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Master Seafarers
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Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World
Discusses the people, places and events found in over 2,000 years of Greek civilization.
Introducing the Ancient Greeks
They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the histories of Leonidas’s three hundred Spartans and Alexander the Great. But who were the ancient Greeks? And what was it that enabled them to achieve so much? Here, Edith Hall gives us a revelatory way of viewing this geographically scattered people, visiting different communities at various key moments during twenty centuries of ancient history. Identifying ten unique traits central to the widespread ancient Greeks, Hall unveils a civilization of incomparable richness and a people of astounding comple...
The Ancient Greeks
They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the histories of Leonidas's three hundred Spartans and Alexander the Great. But who were the ancient Greeks? And what was it that enabled them to achieve so much? Here, Edith Hall gives us a revelatory way of viewing this geographically scattered people, visiting different communities at various key moments during twenty centuries of ancient history. Identifying ten unique traits central to the widespread ancient Greeks, Hall unveils a civilization of incomparable richness and a people of astounding complexi...
Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age
Bringing together the research of internationally renowned scholars, Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age contributes significantly to our understanding of the epoch-making artistic and cultural exchanges that took place across the Near East and Mediterranean in the early first millennium B.C. This was the world of Odysseus, in which seafaring Phoenician merchants charted new nautical trade routes and established prosperous trading posts and colonies on the shores of three continents; of kings Midas and Croesus, legendary for their wealth; and of the Hebrew Bible, whose stories are brought vividly to life by archaeological discoveries. Objects drawn from collections in the Midd...
Nation-states and the challenges of regional integration in West Africa
Since the Treaty establishing the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was signed in 1975, several protocole have been adopted providing the legal and institutional framework for implementing the integration of the West African sub-region. Ail social and political stakeholders agree that regional integration is a major challenge for development in West Africa. Yet the regional integration process has been affected by many delays, even failures. Member states have pursued a seemingly contradictory dual objective: build a Nation-state within colonial Borders and achieve regional integration to fight against under-development. Can national planning priorities be reconciled with th...
Livres hebdo
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Die Griechen
Von der Kraft und Faszination der griechischen Antike Sie waren die Erfinder der Demokratie, Begründer der Philosophie, Schöpfer unsterblicher Mythen – doch was genau war das Erfolgsgeheimnis der antiken Griechen und was verbindet uns mit ihnen? Edith Hall, Professorin am Londoner King’s College und eine der weltweit profiliertesten Altertumsforscherinnen, untersucht zehn Charaktereigenschaften, die allen griechischen Völkern gemeinsam waren. Über die Jahrtausende hinweg lernen wir so die wissbegierigen, humorvollen wie kompetitiven Menschen kennen, die als Seefahrer in neue Gebiete vorstießen, sich im Wettkampf in Olympia oder im Redegefecht maßen. Wir erfahren, was die Griechen dachten und fühlten, über welche Witze sie lachten – und es entsteht eine ebenso farbige wie kurzweilig-moderne Geschichte, die uns den Mythen und Göttern, Helden und Menschen so nahe bringt wie nie.
