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| classical world history definition: The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World John Roberts, 2007 |
| classical world history definition: Classical Art Caroline Vout, 2018-05-29 How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as classical and as art? What does classical art mean across time and place? In this ambitious, richly illustrated book, art historian and classicist Caroline Vout provides an original history of how classical art has been continuously redefined over the millennia as it has found itself in new contexts and cultures. All of this raises the question of classical art's future. What we call classical art did not simply appear in ancient Rome, or in the Renaissance, or in the eighteenth-century Academy. Endlessly repackaged and revered or rebuked, Greek and Roman artifacts have gathered an amazing array of values, both positive and negative, in each new historical period, even as these objects themselves have reshaped their surroundings. Vout shows how this process began in antiquity, as Greeks of the Hellenistic period transformed the art of fifth-century Greece, and continued through the Roman empire, Constantinople, European court societies, the neoclassical English country house, and the nineteenth century, up to the modern museum. A unique exploration of how each period of Western culture has transformed Greek and Roman antiquities and in turn been transformed by them, this book revolutionizes our understanding of what classical art has meant and continues to mean. |
| classical world history definition: Classical Pasts James I. Porter, 2006 'Classical Pasts' addresses the concepts of a (so-called) 'classical' antiquity and the 'classical' ideal, which were once legion, and which today tend to be assumed and left unqueried rather than subjected to scrutiny. |
| classical world history definition: Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World , 2013-09-15 By offering fluent, accurate translations of extracts and fragments from a wide assortment of ancient texts, this volume allows a comprehensive overview of ancient Greek and Roman concepts of otherness, as well as Greek and Roman views of non-Greeks and non-Romans. A general introduction, thorough annotation, maps, a select bibliography, and an index are also included. |
| classical world history definition: World History Eugene Berger, Brian Parkinson, Larry Israel, Charlotte Miller, Andrew Reeves, Nadejda Williams, 2014 Annotation World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees in History, this textbook offers up-to-date original scholarship. It covers such cultures, states, and societies as Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel, Dynastic Egypt, India's Classical Age, the Dynasties of China, Archaic Greece, the Roman Empire, Islam, Medieval Africa, the Americas, and the Khanates of Central Asia. It includes 350 high-quality images and maps, chronologies, and learning questions to help guide student learning. Its digital nature allows students to follow links to applicable sources and videos, expanding their educational experience beyond the textbook. It provides a new and free alternative to traditional textbooks, making World History an invaluable resource in our modern age of technology and advancement. |
| classical world history definition: Meaning in History Karl Löwith, 1949 The theological implications of the philosophy of history, traced through the works of Buckhardt, Marx, Hegel, Proudhon, Comte, Condorcet, Turgot, Voltaire, Vico, Bossuet, Joachim, Augustine, Orosius and the Bible. |
| classical world history definition: The Roman World John Boardman, Jasper Griffin, Oswyn Murray, 1988 This collection tells the story of the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Roman Empire by Augustus. Chapters deal with subjects such as philosophy, arts, the conquests of Rome, Roman Emperors, Roman literature, Roman historians, and much more. |
| classical world history definition: A Dictionary of World History Anne Kerr, Edmund Wright, 2015-05-14 This wide-ranging dictionary contains a wealth of information on all aspects of history, from prehistory right up to the present day. Over 4,000 clear, concise entries include biographies of key figures in world history (living and dead), separate entries for every country in the world (summarising key historical events), and in-depth entries on religious and political movements, international organizations, and major conflicts and events and their after-effects. For this new edition, existing entries have been revised and updated to reflect the very latest global events including changes in leadership, wars, political situations, and the statistical information given for each country (population counts, currency, languages, religions). New entries have been included for key figures who have recently come to prominence and world events. The book also contains twenty-five detailed maps linked to key historical events and topics. These include the African slave trade, the Black Death, and the Normandy campaign. Also included are over 200 country maps. The dictionary is enhanced by entry-level web links which are accessed via a dedicated companion website. Encyclopedic in scope, this ambitious A to Z provides an excellent overview of world history both for students and anyone with an interest in the subject. |
| classical world history definition: Competition in the Ancient World Nick Fisher, Hans van Wees, 2010-12-31 Ancient peoples, like modern, spent much of their lives engaged in and thinking about competitions: both organised competitions with rules, audiences and winners, such as Olympic and gladiatorial games, and informal, indefinite, often violent, competition for fundamental goals such as power, wealth and honour. The varied papers in this book form a case for viewing competition for superiority as a major force in ancient history, including the earliest human societies and the Assyrian and Aztec empires. Papers on Greek history explore the idea of competitiveness as peculiarly Greek, the intense and complex quarrel at the heart of Homer's Iliad, and the importance of formal competitions in the creation of new political and social identities in archaic Sicyon and classical Athens. Papers on the Roman world shed fresh light on Republican elections, through a telling parallel from Renaissance Venice, on modes of competitive display of wealth and power evident in elite villas in Italy in the imperial period, and on the ambiguities in the competitive self-representations of athletes, sophists and emperors. |
