The Mirror Of Herodotus
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The Mirror Of Herodotus
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Author : François Hartog
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1988
The Mirror Of Herodotus written by François Hartog and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.
"The best book to come out on Herodotus in years."--G. E. R. Lloyd, King's College Cambridge
The Mirror Of Herodotus
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Author : François Hartog
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The Mirror Of Herodotus written by François Hartog and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with categories.
The Mirror Of Herodotus
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Author : François Hartog
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The Mirror Of Herodotus written by François Hartog and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History, Ancient categories.
Journeys To The Other Shore
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Author : Roxanne L. Euben
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2008-07-01
Journeys To The Other Shore written by Roxanne L. Euben 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 2008-07-01 with History categories.
The contemporary world is increasingly defined by dizzying flows of people and ideas. But while Western travel is associated with a pioneering spirit of discovery, the dominant image of Muslim mobility is the jihadi who travels not to learn but to destroy. Journeys to the Other Shore challenges these stereotypes by charting the common ways in which Muslim and Western travelers negotiate the dislocation of travel to unfamiliar and strange worlds. In Roxanne Euben's groundbreaking excursion across cultures, geography, history, genre, and genders, travel signifies not only a physical movement across lands and cultures, but also an imaginative journey in which wonder about those who live differently makes it possible to see the world differently. In the book we meet not only Herodotus but also Ibn Battuta, the fourteenth-century Moroccan traveler. Tocqueville's journeys are set against a five-year sojourn in nineteenth-century Paris by the Egyptian writer and translator Rifa'a Rafi' al-Tahtawi, and Montesquieu's novel Persian Letters meets with the memoir of an East African princess, Sayyida Salme. This extraordinary book shows that curiosity about the unknown, the quest to understand foreign cultures, critical distance from one's own world, and the desire to remake the foreign into the familiar are not the monopoly of any single civilization or epoch. Euben demonstrates that the fluidity of identities, cultures, and borders associated with our postcolonial, globalized world has a long history--one shaped not only by Western power but also by an Islamic ethos of travel in search of knowledge.
Journeys To The Other Shore
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Author : Euben
language : en
Publisher: Pearson Education India
Release Date : 2007-09
Journeys To The Other Shore written by Euben and has been published by Pearson Education India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09 with categories.
Postcolonial Amazons
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Author : Walter Duvall Penrose Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-27
Postcolonial Amazons written by Walter Duvall Penrose Jr. 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 2016-10-27 with History categories.
Scholars have long been divided on the question of whether the Amazons of Greek legend actually existed. Notably, Soviet archaeologists' discoveries of the bodies of women warriors in the 1980s appeared to directly contradict western classicists' denial of the veracity of the Amazon myth, and there have been few concessions between the two schools of thought since. Postcolonial Amazons offers a ground-breaking re-evaluation of the place of martial women in the ancient world, bridging the gap between myth and historical reality and expanding our conception of the Amazon archetype. By shifting the center of debate to the periphery of the region known to the Greeks, the startling conclusion emerges that the ancient Athenian conception of women as weak and fearful was not at all typical of the region of that time, even within Greece. Surrounding the Athenians were numerous peoples who held that women could be courageous, able, clever, and daring, suggesting that although Greek stories of Amazons may be exaggerations, they were based upon a real historical understanding of women who fought. While re-examining the sources of the Amazon myth, this compelling volume also resituates the Amazons in the broader context from which they have been extracted, illustrating that although they were the quintessential example of female masculinity in ancient Greek thought, they were not the only instance of this phenomenon: masculine women were masqueraded on the Greek stage, described in the Hippocratic corpus, took part in the struggle to control Alexander the Great's empire after his death, and served as bodyguards in ancient India. Against the backdrop of the ongoing debates surrounding gender norms and fluidity, Postcolonial Amazons breaks new ground as an ancient history of female masculinity and demonstrates that these ideas have a much longer and more durable heritage than we may have supposed.
Ancient Narrative Volume 8
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language : en
Publisher: Barkhuis
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Greeks And Barbarians
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Author : Thomas Harrison
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2019-07-30
Greeks And Barbarians written by Thomas Harrison and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-30 with History categories.
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Ocr Classical Civilisation A Level Components 23 And 24
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Author : Athina Mitropoulos
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-08-24
Ocr Classical Civilisation A Level Components 23 And 24 written by Athina Mitropoulos and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-24 with Art categories.
This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Components 23 and 24 from the 'Culture and the Arts' Component Group: Invention of the Barbarian by Alastair Thorley Greek Art by Athina Mitropoulos and Laura Snook What image did the ancient Greeks have of themselves and others? How and why were men and women represented differently in Greek art? To what extent is modern western ideology still influenced by ancient Greek attitudes towards the east? This book offers both A-Level students and their teachers the opportunity to consider these and many other important questions. The ideas prevalent in fifth-century Athens retain their powerful influence across the modern world, regardless of whether we agree that they should. The ideal preparation for the final examinations, all content is presented by experts and experienced teachers in a clear and accessible narrative. Ancient literary and visual sources are described and analysed, with supporting images. Helpful student features include study questions, quotations from contemporary scholars, further reading, and boxes focusing in on key people, events and terms. Practice questions and exam guidance prepare students for assessment. A Companion Website is available at www.bloomsbury.com/class-civ-as-a-level.
Misinformation Disinformation And Propaganda In Greek Historiography
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Author : Thomas Figueira
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2024-12-12
Misinformation Disinformation And Propaganda In Greek Historiography written by Thomas Figueira and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-12 with History categories.
Mindful of the present state of discourse on ancient Greek historiography, this edited volume explores the major themes of pursuing factuality, managing witness/source bias, falling into historical error and creating or confronting propaganda. Even the greatest ancient historians, striving for factuality and truthfulness, must commence from subjectivity. Their works, when studied closely, reveal biases and conceptual or ideological distortions their own and others'. For this reason, Misinformation, Disinformation and Propaganda in Greek Historiography strives to evaluate the issues which stand in the way of factuality in historical texts and records. The contributors, all experts in the field, explore and question the accuracy of the historiography in question; the ancient author's fidelity to their sources; and the evidence presented in relation to inherited oral traditions. In this way, an ancient author's methodology is evaluated in terms of its probability, the awareness of its cultural variation and the influences which we can deduce within the texts. This volume presents an important contribution to the study of what constitutes fact and fiction within ancient Greek historiography.