Greece category: 2003 books

« Patrimoine de la Méditerranée » : une collection qui se propose de retrouver l’esprit des lieux, de les faire revivre à travers leur histoire, de susciter l’imagination du passé. Chaque ouvrage, s’appuyant sur les acquis les plus récents de la recherche, s’organise autour d’un thème...

« Imaginez la projection constante de gigantesques boules incandescentes dans un ciel chauffé au rouge, des nappes de pétrole en combustion sur la mer Égée, l’air empuanti par une odeur nauséabonde, pendant que des nuages étouffants, des cendres et des étincelles passent au-dessus de nous...

En 1876 Schliemann découvrait, dans les tombes à fosse de Mycènes en Argolide, ce qu'il prit pour le trésor des Atrides. Ce fut un formidable élan pour la recherche dans le Péloponnèse. Au fil du temps, les problématiques et les méthodes ont évolué. Les fouilles modernes et les prospections...

Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, à été relu et corrigé.  Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Extrait: MENON. Me dirais-tu bien, Socrate, si la vertu peut s’enseigner, ou si elle ne le...

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For nearly 60 years--from its uprising against British rule in the 1950s to the bloody civil war between Greek and Turkish Cypriots in the 1960s the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in the 1970s and the United Nation's ongoing 30-year effort to reunite the island--the tiny Mediterranean nation of Cyprus...

The Southern Flank of Nato, 1951-1959: Military Strategy or Political Stabilization is the first comprehensive discussion of the aims, capabilities, politics, and internal problems of NATO’s Southern Flank in its formative stage of the 1950s. The book argues that the Southern Flank never had the...

Die Nordische Gesellschaft zählt zu den außergewöhnlichsten völkischen Organisationen der Zwischenkriegszeit. Seit 1933 war sie Teil des Alfred Rosenberg unterstehenden Außenpolitischen Amtes der NSDAP und erhielt offiziell den Auftrag, die nordische Rassenideologie zu fördern. Diese Studie...

Discusses the Egyptian pyramids, Greek temples, Roman buildings, and megalithic monuments in Britain, the book includes chapters on architecture in Mesoamerica, the early Middle East, and ancient China and Japan.

Revered as the birthplace of democracy, Athens is much more than an open-air museum filled with crumbling monuments to ancient glory. Athens takes readers on a journey from the classical city-state to today's contemporary capital, revealing a world-famous metropolis that has been resurrected and redefined time and again.

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...

This issue of the Rosicrucian Digest presents a compendium of materials that provide a solid introduction to the most important aspects of the Orphic Mysteries.

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...

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...