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Alexander's heirs : the age of the successors / / Edward M. Anson
Alexander's heirs : the age of the successors / / Edward M. Anson
Autore Anson Edward
Edizione [First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (248 p.)
Disciplina 938.08
ISBN 1-118-86240-6
1-118-86242-2
1-118-86233-3
Classificazione HIS002010
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Introduction -- The death of a conqueror -- The funeral games begin -- The end of a dynasty -- "War, both the king and father of all" -- The end of the Diadochi -- Epilogue : the new world.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910139111103321
Anson Edward  
Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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Alexander's heirs : the age of the successors / / Edward M. Anson
Alexander's heirs : the age of the successors / / Edward M. Anson
Autore Anson Edward
Edizione [First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (248 p.)
Disciplina 938.08
ISBN 1-118-86240-6
1-118-86242-2
1-118-86233-3
Classificazione HIS002010
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Introduction -- The death of a conqueror -- The funeral games begin -- The end of a dynasty -- "War, both the king and father of all" -- The end of the Diadochi -- Epilogue : the new world.
Record Nr. UNISA-996441052003316
Anson Edward  
Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
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Alexander's heirs : the age of the successors / / Edward M. Anson
Alexander's heirs : the age of the successors / / Edward M. Anson
Autore Anson Edward
Edizione [First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (248 p.)
Disciplina 938.08
ISBN 1-118-86240-6
1-118-86242-2
1-118-86233-3
Classificazione HIS002010
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Introduction -- The death of a conqueror -- The funeral games begin -- The end of a dynasty -- "War, both the king and father of all" -- The end of the Diadochi -- Epilogue : the new world.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910822663303321
Anson Edward  
Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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By the spear : Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the rise and fall of the Macedonian empire / / Ian Worthington
By the spear : Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the rise and fall of the Macedonian empire / / Ian Worthington
Autore Worthington Ian
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (411 p.)
Disciplina 938.07
Collana Ancient Warfare and Civilization
Soggetto topico Armies - Macedonia - History
Social change - Macedonia - History
ISBN 0-19-021383-3
0-19-992987-4
Classificazione HIS002010
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Timeline -- Quotations from Ancient Works and Special Abbreviations -- Maps -- 1. The Architect and the Master Builder -- 2. Greece and Macedonia -- 3. Philip II and the Rise of Macedonia -- 4. The New Player in Greek Politics -- 5. The Gathering War Clouds -- 6. The Downfall of Greece -- 7. Philip's Assassination and Legacy -- 8. Alexander's Early Kingship--and Persia -- 9. From Europe to Asia -- 10. Alexander : Master Strategist and Emerging God -- 11. The Decline and Fall of the Persian Empire -- 12. The War in Afghanistan -- 13. Passage to India -- 14. Retreat from India -- 15. Alexander's Final Years -- 16. Death in Babylon and Alexander's Legacy -- Appendix: The Sources of Information.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910790902603321
Worthington Ian  
New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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By the spear : Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the rise and fall of the Macedonian empire / / Ian Worthington
By the spear : Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the rise and fall of the Macedonian empire / / Ian Worthington
Autore Worthington Ian
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (411 p.)
Disciplina 938.07
Collana Ancient Warfare and Civilization
Soggetto topico Armies - Macedonia - History
Social change - Macedonia - History
ISBN 0-19-021383-3
0-19-992987-4
Classificazione HIS002010
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Timeline -- Quotations from Ancient Works and Special Abbreviations -- Maps -- 1. The Architect and the Master Builder -- 2. Greece and Macedonia -- 3. Philip II and the Rise of Macedonia -- 4. The New Player in Greek Politics -- 5. The Gathering War Clouds -- 6. The Downfall of Greece -- 7. Philip's Assassination and Legacy -- 8. Alexander's Early Kingship--and Persia -- 9. From Europe to Asia -- 10. Alexander : Master Strategist and Emerging God -- 11. The Decline and Fall of the Persian Empire -- 12. The War in Afghanistan -- 13. Passage to India -- 14. Retreat from India -- 15. Alexander's Final Years -- 16. Death in Babylon and Alexander's Legacy -- Appendix: The Sources of Information.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910828024503321
Worthington Ian  
New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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A companion to Plutarch / / edited by Mark Beck
A companion to Plutarch / / edited by Mark Beck
Edizione [1]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts ; ; Oxford, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (736 p.)
