Greece category: 2003 books

Hercules was the most famous ancient Greek hero. Zeus was his father. There were twelve labors of Hercules in total. Having married Deianira, the daughter of a powerful King of Calydon, Hercules was traveling home with her when he came to the banks of a river and was at a loss how to cross it. Seeing...

The relationship between the Homeric epics and archaeology has long suffered mixed fortunes, swinging between 'fundamentalist' attempts to use archaeology in order to demonstrate the essential historicity of the epics and their background, and outright rejection of the idea that archaeology is capable...

The Letters of Psellos is the first detailed study of the correspondence of Michael Psellos, a leading Byzantine intellectual, politician, and writer of the eleventh century. Psellos' corpus of over 500 letters represents a historical source of great significance for the study of society and culture...

Callimachus was arguably the most important poet of the Hellenistic age, for two reasons: his engagement with previous theorists of poetry and his wide-ranging poetic experimentation. Of his poetic oeuvre, which exceeded what we now have of Theocritus, Aratus, Posidippus, and Apollonius combined,...

Redescubre el poder y la emoción de los mitos griegos. #redescubrelosmitos Tras La lengua de los dioses, Andrea Marcolongo vuelve a tender hilos entre el mundo griego y el nuestro, y nos descubre por qué volver a la mitología en el siglo XXI. Esta vez se embarca con los argonautas...

Adler instructs the world in the "uncommon common sense" of Aristotelian logic, presenting Aristotle's understandings in a current, delightfully lucid way. Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.) taught logic to Alexander the Great and, by virtue of his philosophical works, to every philosopher since, from...

Teniamo a precisare che tutti i testi inclusi nella presente opera provengono liberamente da Internet e sono reperibili su Wikipedia. Allora sorge spontanea la domanda: perché acquistarla? La risposta è semplice. Si tratta di un lavoro di assemblamento. In breve un lavoro che pur proveniente...

Though the 'Scythian period' in the history of Eastern Europe lasted little more than 400 years, the impression these horsemen made upon the history of their times was such that a thousand years after they had ceased to exist as a sovereign people, their heartland and the territories which they dominated...

Partez à la découverte de l'histoire de la Grèce antique avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! Rien ne semblait a priori destiner la péninsule grecque à être le centre d'une des plus brillantes civilisations de l'histoire, de la première surtout qui sut poser les problèmes auxquels l'homme...

Partez à la découverte de la Macédoine antique avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! La Macédoine antique est une contrée dont les limites ne sont pas fixées de façon précise. Au sud, elle est séparée de la Thessalie par les monts Cambuniens, puissant massif montagneux aux versants...

The classical Greek intellectual tradition pervades nearly every aspect of our modern Western civilization. Our logic and science, our philosophy, politics, literature, architecture, and art are all indebted to the ancient inhabitants of the small mountainous Mediterranean country. And the powerful...

Antigone is Sophocles' masterpiece, a seminal influence on a wide range of theatrical, literary, and intellectual traditions. This volume sets the play in the contexts of its mythical background, its performance, its relation to contemporary culture and thought, and its rich reception history. But...

Décryptez L'Iliade d'Homère avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr ! Que faut-il retenir de *L'Iliade*, l'épopée mythique de la littérature antique ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée. Vous trouverez notamment dans...

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur la guerre de Troie en moins d’une heure !  Épopée légendaire de la mythologie grecque, la guerre de Troie est déclenchée lorsque Pâris, un jeune prince troyen, enlève Hélène, l’épouse de Ménélas et reine de Sparte. Avec l’aide...