... Greece have conquered the modern world. The chapter suggests that one of the most prominent features of ancient Greek athletics was the attention paid to the fairness of the games. Miller Stephen ancient background reflective equilibrium Feezell Spivey Nigel ancient background Alexander the Great...

... also improving one's body—that remain just as relevant in our sports-obsessed age as they were in ancient Greece. Bringing these concepts to bear on contemporary concerns, he considers such questions as whether athletic competition can be a moral substitute for war, whether it necessarily constitutes...

...This chapter examines legal decision making in ancient Greece. It considers how the active, judging role of the audience in Athenian courts and assemblies has been obscured by the reduction of rhetoric to persuasion and describes how elite and ordinary Athenians negotiated their class interests...

...In ancient Greece, techne referred not just to crafts but also to medicine and even rhetoric. But the Greeks also engaged in struggles over the meaning of techne, struggles closely connected to the social status of technicians and their knowledge. These struggles focused on two key questions. First...

...This book focuses on the maps and mapping practices of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome. It looks at several maps that stood as monuments of the history of cartography. It examines mapping and mapmaking initiatives in ancient Greece from Homer to Eratosthenes, spanning the earliest...

... and accurate instruments were developed. As a result, surveying instruments entered the realm of high technology for the first time, drawing on scientific theory and feeding back to it. This chapter examines the instruments, techniques, and achievements of surveyors in ancient Greece and Rome, with special...

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...On museum visits, we pass by beautiful, well-preserved vases from ancient Greece—but how often do we understand what the images on them depict? This book tells the stories behind the pictures, exploring how artists of antiquity had to determine which motifs or historical and mythic events to use...

... essentially as mediated through art and literature causes both thinkers anxiety and reluctance to engage with an actual experience of decay on their respective trips to Greece. In taking a physical approach to the ruins of Greece, they find their perception of reality challenged and thus reconsider, through...

...This study explains how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. The book argues that philosophy was ironically responsible for saving myth from historical annihilation. Although philosophy was initially critical of myth because it could not be declared true...

... this ornamentation as a basis for telling stories. Ceramics featuring figured ornamentation were extremely rare in Hellenistic Greece. The majority of finds come from Macedonia and Thessaly, and Macedonia, where casting molds for the production of such vessels have also been found, was probably home to the most...

...This chapter examines the protocols in ancient Greece that allowed citizens to act in groups or engage in collaboration. It argues that there were no significant internal hierarchies on Athenian boards and analyzes some of the rituals through which these boards created and enacted their equality...

...This chapter examines maps and mapmaking in ancient Greece, with reference to initiatives from Homer to Eratosthenes. It begins with a discussion of the challenges involved in the study of Greek cartography and the function of maps as an important expression of Greek culture. It considers Greek...

..., and Asia, as well as individual regions of these continents. It also discusses Ptolemy's views on cosmology and science, his influence on cartography in ancient Greece, and his criticism of Marinus regarding the latter's cartographic data. Africa Asia China Discovery Age of Europe Geography Ptolemy...

...“Stoicism” in today's English means “absence of emotion” and this usage takes for granted that the Stoics of ancient Greece advocated an across-the-board suppression of feeling. The analysis of emotions and emotional behaviors in terms of judgments implies a strong position on moral responsibility...

.... Following this disastrous encounter the narrator is enraged to find his refractory member suddenly full of vigor. Coming across such a familiar scenario it is tempting to assume that men in ancient Greece and Rome regarded impotence in exactly the same way as do men in the twenty-first century. Penetration...

... of Allied nations in Salonica to certify that these individuals were not suspect from their point of view.” ⁷⁷ The families of Portuguese protected Jews conscripted by Greece were also struggling to determine their sons’ legal rights. Frustrated by the seeming impotence of their protector...

... regime deported foreign-born Jews and stripped citizenship from many Ottoman-born women and men who had recently been naturalized as French citizens. Spain rescued hundreds of Jewish holders of Spanish passports after their deportations; but Portugal resisted coming to the aid of Jews in Greece who held...

...Ancient Greece was a connected world. This book turns to the flipside of omnipresent connectivity. It argues that the local had a pervasive influence on the communal experience in Greece. The investigation begins with a conceptual introduction that situates the study of Greek localism and the local...