| classical world history definition: Money in Classical Antiquity Sitta von Reden, 2010-11-18 A comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds. |
| classical world history definition: Demosthenes, Speeches 50-59 , 2010-01-01 This is the sixth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for the needs and interests of today's undergraduates, Greekless scholars in other disciplines, and the general public. Classical oratory is an invaluable resource for the study of ancient Greek life and culture. The speeches offer evidence on Greek moral views, social and economic conditions, political and social ideology, law and legal procedure, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have been largely ignored: women and family life, slavery, and religion, to name just a few. Demosthenes is regarded as the greatest orator of classical antiquity; indeed, his very eminence may be responsible for the inclusion under his name of a number of speeches he almost certainly did not write. This volume contains four speeches that are most probably the work of Apollodorus, who is often known as the Eleventh Attic Orator. Regardless of their authorship, however, this set of ten law court speeches gives a vivid sense of public and private life in fourth-century BC Athens. They tell of the friendships and quarrels of rural neighbors, of young men joined in raucous, intentionally shocking behavior, of families enduring great poverty, and of the intricate involvement of prostitutes in the lives of citizens. They also deal with the outfitting of warships, the grain trade, challenges to citizenship, and restrictions on the civic role of men in debt to the state. |
| classical world history definition: Globalisation and the Roman World Martin Pitts, Miguel John Versluys, 2015 This book applies modern theories of globalisation to the ancient Roman world, creating new understandings of Roman archaeology and history. This is the first book to intensely scrutinize the subject through a team of international specialists studying a wide range of topics, including imperialism, economics, migration, urbanism and art. |
| classical world history definition: Revolt and Resistance in the Ancient Classical World and the Near East John J. Collins, J.G. Manning, 2016-08-29 This collection of essays contains a state of the field discussion about the nature of revolt and resistance in the ancient world. While it does not cover the entire ancient world, it does focus in on the key revolts of the pre-Roman imperial world. Regardless of the exact sequence, it was an undeniable fact that the area we now call the Middle East witnessed a sequence of extensive empires in the second half of the last millennium BCE. At first, these spread from East to West (Assyria, Babylon, Persia). Then after the campaigns of Alexander, the direction of conquest was reversed. Despite the sense of inevitability, or of divinely ordained destiny, that one might get from the passages that speak of a sequence of world-empires, imperial rule was always contested. The essays in this volume consider some of the ways in which imperial rule was resisted and challenged, in the Assyrian, Persian, and Hellenistic (Seleucid and Ptolemaic) empires. Not every uprising considered in this volume would qualify as a revolution by this definition. Revolution indeed was on the far end of a spectrum of social responses to empire building, from resistance to unrest, to grain riots and peasant rebellions. The editors offer the volume as a means of furthering discussions on the nature and the drivers of resistance and revolution, the motivations for them as well as a summary of the events that have left their mark on our historical sources long after the dust had settled. |
| classical world history definition: Mental Disorders in the Classical World William V. Harris, 2013-03-15 The historians, classicists and psychiatrists who have come together to produce Mental Disorders in the Classical World aim to explain how the Greeks and their Roman successors conceptualized, diagnosed and treated mental disorders. The Greeks initiated the secular understanding of mental illness, and have left us a large body of penetrating and thought-provoking writing on the subject, ranging in time from Homer to the sixth century AD. With the conceptual basis of modern psychiatry once again under intense debate, we need to learn from other rational approaches even when they lack modern scientific underpinnings. Meanwhile this volume adds a rich chapter to the cultural and medical history of antiquity. The contributors include a high proportion of the best-regarded scholars in this field, together with papers by some of its rising stars. |
| classical world history definition: Andreia Ralph Rosen, Ineke Sluiter, 2017-07-31 This volume examines the use of a central concept in the self-definition of any Greek speaking male: Andreia, the notion of courage and manliness. The nature and use of value terms quickly leads the researcher to core issues of cultural identity: through a combination of lexical or semantic and conceptual studies the discourse of manliness and its role in the construction of social order is studied, in a variety of authors, genres, and communicative situations. This book is of interest to students of the classical world, the history of values, gender studies, and cultural historians. |
| classical world history definition: Intentional History Lin Foxhall, Hans-Joachim Gehrke, Nino Luraghi, 2010 The contributions assembled in this volume study the social function and functioning of notions and ideas about the past held by groups and individuals, with a special focus on ancient Greece but including comparative contributions on early China and on the function of the classical past in modern European culture. Special attention is devoted to the past as a foundation for collective identities and to the ways in which the goals and needs of specific groups impacted its representation and transmission. Contributions range in time from the archaic age to the Roman Empire, covering aspects such as the representation of the past in visual arts, the function of myth and its representation in literary and visual genres, the relationship of historiography to social memory, and the way that the past features in Greek religion. Monuments, literary texts, and inscriptions are investigated in order to reconstruct the rich texture of Greek social memory and its development over time. |
