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Author | : Tim Rood |
Publisher | : Overlook Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Anabasis |
ISBN | : 9781590204764 |
Download American Anabasis Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Marines march up to Baghdad, Sherman1s trail of destruction in Georgia, an army of Missouri volunteers trekking across the Great Plains to Mexic--this wide-ranging and imaginative book tells for the first time the story of how American armies from the sands of Iraq to the halls of the Montezuma have followed figuratively in the footsteps of the original Anabasis, the famous Greek march into the interior of Asia made by Xenophon and the Ten Thousand in 400 BC. Starting with the Iraq War, Tim Rood turns back to the conquest of the American West and to the Civil War, showing how one of the most famous episodes in classical antiquity was first appropriated in the name of military expansion, and then used to express conflicting responses to the most controversial campaign of the Civil War. Allusions to Xenophon in speeches, newspaper reports, and military memoirs are throughout read against Xenophon's own story.
Author | : Xenophon |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 673 |
Release | : 2021-12-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 030790685X |
Download The Landmark Xenophon's Anabasis Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Landmark Xenophon’s Anabasis is the definitive edition of the ancient classic—also known as The March of the Ten Thousand or The March Up-Country—which chronicles one of the greatest true-life adventures ever recorded. As Xenophon’s narrative opens, the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger is marshaling an army to usurp the throne from his brother Artaxerxes the King. When Cyrus is killed in battle, ten thousand Greek soldiers he had hired find themselves stranded deep in enemy territory, surrounded by forces of a hostile Persian king. When their top generals are arrested, the Greeks have to elect new leaders, one of whom is Xenophon, a resourceful and courageous Athenian who leads by persuasion and vote. What follows is his vivid account of the Greeks’ harrowing journey through extremes of territory and climate, inhabited by unfriendly tribes who often oppose their passage. Despite formidable obstacles, they navigate their way to the Black Sea coast and make their way back to Greece. This masterful new translation by David Thomas gives color and depth to a story long studied as a classic of military history and practical philosophy. Edited by Shane Brennan and David Thomas, the text is supported with numerous detailed maps, annotations, appendices, and illustrations. The Landmark Xenophon’s Anabasis offers one of the classical Greek world’s seminal tales to readers of all levels.
Author | : Tim Rood |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 2022-10-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110793431 |
Download Xenophon’s ›Anabasis‹ and its Reception Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume constitutes the first large-scale collaborative reflection on Xenophon’s Anabasis, gathering experts on Greek historiography and Xenophon. It is structured in three sections: the first section provides a linear reading of the Anabasis through chapters on select episodes (from Book 1 through Book 7), including the opening, Cyrus’ characterisation, the meeting of Socrates and Xenophon, Xenophon’s leadership, the marches through Armenia and along the Black Sea coast and the service under Seuthes in Thrace. The second section offers an in-depth exploration of hitherto overlooked recurrent themes. Based on new approaches and scholarly trends, it focuses on topics such as the concept of friendship, the speeches of characters other than Xenophon, the suffering of the human body, the role of rumour and misrepresentation, and the depiction of emotions. The third section offers a more thorough investigation of the manifold reception of this work (in Antiquity, Byzantium, Renaissance, modern period, in cinema studies and illustrations). Finally, in acknowledgement of the Anabasis’ long history as a pedagogical text, the volume contains an envoi on the importance and benefits of teaching Xenophon and the Anabasis, more specifically.
Author | : Michael A. Flower |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2012-07-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0195188683 |
Download Xenophon's Anabasis, Or The Expedition of Cyrus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Xenophon's Anabasis, or The Expedition of Cyrus, is one of the most famous survival stories ever written and the most important autobiographical work to have survived from ancient Greece. This book places the Anabasis in its historical and literary context and opens up for the reader different ways of interpreting its major themes.
Author | : Xenophon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2019-03-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107079233 |
Download Xenophon: Anabasis Book III Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
First comprehensive commentary on a section of Anabasis in English for a century, reflecting scholarly advances for students and scholars.
Author | : Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Classical philology |
ISBN | : |
Download American Journal of Philology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Each number includes "Reviews and book notices."
Author | : william christie macleod |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Margaret Malamud |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-01-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1788315790 |
Download African Americans and the Classics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A new wave of research in black classicism has emerged in the 21st century that explores the role played by the classics in the larger cultural traditions of black America, Africa and the Caribbean. Addressing a gap in this scholarship, Margaret Malamud investigates why and how advocates for abolition and black civil rights (both black and white) deployed their knowledge of classical literature and history in their struggle for black liberty and equality in the United States. African Americans boldly staked their own claims to the classical world: they deployed texts, ideas and images of ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt in order to establish their authority in debates about slavery, race, politics and education. A central argument of this book is that knowledge and deployment of Classics was a powerful weapon and tool for resistance-as improbable as that might seem now-when wielded by black and white activists committed to the abolition of slavery and the end of the social and economic oppression of free blacks. The book significantly expands our understanding of both black history and classical reception in the United States.
Author | : Stephen P. Reyna |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 2016-08-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1785330802 |
Download Deadly Contradictions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
As US imperialism continues to dictate foreign policy, Deadly Contradictions is a compelling account of the American empire. Stephen P. Reyna argues that contemporary forms of violence exercised by American elites in the colonies, client state, and regions of interest have deferred imperial problems, but not without raising their own set of deadly contradictions. This book can be read many ways: as a polemic against geopolitics, as a classic social anthropological text, or as a seminal analysis of twenty-four US global wars during the Cold War and post-Cold War eras.
Author | : Lisa Maurice |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2017-07-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004346384 |
Download Rewriting the Ancient World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Rewriting the Ancient World looks at how and why the ancient world, including not only the Greeks and Romans, but also Jews and Christians, has been rewritten in popular fictions of the modern world.