Syracuse The Fairest Greek City
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Syracuse The Fairest Greek City
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Author : Bonna Daix Wescoat
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
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Syracuse The Fairest Greek City
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Author : Maxwell Lincoln Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Leonardo Arte
Release Date : 1989
Syracuse The Fairest Greek City written by Maxwell Lincoln Anderson and has been published by Leonardo Arte this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Architecture categories.
Cicero said of ancient Syracuse in Sicily that it was the "largest and the loveliest of all cities." Over four thousand objects from excavations, displayed at the Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi, bear ample testimony to the city's status as perhaps the most powerful and cultured city in the Greek world. Still, many more exquisite objects remain in storerooms. This collection brings to light some of these stored ancient treasures, which together comprise an artistic portrait of Greek Syracuse. The catalog includes eight scholarly essays that place the artifacts against the background of the social, political, economic, and religious framework of the polis.
Syracuse The Fairest Greek City
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Author : Museum of Art and Archaeology (Atlanta, Ga).
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
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Syracuse The Fairest Greek City Ancient Art From The Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi 1 November 1989 To 14 May 1990
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Author : Emory University. Museum of Art and Archaeology
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Syracuse The Fairest Greek City Ancient Art From The Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi 1 November 1989 To 14 May 1990 written by Emory University. Museum of Art and Archaeology and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Greece categories.
Syracuse The Fairest Greek City Ancient Art From The Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi Exhibition November 1 1989 To May 14 1990 Emory University Museum Of Art And Archaeology Atlanta
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Author : Bonna Daix Wescoat
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Syracuse The Fairest Greek City Ancient Art From The Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi Exhibition November 1 1989 To May 14 1990 Emory University Museum Of Art And Archaeology Atlanta written by Bonna Daix Wescoat and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with categories.
Syracuse The Fairest Greek City
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language : en
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Release Date : 1989
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Syracuse City Of Legends
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Author : Jeremy Dummett
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2010-03-30
Syracuse City Of Legends written by Jeremy Dummett and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-30 with History categories.
Dubbed 'the greatest Greek city and the most beautiful of them all' by Cicero, Syracuse also boasts the richest history of anywhere in Sicily. Syracuse, City of Legends - the first modern historical guide to the city - explores Syracuse's place within the island and the wider Mediterranean and reveals why it continues to captivate visitors today, more than two and a half millennia after its foundation. For more than 1600 years, from its settlement by Greeks in 733 BC, Syracuse was the leading city in Sicily and at times one of the most powerful in the world. As a Greek city-state it competed with Athens and Carthage and was for a while an important ally of Rome. When Sicily became Rome's first province, Syracuse was the island's capital and was an important centre for early Christianity. Under Byzantine rule, the Emperor Constans II even moved his court to Syracuse for five years. Capture by the Arabs in 878 AD marked the end of ancient Syracuse but the city continued to evolve and during the Spanish era Caravaggio created one of his masterpieces, The Burial of Santa Lucia, in the city. After a devastating earthquake in 1693, a major rebuilding programme gave the city the characteristic Baroque appearance it retains today. Over its long and colourful life, Syracuse has been home to many creative figures, including Archimedes, the greatest mathematician of the ancient world, as well as host to Plato, Scipio Africanus, conqueror of Hannibal, and Caravaggio, who have all contributed to the rich history and atmosphere of this beguiling and distinctive Sicilian city. Generously illustrated, Syracuse, City of Legends also offers detailed descriptions of the principal monuments from each period in the city's life, explaining their physical location as well as their historical context. This vivid and engaging history weaves together the history, architecture and archaeology of Syracuse and will be an invaluable companion for anyone visiting the city as well as a compelling introduction to its ancient and modern history.
Ancient Syracuse
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Author : Richard Evans
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-22
Ancient Syracuse written by Richard Evans and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-22 with History categories.
Syracuse possesses a unique place in the history of the ancient Mediterranean because of its contribution to Greek culture and political thought and practice. Even in the first century BC Cicero could still declare ’You have often heard that of all the Greek cities Syracuse is the greatest and most beautiful.’ Sicily’s strategic location in the Mediterranean brought the city prosperity and power, placing it in the first rank of states in the ancient world. The history and governance of the city were recorded from the fifth century BC and the volume of literary sources comes close to matching the records of Athens or Rome. Combining literary and material evidence this monograph traces the history of Syracuse, offering new arguments about the date of the city’s foundation, and continues through the fifth century when, as a democracy, Syracuse’s military strength grew to equal that of Athens or Sparta, surpassing them in the early fourth century under the tyrant Dionysius I. From ca. 350 BC, however, the city’s fortunes declined as the state was wracked with civil strife as the tyranny lost control. The result was a collapse so serious that the city faced complete and imminent destruction.
Humanities
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language : en
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Release Date : 1990
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Ancient Terracottas From South Italy And Sicily In The J Paul Getty Museum
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Author : Maria Lucia Ferruzza
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2016-01-25
Ancient Terracottas From South Italy And Sicily In The J Paul Getty Museum written by Maria Lucia Ferruzza and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-25 with Art categories.
In the ancient world, terracotta sculpture was ubiquitous. Readily available and economical—unlike stone suitable for carving—clay allowed artisans to craft figures of remarkable variety and expressiveness. Terracottas from South Italy and Sicily attest to the prolific coroplastic workshops that supplied sacred and decorative images for sanctuaries, settlements, and cemeteries. Sixty terracottas are investigated here by noted scholar Maria Lucia Ferruzza, comprising a selection of significant types from the Getty’s larger collection—life-size sculptures, statuettes, heads and busts, altars, and decorative appliqués. In addition to the comprehensive catalogue entries, the publication includes a guide to the full collection of over one thousand other figurines and molds from the region by Getty curator of antiquities Claire L. Lyons. The free online edition of this open-access catalogue, available at www.getty.edu/publications/terracottas/ includes zoomable high-resolution photography and a select number of 360° rotations; the ability to filter the catalogue by location, typology, and date; and an interactive map drawn from the Ancient World Mapping Center and linked to the Getty's Thesaurus of Geographic Names and Pleiades. Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book; CSV and JSON downloads of the object data from the catalogue and the accompanying Guide to the Collection; and JPG and PPT downloads of the main catalogue images.