Disciplina 888/.0108
Altri autori (Persone) BeckMark <1958->
Collana Blackwell companions to the ancient world
Soggetto topico Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN 1-118-31640-1
1-118-31645-2
1-118-31623-1
1-118-31637-1
Classificazione HIS002010
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Intro -- BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Translations and Abbreviations -- Introduction: Plutarch in Greece -- 1. Plutarch's Early Life -- 2. History and Topographies of Memory -- 3. Erga and Aesthetics -- 4. Characterization, Individuality, and the Condensation of Knowledge -- 5. Plutarch in Chaeronea -- 6. The Contents and Scope of this Volume -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PART I: Plutarch in Context -- CHAPTER 1: Plutarch and Rome -- 1. A Greek in a Roman World -- 2. Visiting Rome: The Immersion Experience -- 3. Roman Friends -- 4. Evaluating Emperors, Past and Present -- 5. Delphi and Rome -- 6. Plutarch's View of Rome in the Parallel Lives -- 7. Living Under Roman Rule -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 2: Plutarch and the Second Sophistic -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 3: The Role of Philosophy and Philosophers in the Imperial Period -- 1. The Scope of Philosophia -- 2. Public and Social Profile -- 3. Encountering Philosophy -- 4. A Call to Personal Commitment -- 5. Choice and Division -- 6. Professional Output and Forms of Communication -- 7. Integration and Ambivalence -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- PART II: Plutarch's Moralia -- CHAPTER 4: Plutarch and Platonism -- 1. Ethics -- 2. Physics -- 3. Logic -- 4. Conclusion -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 5: Plutarch, Aristotle, and the Peripatetics -- 1. Philosophical Paideia -- 2. The Human Soul -- 3. Reason -- 4. Passion -- 5. Morality (Ēthos) -- 6. Wisdom (Phronēsis) -- 7. Theoretical and Ethical Virtues -- 8. Virtue: The Mesotēs of the Passions -- 9. Freedom from Pain or Grief (Alypia) -- 10. Impassiveness (Apatheia) -- 11. Freedom and Responsibility -- 12. Happiness -- REFERENCES.
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 6: Plutarch and the Stoics -- 1. Theology, Providence, and Evil -- 2. Determinism and Moral Responsibility -- 3. The Soul -- 4. Moral Psychology -- 5. Polemics -- 6. Caution and the Quest for Truth -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 7: Plutarch and Epicureanism -- 1. Introduction: The Epicureans in Plutarch's Work -- 2. Epicureanism in Plutarch's World: Survival and Hostility -- 3. Plutarch's Platonism vs. Epicureanism -- 4. Plutarch against Epicurean Materialism, Empiricism, and Pleasure -- 5. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 8: Plutarch and the Skeptics -- 1. Plutarch on the Difference between the Academics and the Pyrrhonists -- 2. Plutarch and Knowledge of the Sensory World -- 3. Plutarch and Knowledge of the Intelligible and Divine World -- 4. Platonism and Skepticism -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 9: Practical Ethics -- 1. Foundational Research -- 2. The Scope of the Practical Ethics -- 3. Characteristics of Plutarch's Practical Ethics -- 4. Conclusions and Outlook -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 10: Political Philosophy -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 11: Religion and Myth -- 1. Religion -- 2. Myth -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 12: Poetry and Education -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Evidence of Quotation -- 3. How a Young Man Should Listen to Poetry -- 4. Plutarch's Principles Applied -- 5. Conclusions -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 13: Love and Marriage -- 1. Introduction and Considerations -- 2. A Philosophy of Eros: Physical, Spiritual, Conjugal, and Political Eros -- 3. The Religious, Spiritual, and Eschatological Nature of Eros.
