Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!

You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.

Sign up

Cosmópolis
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 315

Cosmópolis

Apesar das suas tensões e contradições, os diversos discursos acerca da globalização deixam entrever um desejo de construir o espaço e o tempo do encontro entre mundos e culturas, mediante a persistência de um diálogo que aproxime as distâncias, mas respeite as diferenças. Parte considerável da formação política, cultural, urbanística, linguística do mundo ocidental hauriu motivos e soluções da instituição das póleis e cosmópoleis do Mundo Antigo. Por outro lado, a mobilidade pode mesmo ser considerada um traço característico da cultura luso-brasileira, desde os descobrimentos portugueses e a sua produção cultural, nos primeiros passos da literatura jesuítica no Br...

Law and Drama in Ancient Greece
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 209

Law and Drama in Ancient Greece

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2013-10-16
  • -
  • Publisher: A&C Black

The relationship between law and literature is rich and complex. In the past three and half decades, the topic has received much attention from literary critics and legal scholars studying modern literature. Despite the prominence of law and justice in Ancient Greek literature, there has been little interest among Classical scholars in the connections between law and drama. This is the first collection of essays to approach Greek tragedy and comedy from a legal perspective. The volume does not claim to provide an exhaustive treatment of law and literature in ancient Greece. Rather it provides a sample of different approaches to the topic. Some essays show how knowledge of Athenian law enhances our understanding of individual passages in Attic drama and the mimes of Herodas and enriches our appreciation of dramatic techniques. Other essays examine the information provided about legal procedure found in Aristophanes' comedies or the views about the role of law in society expressed in Attic drama. The collection reveals reveal how the study of law and legal procedure can enhance our understanding of ancient drama and bring new insights to the interpretation of individual plays.

Our Beloved Polites: Studies presented to P.J. Rhodes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 394

Our Beloved Polites: Studies presented to P.J. Rhodes

Twenty-eight contributions pay tribute to one of the most remarkable historians of ancient Greece, Professor P. J. Rhodes, to celebrate his life and work which has been and will continue to be a major reference for scholars around the world. The volume is organised in four sections: History and Biography, Law, Politics, and Epigraphy.

Crises (Staseis) and Changes (Metabolai)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 142

Crises (Staseis) and Changes (Metabolai)

This book aims to build a solid and proper contribution to the contemporary global debate on the experience of democracy and its possibilities as the most effective mediator of a series of challenges, a debate that is necessarily rooted in the critical reassessment of its Greek cultural heritage. The book is articulated around the identification of a concrete problem: the need for studies that critically discuss Athenian democracy, seen as a daily problem and practice, based on its staseis (crises) and metabolai (changes), and whose solutions and strategies may still contribute to the reflection on the social, intellectual and ethical-political challenges of contemporary democracy.

A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 377

A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2020-03-09
  • -
  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume approaches Plutarch’s intellectual and professional activity, and the the way he managed to cover such an impressive range of areas and interests, which make of his work an inexhaustible source of information on the ancient world.

Nomos, Kosmos & Dike in Plutarch
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 291

Nomos, Kosmos & Dike in Plutarch

In September 2002, the University of Coimbra hosted, for the first time, a conference of the Réseau Thématique Plutarque, a research network created by several European universities in order to promote regular annual meetings of junior and senior scholars who share a common interest in Plutarch's work. The Coimbra meeting of 2002 was devoted to the fragments of Plutarch, and the results of that event were published one year later, in a volume edited by José Ribeiro Ferreira and Delfim Leão, under the title Os fragmentos de Plutarco e a recepção da sua obra (Coimbra, 2003). During the following years, many other universities organized conferences of the Réseau on a rotating basis, unti...

Greek Art in Motion: Studies in honour of Sir John Boardman on the occasion of his 90th Birthday
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 518

Greek Art in Motion: Studies in honour of Sir John Boardman on the occasion of his 90th Birthday

Over 50 papers, first presented at the international congress ‘Greek Art in Motion’ (Lisbon, 2017) in honour of Sir John Boardman’s 90th Birthday, are collected here under the following headings: Sculpture, Architecture, Terracotta & Metal, Greek Pottery, Coins, Greek History & Archaeology, Greeks Overseas, Reception & Collecting, Art & Myth.

The Satyricon of Petronius
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 137

The Satyricon of Petronius

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2008
  • -
  • Publisher: Unknown

None

The Laws of Solon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

The Laws of Solon

Solon (c 658-558 BC) is famous as both statesman and poet but also, and above all, as the paramount lawmaker of ancient Athens. Though his works survive only in fragments, we know from the writings of Herodotus and Plutarch that his constitutional reforms against the venality, greed and political power-play of Attica's tyrants and noblemen were hugely influential-and may even be said to have laid the foundations of western democracy. Solon's legal injunctions covered the widest range of topics and issues: economics and labour; sexual morality; social issues; and society and politics. Yet despite their fame and influence (and Solon's life and work generated a lively reception history), no complete edition of these writings has yet been published. This book offers the definitive critical edition of Solon's laws that has long been needed. It comprises the original Greek fragments with English translations, commentaries, a comprehensive introduction and important comparative Latin texts. It will be enthusiastically welcomed by specialists in ancient Greek language and history.

A Versatile Gentleman
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 311

A Versatile Gentleman

Plutarch was a brilliant Platonist, an erudite historian, a gifted author of highly polished literary dialogues, a priest of Apollo at Delphi, and a devoted politician in his hometown Chaeronea. He felt confident in the most technical and specialized discussions, yet was not afraid of rhetorical generalizations. In his voluminous oeuvre, he appears as a sharp polemicist and a loving father, an ardent pupil but also a kind, inspiring teacher, a sober historian and a teller of wondrous tales. In view of all these different personae, erudite versatility is without any doubt a major characteristic of Plutarch’s works. A Versatile Gentleman is dedicated to Luc Van der Stockt, professor emeritus of Greek language and literature at KU Leuven and a truly versatile gentleman. The volume aims to do justice to his and Plutarch’s versatility by discussing the Chaeronean from many different angles. As such, it sheds new light on the coherence of, and the tensions in, Plutarch’s thinking and writing.