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In der Erinnerungskultur Griechenlands hat die Rolle des Holocaust viele Facetten: Die Erinnerung an die Ermordung der griechischen Juden wurde infolge des Bürgerkriegs den Legitimationsbedürfnissen von Kommunisten und Kirche unterworfen, nach dem Ende der Militärdiktatur diente sie dem gesellschaftlichen Versöhnungsbedürfnis und bis heute ist sie von mythischen Widerstands- und Rettungsaktionen geprägt. Weit über Griechenland hinausgehend wirft Dimitrios Eleftherakis neues Licht auf die europäische Holocaust-Erinnerungskultur insgesamt.

This textbook was conceived and written under the authors' conviction that the feature of Greek grammar that lends itself most readily to understanding and discussion is syntax, especially the syntax of the verb and that such understanding has been unnecessarily complicated by the traditional use of a terminology derived more from the study of the Latin verb than the Greek. The principal feature of the Greek verb is no longer presented as that of "tense," a term that conflates and confuses questions of the time of an action relative to the act of speaking with ways of representing an action in itself. Rather, emphasis is placed on the latter feature, the aspect of a verb, both as a means of organizing the many forms that the verb can take and as a means of making comparatively simple sense of the multiplicity of syntactical rules that govern its use.<BR><BR>Volume One features twenty Lessons presenting basic Greek Grammar in a manner facilitating the early introduction of substantial and philosophically rich passages from Heraclitus Aeschylus, Xenophon, Aristotle, Euclid and especially Plato, each containing vocabulary, discussion and exercises to aid in retention and reinforcement. Volume Two contains extended readings, with grammatical and vocabulary notes, from Plato and Aristotle, including the complete dialogue Meno, as well as Appendices and comprehensive Vocabulary lists.<BR><BR>The two most distinctive Lessons in the text occur close to the beginning. Lesson Four presents the six features that determine any Greek verb-aspect (progressive, aorist or simple, perfect), "tense" (past, present, future), mood, voice, person, number)-through a discussion that is carried out mostly in English. At the end of the lesson, students are in possession of all the conceptual elements upon which the syntax of the Greek verb is based.<BR><BR>Lesson Five presents the Progressive System of the regular verb in all of its moods and voices. The burden of paradigms on the memory is lightened by means of an emphasis on analysis into a verb's formative elements and through the use of linguistic rules that show how seemingly diverse forms arise from common origins. This early presentation of the non-indicative moods allows the student to appreciate the verb as a conveyer, not only of facts, but of the speaker's doubts, wishes, speculations and feelings as well.

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Der blutige Kampf gegen die Macht Spartas <BR> <BR>Es ist einer der gewaltsamsten und längsten Konflikte der griechischen Antike: Worum sich der Kampf zwischen Messeniern und Spartanern einst drehte, verliert sich in der legendenumrankten Frühgeschichte. Um 600 v. Chr. gelingt es Sparta jedenfalls, die Messenier zu besiegen und für die folgenden 230 Jahre zu unterjochen. So bringen sie ihre Nachbarn um eine eigenständige kulturelle Entwicklung und um ihren Platz in der Geschichte. Dieses Buch gibt den Messeniern ihre Stimme zurück und kann sogar mit einem glücklichen Ausgang schließen: Denn am Ende erlangen sie ihre Freiheit zurück und gründen ihre eigene Stadt Messene. <BR><BR>Hier die Spartaner, dort die Messenier - beide sprechen den dorischen Dialekt, beide verstehen sich als Nachfahren der mythischen Söhne des Herakles. Die Ursprünge ihres jahrhundertelangen Konflikts verlieren sich im Dunkel der Frühzeit, doch ging die beispiellose Unterdrückung einer ganzen Bevölkerung in die Geschichte ein. Systematisch und brutal unterjochte Sparta seine Nachbarn, die sich erst nach über zweihundert Jahren befreien und die Stadt Messene als neue Heimat gründen konnten. Der ebenso malerischen wie fruchtbaren Region im Südwesten der Peloponnes sieht man heutzutage ihre bedrückende und blutige Vergangenheit nicht mehr an. Winfried Schmitz hat über viele Jahre hinweg Messenien - eine der schönsten Landschaften Griechenlands - bereist und seine Mythen, historischen Quellen und archäologischen Zeugnisse erforscht. Noch nie wurde die nur wenig bekannte Geschichte Messeniens und seiner Einwohner so anschaulich und kenntnisreich erzählt wie in diesem Buch.