4. Conjugal Eros: Women's Capability in Achieving Eros, and its Viability in Marriage -- 5. Political Eros: Appropriate and Inappropriate Relationships for Free Citizens (Both Male and Female) -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 14: The Sympotic Works -- 1. The Philosopher's Dinner Party: Plutarch's Table Talk -- 2. A Socratic Start -- 3. The Muses of Book 9 -- 4. Wise Men at Dinner -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 15: Animals in Plutarch -- 1. Plutarch's Writings on Animals: Characteristics and Challenges -- 2. Ancient Perceptions of Animals -- 3. Plutarch on Rationality in Animals -- 4. Plutarch on Animals: Appraisal and Survival -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 16: Plutarch the Antiquarian -- 1. What is an Antiquarian? Ancients and Moderns -- 2. Plutarch's Antiquarian Erudition -- 3. The Birth of a Greco-Roman Classicism -- 4. An Antiquarian Past for the Present -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- PART III: Plutarch's Biographical Projects -- CHAPTER 17: The Lives of the Caesars -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Date -- 3. The Sources -- 4. The Parallel Tradition -- 5. The Caesars: A Different Kind of Biography? -- 6. Emphases -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 18: Plutarch's Galba and Otho -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Bad Leadership and Military Misconduct in Galba's Reign -- 3. More Bad Leadership and Military Misbehavior: The Reign of Otho -- 4. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 19: The Aratus and the Artaxerxes -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 20: The Project of the Parallel Lives: Plutarch's Conception of Biography -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 21: Kratein onomatôn: Language and Value in Plutarch -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 22: Compositional Methods in the Lives -- 1. "Compositional Methods" and Classical Hermeneutics -- 2. General Design and Architecture: Unity, Contrast, Comparison -- 3. The Biographies: Building Blocks and Structure -- 4. Manipulating Sources -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 23: The Prologues -- 1. Prologues, Books, and Lives -- 2. The Function and Structure of Prologues -- 3. The Structure of the Prologues: Examples -- 4. Variation: Naming One Subject before the Other -- 5. Alexander-Caesar and Nicias-Crassus -- 6. "Me," "Us," and "Them" -- 7. Closure -- 8. Books Without Prologues -- APPENDIX: THE CONSTITUENT PARTS OF A BOOK OF PARALLEL LIVES -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 24: Morality, Characterization, and Individuality -- 1. Some Theoretical Background -- 2. The Moral Purpose of the Lives -- 3. The Nature of Plutarch's Moralism -- 4. Moralism Through Characterization -- 5. Moralism and Individuality -- 6. Conclusions -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 25: Childhood and Youth -- 1. Introduction: Terms Used to Designate Children and Youths -- 2. Methodology -- 3. The Physical Portrait -- 4. The Psychological Portrait -- 5. Final Observations -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 26: Death and Other Kinds of Closure -- 1. Demosthenes-Cicero -- 2. Cimon-Lucullus -- 3. Nicias-Crassus -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 27: The Synkrisis -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 28: The Use of Historical Sources -- 1. The Parallel Lives by Plutarch: A Historiographical Project? -- 2. Plutarch's Historical Sources: The Greek Lives and the Roman Lives -- 3. Plutarch's Knowledge of Latin -- 4. Plutarchan Interpretation and the Adaptation of Plutarchan Sources.
