Topics on Greek and Roman History
Title | Topics on Greek and Roman History PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Lewis Goodrich |
Publisher | |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | Bibliography |
ISBN |
The Staff of Oedipus
Title | The Staff of Oedipus PDF eBook |
Author | Martha L. Rose |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 169 |
Release | 2013-10-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0472035738 |
Ancient Greek images of disability permeate the Western consciousness: Homer, Teiresias, and Oedipus immediately come to mind. But The Staff of Oedipus looks at disability in the ancient world through the lens of disability studies, and reveals that our interpretations of disability in the ancient world are often skewed. These false assumptions in turn lend weight to modern-day discriminatory attitudes toward disability. Martha L. Rose considers a range of disabilities and the narratives surrounding them. She examines not only ancient literature, but also papyrus, skeletal material, inscriptions, sculpture, and painting, and draws upon modern work, including autobiographies of people with disabilities, medical research, and theoretical work in disability studies. Her study uncovers the realities of daily life for people with disabilities in ancient Greece and challenges the translation of the term adunatos (unable) as "disabled," with all its modern associations.
O'farrell: Michel Foucault (paper)
Title | O'farrell: Michel Foucault (paper) PDF eBook |
Author | Clare O'Farrell |
Publisher | SAGE |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2005-10-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780761961642 |
Clare O'Farrell offers an introduction to Foucault's enormous, diverse & challenging output.
pt. 1 & 2. Greece and Rome
Title | pt. 1 & 2. Greece and Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Charles Copleston |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN |
Killing for the Republic
Title | Killing for the Republic PDF eBook |
Author | Steele Brand |
Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Pages | 393 |
Release | 2019-09-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1421429861 |
A sweeping political and cultural history, Killing for the Republic closes with a compelling argument in favor of resurrecting the citizen-soldier ideal in modern America.
Skilled Labour and Professionalism in Ancient Greece and Rome
Title | Skilled Labour and Professionalism in Ancient Greece and Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund Stewart |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 413 |
Release | 2020-09-03 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1108839479 |
This volume seeks to reassess ancient Greek and Roman society and its economy in examining skilled labour and professionalism.
The Jewish Dialogue with Greece and Rome
Title | The Jewish Dialogue with Greece and Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Tessa Rajak |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 599 |
Release | 2018-12-10 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9047400194 |
Twenty-seven interdisciplinary essays on aspects of Judaism in the Greco-Roman world, exemplifying a wide range of techniques, by a well-known scholar. Three are previously unpublished, including a reappraisal of the Judaism and Hellenism debate and a study of the Sardis synagogue. The book's overall coherence derives from the author's long-standing interests in the analysis of texts as documents of cultural and religious interaction, and in how Jewish communities were woven into the social fabric of Greek cities in the Hellenistic and Roman East. The four sections are: Greeks and Jews, Josephus, The Jewish Diaspora and Epigraphy, and finally Beyond the Greeks and Romans, essays which extend into Christian literature and on to the nineteenth century reception of the Judaism/Hellenism dichotomy. Scholars and students from a wide variety of backgrounds will benefit. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.