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Confronting the classics : traditions, adventures, and innovations / by Beard, Mary,1955-(CARDINAL)266464;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-295) and index.Do classics have a future? -- Ancient Greece. Builder of ruins ; Sappho speaks ; Which Thucydides can you trust? ; Alexander : how great? ; What made the Greeks laugh? -- Heroes & villains of early Rome. Who wanted Remus dead? ; Hannibal at bay ; Quousque tandem-- ? ; Roman art thieves ; Spinning Caesar's murder -- Imperial Rome : emperors, empresses & enemies. Looking for the emperor ; Cleopatra : the myth ; Married to the empire ; Caligula's satire? ; Nero's Colosseum? ; British queen ; Bit-part emperors ; Hadrian and his villa -- Rome from the bottom up. Ex-slaves and snobbery ; Fortune-telling, bad breath, and stress ; Keeping the armies out of Rome ; Life and death in Roman Britain ; South Shields Aramaic -- Arts & culture, tourists & scholars. Only Aeschylus will do? ; Arms and the man ; Don't forget your pith helmet ; Pompeii for the tourists ; The Golden Bough ; Philosophy meets archaeology ; What gets left out ; Astérix and the Romans -- Reviewing classics.Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists, an academic with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience. Here, she draws on thirty years of teaching about Greek and Roman history to provide a panoramic portrait of the classical world that draws surprising parallels with contemporary society. We are taken on a guided tour of antiquity, encountering some of the most famous (and infamous) characters of classical history, among them Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, Sappho and Hannibal. Challenging the notion that classical history is all about depraved emperors and conquering military heroes, Beard also introduces us to the common people--the slaves, soldiers, and women. How did they live? What made them laugh? What were their marriages like? This bottom-up approach to history is typical of Beard, who looks with fresh eyes at both scholarly controversies and popular interpretations of the ancient world, taking aim at many of the assumptions we held as gospel.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Civilization, Classical.; Classical antiquities.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Greece and the Hellenistic world : The Oxford history of the classical world / by Boardman, John,1927-; Griffin, Jasper.; Murray, Oswyn.;
Includes bibliographies and index.
Subjects: Civilization, Classical.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Naked statues, fat gladiators, and war elephants : frequently asked questions about the ancient Greeks and Romans / by Ryan, Garrett,1986-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Why didn't the Greeks or Romans wear pants? -- How did they shave? -- What kinds of pets did they have? -- Did they use any form of birth control? -- How likely were they to survive surgery? -- What were the greatest delicacies? -- How much wine did they drink? -- How did they keep track of time? -- How long did they live? -- How tall were they? -- How much money did they make? -- How dangerous were their cities? -- How often were slaves freed? -- Was divorce common? -- Were relationships between men and boys controversial? -- Why are so many of their statues naked? -- Did they believe their myths? -- Did they believe in ghosts, monsters, and/or aliens? -- Did they practice magic? -- Did they practice human sacrifice? -- Was the Oracle of Delphi high on fumes? -- How long did paganism survive? -- Were there professional athletes? -- How did they exercise? Did they jog or lift weights? -- Did they travel for pleasure? -- How was the Colosseum built in less than a decade? -- How were animals captured for the Colosseum? -- Were gladiators fat? How deadly was gladiatorial combat? -- How were war elephants used in battle? -- How were fortified cities captured? -- Were there secret police, spies, or assassins? -- Why didn't the Romans conquer Germany or Ireland? -- What happened to the city of Rome after the Empire collapsed? -- What happened to the body of Alexander the Great? Has the tomb of any Roman ruler been discovered intact? -- Why did Latin evolve into multiple languages? Why didn't Greek? -- Can any families trace their ancestry back to the Greeks or Romans?"Most books on the Roman Empire deal with famous figures or events, but Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants focuses on things that seldom appear in history books: myths and magic, barbers and birth control, fine wine and the daily grind. This book, based on questions Roman historian Garrett Ryan, PhD, gets asked most often on Quora and the popular Reddit forum AskHistorians, reveals the nitty gritty details on how Romans and Greeks lived in a series of short and engaging essays, organized into six categories: daily life, society, beliefs, sports and leisure, and legacies"--
Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Civilization, Classical;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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The Classic Civil Aircraft Guide /
Subjects: Airplanes.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Classic Civil War stories : twenty extraordinary tales of the North and South / by Purcell, Lisa(Lisa Terasa)(CARDINAL)467190;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-295).
