Valuing Classical Antiquity (25 results)

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Large octavo (245 x 165 mm), publisher's illustrated hardcover, XII, 476 pp., with a few b/w-illustrations in the text (maps, plans), a well preserved copy. [MnS - Mnemosyne Supplements; 323]. - ISBN: 9789004189218. - Contents/Inhalt : Preliminary Material / Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter -- General Introduction / Ineke Sluiter and Ralph M. Rosen -- Classical Greek Urbanism: A Social Darwinian View / John Bintliff -- Shared Sanctuaries and the Gods of Others: On theMeaning of 'Common' in Herodotus 8.144 / Irene Polinskaya -- Kharis, Kharites, Festivals, and Social Peace in the Classical Greek City / Nick Fisher -- Communal Values in Ancient Diplomacy / Sarah Bolmarcich -- Tecmessa's Legacy: Valuing Outsiders in Athens' Democracy / RobertW Wallace -- The Instrumental Value of Others and Institutional Change: An Athenian Case Study / Josiah Ober -- Visibility and Social Evaluation in Athenian Litigation / Eveline van 't Wout -- Helping and Community in the Athenian Lawcourts / Matthew R. Christ -- Are Fellow Citizens Friends? Aristotle versus Cicero on Philia, Amicitia, and Social Solidarity / David Konstan -- Pricing the Invaluable: Socrates and the Value of Friendship / Tazuko van Berkel -- On Belonging in Plato's Lysis / Albert Joosse -- Not Valuing Others: Reflections of Social Cohesion in the Characters of Theophrastus / Ivo Volt -- Evaluating Others and Evaluating Oneself in Epictetus' Discourses / Gerard J. Boter -- Human Connections and Paternal Evocations: Two Elite Roman Women Writers and the Valuing of Others / Judith P. Hallett -- Quid Tibi Ego Videor in Epistulis? Cicero's Verecundia / Cynthia Damon -- Citizen as Enemy in Sallust's Bellum Catilinae / Aislinn Melchior -- Valuing Others in the Gladiatorial Barracks / Kathleen M. Coleman -- Index of Greek terms / Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter -- Index of Latin terms / Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter -- Index locorum / Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter -- General index / Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; English ||| Difference (Philosophy); Group identity Greece History; Group identity Rome History; Social values Greece; Social values Rome; Greece Civilization To 146 B.C; Rome Civilization - Unterschied (Philosophie); Gruppenidentität Griechenland Geschichte; Gruppenidentität Rom Geschichte; Soziale Werte Griechenland; Soziale Werte Rom; Griechenland Zivilisation bis 146 v. Chr.; Rom Zivilisation - [00B | SOD | oR ] 940 g. …

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Hardback. Condition: New. Illustrated. 'Where am I?'. Our physical orientation in place is one of the defining characteristics of our embodied existence. However, while there is no human life, culture, or action without a specific location functioning as its setting, people go much further than this bare fact in attributing meaning and value to their physical environment. 'Landscape' denotes this symbolic conception and use of terrain. It is a creation of human culture.In Valuing Landscape we explore different ways in which physical environments impacted on the cultural imagination of Greco-Roman Antiquity. In seventeen chapters with different disciplinary perspectives, we demonstrate the values attached to mountains, the underworld, sacred landscapes, and battlefields, and the evaluations of locale connected with migration, exile, and travel.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorCynthia Damon, Ph.D. (1990), Stanford University, is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Among her publications are a critical edition of Caesar s Civil War and an English translati.

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Hardback. Condition: New. Illustrated. 'Where am I?'. Our physical orientation in place is one of the defining characteristics of our embodied existence. However, while there is no human life, culture, or action without a specific location functioning as its setting, people go much further than this bare fact in attributing meaning and value to their physical environment. 'Landscape' denotes this symbolic conception and use of terrain. It is a creation of human culture.In Valuing Landscape we explore different ways in which physical environments impacted on the cultural imagination of Greco-Roman Antiquity. In seventeen chapters with different disciplinary perspectives, we demonstrate the values attached to mountains, the underworld, sacred landscapes, and battlefields, and the evaluations of locale connected with migration, exile, and travel.…

Hardback. Condition: New. Illustrated. 'Where am I?'. Our physical orientation in place is one of the defining characteristics of our embodied existence. However, while there is no human life, culture, or action without a specific location functioning as its setting, people go much further than this bare fact in attributing meaning and value to their physical environment. 'Landscape' denotes this symbolic conception and use of terrain. It is a creation of human culture.In Valuing Landscape we explore different ways in which physical environments impacted on the cultural imagination of Greco-Roman Antiquity. In seventeen chapters with different disciplinary perspectives, we demonstrate the values attached to mountains, the underworld, sacred landscapes, and battlefields, and the evaluations of locale connected with migration, exile, and travel.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorJeremy McInerney, Ph.D. (1992, University of California, Berkeley), is Davidson Kennedy Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of The Cattle of the Sun. Cows and Culture in th.

Hardback. Condition: New. Illustrated. 'Where am I?'. Our physical orientation in place is one of the defining characteristics of our embodied existence. However, while there is no human life, culture, or action without a specific location functioning as its setting, people go much further than this bare fact in attributing meaning and value to their physical environment. 'Landscape' denotes this symbolic conception and use of terrain. It is a creation of human culture.In Valuing Landscape we explore different ways in which physical environments impacted on the cultural imagination of Greco-Roman Antiquity. In seventeen chapters with different disciplinary perspectives, we demonstrate the values attached to mountains, the underworld, sacred landscapes, and battlefields, and the evaluations of locale connected with migration, exile, and travel.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. KlappentextHuman communities thrive on prosocial behavior. This book demonstrates from a wide range of perspectives how such behavior is anchored and promoted in classical antiquity by a varied and conceptually rich discourse of a valuin.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'Where am I '. Our physical orientation in place is one of the defining characteristics of our embodied existence. However, while there is no human life, culture, or action without a specific location functioning as its setting, people go much further than this bare fact in attributing meaning and value to their physical environment. 'Landscape' denotes this symbolic conception and use of terrain. It is a creation of human culture.In Valuing Landscape we explore different ways in which physical environments impacted on the cultural imagination of Greco-Roman Antiquity. In seventeen chapters with different disciplinary perspectives, we demonstrate the values attached to mountains, the underworld, sacred landscapes, and battlefields, and the evaluations of locale connected with migration, exile, and travel.…

Gr- 8°. IX, 374 pp. Original hardcover Mnemosyne Supplements, 423. - Fine, clean.

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