Kurt Raaflaub: 3 books
A Culture of Freedom
Ancient Greece and the Origins of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Christian Meier is one of Europe's preeminent authorities on the classical world. A Culture of Freedom marks the apex of his lifelong research on ancient Greek culture. Beginning with a section on medieval and modern Europe's enormous inheritance of Greek institutions and ideas, the book moves on...
Lag Troja in Kilikien?
Der aktuelle Streit um Homers Ilias
Language: German
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Homer – Troia – Kilikien: Mit diesen Namen wird ein Thema von europäischer Dimension umschrieben. Homer steht nicht nur am Anfang der griechischen Literatur; ›Ilias‹ und ›Odyssee‹ gelten als Beginn der europäischen Dichtung. Unter diesem Aspekt ist es nicht gleichgültig, wo die Handlungen...
by Kurt A. Raaflaub
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World presents a cross-cultural comparison of the ways in which ancient civilizations thought about the past and recorded their own histories.
Written by an international group of scholars working in many disciplines
Truly cross-cultural,...