Subjects: Historical fiction, American.; Short stories, American.; War stories, American.; Fiction.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Greece and Rome : builders of our world. by National Geographic Book Service.(CARDINAL)140171; National Geographic Book Service.(CARDINAL)140171; National Geographic Book Service.(CARDINAL)140171;
Bibliography: page 447.Quest for our golden heritage -- World of Odysseus -- World of Pericles -- World of Alexander -- Unraveling the mystery of the Etruscans -- World of Hannibal -- World of Caesar.
Subjects: Civilization, Classical.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Ancient Greece and Rome : an encyclopedia for students / by Moulton, Edt., Carroll.; Moulton, Carroll.(CARDINAL)716288;
MARCIVE 03/01/06Includes bibliographical references (volume 4, pages 147-152) and index.v. 1. Achaea-Delphi -- v. 2. Demeter-Law, Roman -- v. 3. Legion, Leonidas-Roman numerals -- v. 4. Rome-Zeus.Presents a history of ancient Greece and Rome as well as information about the literature and daily life of these early civilizations.7-9
Subjects: Encyclopedias.; Civilization, Classical.; Civilization, Classical; Civilization, Classical; Civilization, Classical;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 12
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The Oxford companion to classical civilization / by Hornblower, Simon.(CARDINAL)166928; Spawforth, Antony.(CARDINAL)197722;
Includes bibliographical references (page 794).
Subjects: Dictionaries.; Classical dictionaries.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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The classical world 500 BCE to AD 600 CE / by Collinson, Clare.(CARDINAL)497309;
Includes bibliographical references (page 108) and index.Introduction -- The world in 323 BCE -- The world in 200 BCE -- The world in 1 BCE -- The world in 400 CE -- The world in 600 CE -- World religions -- The Persian wars and Greece -- The Peloponnesian war and Macedon -- Alexander the great -- The Hellenistic world -- Parthian and Sasanian Persia -- Early Rome and the Punic wars -- Growth of the Roman empire -- Crisis and recovery of Rome -- Fall of the Roman empire Justinian and the Byzantine empire -- The Celts -- The Steppe Nomads -- The early states of Africa -- Mauryan and Gupta India -- China -- China and the rise of Japan -- The Pacific and Southeast Asia -- South America and Mexico -- The ancient Maya.Illustrating stories such as the Thirty Years' War, the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and the rise of the Pacific Rim using detailed, double-page maps, this reference set centers on the rise and fall of civilizations, trade, conflict, and cultural developments from the earliest times until today. Readers will follow key events with ease using the strongly supported text and extensive visual maps.
Subjects: Festschriften.; Civilization, Ancient.; Civilization, Classical.; Civilization, Ancient; Civilization, Classical;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The Classical world : the foundations of the West and the enduring legacy of antiquity / by Spivey, Nigel Jonathan,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-346) and index.Troy -- Athens -- Sparta -- Syracuse -- Utopia -- Alexandria -- Pergamon -- Rome -- Ephesus -- Constantinople -- Epilogue."An authoritative and accessible study of the foundations, development and enduring legacy of the cultures of Greece and Rome centers on 10 locations of seminal importance to the development of Classical civilization, including Troy, Athens and Sparta. By the author of The Ancient Olympics."--NoveList.
Subjects: Civilization, Classical.; Civilization, Greco-Roman.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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