| classical world history definition: The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages Penelope Reed Doob, 2019-03-15 Ancient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective—the baffling, fragmented prospect confronting the maze-treader within, and the comprehensive vision available to those without. Mazes simultaneously assert order and chaos, artistry and confusion, articulated clarity and bewildering complexity, perfected pattern and hesitant process. In this handsomely illustrated book, Doob reconstructs from a variety of literary and visual sources the idea of the labyrinth from the classical period through the Middle Ages. Doob first examines several complementary traditions of the maze topos, showing how ancient historical and geographical writings generate metaphors in which the labyrinth signifies admirable complexity, while poetic texts tend to suggest that the labyrinth is a sign of moral duplicity. She then describes two common models of the labyrinth and explores their formal implications: the unicursal model, with no false turnings, found almost universally in the visual arts; and the multicursal model, with blind alleys and dead ends, characteristic of literary texts. This paradigmatic clash between the labyrinths of art and of literature becomes a key to the metaphorical potential of the maze, as Doob's examination of a vast array of materials from the classical period through the Middle Ages suggests. She concludes with linked readings of four labyrinths of words: Virgil's Aeneid, Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, Dante's Divine Comedy, and Chaucer's House of Fame, each of which plays with and transforms received ideas of the labyrinth as well as reflecting and responding to aspects of the texts that influenced it. Doob not only provides fresh theoretical and historical perspectives on the labyrinth tradition, but also portrays a complex medieval aesthetic that helps us to approach structurally elaborate early works. Readers in such fields as Classical literature, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, comparative literature, literary theory, art history, and intellectual history will welcome this wide-ranging and illuminating book. |
| classical world history definition: The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth, Esther Eidinow, 2014 This Oxford Companion to the ancient classical world is aimed at the general reader interested in learning more about the very bedrock of Western culture, covering such topics as history, morals, mythology, medicine and social life. |
| classical world history definition: The Classical World , 1907 |
| classical world history definition: The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity Benjamin Isaac, 2013-10-31 There was racism in the ancient world, after all. This groundbreaking book refutes the common belief that the ancient Greeks and Romans harbored ethnic and cultural, but not racial, prejudice. It does so by comprehensively tracing the intellectual origins of racism back to classical antiquity. Benjamin Isaac's systematic analysis of ancient social prejudices and stereotypes reveals that some of those represent prototypes of racism--or proto-racism--which in turn inspired the early modern authors who developed the more familiar racist ideas. He considers the literature from classical Greece to late antiquity in a quest for the various forms of the discriminatory stereotypes and social hatred that have played such an important role in recent history and continue to do so in modern society. Magisterial in scope and scholarship, and engagingly written, The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity further suggests that an understanding of ancient attitudes toward other peoples sheds light not only on Greco-Roman imperialism and the ideology of enslavement (and the concomitant integration or non-integration) of foreigners in those societies, but also on the disintegration of the Roman Empire and on more recent imperialism as well. The first part considers general themes in the history of discrimination; the second provides a detailed analysis of proto-racism and prejudices toward particular groups of foreigners in the Greco-Roman world. The last chapter concerns Jews in the ancient world, thus placing anti-Semitism in a broader context. |
| classical world history definition: Alcohol in World History Gina Hames, 2014-08-21 From the origins of drinking to the use and abuse of alcohol in the present day, this global historical study draws on approaches and research from biology, anthropology, sociology and psychology. Topics covered include: the impact of colonialism alcohol before the world economy industrialization and alcohol globalization, consumer society, and alcohol. Gina Hames argues that the production, trade, consumption, and regulation of alcohol have shaped virtually every civilization in numerous ways. It has perpetuated the development of both domestic and international trade; helped create identity and define religion; provided a tool for oppression as well as a tool for cultural and political resistance; and has supplied governments with essential revenues as well as a means of control over minority groups. Alcohol in World History is one of the first studies to pull together such a wide range of sources in order to compare the role of alcohol throughout time and across both western and non-western civilizations. |
