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- The histories : the complete translation, backgrounds, commentaries / by Herodotus.; Blanco, Walter,editor.; Roberts, Jennifer Tolbert,1947-editor,translator.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 625-628) and indexes."Walter Blanco's acclaimed translation of The Histories is now available in its entirety in this revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition. Herodotus's history is the earliest continuous prose narrative in Western literature. His long narrative--longer than either of the Homeric epics--continues to hold us spellbound because of the author's storytelling powers and intelligent curiosity. The perfect introduction to Herodotus, this Norton Critical Edition includes the complete text of The Histories. The translation is fully annotated and is accompanied by an introduction, a chronology of events, and a note on the Persian Wars. Seven maps--all new to the Second Edition--give readers a visual understanding of events and places, 490-479 B.C.E. "Backgrounds" includes a rich collection of historical works by Aeschylus, Bacchylides, Thucydides, Aristotle, and Plutarch. New to the Second Edition are contrasting accounts, by Diodorus of Sicily and Strabo, of the Amazons who were believed to be living in the mountainous regions. "Commentaries" is divided into two sections. Early modern interpretations are represented by Isaac Taylor, John Stuart Mill, and Thomas Babington Macaulay. Seventeen modern assessments--three of them new to the Second Edition--focus on historical origins and backgrounds, Herodotus's place in history, and central issues concerning both the Persian Wars and Herodotus's reckoning of them. The new contributors are François Hartog, James Redfield, and Siep Stuurman."--Publisher's website.The histories -- Backgrounds -- Commentaries -- Early modern criticism -- Modern criticism. Background ; Herodotus ; The Persian Wars ; Aspects of Herodotus' work.- Subjects: History, Ancient.;
- © [2013], W.W. Norton & Company,
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- The Nile : travelling downriver through Egypt's past and present / by Wilkinson, Toby A. H.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-280) and index.The Nile: Egypt's eternal river -- Aswan: source of the Nile -- The deep south: where Egypt began -- Luxor: city of wonders -- Western Thebes: realm of the dead -- Qift and Qena: the centre and the provinces -- Abydos: place of mysteries -- Middle Egypt: cradle of religion -- The Fayum: a lake in the desert -- Cairo: Egypt's capital.It was Herodotus who first called Egypt "the gift of the river." Now renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us along the Nile to reveal how it continues to hold the key to understanding the earliest of the great ancient civilizations as well as the volatile and rapidly modernizing country that is Egypt today. Wilkinson's narrative takes us from the river's mystical sources (the Blue Nile which rises in Ethiopia, and the White Nile coursing from majestic Lake Victoria); to Thebes, with its Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Queens, and Luxor Temple; the fertile Delta; Giza, home of the Great Pyramid, the sole surviving Wonder of the Ancient World; and finally, to the pulsating capital city of Cairo, where the Arab Spring erupted on the bridges over the Nile. Along the way, he introduces us to mysterious and fabled characters--the gods and pharaohs, emperors and empresses, who joined their fate to the Nile and gained immortality; the adventurers, archaeologists, and historians who have all fallen under its spell. With matchless erudition and storytelling skill, through both panoramas and close-ups, Wilkinson brings millennia of history into view.--From publisher description.- Subjects: Wilkinson, Toby A. H.;
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- Death : antiquity and its legacy / by Erasmo, Mario.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-170) and index.Funerals -- Funeral paradigms -- Death on the periphery -- Staging the dead -- Viewing the dead -- Likening the dead -- Animating the dead -- Disposal -- Cremation -- Staging cremations -- Containing the dead -- Burials and secondary disposal -- Location and commemoration -- The dead on the periphery -- The ancient dead on the periphery -- Gates of the living and the dead -- Legacy of Roman tombs -- Neoclassicism -- Cult of the dead -- (Self-) identifying the dead -- Moving memorials -- Visiting the dead -- Drinking and eating with the dead -- Touring the dead.Personal and yet universal, inevitable and unknowable, death has been a dominant theme in all cultures since earliest times. Remarkably, across the span of several millennia and despite the myriad of cultural profusions since antiquity, we can recognize in the customs of ancient Greece and Rome ceremonies and rituals that have lasting resonance today in both the East and West. For example, preparing the corpse of the deceased, holding a memorial service, the practice of cremation and of burial in "resting places" are all processes that can trace their origin to ancient practices. Such rites, described by Cicero and Herodotus, among others have defined traditional modern funerals. Yet of late there has been a shift away from classical ritual and somber memorialization as the dead are transformed into spectacles. Impromptu roadside shrines, "virtual" memorials, the embalmment of the deceased in the attitude of daily activity, and even firework displays have come to the fore as new modes of marking, even celebrating, bereavement. What is causing this change, and how do urbanization, economic factors, and the rise of individualism play a part? In this book the author explicates and explores the nexus between classical and contemporary approaches to death and interment. From theme funerals in St. Louis to Etruscan sarcophagi, he offers a discussion of the end of life across the ages.- Subjects: Funeral rites and ceremonies; Funeral rites and ceremonies;
- © c2012., Oxford University Press,
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