While Menander has long stood as the emblematic figure of Greek New Comedy, recent scholarship has increasingly challenged this Menandrocentric view by re-examining the broader landscape of comic production in the late-Classic and Hellenistic period. This volume brings to the fore the fragmentary remains of Menander's contemporaries-such as Philemon, Diphilus, Apollodorus and others-offering new insights into their character typologies, linguistic style, and political engagement. Through philological, literary, and reception-oriented approaches, the contributions in this book reevaluate long-standing assumptions about the genre. The volume not only recontextualizes New Comedy within its historical and literary frameworks but also sheds light on its impact on Roman comedy. By expanding the canon beyond Menander, this study provides classicists, philologists, and literary historians with a more nuanced and comprehensive understanding of the genre's complexity and cultural significance. 

Greek literature of the Roman Empire has long ago ceased to be treated as the fruit of pure imitation and unimaginative reproduction of literary models from the Classical age. Drawing from the conceptual and methodological agendas of modern fields such as narratology, cognitive studies, and linguistics, classicists have approached the authors of the Second Sophistic with a fresh eye and treat them as anything but lacking originality in the ways they chose themes and developed their compositional styles. Nevertheless, a great amount of the Imperial literature still remains significantly unexplored in terms of the ways literary genres evolved at those times and interacted with each other. Although rhetoric has left its mark on the literary production of this era, on the other hand, an abundance of other genres call for further comparative research. In this line of thought, the papers of this volume focus on how the literary goal-settings of Imperial Greek authors shaped the generic trends and physiognomy of current literary production, and penetrate more into the various co-existing and, very frequently, interactive modes of writing, in order to shed new light on the generic fusions operated in the Imperial Era on a literary level.

Yura Konstantinova argues that even during the period of the sharpest confrontation between Bulgarians and Greeks-from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century-their mutual perceptions were not purely hostile but marked by ambivalence. Although political conflicts strongly shaped public attitudes, some Bulgarian and Greek intellectuals were able to move beyond dominant political narratives. The study examines the views of Bulgarian scholars, artists, and diplomats whose perspectives often differed from the propaganda imposed for political reasons. The book highlights the potential role of intellectuals in fostering understanding between nations often seen as historical adversaries.

The Holy Land is more than a sanctified geographical space that roughly corresponds to the Roman province that has been known as Palaestina since the end of the Bar Kochba War. Instead, it is primarily an idea and imaginative space created by a complex interaction of texts, rituals, and material culture. The authors of this volume's contributions highlight the major role that extracanonical traditions - often misleadingly called apocryphal - which were written and read, celebrated and performed, and embodied in places, buildings, and material culture, have played in the construction of the Holy Land.

"In Athen haben die Griechen im fünften Jahrhundert vor Christus die Demokratie entwickelt", erklärt Maksim und verbindet die zwei Inhaltskarten "Athen" und "Attische Demokratie". "Und der Sieg Spartas im Peloponnesischen Krieg führte zum Ende der Attischen Demokratie", ruft Sarina, legt ihre Inhaltskarte zum Peloponnesischen Krieg ab und verbindet sie mit der Attischen Demokratie.  Mit jeder Karte des spielerischen Lernmaterials Link-15: Geschichte ab Klasse 5 legen Ihre Schüler:innen ein Stück Geschichte. So visualisieren sie Lerninhalte und behalten sie nachhaltig im Gedächtnis. Link-15 macht Ereignisse und Entwicklungen verschiedener historischer Epochen für Schüler:innen lebendig, anfass- und verknüpfbar. Das Material eignet sich als Einstieg oder Abschluss einer Unterrichtseinheit, zur Wiederholung und Festigung von Lerninhalten und als Überprüfung des Lernstands vor einer Lernstandskontrolle.  Link-15: Geschichte ab Klasse 5ist der Geheimtipp zum Visualisieren von Lerninhalten.macht die beliebte Methode der Concept Map zum Spiel.deckt alle Themenbereiche des Anfangsunterricht Geschichte ab.

This book reorients the study of 'unbelief' in Ancient Greece by dismantling two persistent scholarly misconceptions: the portrayal of Greek atheism as a form of proto-modern secularity and the dismissal of the subject as merely a lexical dispute over definitions. By integrating a diverse range of philosophical, medical and epigraphical sources, the author contextualises irreligious stances within the discursive and social ecology that shaped Greek religiosity. Rather than representing an external negation of the divine, unbelief emerges as a historically specific modification of self-world relations. Leveraging relational sociology and contemporary Religious Studies, this analysis demonstrates how doubt, critique and denial took root within the fabric of lived ancient religion - from theatre and intellectual circles to civic conflict and the politics of impiety. The result is a transformative account of Greek unbelief and a transferable analytical model for future comparative and historical research.