| classical world history definition: History of Classical Philology Diego Lanza, Gherardo Ugolini, 2022-03-07 An updated history of classical philology had long been a desideratum of scholars of the ancient world. The volume edited by Diego Lanza and Gherardo Ugolini is structured in three parts. In the first one (“Towards a science of antiquity”) the approach of Anglo-Saxon philology (R. Bentley) and the institutionalization of the discipline in the German academic world (C.G. Heyne and F.A. Wolf) are described. In the second part (“The illusion of the archetype. Classical Studies in the Germany of the 19th Century”) the theoretical contributions and main methodological disputes that followed are analysed (K. Lachmann, J.G. Hermann, A. Boeckh, F. Nietzsche and U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff). The last part (“The classical philology of the 20th century”) treats the redefinition of classical studies after the Great War in Germany (W. Jaeger) and in Italy (G. Pasquali). In this context, the contributions of papyrology and of the new images of antiquity that have emerged in the works of writers, narrators, and translators of our time have been considered. This part finishes with the presentation of some of the most influential scholars of the last decades (B. Snell, E.R. Dodds, J.-P. Vernant, B. Gentili, N. Loraux). |
| classical world history definition: Divine Fury Darrin M. McMahon, 2013-10-22 Genius. With hints of madness and mystery, moral license and visionary force, the word suggests an almost otherworldly power: the power to create, to divine the secrets of the universe, even to destroy. Yet the notion of genius has been diluted in recent times. Today, rock stars, football coaches, and entrepreneurs are labeled 'geniuses,' and the word is applied so widely that it has obscured the sense of special election and superhuman authority that long accompanied it. As acclaimed historian Darrin M. McMahon explains, the concept of genius has roots in antiquity, when men of prodigious insight were thought to possess -- or to be possessed by -- demons and gods. Adapted in the centuries that followed and applied to a variety of religious figures, including prophets, apostles, sorcerers, and saints, abiding notions of transcendent human power were invoked at the time of the Renaissance to explain the miraculous creativity of men like Leonardo and Michelangelo. Yet it was only in the eighteenth century that the genius was truly born, idolized as a new model of the highest human type. Assuming prominence in figures as varied as Newton and Napoleon, the modern genius emerged in tension with a growing belief in human equality. Contesting the notion that all are created equal, geniuses served to dramatize the exception of extraordinary individuals not governed by ordinary laws. The phenomenon of genius drew scientific scrutiny and extensive public commentary into the 20th century, but it also drew religious and political longings that could be abused. In the genius cult of the Nazis and the outpouring of reverence for the redemptive figure of Einstein, genius achieved both its apotheosis and its Armageddon. The first comprehensive history of this elusive concept, Divine Fury follows the fortunes of genius and geniuses through the ages down to the present day, showing how -- despite its many permutations and recent democratization -- genius remains a potent force in our lives, reflecting modern needs, hopes, and fears. |
| classical world history definition: The Birth of Classical Europe Simon Price, Peter Thonemann, 2011-02-17 An innovative and intriguing look at the foundations of Western civilization from two leading historians; the first volume in the Penguin History of Europe The influence of ancient Greece and Rome can be seen in every aspect of our lives. From calendars to democracy to the very languages we speak, Western civilization owes a debt to these classical societies. Yet the Greeks and Romans did not emerge fully formed; their culture grew from an active engagement with a deeper past, drawing on ancient myths and figures to shape vibrant civilizations. In The Birth of Classical Europe, the latest entry in the much-acclaimed Penguin History of Europe, historians Simon Price and Peter Thonemann present a fresh perspective on classical culture in a book full of revelations about civilizations we thought we knew. In this impeccably researched and immensely readable history we see the ancient world unfold before us, with its grand cast of characters stretching from the great Greeks of myth to the world-shaping Caesars. A landmark achievement, The Birth of Classical Europe provides insight into an epoch that is both incredibly foreign and surprisingly familiar. |
| classical world history definition: The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism Erich S. Gruen, 2016-09-12 This book collects twenty two previously published essays and one new one by Erich S. Gruen who has written extensively on the literature and history of early Judaism and the experience of the Jews in the Greco-Roman world. His many articles on this subject have, however, appeared mostly in conference volumes and Festschriften, and have therefore not had wide circulation. By putting them together in a single work, this will bring the essays to the attention of a much broader scholarly readership and make them more readily available to students in the fields of ancient history and early Judaism. The pieces are quite varied, but develop a number of connected and related themes: Jewish identity in the pagan world, the literary representations by Jews and pagans of one another, the interconnections of Hellenism and Judaism, and the Jewish experience under Hellenistic monarchies and the Roman empire. |
| classical world history definition: Libraries in the Ancient World Lionel Casson, John Penn (Joint pseudonym), Tanita S. Davis, 2001-01-01 The unexpected murder in the little Cotswolds town of Colombury has everyone guessing. Before the answers are found more lives are threatened. |
| classical world history definition: The History of Herodotus Herodotus, 1928 This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy! |
| classical world history definition: Handbook on Animal-Assisted Therapy Megan Mueller, Zenithson Ng, Taylor Chastain Griffin, Aubrey H Fine, 2011-04-28 The original edition was the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the ways in which animals can assist therapists with treatment of specific populations, and/or in specific settings. The second edition continues in this vein, with 7 new chapters plus substantial revisions of continuing chapters as the research in this field has grown. New coverage includes: Animals as social supports, Use of AAT with Special Needs students, the role of animals in the family- insights for clinicians, and measuring the animal-person bond. - Contributions from veterinarians, animal trainers, psychologists, and social workers - Includes guidelines and best practices for using animals as therapeutic companions - Addresses specific types of patients and environmental situations |
