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701) Fire from Heaven
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Alexander the Great stands alone as a leader and strategist, and Fire from Heaven is Mary Renault's unsurpassed dramatization of the formative years of his life. His parents fight for their precocious son's love: On one side, his volatile father, Philip, and on the other, his overbearing mother, Olympias. The story tells of the conqueror's two great bonds-to his horse, Oxhead, and to his dearest friend and eventual lover, Hephaistion-and of the army...
702) Alcibiades
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While the Americans were fighting in Vietnam, a struggle of even greater strategic significance was taking place in the Middle East: the Sultanate of Oman guards the entrance to the Arabian Gulf, and thus controls the movement of oil from that region. In the 1960s and 70s, the Communists tried to seize this artery and, had they succeeded, the consequences for the West and for the Middle East would have been disastrous - and yet, few people have ever...
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Whether you want to explore the Acropolis of Athens, watch the sunset in Santorini, or party in Mykonos, the local Fodor's travel experts in Greece are here to help! Fodor's Essential Greece: With the Best of the Islands guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been fully-redesigned with an easy-to-read...
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Join me on a captivating voyage through the enchanting island of Ios in this immersive travel adventure, where lively beach parties and quaint village charm await. From the bustling streets lined with bougainvillea to the tranquil shores lapped by crystal-clear waters, experience the irresistible allure of island life.This memoir is not just a travelogue; it's a soul-stirring journey through the heart of the Greek islands, capturing the essence of...
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Découvrez la Grèce contemporaine, ravagée par l'occupation allemande et la guerre civile entre collabos et communistes.
Le Vol d'Icare est le récit de la découverte, au lendemain de la guerre, d'un pays mythique par Kevin Andrews, un jeune Américain étudiant en archéologie. En 1947, la Grèce reste littéralement ravagée par l'occupation allemande et surtout la guerre civile, entre collabos et communistes, dont les flammes ne sont pas éteintes....
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Recent archaeological discoveries, coupled with long-lost but now available epigraphical evidence, and a more expansive view of literary sources, provide new and dramatic evidence of the emergence of rhetoric in ancient Greece. Many of these artifacts, gathered through onsite fieldwork in Greece, are analyzed in this revised and expanded edition of Greek Rhetoric Before Aristotle. This new evidence, along with recent developments in research methods...
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This exciting essay focuses on the explanation and analysis of Arrian's Discourses of Epictetus, one the most influential works in history and whose understanding, due to its complexity and depth, escapes comprehension on a first reading.Whether you have already read Discourses of Epictetus or not, this essay will allow you to immerse yourself in each and every one of its meanings, opening a window to Epictetus' philosophical thought and Arrian's...
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Extrait: "Un olivier au large feuillage était planté dans ma cour, vigoureux, fleurissant, épais et pareil à une colonne. Autour de lui je construisis ma chambre nuptiale, j'entassai les fortes pierres, je mis un toit, je posai les portes compactes et solides. Puis je retranchai sa chevelure large de rameaux; je coupai le tronc au-dessus des racines, je le polis soigneusement avec l'airain, et, travaillé au cordeau, je fis de lui le gros support."...
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Jean-Luc Fournet is the Chair of Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology at the Collège de France in Paris.
Coptic emerged as the written form of the Egyptian language in the third century, when Greek was still the official language in Egypt. By the time of the Arab conquest of Egypt in 641, Coptic had almost achieved official status, but only after an unusually prolonged period of stagnation. Jean-Luc Fournet traces this complex...
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Heroes, Gods and Monsters in Ancient Greek Mythology' is a collection of classic archetypal Ancient Greek myths, including the stories of Jason, Perseus, Odysseus, Heracles, Oedipus and Theseus, and many more dark and delirious, famous Ancient Greek myths. These stories, which have had a great influence on thinkers throughout the centuries, inform popular culture even today. Here they are told as if by a fireside storyteller, detailing the horrific...
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Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides. He is often, described as the father of tragedy: our knowledge of the genre begins with his work and our understanding of earlier tragedies is largely, based on inferences from his surviving plays. Only seven of his estimated seventy to ninety plays have survived into modern times. Fragments of some other...
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In “Climbing Parnassus”, Tracy Lee Simmons presents a defense and vindication of the formative power of Greek and Latin. He also shows how these languages have played a crucial role in the development of authentic Humanism, the foundation of the West's cultural order and America's understanding of itself as a union of citizens. Simmons's persuasive witness to the unique, now all-but-forgotten advantages of study in and of the classical languages...
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The Temple Priestesses of Antiquity tells the story of the Oracles and Sibyls, Seers, Psychics, Sacred Dancers and Healers of ancient civilizations. They were empowered women who enthralled those who sought their advice and served the Goddess they revered. Tales about ancient Priestesses and the Sacred Temples where they lived, prayed and worked thousands of years ago, have fascinated archaeologists and historians for decades. Living in complex temple...
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This book starts in Nassau Bahamas with a six-year old's perspective on how calves are born, and ends with the mapping out of a newly discovered million-square-mile WWII battlefield. There are over 100 articles published in roughly 75 periodicals in nearly half a dozen countries. Publications range from Oxford Today to Cruising World, and the primary focus is on memoir, maritime history, and non-fiction. There is only one illustration, as they others...
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Extrait: "Les personnages du drame qui depuis trente ans se joue sous nos yeux se retirent. Les acteurs populaires ont descendu les premiers dans les tombeaux qu'ils avaient placés sur la scène: ils sont emporté avec eux quelques têtes couronnées; d'autres potentats, en plus grand nombre, les ont suivis, Louis XIV, Louis XVII, Gustave III, Pie VI, Léopold II, Pie VII, Catherine II, Sélim III, ..."
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717) Stoic and Epicurean
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The ongoing popularity of Seneca's Letters from a Stoic and Marcus Aurelius's Meditations testifies to a continuing interest in Stoic philosophy. Epicureanism offers the other side of the same coin, and in spite of the obvious differences between the two philosophies, it is easy to discern their fundamental similarities. Both value practice over theory and acknowledge the worth of sense and experience. Both seek answers to such questions as what makes...
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Focusing on one of the most dramatic and controversial periods in modern Greek history and in the history of the Cold War, James Edward Miller provides the first study to employ a wide range of international archives--American, Greek, English, and French--together with foreign language publications to shed light on the role the United States played in Greece between the termination of its civil war in 1949 and Turkey's 1974 invasion of Cyprus.Miller...
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Federica Carugati is a program director at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
A comprehensive account of how the Athenian constitution was created-with lessons for contemporary constitution-building
We live in an era of constitution-making. More than half of the world's constitutions have been drafted in the past half-century. Yet, one question still eludes theorists and practitioners alike: how do...
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John Boardman is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Oxford's Beazley Archive. He is Professor Emeritus of Classical Art and Archaeology at Lincoln College, Oxford, and former Assistant Keeper at the Ashmolean Museum. His many books include The Greeks Overseas, The History of Greek Vases, and The Greeks in Asia.
An illustrious scholar presents an elegant, concise, and generously illustrated exploration...
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