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Plague And The Athenian Imagination
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Author : Robin Mitchell-Boyask
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-12-13
Plague And The Athenian Imagination written by Robin Mitchell-Boyask and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
The great plague of Athens that began in 430 BCE had an enormous effect on the imagination of its literary artists and on the social imagination of the city as a whole. In this book, Professor Mitchell-Boyask studies the impact of the plague on Athenian tragedy early in the 420s and argues for a significant relationship between drama and the development of the cult of the healing god Asclepius in the next decade, during a period of war and increasing civic strife. The Athenian decision to locate their temple for Asclepius adjacent to the Theater of Dionysus arose from deeper associations between drama, healing and the polis that were engaged actively by the crisis of the plague. The book also considers the representation of the plague in Thucydides' History as well as the metaphors generated by that representation which recur later in the same work.
Plague Image And Imagination From Medieval To Modern Times
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Author : Christos Lynteris
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-07-29
Plague Image And Imagination From Medieval To Modern Times written by Christos Lynteris and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-29 with Science categories.
This edited collection brings together new research by world-leading historians and anthropologists to examine the interaction between images of plague in different temporal and spatial contexts, and the imagination of the disease from the Middle Ages to today. The chapters in this book illuminate to what extent the image of plague has not simply reflected, but also impacted the way in which the disease is experienced in different historical periods. The book asks what is the contribution of the entanglement between epidemic image and imagination to the persistence of plague as a category of human suffering across so many centuries, in spite of profound shifts in our medical understanding of the disease. What is it that makes plague such a visually charismatic subject? And why is the medical, religious and lay imagination of plague so consistently determined by the visual register? In answering these questions, this volume takes the study of plague images beyond its usual, art-historical framework, so as to examine them and their relation to the imagination of plague from medical, historical, visual anthropological, and postcolonial perspectives.
The Plague Of Athens
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Author : John Ireland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1832
The Plague Of Athens written by John Ireland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1832 with Athens (Greece) categories.
Hecuba
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Author : Euripides
language : en
Publisher: Focus
Release Date : 2006
Hecuba written by Euripides and has been published by Focus this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Drama categories.
English translation of Euripides' tragedy of the former queen, Hecuba's grief over the death of her children at the fall of Troy, and the revenge she takes. Includes an introduction on Euripides and ancient theater, an interpretive essay on the play, and bibliography.
The History Of The Plague Of Athens Tr With Remarks Explanatory Of Its Pathology By C Collier
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Author : Thucydides
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1857
The History Of The Plague Of Athens Tr With Remarks Explanatory Of Its Pathology By C Collier written by Thucydides and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1857 with Greece categories.
The Plague Of War
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Author : Jennifer Tolbert Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
The Plague Of War written by Jennifer Tolbert Roberts and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
A major new history of the violent, protracted conflict between ancient Athens and Sparta.
Urban Disasters And The Roman Imagination
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Author : Virginia M. Closs
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-09-21
Urban Disasters And The Roman Imagination written by Virginia M. Closs and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book affords new perspectives on urban disasters in the ancient Roman context, attending not just to the material and historical realities of such events, but also to the imaginary and literary possibilities offered by urban disaster as a figure of thought. Existential threats to the ancient city took many forms, including military invasions, natural disasters, public health crises, and gradual systemic collapses brought on by political or economic factors. In Roman cities, the memory of such events left lasting imprints on the city in psychological as well as in material terms. Individual chapters explore historical disasters and their commemoration, but others also consider of the effect of anticipated and imagined catastrophes. They analyze the destruction of cities both as a threat to be forestalled, and as a potentially regenerative agent of change, and the ways in which destroyed cities are revisited — and in a sense, rebuilt— in literary and social memory. The contributors to this volume seek to explore the Roman conception of disaster in terms that are not exclusively literary or historical. Instead, they explore the connections between and among various elements in the assemblage of experiences, texts, and traditions touching upon the theme of urban disasters in the Roman world.
The Plague Of Athens
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Author : Thomas Sprat (bp. of Rochester.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1676
The Plague Of Athens written by Thomas Sprat (bp. of Rochester.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1676 with categories.
Encyclopedia Of Plague And Pestilence Fourth Edition
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Author : George Childs Kohn
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Holdings, Inc
Release Date : 2021-11-01
Encyclopedia Of Plague And Pestilence Fourth Edition written by George Childs Kohn and has been published by Infobase Holdings, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-01 with History categories.
Praise for the previous edition: "...the entries provide vivid historical detail...No other work approaches this topic in such a brief, encyclopedic manner...a useful addition to any academic reference collection..."-Choice "...a useful resource for high school and public libraries..."-Booklist "...does an excellent job...a conscious effort to put a human perspective on pestilence...Given the climate of the times and the concerns about bioterrorism, this title would be useful for a variety of subject areas. Recommended."-The Book Report Tracing the history of infectious diseases from the Philistine plague of 11th century BCE to the COVID-19 pandemic, Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence, Fourth Edition is a comprehensive A-to-Z reference offering international coverage of this timely and fascinating subject. This updated volume provides concise descriptions of more than 740 epidemics, listed alphabetically by location of the outbreak. Each detailed entry includes when and where a particular epidemic began, how and why it happened, who it affected, how it spread and ran its course, and its outcome and significance. Full-color and black-and-white photographs, maps, appendixes, a bibliography, and a chronology are also included. New and updated coverage includes: Cholera Cocoliztli COVID-19 Ebola H1N1 Hepatitis A HIV/AIDS Legionnaires' Disease Malaria MERS Rift Valley fever Typhoid Yellow Fever Zika
Plague And The Athenian Imagination
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Author : Robin Mitchell-Boyask
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-06-30
Plague And The Athenian Imagination written by Robin Mitchell-Boyask and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
The great plague of Athens that began in 430 BCE had an enormous effect on the imagination of its literary artists and on the social imagination of the city as a whole. In this book, Professor Mitchell-Boyask studies the impact of the plague on Athenian tragedy early in the 420s and argues for a significant relationship between drama and the development of the cult of the healing god Asclepius in the next decade, during a period of war and increasing civic strife. The Athenian decision to locate their temple for Asclepius adjacent to the Theater of Dionysus arose from deeper associations between drama, healing and the polis that were engaged actively by the crisis of the plague. The book also considers the representation of the plague in Thucydides' History as well as the metaphors generated by that representation which recur later in the same work.