Author: Miroslav MarcovichPublisher:
ISBN: 9780252005169
Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Illinois Classical Studies
Author: Miroslav MarcovichPublisher:
ISBN: 9780252005169
Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Illinois Classical Studies
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Illinois Classical Studies
Author: [Illinois classical studies / Supplement ] ; Illinois classical studies. Supplement
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Author: [Anonymus AC00407448]Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical antiquities
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Illinois Classical Studies
Author: Illinois Classical Studies
Author: Classical Studies Presented to Ben Edwin Perry by His Students and Colleagues at the University of Illinois, 1924-60
Author: Ben Edwin PerryPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Other Natures
Author: Clara Bosak-SchroederPublisher:
ISBN: 0520343484
Category : Ethnologists
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
"Ancient Greek ethnographies-Greek descriptions of other peoples-provide unique resources for understanding ancient Greek environmental thought and assumptions and anxieties about how humans relate to the rest of nature. In Other Natures, Clara Bosak-Schroeder persuasively demonstrates how non-Greek communities affect and are in turn deeply affected by their local animals, plants, climate, and landscape. By exploring the works of seminal authors such as Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus, she shows how they used ethnography to explore, question, and challenge how Greeks themselves ate, procreated, nurtured, collaborated, accumulated, and consumed. In so doing, she recuperates an important strain of ancient thought that is directly relevant to vital questions and ideas being posed today by the environmental humanities-that human life and well-being are inextricable from the life and well-being of the nonhuman world. By turning to ancient ethnographies, we can uncover important models for confronting environmental crisis"--
Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City
Author: Antony AugoustakisPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350144266
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This is the first volume of essays published on the television series Troy: Fall of a City (BBC One and Netflix, 2018). Covering a wide range of engaging topics, such as gender, race and politics, international scholars in the fields of classics, history and film studies discuss how the story of Troy has been recreated on screen to suit the expectations of modern audiences. The series is commended for the thought-provoking way it handles important issues arising from the Trojan War narrative that continue to impact our society today. With discussions centered on epic narrative, cast and character, as well as tragic resonances, the contributors tackle gender roles by exploring the innovative ways in which mythological female figures such as Helen, Aphrodite and the Amazons are depicted in the series. An examination is also made into the concept of the hero and how the series challenges conventional representations of masculinity. We encounter a significant investigation of race focusing on the controversial casting of Achilles, Patroclus, Zeus and other series characters with Black actors. Several essays deal with the moral and ethical complexities surrounding warfare, power and politics. The significance of costume and production design are also explored throughout the volume.
Bridging Divides
Author: Theodore L. BrownPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252090640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Bridging Divides offers a first-hand account of the origins of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, an interdisciplinary research institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign devoted to leading-edge research in the physical sciences, computation, engineering, biology, behavior, cognition, and neuroscience. The book follows the progress of the Beckman Institute's creation, from the initial conceptualization of a large, multi-disciplinary institute; through proposal formulation; to the architectural design and actual construction of its state-of-the-art building, made possible by the largest gift made to any public university at the time: a $40 million contribution from Illinois alumnus and founder of Beckman Instruments, Inc., Arnold O. Beckman and his wife Mabel M. Beckman. Theodore L. Brown, the founding director of the Beckman Institute, brings an insider's personal perspective on its conception and its early operations. The evolution of a physical facility that matched a developing sense of what multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research might be was a vital ingredient in the Institute's development. In addition, because the Institute represented a dramatic departure from traditional university organization, many challenges involving its administration and faculty had to be overcome. A celebration of the Beckman Institute's first twenty years of operation since the building's completion in 1989, Bridging Divides provides an informative look back at the history of this groundbreaking interdisciplinary research center. The book also includes forewords by Stanley O. Ikenberry, former president of the University of Illinois, and Richard H. Herman, chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.