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Eine ganz andere Geschichte der Antike <BR> <BR> 1200 Jahre Antike eine goldene Zeit voller Weisheit, Schönheit, Tugend? Fehlanzeige! Stattdessen munteres Morden der Griechen und Römer vom Olymp bis zum Forum. Mit diesem herrlich respektlosen Buch führen uns Michael Sommer und Stefan von der Lahr raus aus der historischen Komfortzone und rein in eine Geschichte von Menschen, denen Sie besser nicht im Dunkeln begegnen <BR> <BR> Wer heute staunend vor der Akropolis in Athen oder den betörenden Fresken von Pompeji steht, übersieht leicht die breite Blutspur, die Griechen und Römer durch die Geschichte gezogen haben. Zwar grüßen aus der Vergangenheit klangvolle Namen wie Achill oder Romulus, Perikles oder Alexander, Caesar oder Augustus. Doch das Geschäft dieser und vieler anderer Herren war nicht zuletzt das Morden im Großen und im Kleinen: im Krieg und an politischen Gegnern, ja sogar an Freunden, wenn sie sich gar zu eigensinnig verhielten. Aber, aber hat man damals nicht die Demokratie erfunden und eine Republik gegründet? Wer glaubt, dass Demokraten und Republikaner keine blutigen Eroberer sein konnten und davor haltmachten, den Freiheitsdrang von Zehntausenden gewaltsam zu unterdrücken, der irrt. Höchste Zeit für eine andere Geschichte der Antike! Von der Eroberung Trojas bis zum Fall Roms: Michael Sommer und Stefan von der Lahr erzählen uns die ganze verdammte Wahrheit, faktentreu, farbecht und ohne Tabus.

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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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The "Father of History."<BR><BR>Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Aswan), North Africa, Syria, the country north of the Black Sea, and many parts of the Aegean Sea and the mainland of Greece. He lived, it seems, for some time in Athens, and in 443 went with other colonists to the new city Thurii (in South Italy), where he died about 430. He was "the prose correlative of the bard, a narrator of the deeds of real men, and a describer of foreign places" (Murray).<BR><BR> Herodotus' famous history of warfare between the Greeks and the Persians has an epic dignity which enhances his delightful style. It includes the rise of the Persian power and an account of the Persian empire; a description and history of Egypt; and a long digression on the geography and customs of Scythia. Even in the later books on the attacks of the Persians against Greece there are digressions. All is most entertaining and produces a grand unity. After personal inquiry and study of hearsay and other evidence, Herodotus gives us a not uncritical estimate of the best that he could find.<BR><BR> The Loeb Classical Library edition of Herodotus is in four volumes.

Andreas Maurer präsentiert mit seinem Buch eine andere, frische Sicht auf 45.000 Jahre Musik. Einen Kniefall vor den Ikonen der Klassik und Romantik sucht man hier vergebens, dafür werden mit viel Freude an der Materie und einer gehörigen Portion Augenzwinkern die großen Zusammenhänge herausgearbeitet. Mal spaziert der Leser mit Berlioz durch Paris, dreht sich im Dreivierteltakt zu einem Wiener Walzer von Johann Strauss Sohn oder entdeckt zusammen mit Arnold Schönberg ein neues Tonsystem. Daneben werden viele kleine Geschichten und Blickwinkel von der Seitenbühne aus betrachtet.

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.

John Davie, co-author of Et Tu, Brute? turns his attention to Ancient Greece. With a foreword by Harry Mount.<BR><BR>Ancient Greek lives on in our culture in surprising ways. Sometimes funny - the word for an actor, hupokrites, gives us 'hypocrite'; sometimes beautiful - an astronaut is literally a sailor of the skies. And that's before we get to the myths which gave us our Achilles heel or our Midas Touch. And what about crocodile tears, which comes from the Greek's belief that crocodiles cried while eating their victims!<BR><BR>This is a learned but always entertaining journey through the world of the Ancient Greeks, their extraordinary language and how it has shaped our own understanding of the world today. After all, what is language but the frame through which we understand the world? Davie aims to bring more than just humour, he seeks to trace the thread of ancient Greek thought that runs through our own civilization, always with the lightness of touch and fascinating etymology. We meet Eros and Aphrodite, Alexander the Great and Oscar Wilde, the stoics, Epicurus and Sparta.<BR><BR>While this is a book about language and the touching and illuminating presence of the ancient Greeks in our current words, it's also about how Ancient Greece shapes our culture today.

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. 

Manche mögen's nassWir sind nicht geboren, um zu schwimmen. Trotzdem zieht es uns immer wieder ins Wasser. Bernd Brunner erzählt die Geschichte unserer Faszination fürs Schwimmen und Baden - vom rituellen Bad der Antike über die moralischen Debatten des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts bis hin zum öffentlichen Schwimmbad als demokratischem Freizeitort. Er verbindet historische Fakten mit kulturwissenschaftlichen Einsichten, betrachtet Körperbilder, Hygienevorstellungen und sich wandelnde Bademoden. Wir begleiten ihn zu den ersten Seebädern und lernen das Phänomen der robusten Badewärterinnen, den sogenanntenDippern, kennen. Von Menschen in ihrem Element - ein kluges, unterhaltsames Buch über die Kunst und die Lust, durchs Leben zu schwimmen.Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen in Schwarz-Weiß und in Farbe

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.

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.