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Author : Compton Mackenzie
Release : 2011
Genre : Biography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 834/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Greek Memories by : Compton Mackenzie
Download or read book Greek Memories written by Compton Mackenzie. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic "lost" British espionage title published in its true form for the first time since 1932.
Author : Luca Castagnoli
Release : 2019-01-24
Genre : Literary Collections
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 331/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Greek Memories by : Luca Castagnoli
Download or read book Greek Memories written by Luca Castagnoli. This book was released on 2019-01-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek Memories aims to identify and examine the central concepts underlying the theories and practices of memory in the Greek world, from the archaic period to Late Antiquity, across all the main literary genres, and to trace some fundamental changes in these theories and practices. It explores the interaction and development of different 'disciplinary' approaches to memory in Ancient Greece, which will enable a fuller and deeper understanding of the whole phenomenon, and of its specific manifestations. This collection of papers contributes to enriching the current scholarly discussion by refocusing it on the question of how various theories and practices of memory, recollection, and forgetting play themselves out in specific texts and authors from Ancient Greece, within a wide chronological span (from the Homeric poems to Plotinus), and across a broad range of genres and disciplines (epic and lyric poetry, tragedy, comedy, historiography, philosophy and scientific prose treatises).
Author : Luca Castagnoli
Release : 2019-01-24
Genre : Literary Collections
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 722/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Greek Memories by : Luca Castagnoli
Download or read book Greek Memories written by Luca Castagnoli. This book was released on 2019-01-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original exploration of Ancient Greek conceptions of the relationship between memory, time, knowledge and identity across diverse genres.
Author : Erik Sjöberg
Release : 2016-11-23
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 267/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Making of the Greek Genocide by : Erik Sjöberg
Download or read book The Making of the Greek Genocide written by Erik Sjöberg. This book was released on 2016-11-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During and after World War I, over one million Ottoman Greeks were expelled from Turkey, a watershed moment in Greek history that resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths. And while few dispute the expulsion’s tragic scope, it remains the subject of fierce controversy, as activists have fought for international recognition of an atrocity they consider comparable to the Armenian genocide. This book provides a much-needed analysis of the Greek genocide as cultural trauma. Neither taking the genocide narrative for granted nor dismissing it outright, Erik Sjöberg instead recounts how it emerged as a meaningful but contested collective memory with both nationalist and cosmopolitan dimensions.
Author : Hartog Francois Hartog
Release : 2019-07-30
Genre : HISTORY
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Book Rating : 942/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Memories of Odysseus by : Hartog Francois Hartog
Download or read book Memories of Odysseus written by Hartog Francois Hartog. This book was released on 2019-07-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about identity, about how the ancient Greeks saw themselves and others, and what this tells us in turn about Greek mentality and culture. It looks at voyagers and explorers, at travels in reality and in the mind, and shows what these reveal at key points in Greek history from the creation of Homer's monumental epic around 700 BC to the high Roman imperial period some eight hundred years later. The author takes us first to the journeyings of Odysseus, considering the returning warrior's concerns of witness and memory and finding in the epic the themes that will preoccupy the Greeks over the centuries. He then travels to Egypt with Herodotus, to the problematically 'barbarian' world of Persia and the Near East with Alexander the Great, to old Greece with the fictional Scythian Anacharsis, to the new Greek world under Roman domination with Polybius, Dionysius of Halicarnassos and Strabo, and finally to the Asia Minor of the first-century AD sage Apollonius of Tyana in the company of Philostratos. He examines both what their representations of these lands meant in their own day and how they were received in later times. He looks in particular at the importance of the invention of the barbarian and the "e;other"e;, first in the theoretical process of desribing and accounting for the outside world, and secondly at the justification it gives for the practical reshaping of alien space through conquest and assimilation - themes which have had, as he points out, a more recent resonance. Francois Hartog draws widely on ancient and modern authors to create a cultural history of ancient Greece that sheds a new and revealing light on the Greeks and the history of humankind more generally.
