This 2008 text was the first systematic study of what it meant to be 'Greek' in late antiquity and Byzantium, an identity that could alternatively become national, religious, philosophical, or cultural. Through close readings of the sources, Professor Kaldellis surveys the space that Hellenism occupied in each period; the broader debates in which it was caught up; and the histo...(展开全部)

Description Contents Resources Courses About the Authors This is the first full-scale reference grammar of Classical Greek in English in a century. The first work of its kind to reflect significant advances in linguistics made in recent decades, it provides students, teachers and academics with a comprehensive yet user-friendly treatment. The chapters on phonology and morpholog...(展开全部)

This is the first full-scale reference grammar of Classical Greek in English in a century. The first work of its kind to reflect significant advances in linguistics made in recent decades, it provides students, teachers and academics with a comprehensive yet user-friendly treatment. The chapters on phonology and morphology make full use of insights from comparative and historic...(展开全部)

How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus’ sirens to an ambulance’s? The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, ...(展开全部)

Provides an account of the lives and writings of the Cappadocians, showing how they managed to be Greek and Christian at the same time. Pelikan concentrates on four Cappadocians: Gregory of Nazianzus; Basil of Caesarea; Gregory of Nyssa; and Macrina, sister and teacher of the latter two.

【作者简介】 斯蒂文•朗西曼（Steven Runciman，1903~2000），英国著名历史学者，极具影响力的拜占庭史、中世纪史研究者。出身于贵族世家，精通多门语言。自剑桥三一学院毕业后，周游列国，于多所大学任教，1942年至1945年任伊斯坦布尔大学拜占庭艺术与历史学教授，其间出版了代表性作品三卷本的《十字军史》（A History of the Crusades）。此外还著有多部享有盛誉的作品，包括《拜占庭文明》（Byzantine Civilisation）、《西西里晚祷事件》（The Sicilian Vespers）和《君士坦丁堡的陷落》（The Fall of Constantinople）。 【译者简介】 谭琦，哈尔滨理工大学语言文学类硕士，专职翻译，醉心于探究与考证之乐。译有《大围攻：马耳他1565》。

Tracing the influence of ancient Greek sources on the development of republican theory in Europe and America, this book argues that an important tradition of republican thought, derived from the central texts of Greek moral and political philosophy, emerged in sixteenth century England. It contributed significantly to the ideological framework of the English Civil Wars and the ...(展开全部)

The Greek Tradition in Republic Thought completely rewrites the standard history of republican political theory. It excavates an identifiably Greek strain of republican thought which attaches little importance to freedom as non-dependence and sees no intrinsic value in political participation. This tradition's central preoccupations are not honour and glory, but happiness (euda...(展开全部)

Although the Iliad and Odyssey narrate only relatively small portions of the Trojan War and its aftermath, for centuries these works have overshadowed other, more comprehensive narratives of the conflict, particularly the poems known as the Epic Cycle. In The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle, Jonathan Burgess challenges Homer's authority on the war's hist...(展开全部)

Originally published in 1949, Gilbert Highet's seminal The Classical Tradition is a herculean feat of comparative literature and a landmark publication in the history of classical reception. As Highet states in the opening lines of his Preface, this book outlines <"the chief ways in which Greek and Latin influence has moulded the literatures of western Europe and America.>" Wit...(展开全部)