| classical world history definition: The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides, 2020-09-28 |
| classical world history definition: Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict , 2008-09-05 The 2nd edition of Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict provides timely and useful information about antagonism and reconciliation in all contexts of public and personal life. Building on the highly-regarded 1st edition (1999), and publishing at a time of seemingly inexorably increasing conflict and violent behaviour the world over, the Encyclopedia is an essential reference for students and scholars working in the field of peace and conflict resolution studies, and for those seeking to explore alternatives to violence and share visions and strategies for social justice and social change. Covering topics as diverse as Arms Control, Peace Movements, Child Abuse, Folklore, Terrorism and Political Assassinations, the Encyclopedia comprehensively addresses an extensive information area in 225 multi-disciplinary, cross-referenced and authoritatively authored articles. In his Preface to the 1st edition, Editor-in-Chief Lester Kurtz wrote: The problem of violence poses such a monumental challenge at the end of the 20th century that it is surprising we have addressed it so inadequately. We have not made much progress in learning how to cooperate with one another more effectively or how to conduct our conflicts more peacefully. Instead, we have increased the lethality of our combat through revolutions in weapons technology and military training. The Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict is designed to help us to take stock of our knowledge concerning these crucial phenomena. Ten years on, the need for an authoritative and cross-disciplinary approach to the great issues of violence and peace seems greater than ever. More than 200 authoritative multidisciplinary articles in a 3-volume set Many brand-new articles alongside revised and updated content from the First Edition Article outline and glossary of key terms at the beginning of each article Entries arranged alphabetically for easy access Articles written by more than 200 eminent contributors from around the world |
| classical world history definition: A Brief History of Ancient Greece Sarah B. Pomeroy, 2009 The story of the ancient Greeks is one of the most improbable success stories in world history. A small group of people inhabiting a country poor in resources and divided into hundreds of quarreling states created one of the most remarkable civilizations ever. Comprehensive and balanced, A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society, and Culture, Second Edition is a shorter version of the authors' highly successful Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History, Second Edition (OUP, 2008). Four leading authorities on the classical world offer a lively and up-to-date account of Greek civilization and history in all its complexity and variety, covering the entire period from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic Era, and integrating the most recent research in archaeology, comparative anthropology, and social history. They show how the early Greeks borrowed from their neighbors but eventually developed a distinctive culture all their own, one that was marked by astonishing creativity, versatility, and resilience. Using physical evidence from archaeology, the written testimony of literary texts and inscriptions, and anthropological models based on comparative studies, this compact volume provides an account of the Greek world that is thoughtful and sophisticated yet accessible to students and general readers with little or no knowledge of Greece. |
| classical world history definition: Magic and Magicians in the Greco-Roman World Matthew W Dickie, Matthew W. Dickie, 2003-09-02 This study is the first to assemble the evidence for the existence of sorcerors in the ancient world; it also addresses the question of their identity and social origins. The resulting investigation takes us to the underside of Greek and Roman society, into a world of wandering holy men and women, conjurors and wonder-workers, and into the lives of prostitutes, procuresses, charioteers and theatrical performers. This fascinating reconstruction of the careers of witches and sorcerors allows us to see into previously inaccessible areas of Greco-Roman life. Compelling for both its detail and clarity, and with an extraordinarily revealing breadth of evidence employed, it will be an essential resource for anyone studying ancient magic. |
| classical world history definition: A Companion to the Classical Greek World Konrad H. Kinzl, 2010-01-11 This Companion provides scholarly yet accessible new interpretations of Greek history of the Classical period, from the aftermath of the Persian Wars in 478 B.C. to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. Topics covered range from the political and institutional structures of Greek society, to literature, art, economics, society, warfare, geography and the environment Discusses the problems of interpreting the various sources for the period Guides the reader towards a broadly-based understanding of the history of the Classical Age |
| classical world history definition: Ancient Libraries Jason König, Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Greg Woolf, 2013-04-25 The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a fundamental reassessment of how ancient libraries came into being, how they were organized and how they were used. Drawing on papyrology and archaeology, and on accounts written by those who read and wrote in them, it presents new research on reading cultures, on book collecting and on the origins of monumental library buildings. Many of the traditional stories told about ancient libraries are challenged. Few were really enormous, none were designed as research centres, and occasional conflagrations do not explain the loss of most ancient texts. But the central place of libraries in Greco-Roman culture emerges more clearly than ever. |
