation of information becomes apparent.
French Women Poets Of Nine Centuries
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Author : Norman R. Shapiro
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2008-09-22
French Women Poets Of Nine Centuries written by Norman R. Shapiro and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Original texts and translations are presented on facing pages, allowing readers to appreciate the vigor and variety of the French and the fidelity of the English versions. Divided into three chronological sections spanning the Middle Ages through the sixteenth century, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the volume includes introductory essays by noted scholars of each era's poetry along with biographical sketches and bibliographical references for each poet."--BOOK JACKET.
Rethinking Plato
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Author : Necip Fikri Alican
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2012
Rethinking Plato written by Necip Fikri Alican and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- LIFE OF PLATO -- THOUGHT OF PLATO -- WORKS OF PLATO -- EUTHYPHRO -- APOLOGY -- CRITO -- PHAEDO -- CONCLUSION -- WORKS CITED -- BIBLIOGRAPHIC GUIDE TO FURTHER STUDY -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS -- VIBS.
Folktales Of The Jews Volume 2
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Author : Dan Ben-Amos
language : en
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Release Date : 2006
Folktales Of The Jews Volume 2 written by Dan Ben-Amos and has been published by Jewish Publication Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Fiction categories.
Folktales from Eastern Europe presents 71 tales from Ashkenasic culture in the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever published. It is the second volume in Folktales of the Jews, the five-volume series to be released over the next several years, in the tradition of Louis Ginzberg's classic, Legends of the Jews. The tales here and the others in this series have been selected from the Israel Folktale Archives at The University of Haifa, Israel (IFA), a treasure house of Jewish lore that has remained largely unavailable to the entire world until now. Since the creation of the State of Israel, the IFA has collected more than 20,000 tales from newly arrived immigrants, long-lost stories shared by their families from around the world. The tales come from the major ethno-linguistic communities of the Jewish world and are representative of a wide variety of subjects and motifs, especially rich in Jewish content and context. Each of the tales is accompanied by in-depth commentary that explains the tale's cultural, historical, and literary background and its similarity to other tales in the IFA collection, and extensive scholarly notes. There is also an introduction that describes the Ashkenasic culture and its folk narrative tradition, a world map of the areas covered, illustrations, biographies of the collectors and narrators, tale type and motif indexes, a subject index, and a comprehensive bibliography. Until the establishment of the IFA, we had had only limited access to the wide range of Jewish folk narratives. Even in Israel, the gathering place of the most wide-ranging cross-section of world Jewry, these folktales have remained largely unknown. Many of the communities no longer exist as cohesive societies in their representative lands; the Holocaust, migration, and changes in living styles have made the continuation of these tales impossible. This volume and the others to come will be monuments to a rich but vanishing oral tradition
Folktales Of The Jews V 3 Tales From Arab Lands
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Author : Dan Ben Amos
language : en
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Release Date : 2011-05-01
Folktales Of The Jews V 3 Tales From Arab Lands written by Dan Ben Amos and has been published by Jewish Publication Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-01 with Literary Collections categories.
Thanks to these generous donors for making the publication of the books in this series possible: Lloyd E. Cotsen; The Maurice Amado Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities; and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture Tales from Arab Lands presents tales from North Africa, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq in the latest volume of the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever published. This is the third book in the multi-volume series in the tradition of Louis Ginzberg?s timeless classic, Legends of the Jews. The tales here and the others in this series have been selected from the Israel Folktale Archives (IFA), named in Honor of Dov Noy, at The University of Haifa, a treasure house of Jewish lore that has remained largely unavailable to the entire world until now. Since the creation of the State of Israel, the IFA has collected more than 20,000 tales from newly arrived immigrants, long-lost stories shared by their families from around the world. The tales come from the major ethno-linguistic communities of the Jewish world and are representative of a wide variety of subjects and motifs, especially rich in Jewish content and context. Each of the tales is accompanied by in-depth commentary that explains the tale's cultural, historical, and literary background and its similarity to other tales in the IFA collection, and extensive scholarly notes. There is also an introduction that describes the culture and its folk narrative tradition, a world map of the areas covered, illustrations, biographies of the collectors and narrators, tale type and motif indexes, a subject index, and a comprehensive bibliography. Until the establishment of the IFA, we had had only limited access to the wide range of Jewish folk narratives. Even in Israel, the gathering place of the most wide-ranging cross-section of world Jewry, these folktales have remained largely unknown. Many of the communities no longer exist as cohesive societies in their representative lands; the Holocaust, migration, and changes in living styles have made the continuation of these tales impossible. This series is a monument to a rich but vanishing oral tradition. This series is a monument to a rich but vanishing oral tradition.
War Pig
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Author : Fouad Sabry
language : en
Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
Release Date : 2024-06-23
War Pig written by Fouad Sabry and has been published by One Billion Knowledgeable this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-23 with Political Science categories.
