Greece category: 2003 books

The contributions in this book focus on U.S. migration policies, receiving society, ethnic communities and return migration. The authors analyze various aspects of migratory history ranging from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. They cover such topics as the times when Eastern European immigrants...

Reverse engineering as complex a psychic projection as the Dionysian mythologem back into the psyche is a complicated operation. In the first chapter we laid the foundations and created the context for our effort before outlining the basic Dionysian developmental paradigm. In this second chapter we...

A lively and accessible history of Athens's rise to greatness, from one of the foremost classical historians. The definitive account of Athens in the age of Pericles, Christian Meier's gripping study begins with the Greek triumph over Persia at the Battle of Salamis, one of the most significant...

Plato's dialogue on the nature of the physical world and humankind.

Plato's dialogue addressing the ideal of virtue, and particular virtues such as justice and temperance.

"37000+ Vocabulary English - Greek" is a list of more than 37000 words translated from English to Greek, as well as translated from Greek to English. Easy to use- great for tourists and English speakers interested in learning Greek. As well as Greek speakers interested in learning English.

Isocrates (436-338 B.C.) was an ancient Athenian orator, rhetorician, and teacher whose writings are an important historical source on the intellectual and political life of the Golden Age of Athens. The school he founded differed markedly in its aims from the Academy of Plato but it was influential...

Isocrates (436-338 B.C.) was an ancient Athenian orator, rhetorician, and teacher whose writings are an important historical source on the intellectual and political life of the Golden Age of Athens. The school he founded differed markedly in its aims from the Academy of Plato but it was influential...

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the German artist Gunter Demnig has been installing his Stolpersteine [Stumbling Stones] all over Europe – including Russia – to commemorate the victims of National Socialism. Today, the Stolpersteine constitute the world’s second largest Holocaust monument....

The existence of eunuchs was one of the defining features of the Byzantine Empire. Covering the whole span of the history of the empire, from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries AD, Shaun Tougher presents a comprehensive survey of the history and roles of eunuchs, making use of extensive comparative...

eBook Interactivo. A partir del siglo V a. JV. (aprox.) el pueblo griego se convierte, no sólo en el mejor creador artístico de su época, sino en el mejor creador artístico de la historia, o al menos en uno de los dos o tres más cualificados y conocidos. Nadie puede estudiar arte sin conocer...

A guide to understanding the Greeks which takes an insightful, irreverent look at their character and attitudes   Xenophobia: an irrational fear of foreigners, probably justified, always understandable. Xenophobe's Guides: an irreverent look at the beliefs and foibles of nations,...

Het Griekenland van tegenwoordig is niet meer dat van Chateaubriand of van Edmond About. Het heeft allerlei veranderingen ondergaan. Uit het kleine stadje, dat Athene in hun tijd nog was, en dat men er dertig of veertig jaren geleden ook nog zag, is thans een stad geworden, die waardig haar plaats...

Along with Plato and Socrates, Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) is one of the triumvirate of philosophers responsible for the establishment of Western philosophy as it exists today. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were among the first to refine philosophical thought, and Socrates is credited with devising the...