Die faszinierende Kultur der alten Griechen<BR>¿ Über 3.000 Jahre Geschichte in einem einzigartig opulenten Bildband<BR>¿ Von den Minoern bis zu Alexander dem Großen: eine visuelle Reise durch das antike Griechenland<BR>¿ Politik und Alltag, Mythologie und Philosophie: alle Lebensbereiche einmalig fundiert und fesselnd vorgestellt<BR>¿ Legendäre Paläste, Tempel und Agoren - zum Leben erweckt in künstlerischen 3-D-Grafiken <BR>¿ Detaillierte Karten und Zeitleisten veranschaulichen Geografie und historische Entwicklungen.<BR><BR>Wertvolles Wissen in einem wunderschönen Prachtband<BR>Begeben Sie sich auf eine visuelle Reise durch das antike Griechenland! In fesselnden Details beleuchtet dieser prächtige Band 3.000 Jahre griechische Geschichte, von der minoischen Kultur über den Aufstieg der Stadtstaaten Athen und Sparta bis zum Reich Alexanders des Großen.<BR>Beeindruckende Fotografien zeigen alle Facetten des Lebens: Ob Alltag, Kunst, Politik oder die griechische Mythologie - sämtliche Bereiche werden fundiert und verständlich erklärt. Karten legendärer Schlachten illustrieren die militärische und politische Macht Griechenlands. Künstlerische 3-D-Aufrissmodelle lassen die verfallenen Athener Agoren, wo Platon und Sokrates philosophierten, wieder auferstehen und geben zusammen mit Augenzeugenberichten und Artefakten authentische Einblicke in das Leben einfacher Bürger, weiser Gesetzgeber oder der ersten Olympioniken.<BR><BR>Die Welt der alten Griechen in großartigen Bildern, faszinierenden Fakten und authentischen Dokumenten. Ein opulenter Prachtband und ein wertvolles Geschenk.

Long overshadowed by ambassadors and other high-ranking diplomats, consuls are now gaining attention for their role in early modern trade, the life of merchant communities settled abroad, and the rise of state institutions and control. France is a case in point, as Greek Ottoman subjects would often serve as French consuls in some of the more remote consular posts in the Eastern Mediterranean. This book explores their motives and careers, as well as France's interest in relying on these peculiar agents. At a time when consular services became part of a complex process of definition of state sovereignty, the way their multiple, allegedly exclusive loyalties were articulated, sheds new light on issues of 'foreign' and 'national' in the making of early modern political identities.

The ancient world was a world where blood flowed freely - from often large-scale public animal sacrifices, to violence in the arena, to menstruation in cramped living conditions and many other occasions. But despite this ubiquity of blood in everyday lives, sources for the Greek and Roman world only mention blood in specific circumstances and with specific meanings. With our contributions on blood in medicine, popular culture, religion, historiography, family and community identity as well as conflict and othering narratives the volume for the first time offers a comprehensive insight into the many contexts in which blood was a topic in Greek and Roman discourse. The contributions by renowned international experts show that blood was considered to be a substance charged with meaning where attitudes towards blood from different contexts interacted to give it a particular power for the ancient world.

'Die faszinierende Alexander-Biografie  des Oxford-Historikers Robin Lane Fox'  Wilfried Nippel, Die Zeit  Dieses Buch ist mehr als eine Biographie: Es zeigt ebenso den genialsten Feldherrn der Weltgeschichte wie den kultivierten, Homer-begeisterten Mann, der die Grundlagen des Hellenismus schuf. Zugleich lässt Robin Lane Fox' unübertroffene sprachliche Meisterschaft die ganze Farbenpracht einer Weltepoche lebendig werden.  'Von allen Alexandern, die seit dem Tod des Eroberers das Licht der Welt erblickt haben, ist dies der stürmischste und romantischste, der neugierigste und der farbigste.' Walter Eder, Damals

Athena's Sisters transforms our understanding of Classical Athenian culture and society by approaching its institutions-kinship, slavery, the economy, social organisation-from women's perspectives. It argues that texts on dedications and tombstones set up by women were frequently authored by those women. This significant body of women's writing offers direct insights into their experiences, values, and emotions. With men often absent, women redefined the boundaries of the family in dialogue with patriarchal legal frameworks. Beyond male social and political structures, women defined their identities and relationships through their own institutions. By focusing on women's engagement with other women, rather than their relationships to men, this timely and necessary book reveals the richness and dynamism of women's lives and their remarkable capacity to shape Athenian society and history.