5. Method of Selection and Use of Historical Sources -- 6. Athens and Sparta: Historiographical Choices and Historical Interpretation -- 7. Contemporary History: A Comparison of Plutarch and Tacitus -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 29: Tragedy and the Hero -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 30: The Philosopher-King -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Conflict between Philosophy and Politics -- 3. Politics: A Twofold Teaching -- 4. Philosophy: The Internal Speech -- 5. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 31: The Socratic Paradigm -- 1. Introduction: Socrates as the Paradigm -- 2. Socrates and the Failure of Alcibiades -- 3. Contrasting Catos and the Socratic Paradigm -- 4. The Censor -- 5. The Younger Cato -- 6. The Censor as the Intellectual Precursor of Stoicism -- 7. Women and Marriage in the Life of Cato the Younger -- 8. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 32: Fate and Fortune -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 33: The Perils of Ambition -- 1. The Vocabulary of Ambition: Honorific Inscriptions and Political Morality -- 2. Plutarch's Philosophical Analyses: Personal Morality and Individual Psychology -- 3. Ambition in Greek Culture: Sparta, Athens, and the Hellenistic Period -- 4. The Theme of Ambition in Roman History: The Conquest of Greece and the Civil Wars -- 5. Exemplars of Ambition: Alexander and Caesar as "Great Natures" -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 34: Sex, Eroticism, and Politics -- 1. Eroticism, Politics, and Self-Control -- 2. The Politics of Eros in the Agesilaus-Pompey -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 35: Philanthropy, Dignity, and Euergetism -- 1. Luce Clariora: Clear-Cut Distinctions and Definite Ideals -- 2. Historia Magistra Vitae: The Lives.
3. Conclusion.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910208821303321
Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts ; ; Oxford, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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A companion to Plutarch / / edited by Mark Beck
A companion to Plutarch / / edited by Mark Beck
Edizione [1]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts ; ; Oxford, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (736 p.)
Disciplina 888/.0108
Altri autori (Persone) BeckMark <1958->
Collana Blackwell companions to the ancient world
Soggetto topico Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN 1-118-31640-1
1-118-31645-2
1-118-31623-1
1-118-31637-1
Classificazione HIS002010
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Intro -- BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Translations and Abbreviations -- Introduction: Plutarch in Greece -- 1. Plutarch's Early Life -- 2. History and Topographies of Memory -- 3. Erga and Aesthetics -- 4. Characterization, Individuality, and the Condensation of Knowledge -- 5. Plutarch in Chaeronea -- 6. The Contents and Scope of this Volume -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PART I: Plutarch in Context -- CHAPTER 1: Plutarch and Rome -- 1. A Greek in a Roman World -- 2. Visiting Rome: The Immersion Experience -- 3. Roman Friends -- 4. Evaluating Emperors, Past and Present -- 5. Delphi and Rome -- 6. Plutarch's View of Rome in the Parallel Lives -- 7. Living Under Roman Rule -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 2: Plutarch and the Second Sophistic -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 3: The Role of Philosophy and Philosophers in the Imperial Period -- 1. The Scope of Philosophia -- 2. Public and Social Profile -- 3. Encountering Philosophy -- 4. A Call to Personal Commitment -- 5. Choice and Division -- 6. Professional Output and Forms of Communication -- 7. Integration and Ambivalence -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- PART II: Plutarch's Moralia -- CHAPTER 4: Plutarch and Platonism -- 1. Ethics -- 2. Physics -- 3. Logic -- 4. Conclusion -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 5: Plutarch, Aristotle, and the Peripatetics -- 1. Philosophical Paideia -- 2. The Human Soul -- 3. Reason -- 4. Passion -- 5. Morality (Ēthos) -- 6. Wisdom (Phronēsis) -- 7. Theoretical and Ethical Virtues -- 8. Virtue: The Mesotēs of the Passions -- 9. Freedom from Pain or Grief (Alypia) -- 10. Impassiveness (Apatheia) -- 11. Freedom and Responsibility -- 12. Happiness -- REFERENCES.
