The Phratries Of Attica
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The Phratries Of Attica
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Author : S. D. Lambert
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 1998
The Phratries Of Attica written by S. D. Lambert and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
Presents the innovative view that the classical Greek "phratry" system reflected democratic government rather than aristocratic.
Attica
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Author : Charles River Editors
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-02-08
Attica written by Charles River Editors and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-08 with categories.
*Includes pictures *Includes ancient descriptions of Attica and Athens *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading According to Herodotus, the Persians offered the Athenians an alliance in 480 BCE. The other Greek city-states (polei) were understandably concerned that the Athenians, who had proved so crucial in defeating the Persians at Salamis, might take up the offer. The Athenians, however, responded, "If we were offered all the gold in the world or the most beautiful and fertile land imaginable, we would never be willing to join our common enemy and be party to the enslavement of Greece. First there is the burning and desecration of our temples and the images of our gods which compels us to extract from the perpetrators the greatest vengeance we can rather than come to terms with them. Then there is our Greek heritage, the bond of blood and language, our holy altars and sacrifices, and our common way of life, which it would ill become Athens to betray, as long as a single Athenian survives there will be no terms with Xerxes." In this statement, Athenian attitudes toward what it meant to be Greek are clearly and eloquently articulated. The core of being Greek lay in the fact that they shared a common outlook on life, rather than a common country. To an extent, that attitude has even prevailed into modern times; the 20th century Greek monarch, for example, held the title of "King of the Hellenes" rather than "King of Hellas." What, therefore, was the role - if any - of the land itself in shaping Greek (and particularly Athenian) attitudes toward themselves and their way of life? Did the land play any significant part at all in forming Greeks and Athenians? To answer these questions, it is essential to examine the impact of climate and landscape in the region known as Attica on the creation of Greek culture. The Greek world in the Classical period is not synonymous with modern day Greece but extended far more widely and included anywhere Greek was spoken, including southern Italy, Sicily, France, Spain, the eastern coast of modern day Turkey, and the settlements along the Black Sea and the Libyan coast. By the beginning of the 8th century BCE, Greeks were scattered throughout the Mediterranean and beyond. However, despite the fantastic tales and legends that came back to the homeland, most Greeks were constrained by the need to earn a living from their farms, the consequent daily calls on their time and - most importantly - the physical barriers imposed on them by the landscape in which they lived. It is in this context that any examination of the impact on Athens, or Attica, by its geography must be viewed. The Athenian polis was contiguous with Attica, a large triangular peninsula which pushed southeastward from the Greek mainland to the Aegean Sea. The city of Athens itself lay on a coastal plain surrounded by four mountains: Hymettos, Pentelikon, Parnes, and Aigaleos. In the 5th century, the city covered an area of approximately 2 square miles surrounding the Acropolis and was defended by a wall of approximately 4 miles in length. Athens is the best known of the ancient Greek cities and, as a result, Athens and Greece are often, yet incorrectly, seen as interchangeable terms. In many ways, Athens was exceptional in comparison with its fellow Greek city-states. The Athenians boasted of being autochthonous - that is, they claimed to be the original inhabitants of Attica and argued they had not come to the area from another region. This strong identification with the region of Attica, coupled with the actual physical geography of the area, was central to the way in which Athens developed, and it provides the underlying basis for any explanation as to why Athens became so exceptional in terms of its legacy and impact upon the world.
Days In Attica
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Author : Ellen Sophia Hodgkin Bosanquet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1914
Days In Attica written by Ellen Sophia Hodgkin Bosanquet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1914 with Athens (Greece) categories.
An Encyclopedic Chronology Of Greece And Its History
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Author : Demetrios Protopsaltis
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2012-05-09
An Encyclopedic Chronology Of Greece And Its History written by Demetrios Protopsaltis and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-09 with History categories.
An Encyclopedic Chronology of Greece and Its History
Childhood In Ancient Athens
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Author : Lesley A. Beaumont
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-17
Childhood In Ancient Athens written by Lesley A. Beaumont and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-17 with History categories.
Childhood in Ancient Athens offers an in-depth study of children during the heyday of the Athenian city state, thereby illuminating a significant social group largely ignored by most ancient and modern authors alike. It concentrates not only on the child's own experience, but also examines the perceptions of children and childhood by Athenian society: these perceptions variously exhibit both similarities and stark contrasts with those of our own 21st century Western society. The study covers the juvenile life course from birth and infancy through early and later childhood, and treats these life stages according to the topics of nurture, play, education, work, cult and ritual, and death. In view of the scant ancient Greek literary evidence pertaining to childhood, Beaumont focuses on the more copious ancient visual representations of children in Athenian pot painting, sculpture, and terracotta modelling. Notably, this is the first full-length monograph in English to address the iconography of childhood in ancient Athens, and it breaks important new ground by rigorously analysing and evaluating classical art to reconstruct childhood’s social history. With over 120 illustrations, the book provides a rich visual, as well as narrative, resource for the history of childhood in classical antiquity.
Athens And Attica
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Author : Christopher Wordsworth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1855
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Theophrastus Characters
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Author : Theophrastus
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-12-16
Theophrastus Characters written by Theophrastus 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 2004-12-16 with History categories.
Theophrastus' Characters is a collection of 30 short character-sketches of various types of individuals who might be met in the streets of Athens in the late fourth century BC. It is a work which had a profound influence on European literature, and this is a detailed and elaborate treatment of it. This edition presents an improved text, a translation which is designed both to be readable and to bring out fully the nuances of the very difficult Greek, and a commentary which covers every feature of the text and its interpretation and offers particularly full elucidation of the often enigmatic references to contemporary social practices and historical events. There is also a lengthy introduction, which discusses the antecedents and affiliations of the work, its date, its purpose, and the manuscript tradition. Extensive indexes are also provided, including an Index Verborum.
Ancient Greece
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Author : Matthew Dillon
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-06-18
Ancient Greece written by Matthew Dillon and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-18 with History categories.
The third edition of a definitive collection of source material on Greek social and political history from 800 to 399 BC, from all over the Greek world.
Cults Myths Oracles And Politics In Ancient Greece
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Author : Martin Persson Nilsson
language : en
Publisher: New York : Cooper Square Publishers
Release Date : 1972
Cults Myths Oracles And Politics In Ancient Greece written by Martin Persson Nilsson and has been published by New York : Cooper Square Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with History categories.
The Psychology Of The Athenian Hoplite
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Author : Jason Crowley
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-08-02
The Psychology Of The Athenian Hoplite written by Jason Crowley 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 2012-08-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Using current socio-psychological research, this book reveals exactly why amateur Athenian hoplites unhesitatingly engaged their enemies in savage close-quarters combat.