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archaeology of ancient Greece, from the Bronze Age through the Roman conquest. Suitable for students with no prior knowledge of ancient art, this book reviews the main objects and monuments of the ancient Greek world, emphasizing the context and function of these artefacts in their particular place and time. Students are led
- THE GREEKS AND THEIR HISTORIES
The Greeks and Their Histories: Myth, History, and Society....
- THE GREEKS AND THEIR HISTORIES
The Greeks and Their Histories: Myth, History, and Society. hans-joachim gehrke. The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse. vinciane pirenne-delforge and gabriella pironti.
Backgrounds of Ancient Greek History “Most things in the history of Greece have become a subject of dispute” is how Pausanias, the second-century a.d. author of a famous guide to sites throughout Greece, summed up the challenge and the fascination of thinking about the sig-nificance of ancient Greek history (Guide to Greece 4.2.3). The
In this book one of the world’s leading Hellenists brings together his many contributions over four decades to our understanding of early Greek literature, above all of elegiac poetry and its relation to fifth-century prose historiography, but also of early Greek epic, iambic, melic and epigrammatic poetry.
Athenaeus’ Deipnosophists, from the second-century AD, possesses an assortment of cultural details about the Greeks and “barbarians.” Ancient Greek historians, such as Athenaeus, described the practices and social rules regarding wine consumption.
Part Two comprises fifteen short essays on aspects of ancient Greek culture: language (script and dialects); folklore; music; dance; mythology; painting; theater; government; military structures; class structure; gender
Greeks came into contact with many and diverse foreign cultures between the Bronze Age and the Classical period. These contacts, both direct and indirect, expanded the horizons of the Greek world and made a central contribution to the emergence of civilization in the Bronze Age and its reemergence in the Iron Age.