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 6: Plutarch and the Stoics -- 1. Theology, Providence, and Evil -- 2. Determinism and Moral Responsibility -- 3. The Soul -- 4. Moral Psychology -- 5. Polemics -- 6. Caution and the Quest for Truth -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 7: Plutarch and Epicureanism -- 1. Introduction: The Epicureans in Plutarch's Work -- 2. Epicureanism in Plutarch's World: Survival and Hostility -- 3. Plutarch's Platonism vs. Epicureanism -- 4. Plutarch against Epicurean Materialism, Empiricism, and Pleasure -- 5. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 8: Plutarch and the Skeptics -- 1. Plutarch on the Difference between the Academics and the Pyrrhonists -- 2. Plutarch and Knowledge of the Sensory World -- 3. Plutarch and Knowledge of the Intelligible and Divine World -- 4. Platonism and Skepticism -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 9: Practical Ethics -- 1. Foundational Research -- 2. The Scope of the Practical Ethics -- 3. Characteristics of Plutarch's Practical Ethics -- 4. Conclusions and Outlook -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 10: Political Philosophy -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 11: Religion and Myth -- 1. Religion -- 2. Myth -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 12: Poetry and Education -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Evidence of Quotation -- 3. How a Young Man Should Listen to Poetry -- 4. Plutarch's Principles Applied -- 5. Conclusions -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 13: Love and Marriage -- 1. Introduction and Considerations -- 2. A Philosophy of Eros: Physical, Spiritual, Conjugal, and Political Eros -- 3. The Religious, Spiritual, and Eschatological Nature of Eros.
4. Conjugal Eros: Women's Capability in Achieving Eros, and its Viability in Marriage -- 5. Political Eros: Appropriate and Inappropriate Relationships for Free Citizens (Both Male and Female) -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 14: The Sympotic Works -- 1. The Philosopher's Dinner Party: Plutarch's Table Talk -- 2. A Socratic Start -- 3. The Muses of Book 9 -- 4. Wise Men at Dinner -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 15: Animals in Plutarch -- 1. Plutarch's Writings on Animals: Characteristics and Challenges -- 2. Ancient Perceptions of Animals -- 3. Plutarch on Rationality in Animals -- 4. Plutarch on Animals: Appraisal and Survival -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 16: Plutarch the Antiquarian -- 1. What is an Antiquarian? Ancients and Moderns -- 2. Plutarch's Antiquarian Erudition -- 3. The Birth of a Greco-Roman Classicism -- 4. An Antiquarian Past for the Present -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- PART III: Plutarch's Biographical Projects -- CHAPTER 17: The Lives of the Caesars -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Date -- 3. The Sources -- 4. The Parallel Tradition -- 5. The Caesars: A Different Kind of Biography? -- 6. Emphases -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 18: Plutarch's Galba and Otho -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Bad Leadership and Military Misconduct in Galba's Reign -- 3. More Bad Leadership and Military Misbehavior: The Reign of Otho -- 4. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 19: The Aratus and the Artaxerxes -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 20: The Project of the Parallel Lives: Plutarch's Conception of Biography -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 21: Kratein onomatôn: Language and Value in Plutarch -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 22: Compositional Methods in the Lives -- 1. "Compositional Methods" and Classical Hermeneutics -- 2. General Design and Architecture: Unity, Contrast, Comparison -- 3. The Biographies: Building Blocks and Structure -- 4. Manipulating Sources -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 23: The Prologues -- 1. Prologues, Books, and Lives -- 2. The Function and Structure of Prologues -- 3. The Structure of the Prologues: Examples -- 4. Variation: Naming One Subject before the Other -- 5. Alexander-Caesar and Nicias-Crassus -- 6. "Me," "Us," and "Them" -- 7. Closure -- 8. Books Without Prologues -- APPENDIX: THE CONSTITUENT PARTS OF A BOOK OF PARALLEL LIVES -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 24: Morality, Characterization, and Individuality -- 1. Some Theoretical Background -- 2. The Moral Purpose of the Lives -- 3. The Nature of Plutarch's Moralism -- 4. Moralism Through Characterization -- 5. Moralism and Individuality -- 6. Conclusions -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 25: Childhood and Youth -- 1. Introduction: Terms Used to Designate Children and Youths -- 2. Methodology -- 3. The Physical Portrait -- 4. The Psychological Portrait -- 5. Final Observations -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 26: Death and Other Kinds of Closure -- 1. Demosthenes-Cicero -- 2. Cimon-Lucullus -- 3. Nicias-Crassus -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 27: The Synkrisis -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 28: The Use of Historical Sources -- 1. The Parallel Lives by Plutarch: A Historiographical Project? -- 2. Plutarch's Historical Sources: The Greek Lives and the Roman Lives -- 3. Plutarch's Knowledge of Latin -- 4. Plutarchan Interpretation and the Adaptation of Plutarchan Sources.