| classical world history definition: Brill's New Pauly Manfred Landfester, Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider, 2006 |
| classical world history definition: Ancient Greek Government Henry Bensinger, 2013-07-15 Perhaps the most important legacy of the ancient Greeks is their invention of the form of government we hold most dear: Democracy. Ancient Greeces various cities and their forms of government, and the birth of government by the people, are presented in simple, straightforward language. An excellent resource on both ancient Greece and the concept of democracy. |
| classical world history definition: The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity Oliver Nicholson, 2018-04-19 The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity is the first comprehensive reference book covering every aspect of history, culture, religion, and life in Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East (including the Persian Empire and Central Asia) between the mid-3rd and the mid-8th centuries AD, the era now generally known as Late Antiquity. This period saw the re-establishment of the Roman Empire, its conversion to Christianity and its replacement in the West by Germanic kingdoms, the continuing Roman Empire in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Persian Sassanian Empire, and the rise of Islam. Consisting of over 1.5 million words in more than 5,000 A-Z entries, and written by more than 400 contributors, it is the long-awaited middle volume of a series, bridging a significant period of history between those covered by the acclaimed Oxford Classical Dictionary and The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. The scope of the Dictionary is broad and multi-disciplinary; across the wide geographical span covered (from Western Europe and the Mediterranean as far as the Near East and Central Asia), it provides succinct and pertinent information on political history, law, and administration; military history; religion and philosophy; education; social and economic history; material culture; art and architecture; science; literature; and many other areas. Drawing on the latest scholarship, and with a formidable international team of advisers and contributors, The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity aims to establish itself as the essential reference companion to a period that is attracting increasing attention from scholars and students worldwide. |
| classical world history definition: World History and National Identity in China Xin Fan, 2021-02-25 Nationalism is pervasive in China today. Yet nationalism is not entrenched in China's intellectual tradition. Over the course of the twentieth century, the combined forces of cultural, social, and political transformations nourished its development, but resistance to it has persisted. Xin Fan examines the ways in which historians working on the world beyond China from within China have attempted to construct narratives that challenge nationalist readings of the Chinese past and the influence that these historians have had on the formation of Chinese identity. He traces the ways in which generations of historians, from the late Qing through the Republican period, through the Mao period to the relative moment of 'opening' in the 1980s, have attempted to break cross-cultural boundaries in writing an alternative to the national narrative. |
| classical world history definition: Battling the Gods Tim Whitmarsh, 2015-11-10 How new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of the European Enlightenment, when the forces of science and secularism broadly challenged those of faith, disbelief in the gods, in fact, originated in a far more remote past. In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean, a world almost unimaginably different from our own, to recover the stories and voices of those who first refused the divinities. Homer’s epic poems of human striving, journeying, and passion were ancient Greece’s only “sacred texts,” but no ancient Greek thought twice about questioning or mocking his stories of the gods. Priests were functionaries rather than sources of moral or cosmological wisdom. The absence of centralized religious authority made for an extraordinary variety of perspectives on sacred matters, from the devotional to the atheos, or “godless.” Whitmarsh explores this kaleidoscopic range of ideas about the gods, focusing on the colorful individuals who challenged their existence. Among these were some of the greatest ancient poets and philosophers and writers, as well as the less well known: Diagoras of Melos, perhaps the first self-professed atheist; Democritus, the first materialist; Socrates, executed for rejecting the gods of the Athenian state; Epicurus and his followers, who thought gods could not intervene in human affairs; the brilliantly mischievous satirist Lucian of Samosata. Before the revolutions of late antiquity, which saw the scriptural religions of Christianity and Islam enforced by imperial might, there were few constraints on belief. Everything changed, however, in the millennium between the appearance of the Homeric poems and Christianity’s establishment as Rome’s state religion in the fourth century AD. As successive Greco-Roman empires grew in size and complexity, and power was increasingly concentrated in central capitals, states sought to impose collective religious adherence, first to cults devoted to individual rulers, and ultimately to monotheism. In this new world, there was no room for outright disbelief: the label “atheist” was used now to demonize anyone who merely disagreed with the orthodoxy—and so it would remain for centuries. As the twenty-first century shapes up into a time of mass information, but also, paradoxically, of collective amnesia concerning the tangled histories of religions, Whitmarsh provides a bracing antidote to our assumptions about the roots of freethinking. By shining a light on atheism’s first thousand years, Battling the Gods offers a timely reminder that nonbelief has a wealth of tradition of its own, and, indeed, its own heroes. |
