1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465696703321

Autore

Rawlings Louis

Titolo

The ancient Greeks at war [[electronic resource] /] / Louis Rawlings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-78170-083-4

1-84779-153-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

355.020938

Soggetti

Military art and science - Greece - History - To 500

Armies - Greece

Electronic books.

Greece History, Military

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-244) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 War and peace in ancient Greece; Chapter 2 Early Greek warfare; Chapter 3 The makers of war; Chapter 4 The patterns of war; Chapter 5 Battlefield engagements in the age of the hoplite; Chapter 6 Naval warfare; Chapter 7 Siege warfare; Chapter 8 War and economy; Chapter 9 War and religion; Chapter 10 War, the individual and the community; Conclusion The ancient Greeks at war; Bibliography; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The ancient Greeks experienced war in many forms. By land and by sea, they conducted raids, ambushes, battles and sieges; they embarked on campaigns of intimidation, conquest and annihilation; they fought against fellow Greeks and non-Greeks.Drawing on a wealth of literary, epigraphic and archaeological material, this wide-ranging synthesis looks at the practicalities of Greek warfare and its wider social ramifications. Alongside discussions of the nature and role of battle, logistics, strategy, and equipment are examinations of other fundamentals of war: religious and economic factors.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996328036803316

Titolo

Renaissance Futurities : Science, Art, Invention / / Charlene Villaseñor Black, Mari-Tere Álvarez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

0-520-29698-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 238 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)

Disciplina

701.0509409031

Soggetti

ART / History / Renaissance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This publication is openly available online thanks to the generous support of Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin" -- Publication details.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Future is Now: Reflections on Art, Science, Futurity -- 1. Moon Shot: From Renaissance Imagination to Modern Reality -- 2. Machines in the Garden -- 3. Inventing Interfaces: Camillo's Memory Theater and the Renaissance of Human-Computer Interaction -- 4. Futurities, Empire, and Censorship: Cervantes in Conversation with Ovid and Orwell -- 5. Anticipating the Future: Leonardo's Unpublished Anatomical and Mathematical Observations -- 6. Medicine as a Hunt: Searching for the Secrets of the New World -- 7. The Half-Life of Blue -- 8. 'Ingenuity' and Artists' Ways of Knowing -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Renaissance Futurities considers the intersections between artistic rebirth, the new science, and European imperialism in the global early modern world. Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez take as inspiration the work of Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), prolific artist and inventor, and other polymaths such as philosopher Giulio "Delminio" Camillo (1480-1544), physician and naturalist Francisco Hernández de Toledo (1514-1587), and writer



Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616). This concern with futurity is inspired by the Renaissance itself, a period defined by visions of the future, as well as by recent theorizing of temporality in Renaissance and Queer Studies. This transdisciplinary volume is at the cutting edge of the humanities, medical humanities, scientific discovery, and avant-garde artistic expression.