Author: Robert Garland
Publisher: Sterling
ISBN: 9781454909088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
You'll explore all aspects of Greek life: literacy, household chores, education, illness, festivals, economy and trade, coinage, law and order, military service, the Olympic Games, theatrical performances, mythology, and more.
Ancient Greece
Author: Robert Garland
Publisher: Sterling
ISBN: 9781454909088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
You'll explore all aspects of Greek life: literacy, household chores, education, illness, festivals, economy and trade, coinage, law and order, military service, the Olympic Games, theatrical performances, mythology, and more.
Publisher: Sterling
ISBN: 9781454909088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
You'll explore all aspects of Greek life: literacy, household chores, education, illness, festivals, economy and trade, coinage, law and order, military service, the Olympic Games, theatrical performances, mythology, and more.
The Book of the Ancient Greeks
Author: Dorothy Mills
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Ancient Greece
Author: Peter Connolly
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199108107
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Explores the history of the early civilization of Greece, as well as, their architecture, art, sports, poetry, drama, and music.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199108107
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Explores the history of the early civilization of Greece, as well as, their architecture, art, sports, poetry, drama, and music.
Women in Ancient Greece
Author: Sue Blundell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674954731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Largely excluded from any public role, the women of ancient Greece nonetheless appear in various guises in the art and writing of the period, and in legal documents. These representations, in Sue Blundell's analysis, reveal a great deal about women's day-to-day experience as well as their legal and economic position - and how they were regarded by men.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674954731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Largely excluded from any public role, the women of ancient Greece nonetheless appear in various guises in the art and writing of the period, and in legal documents. These representations, in Sue Blundell's analysis, reveal a great deal about women's day-to-day experience as well as their legal and economic position - and how they were regarded by men.
Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind
Author: Edith Hall
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393244121
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"Wonderful…a thoughtful discussion of what made [the Greeks] so important, in their own time and in ours." —Natalie Haynes, Independent The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient Greeks, acclaimed classics scholar Edith Hall offers a bold synthesis of the full 2,000 years of Hellenic history to show how the ancient Greeks were the right people, at the right time, to take up the baton of human progress. Hall portrays a uniquely rebellious, inquisitive, individualistic people whose ideas and creations continue to enthrall thinkers centuries after the Greek world was conquered by Rome. These are the Greeks as you’ve never seen them before.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393244121
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"Wonderful…a thoughtful discussion of what made [the Greeks] so important, in their own time and in ours." —Natalie Haynes, Independent The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient Greeks, acclaimed classics scholar Edith Hall offers a bold synthesis of the full 2,000 years of Hellenic history to show how the ancient Greeks were the right people, at the right time, to take up the baton of human progress. Hall portrays a uniquely rebellious, inquisitive, individualistic people whose ideas and creations continue to enthrall thinkers centuries after the Greek world was conquered by Rome. These are the Greeks as you’ve never seen them before.
Ancient Greece
Author: Sarah B. Pomeroy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199846047
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Political, Social, and Cultural History is a comprehensive and balanced history, covering the political, military, social, cultural, and economic history of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Era.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199846047
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Political, Social, and Cultural History is a comprehensive and balanced history, covering the political, military, social, cultural, and economic history of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Era.
Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks
Author: Robert Garland
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031335815X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Ancient Greece comes alive in this exploration of the daily lives of ordinary people-men and women, children and the elderly, slaves and foreigners, rich and poor. With new information drawn from the most current research, this volume presents a wealth of information on every aspect of ancient Greek life. Discover why it was more desirable to be a slave than a day laborer. Examine cooking methods and rules of ancient warfare. Uncover Greek mythology. Learn how Greeks foretold the future. Understand what life was like for women, and what prevailing attitudes were toward sexuality, marriage, and divorce. This volume brings ancient Greek life home to readers through a variety of anecdotes and primary source passages from contemporary authors, allowing comparison between the ancient world and modern life. A multitude of resources will engage students and interested readers, including a Making Connections feature which offers interactive and fun ideas for research assignments. The concluding chapter places the ancient world in the present, covering new interpretations like the movie 300, the founding of modern Greece, and the ways in which classical culture still affects our own. With over 60 illustrations, a timeline of events, a glossary of terms, and an extensive print and nonprint bibliography, this volume offers a unique and descriptive look at one of the most influential eras in human history.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031335815X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Ancient Greece comes alive in this exploration of the daily lives of ordinary people-men and women, children and the elderly, slaves and foreigners, rich and poor. With new information drawn from the most current research, this volume presents a wealth of information on every aspect of ancient Greek life. Discover why it was more desirable to be a slave than a day laborer. Examine cooking methods and rules of ancient warfare. Uncover Greek mythology. Learn how Greeks foretold the future. Understand what life was like for women, and what prevailing attitudes were toward sexuality, marriage, and divorce. This volume brings ancient Greek life home to readers through a variety of anecdotes and primary source passages from contemporary authors, allowing comparison between the ancient world and modern life. A multitude of resources will engage students and interested readers, including a Making Connections feature which offers interactive and fun ideas for research assignments. The concluding chapter places the ancient world in the present, covering new interpretations like the movie 300, the founding of modern Greece, and the ways in which classical culture still affects our own. With over 60 illustrations, a timeline of events, a glossary of terms, and an extensive print and nonprint bibliography, this volume offers a unique and descriptive look at one of the most influential eras in human history.
How People Lived in Ancient Greece
Author: Colin Hynson
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9781435826212
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Describes everyday life among the ancient Greeks, covering family life, marriage, leisure, education, clothing, food and drink, warfare, religion, and funerals.
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9781435826212
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Describes everyday life among the ancient Greeks, covering family life, marriage, leisure, education, clothing, food and drink, warfare, religion, and funerals.
Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens
Author: Robin Waterfield
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198727887
Category : Civilization, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
A fascinating, accessible, and up-to-date history of the Ancient Greeks. Covering the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods, and centred around the disunity of the Greeks, their underlying cultural unity, and their eventual political unification.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198727887
Category : Civilization, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
A fascinating, accessible, and up-to-date history of the Ancient Greeks. Covering the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods, and centred around the disunity of the Greeks, their underlying cultural unity, and their eventual political unification.
Sport and Society in Ancient Greece
Author: Mark Golden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521497909
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Sport and Society in Ancient Greece provides a concise and readable introduction to ancient Greek sport. It covers such topics as the links between sport, religion and warfare, the origins and history of the Olympic games, and the spirit of competition among the Greeks. Its main focus, however, is on Greek sport as an arena for the creation and expression of difference among individuals and groups. Sport not only identified winners and losers. It also drew boundaries between groups (Greeks and barbarians, boys and men, males and females) and offered a field for debate on the relative worth of athletic and equestrian competition. The book includes guides to the ancient evidence and to modern scholarship on the subject.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521497909
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Sport and Society in Ancient Greece provides a concise and readable introduction to ancient Greek sport. It covers such topics as the links between sport, religion and warfare, the origins and history of the Olympic games, and the spirit of competition among the Greeks. Its main focus, however, is on Greek sport as an arena for the creation and expression of difference among individuals and groups. Sport not only identified winners and losers. It also drew boundaries between groups (Greeks and barbarians, boys and men, males and females) and offered a field for debate on the relative worth of athletic and equestrian competition. The book includes guides to the ancient evidence and to modern scholarship on the subject.