What is War Pig There is evidence that pigs were utilized as military animals in ancient wars. These pigs are known as war pigs. The majority of the time, they were utilized in conflict as a countermeasure against war elephants. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: War pig Chapter 2: Claudius Aelianus Chapter 3: Erymanthian boar Chapter 4: Callisthenes Chapter 5: War elephant Chapter 6: Maurya Empire Chapter 7: Military animal Chapter 8: Lysimachia (Thrace) Chapter 9: Cynane Chapter 10: Howdah (II) Answering the public top questions about war pig. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of War Pig.
The Artist As Murderer
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Author : Norman E. Land
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2022-11-18
The Artist As Murderer written by Norman E. Land and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-18 with Art categories.
The 4th century BC Greek painter Parrhasius murdered his model--an old man who was his slave--to achieve, so the story goes, a more lifelike depiction of nature. The tale has inspired similar, more elaborate stories about both well known and obscure artists--including Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Rubens. Elements of the tale have appeared in theater, literature and film, as well as in comments by painters, historians, critics and anatomists. Challenging the archetype of the artist as a sympathetic lover of nature, this book examines the artist as cruel and murderous in service of art and ambition, and indirectly addresses a different understanding of the relationship between art and life.
The Grand Contraption
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Author : David Park
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-07-13
The Grand Contraption written by David Park and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-13 with Science categories.
The Grand Contraption tells the story of humanity's attempts through 4,000 years of written history to make sense of the world in its cosmic totality, to understand its physical nature, and to know its real and imagined inhabitants. No other book has provided as coherent, compelling, and learned a narrative on this subject of subjects. David Park takes us on an incredible journey that illuminates the multitude of elaborate "contraptions" by which humans in the Western world have imagined the earth they inhabit--and what lies beyond. Intertwining history, religion, philosophy, literature, and the physical sciences, this eminently readable book is, ultimately, about the "grand contraption" we've constructed through the ages in an effort to understand and identify with the universe. According to Park, people long ago conceived of our world as a great rock slab inhabited by gods, devils, and people and crowned by stars. Thinkers imagined ether to fill the empty space, and in the comforting certainty of celestial movement they discerned numbers, and in numbers, order. Separate sections of the book tell the fascinating stories of measuring and mapping the Earth and Heavens, and later, the scientific exploration of the universe. The journey reveals many common threads stretching from ancient Mesopotamians and Greeks to peoples of today. For example, humans have tended to imagine Earth and Sky as living creatures. Not true, say science-savvy moderns. But truth isn't always the point. The point, says Park, is that Earth is indeed the fragile bubble we surmise, and we must treat it with the reverence it deserves.
A Tenth Century Byzantine Military Manual The Sylloge Tacticorum
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-07-14
A Tenth Century Byzantine Military Manual The Sylloge Tacticorum written by and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-14 with History categories.
The Sylloge Tacticorum is a mid-Byzantine example of the literary genre of military manuals or Taktika which stretches back to antiquity. It was one of a number produced during the tenth century CE, a period when the Byzantine empire enjoyed a large measure of success in its wars against its traditional enemy, the Arabs. Compiled to record and preserve military strategies, know-how, and tactics, the manual discusses a wide variety of matters: battle formations, raids, sieges, ambushes, surprise attacks, the treatment of prisoners of war and defectors, distribution of booty, punishment of military offences, how to mount effective espionage, and how to send and receive envoys. There is even advice on the personal qualities required by generals, on how to neutralize enemy horses, and on how to protect the troops against poisoned food. The work culminates in an account of the stratagems employed by great Greek and Roman military commanders of the past. While, like so much of Byzantine literature, the Sylloge often simply reproduces material found in earlier texts, it also preserves a great deal of information about the military tactics being developed by the Byzantine army during the tenth century. It is the first Byzantine source to record the reappearance of a specialized heavy cavalry (the kataphraktoi) and of a specialized infantry (the menavlatoi) used to repel the attacks of the opposing heavy cavalry. There is also a great deal of information on new infantry and cavalry formations and on the new tactics that required them. This is the first complete translation of the Sylloge into English. It is accompanied by a glossary of the specialised Greek military vocabulary used in the work and by footnotes which explain obscure references and identify the author’s classical and Byzantine sources. An introduction places the work in its historical and literary context and considers some of the questions that have remained unanswered over the centuries, such as its authorship and the date of its composition.
An English Translation Of The Poetry Of Lucillius A First Century Greek Epigrammatist
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Author : Lucillius
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
An English Translation Of The Poetry Of Lucillius A First Century Greek Epigrammatist written by Lucillius and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This is not the friend of Seneca or the grammarian of Tarrha, says Nystrom (humanities and religious studies, California State U.-Sacramento), but a poet considered minor whose work has therefore not been translated into English before. He finds him very clever despite his obscurity, and thinks readers will be pleased with the well-turned lines, comical caricatures, and interesting insights into the complexities of life in first-century Rome. His translations are intended to approximate the style and spirit of the original Greek, which appears on facing pages. For readers unfamiliar with classical culture, he includes explanatory notes on features of the poems they may find difficult. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