| classical world history definition: A Concise History of the World Merry Wiesner-Hanks, 2015-09-23 This book tells the story of humankind as producers and reproducers from the Paleolithic to the present. Renowned social and cultural historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks brings a new perspective to world history by examining social and cultural developments across the globe, including families and kin groups, social and gender hierarchies, sexuality, race and ethnicity, labor, religion, consumption, and material culture. She examines how these structures and activities changed over time through local processes and interactions with other cultures, highlighting key developments that defined particular eras such as the growth of cities or the creation of a global trading network. Incorporating foragers, farmers and factory workers along with shamans, scribes and secretaries, the book widens and lengthens human history. It makes comparisons and generalizations, but also notes diversities and particularities, as it examines the social and cultural matters that are at the heart of big questions in world history today. |
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Introduction to Hegel’s Theory of Tragedy - University of …
History Hegel analyzes the world-historical individual who shapes history often beyond her conscious intentions; such figures emerge ahead of their time, come into conflict with their …
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CLASSICAL CONDITIONING Classical conditioning is also known as Pavlovian learning. This type of learning method of animals was first studied by Ivan Pavlov, an Russian physiologist …
THE HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY
history of Old World Archaeology]. Daniel G. and C. Renfrew. (1988). The Idea of Prehistory. New York, NY, USA: Columbia University Press. [Detailed treatment of the early history of …
World History Studies, TEKS Revisions Implemented in 2024 …
in world history. The student is expected to: (1) History. The student understands traditional historical points of reference in world history. The student is expected to: (1)(A) identify major …
Introduction to Neijing Classical Acupuncture Part I: History …
• Describes the world in increasing complexity and detail • Attempts to limit the role of the observer and their experiences in the scientific process Figure 6: Some primary differences …
CIVILIZATION: HISTORY, DESCRIPTION, COMMON …
following: firstly, history of civilization; secondly, a description of civilized vs. pre-civilized communities, simple civilizations vs. advanced civilizations; thirdly, an outline of the key …
Musical Voyages and Their Baggage: Orientalism in Music and …
though, the word has a long history and more than one meaning. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (1973) gives the most traditional one, tucking orientalism under the word orient with …
The Relevance of the Classical Theory Under Modern …
world. The world has changed greatly, and is now a world of planned economies, of state trading, of substantially arbitrary and inflexible national price structures. . . . The classical theory is not …
What is Classical Catholic Education
will offer a definition of Classical Catholic education, highlighting its “essential difference” within American Catholic education. Finally toward the end of this essay I will offer a suggestion of …
History, Space, and Ethnicity: The Chinese Worldview
286 JOURNAL OF WORLD HISTORY, FALL 1999 based on belief in the nature-people correlation, a uniquely empha sized concept in ancient Chinese culture. The term "all under …
Hedley Bull and His Contribution to International Relations …
the world, and revolutionary schemes for change.2 Even in his first book, The control of the arms race, he had been incisively critical of proposals for world disarmament.3 And yet things are …
An Overview of Classical Management Theories: A Review …
obsolete, different forms of these theories are implemented in most parts of the world. Keywords: Classical Management; Theories; Review Article 1. Introduction Management is the most …
The conceptual understanding of diaspora: A sociological …
shared, ongoing history of displacement, suffering adaptation or resistance may be as important as the projection of specific origin” (Clifford 1994:306) [6]. It is thus not necessarily territory, …
The Urbanization of the Classical World - JSTOR
ancient world. Its role in shaping the western cultural and political traditions has given it an immense historical importance, but it is very doubtful whether the great majority of poleis ever …
5 · Cartography in the Ancient World: An Introduction
between the classical era and the medieval period was interrupted, and the intellectual and technological achievements of the earlier age were almost lost. Not withstanding these points, …
True History and False History in Classical Antiquity
the poleis of classical Greece had been razed to the ground, like Corinth, or deprived of political importance, like Athens. Who was left in the Greek world to appreciate the historical and …
Unemployment in Theory - JSTOR
somewhat inappropriate, since the "classical" economists are generally con-sidered to have written in the period from 1776 to about 1850 or 1860. A ... Using our restricted labor-force …
Large Scale Slave Revolts in Ancient Greece: An Issue of …
Classical Greek World,‛ in Keith Bradley, Paul Cartledge (eds.) The Cambridge World History of Slavery I: The Ancient Mediterranean World (Cambridge: CUP, 2011), 154. 4. This, of course, …
Evolution of the Concept of Capital– A Historical …
the pre-classical and classical ‘fund’ concept of capital in Section 2 and move onto neoclassical ideas of ‘physical capital’ in Section 3. Section 4 considers concepts of ‘human capital’ in …
THE CLASSICAL THEORY OF ECONOMIC GROWTH - Stanford …
the classical economists were able to provide an account of the broad forces that influence economic growth and of the mechanisms underlying the growth process. Accumulation and …
History and the American
in history in every period. In the classical world history was generally written by and for members of the governing classes, for example. My point is simply that history could in fact be available …
A Classical Education for Modern Times - Ascent Classical …
A Classical Education for Modern Times Terrence O. Moore Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam, rectique cultus pectora roborant.1 Ascent Classical Academy has deliberately taken a classical …
The Uses of Greek Mythology - Internet Archive