5. Method of Selection and Use of Historical Sources -- 6. Athens and Sparta: Historiographical Choices and Historical Interpretation -- 7. Contemporary History: A Comparison of Plutarch and Tacitus -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 29: Tragedy and the Hero -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 30: The Philosopher-King -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Conflict between Philosophy and Politics -- 3. Politics: A Twofold Teaching -- 4. Philosophy: The Internal Speech -- 5. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 31: The Socratic Paradigm -- 1. Introduction: Socrates as the Paradigm -- 2. Socrates and the Failure of Alcibiades -- 3. Contrasting Catos and the Socratic Paradigm -- 4. The Censor -- 5. The Younger Cato -- 6. The Censor as the Intellectual Precursor of Stoicism -- 7. Women and Marriage in the Life of Cato the Younger -- 8. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 32: Fate and Fortune -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 33: The Perils of Ambition -- 1. The Vocabulary of Ambition: Honorific Inscriptions and Political Morality -- 2. Plutarch's Philosophical Analyses: Personal Morality and Individual Psychology -- 3. Ambition in Greek Culture: Sparta, Athens, and the Hellenistic Period -- 4. The Theme of Ambition in Roman History: The Conquest of Greece and the Civil Wars -- 5. Exemplars of Ambition: Alexander and Caesar as "Great Natures" -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 34: Sex, Eroticism, and Politics -- 1. Eroticism, Politics, and Self-Control -- 2. The Politics of Eros in the Agesilaus-Pompey -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 35: Philanthropy, Dignity, and Euergetism -- 1. Luce Clariora: Clear-Cut Distinctions and Definite Ideals -- 2. Historia Magistra Vitae: The Lives.
3. Conclusion.
Record Nr. UNISA-996441549003316
Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts ; ; Oxford, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
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A portable cosmos : revealing the Antikythera mechanism, scientific wonder of the ancient world / / Alexander Jones
A portable cosmos : revealing the Antikythera mechanism, scientific wonder of the ancient world / / Alexander Jones
Autore Jones Alexander
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (313 pages) : illustrations, maps
Disciplina 681.1/11
Soggetto topico Antikythera mechanism (Ancient calculator)
Astronomy, Ancient - Greece
Calendar, Greek
Technology - Greece - History - To 1500
Science - Greece - History - To 1500
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 0-19-061859-0
0-19-061858-2
Classificazione HIS002010
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Chapter 1. The Wreck and the Discovery -- Chapter 2. The Investigations -- Chapter 3. Looking at the Mechanism -- Chapter 4. Calendars and Games -- Chapter 5. Stars, Sun, and Moon -- Chapter 6. Eclipses -- Chapter 7. The Wanderers -- Chapter 8. Hidden Workings -- Chapter 9. Afterword: The Meaning of the Mechanism.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910156233903321
Jones Alexander  
New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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Traces of the past : classics between history and archaeology / / Karen Bassi
Traces of the past : classics between history and archaeology / / Karen Bassi
Autore Bassi Karen
Pubbl/distr/stampa Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , [2016]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (257 p.)
Disciplina 930.1
Soggetto topico Archaeology and history
Classical antiquities
Classical literature - History and criticism
Greek literature - History and criticism
History - Philosophy
Archaeology - Philosophy
Material culture - Philosophy
Literature - Philosophy
ISBN 0-472-12196-0
Classificazione HIS002010
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Introduction: Seeing the Past -- The Landscape of the Past in Hesiod's Theogony -- The Hypothetical Past and the Achaean Wall in the Iliad -- Blinded by Time : The Past "As If" in the Odyssey -- "Up to My Time" : The Fading of the Past in Herodotus' Histories -- Tragedy Vanishes : Reading the Past in Aristophanes' Frogs -- Epilogue: Reading the Past.
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Bassi Karen  
Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , [2016]
Materiale a stampa
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