The Seven Sages Of Ancient Greece
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The Seven Sages Of Ancient Greece
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Author : Constantine Cavarnos
language : el
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Seven Sages Of Ancient Greece written by Constantine Cavarnos and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Pre-Socratic philosophers categories.
A Study Of The Romance Of The Seven Sages
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Author : Killis Campbell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
A Study Of The Romance Of The Seven Sages written by Killis Campbell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Romances, English categories.
Tyranny And Political Culture In Ancient Greece
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Author : James F. McGlew
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-05
Tyranny And Political Culture In Ancient Greece written by James F. McGlew and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-05 with History categories.
Resistance to the tyrant was an essential stage in the development of the Greek city-state. In this richly insightful book, James F. McGlew examines the significance of changes in the Greek political vocabulary that came about as a result of the history of ancient tyrants. Surveying a vast range of historical and literary sources, McGlew looks closely at discourse concerning Greek tyranny as well as at the nature of the tyrants' power and the constraints on power implicit in that discourse. Archaic tyrants, he shows, characteristically represented themselves as agents of justice. Taking their self-representation not as an ideological veil concealing the nature of tyranny but as its conceptual definition, he attempts to show that, although the language of reform gave tyrants unprecedented political freedom, it also marked their powers as temporary. Tyranny took shape, McGlew maintains, through discursive complicity between the tyrant and his subjects, who presumably accepted his self-definition but also learned from him the language and methods of resistance. The tyrant's subjects learned to resist him as they learned to obey him, but when they rejected him they did so in such a way as to preserve for themselves the distinctive political freedoms that he enjoyed. Providing a new framework for understanding ancient tyranny, this book will be read with great interest by classicists, political scientists, and ancient and modern historians alike.
The Siren And The Sage
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Author : Steven Shankman
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2003-09-16
The Siren And The Sage written by Steven Shankman and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-16 with Philosophy categories.
The cultures of ancient China and ancient Greece have exerted immeasurable influence on later civilizations. The texts and cultural values of classical China spread throughout East Asia and became the foundation of learning in Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Greek learning and culture receive credit for many of the intellectual paradigms of the West. Probably the one which is most distinctly Western is the tradition of logical proof and the related assumption that, as Aristotle put it in 'Metaphysics' 980, 'we all desire to know.' In contrast, the Chinese tradition, as exemplified by Laozi's 'Dao de jing,' cautions that through our desire to know we may forfeit wisdom, thus engendering a split between knowledge and wisdom. 'The Siren and the Sage' is a comparative study of what some of the most influential writers of ancient China and ancient Greece thought it meant to know and whether they distinguished knowledge from wisdom. It surveys selected works of poetry, history and philosophy from roughly the eighth through the second centuries BCE, focusing on the 'Odyssey,' the ancient Chinese 'Classic of Poetry,' Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War,' Sima Qian's 'Records of the Historian,' Plato's 'Symposium,' Laozi's 'Dao de jing' and the writings of Zhuangzi. The intention, through such juxtaposition, is to introduce foundational texts of each tradition, texts which continue to influence most of the world's peoples. It is intriguing to ask what awareness, if any, these distinctive cultures had of each other. A considerable body of scholarship comparing ancient Greece and ancient China now exists. Scholars are presenting evidence that the two cultures may actually have been aware of each other's presence, even though that awareness was presumably indirect, perhaps mediated by the nomadic peoples of Central Asia. While not directly contributing evidence, the authors argue that comparing the cultures of Greece and China will continue to be an irresistible and important scholarly debate. The book offers a provocative study which is accessible to students and general readers and at the same time contributes to the debate.
I Am Number Four
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Author : Pittacus Lore
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011
I Am Number Four written by Pittacus Lore and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Fiction categories.
Nine teenagers and their guardians are hiding on Earth - protected by a charm that means they can only be killed in numeric order, three are already dead. John Smith is Number Four. And his mortal enemies are hunting him down.
The Man In The Courtyard And The Tablets Of Solon
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Author : A. Alexander Volenski
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-03-13
The Man In The Courtyard And The Tablets Of Solon written by A. Alexander Volenski and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-13 with categories.
The Man in the Courtyard, a historical fiction of ancient Greece, time setting 600BC, the man Solon, his everyday expression, experiences, his journal entries. The Tablets of Solon (638-558BC); lawmaker and lyric poet, one of the 7 Sages of Ancient Greece; this is a historical fiction of the Statesman, his comments, travels, and reading of the Secret Tablets.
A Dictionary Of Classical Greek Quotations
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Author : Marinos Yeroulanos
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-06-30
A Dictionary Of Classical Greek Quotations written by Marinos Yeroulanos and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-30 with History categories.
'Human wisdom is of little or no value', wrote Plato in his Apology. And yet the ancient Greeks, including Plato himself, more than any other people of antiquity were fascinated by the pursuit of the wisdom they called philosophia. That search for knowledge involved an extensive use of maxims and quotations, as we can see from those expressions of Homer prefaced by the phrase 'as people say'. Homer, the Seven Sages and the Pre-Socratic philosophers are still extensively quoted in all the major western languages. Yet for all their popularity, until now there has been no single resource to which interested readers might turn. This unique reference book offers one of the most comprehensive selections of Greek quotations ever committed to print. With its English text matched by the original Greek, the volume collects 7500 entries, ranging from the archaic period to late antiquity, and across philosophy, drama, poetry, history, science and medicine, each indexed with key words to enable fast sourcing. Together, these selections provide an incomparable insight into the glories of Greek civilization.
Solon
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Author : Bernard Randall
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2003-12-15
Solon written by Bernard Randall and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Describes the life and accomplishments of the Athenian leader who brought about major changes in the government and legal system that paved the way for democratic rule, and places him in the context of his times.
Lost Masters
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Author : Linda Johnsen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Lost Masters written by Linda Johnsen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Greece categories.
Reveals the historical connections between ancient Greece and the yogis of the Himalayas. Influential thinkers--including Plata and Pythagoras--were influenced by sages of the East.
Encyclopedia Of The Ancient Greek World
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Author : David Sacks
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2014-05-14
Encyclopedia Of The Ancient Greek World written by David Sacks and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with History categories.
Discusses the people, places and events found in over 2,000 years of Greek civilization.