Other abbreviations follow the usual classical practice, as found in tables of abbreviations in J. Marouzeau, Année Philologique (for periodical titles), the Oxford Latin Dictionary and H.G. …
Confederate Classical Textbooks - JSTOR
pense of the classical curriculum.2 Opposition to these forces proved stronger in the conservative South, particularly among the more affluent planter class for whom pos-session of a classical …
What is Classical Archaeology? - Wiley
world and the world of classical texts. At the same time, the wealth of classical texts offers classical archaeologists a resource not available to prehistoric archaeology. Yet the way in …
AUTHENTIC TOLERANCE: BETWEEN FORBEARANCE AND …
cal" and "neo-classical" tolerance are used here. Classical Definition of Tolerance. Classic tolerance de-rives from the term's Latin roots—tolerare or tolerantia—the nrst the verb …
MODULE 2 BIOTECHNOLOGY: HISTORY, STATE OF THE ART, …
FDA's working definition of biotechnology FDA's working definition of biotechnology is "the application of biological systems and organisms to technical and industrial processes". This …
AP WORLD HISTORY - College Board
AP® WORLD HISTORY Modified Essay Questions for Exam Practice This document provides modifications of the AP World History Comparative and Continuity and Change-Over-Time …
ePublications at Regis University
classical music in particular, the definition is a bit simpler. When people refer to “classical” music, they are referring to a unknowingly specific time period in music history. Strictly speaking, the …
Theorizing Diaspora: Perspectives on “Classical” and …
diasporic process throughout the world: the Classical Period, the Modern Period, and the Contemporary or Late-modern Period. The paper discusses these three critical phases in the …
Plague in the Ancient World - Loyola University New Orleans
other writer in the classical world, consciously emulated. During the reign of Marcus Aurelius, Lucian of Samosata composed a work entitled How to Write History. < 26 > Here, Lucian …
Historical and Contemporary Theories of Management
applied throughout history in order to promote societal progress, economic expansion, and technological advances. The construction of the prehistoric monument Stonehenge would not …
What is Intellectual History? - Center for European Studies at …
Broadly speaking, intellectual history is the study of intellectuals, ideas, and intellectual patterns over time. Of course, that is a terrifically large definition and it admits of a bewildering variety …
Review of Classical Management Theories - ijsse.com
work. Classical management theories were developed to predict and control behavior in organizations. Salient Feature of Classical Management Theories Salient features of Classical …
Egypt and the Classical World - Archive.org
static cultures; to think about the “classical world” beyond the confines of its traditional definition; and to contemplate the interconnectedness of the ancient Mediterranean. Egypt and the …
The Historical Dimensions of Infanticide and Abortion: …
in the classical world. Indeed, it could be said that as the practlce of abortion and infanticide are becoming commonplace in the American family, we are returning to a pre-Christian moral …
The Body and Its Image in Classical Chinese Aesthetics - JSTOR
world, the country, and the family together when he talks; the world is based on the country and the country on families, while family is based on the body" (Yang 1960, Lilou shang). Liji • …
Constructing Fascist Identity: Benito Mussolini and the …
May 22, 2017 · at the Second International Conference on European History of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (J. Nelis, "Classical Nazis, Modern Romans: Antiquity, …
Glossary of AP World History Terms - Macmillan Learning
philosophy during classical times. Atlantic Ocean the second largest of the world’s oceans that rests between North America and Europe as well as between South America and Africa. The …
10 The Foundation and Reemergence of Classical Thought in ...
historical philosophy, the history that has become popularly known as the classical school of criminology. While some very brief attention will be devoted to the historical origins of classical …
Classical Ballet - The Washington Ballet
Classical ballet is a system of dance based on codified movements and positions of the arms, feet, and body designed to enable the dancer to move with the greatest possible agility, …
Mazes or Labyrinths
The earliest labyrinth symbols so far discovered are all of the same simple design - the ^Classical type - which is found worldwide and remain popular to this day. During this 4000 year history, …
ANCIENT NARRATIVE THERAPY FOR LEADERSHIP: THE …
THE CLASSICAL JOURNAL 112.1 (2016) 78–100 FORUM ANCIENT NARRATIVE THERAPY FOR LEADERSHIP: THE CLASSICAL WORLD AND THE MODERN LEADERSHIP …
AAS - Stony Brook University
of Hinduism, Buddhism, yoga, classical and modern languages, the caste system and reform movements, Asohka, Akbar and great emperors, impact of Islam and Western colonization, …
Three Dimensions of Classical Utilitarian Economic Thought …
Three Dimensions of Classical Utilitarian Economic Thought ––Bentham, J.S. Mill, and Sidgwick–– Daisuke Nakai. ∗. 1. Utilitarianism in the History of Economic Ideas . Utilitarianism …
The Legacy of the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages in the …
Mediterranean world, including parts of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. The fall of the Roman Empire in the West in 476 CE marked the end of the period of classical antiquity and …
THE AMERICAN FOUNDERS AND CLASSICAL POLITICAL …
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student's understanding of the importance of the classical style, the relation-ship between form and function and the integration of ancient daily life and mythology and how they influence …
Pandemics in the Ancient Mediterranean World - The …
Classical Quarterly 3 (1953): 97–119, and A.M. Parry, “The Language of Thucydides’ Description of the Plague,” Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 16 (1969): 106–18. Most famous is …
2006 Annotated DBQ Rubric: Global Silver Trade Effects
AP World History course, but could also be helpful in any world history survey course. The best source of information about how to teach essay skills is the AP World History Course …
