Daughters Of Messene
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Daughters Of Messene
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Author : Maggie Rainey-Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-10
Daughters Of Messene written by Maggie Rainey-Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10 with Greece categories.
"Your history, Artemis, is full of female warriors." Artemis has the name of a goddess, but she has trouble living up to it. Instead she usually just runs away. She's running now ... away from the married man she's been seeing, and the Greek community in New Zealand who think they know what's best, and into the arms of family in the Peloponnese that she's never met. She carries her mother's ashes and an ipod with recordings, which bit by bit tell the shocking story of what happened to Artemis' grandmother during the Greek Civil War. Daughters of Messene is a story of a family of women - those who stayed in that broken but beautiful country, one who went to the ends of the earth to escape what she'd seen, and another who returned not knowing what it was she was looking for.
Aristomenes Of Messene
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Author : Daniel Ogden
language : en
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Release Date : 2004-12-31
Aristomenes Of Messene written by Daniel Ogden and has been published by Classical Press of Wales this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-31 with History categories.
With Aristomenes of Messene, Daniel Ogden identifies yet another fertile and undervalued topic in Ancient History. He has previously studied illegitimacy in the ancient Greek world (Greek Bastardy, OUP, 1996), Greek ideas about the relationship between deformity and power (Crooked Kings of Ancient Greece, Duckworth, 1997), the nature and causes of dynastic murder in the Hellenistic world (Polygamy, Prostitutes and Death, Classical Press of Wales, 1999) and the techniques of calling up the dead in the ancient world (Greek and Roman Necromancy, Princeton UP, 2001). Among his other books is a volume edited for the Classical Press of Wales, The Hellenistic World: New perspectives (2002).The legends of Aristomenes, hero of the Messenian resistance to Sparta, were designed to excite, gratify and amuse. Yet they remain almost unknown even to specialist ancient historians. This book, the first monograph to be devoted to Aristomenes, redirects attention to his adventures, which at times resemble those of King Arthur, Robin Hood and even Sinbad the Sailor. The book goes beyond the question of the historicity of Aristomenes, and examines the meaning and symbolism of the stories in their own right. The study will be welcomed by those with an interest in the history of Sparta, in Pausanias (our principal source for the tales), and in Greek traditional narrative. Famously, Sparta tried to suppress the identity and self-confidence of its Messenian helots. Yet here are stories which give access to the imagination of this long-muted but ultimately liberated people..
Bibliotheca Classica
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Author : John Lemprière
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1838
Bibliotheca Classica written by John Lemprière and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1838 with Classical dictionaries categories.
Bibliotheca Classica Or A Dictionary Of All The Principal Names And Terms Relating To The Geography Topography History Literature And Mythology Of Antiquity And Of The Ancients With A Chronological Table
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Author : John Lemprière
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1851
Bibliotheca Classica Or A Dictionary Of All The Principal Names And Terms Relating To The Geography Topography History Literature And Mythology Of Antiquity And Of The Ancients With A Chronological Table written by John Lemprière and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1851 with categories.
The Maid Of Messene A Tragedy In Three Acts And In Verse And Other Poems
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Author : Edward Henry Pember
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1855
The Maid Of Messene A Tragedy In Three Acts And In Verse And Other Poems written by Edward Henry Pember and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1855 with categories.
Messene Redeemed
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Author : Frank Laurence Lucas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1940
Messene Redeemed written by Frank Laurence Lucas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1940 with Messēnia (Greece) categories.
A Geographical And Historical Description Of Ancient Greece
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Author : John Anthony Cramer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1828
A Geographical And Historical Description Of Ancient Greece written by John Anthony Cramer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1828 with Greece categories.
The Historians History Of The World Vol 3 Of 25 Illustrations
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Author : Henry Smith Williams
language : en
Publisher: Press of J. J. Little & Co
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The Historians History Of The World Vol 3 Of 25 Illustrations written by Henry Smith Williams and has been published by Press of J. J. Little & Co this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
The history of Greek civilisation forms the centre of the history of antiquity. In the East, advanced civilisations with settled states had existed for thousands of years; and as the populations of Western Asia and of Egypt gradually came into closer political relations, these civilisations, in spite of all local differences in customs, religion, and habits of thought, gradually grew together into a uniform sphere of culture. This development reached its culmination in the rise of the great Persian universal monarchy, the “kingdom of the lands,” i.e. “of the world.” But from the very beginning these oriental civilisations are so completely dominated by the effort to maintain what has been won that all progress beyond this point is prevented. And although we can distinguish an individual, active, and progressive intellectual movement among many nations,—as in Egypt, among the Iranians and Indians, while among the Babylonians and Phœnicians nothing of the sort is thus far known,—nevertheless the forces that represent tradition are in the end everywhere victorious over it and force it to bow to their yoke. Hence, all oriental civilisations culminate in the creation of a theological system which governs all the relations and the whole field of thought of man, and is everywhere recognised as having existed from all eternity and as being inviolable to all future time. With the cessation of political life and the establishment of the universal monarchy, the nationality and the distinctive civilisation of the separate districts are restricted to religion, which has become theology. The development of oriental civilisation then subsides in the competition of these religions and the unavoidable coalescence consequent thereupon. This is true even of that nation which experienced the richest intellectual development, and did the most important work of all oriental peoples—the Israelites. When the great political storms from which the universal monarchy arose have spent their rage, Israel, the nation, has developed into Judaism; and under the Persian rule and with the help of the kingdom it organises itself as a church which seeks to put an end to all free individual movement, upon which the greatness of ancient Israel rests. It was just the same with the ruling nation, the Persians, however vigorous their entrance into history under Cyrus. The Persian kingdom is, indeed, a civilised state, but the civilisations that it includes lack the highest that a civilisation can offer: an energetic, independent life, a combination of the firm institutions and permanent attainments of the past with the free, progressive, and creative movement of individuality. So the East, after the Persian period, was unable of its own force to create anything new. It stagnated, and, had it not received new elements from without, had it been left permanently to itself, would perhaps in the course of centuries have altered its external form again and again, but would hardly have produced anything new or have progressed a step beyond what had already been attained. But when Cyrus and Darius founded the Persian kingdom, the East no longer stood alone. The nations and kingdoms of the East came into communication with the coast of the Mediterranean very early—not later than the beginning of the second millennium B.C.; and under their influence, about 1500 B.C., a civilisation arose among the Greeks bordering the Ægean. We call it the Mycenæan, and in spite of its formal dependence upon the East it could, in the field of art (where alone we have an exact knowledge of it), take an independent and equal place beside the great civilisations of the East.
The New American Encyclopaedia
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1865
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The New American Cyclop Dia Ed By G Ripley And C A Dana
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Author : American cyclopaedia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1861
The New American Cyclop Dia Ed By G Ripley And C A Dana written by American cyclopaedia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1861 with categories.