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The eye of the beholder : deformity and disability in the Graeco-Roman world
In the eyes of the ancient Greeks and Romans, physical imperfections and infirmities were comparable to marks of the barbarian. The distinguished historian Robert Garland offers the first detailed investigation of the plight of those Greeks and Romans who, owing either to deformity or to disability, did not meet their society's exacting criteria for the ideal human form. Drawing on classical drama and poetry, historical works, medical tracts, vase painting and sculpture, mythology, and ethnography, Garland examines the high incidence of disability and deformity among the Greek and Roman population. From the deaf, the blind, and the lame to hunchbacks, dwarfs, and giants, to those even more severely disabled, he explores the lives of the handicapped and their place in ancient society.
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Wandering Greeks
Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement was essential to the survival, success, and sheer sustainability of their society, and that this wandering became a defining characteristic of their culture. Addressing a neglected but essential subject,Wandering Greeksfocuses on the diaspora of tens of thousands of people between about 700 and 325 BCE, demonstrating the degree to which Greeks were liable to be forced to leave their homes due to political upheaval, oppression, poverty, warfare, or simply a desire to better themselves.
Attempting to enter into the mind-set of these wanderers, the book provides an insightful and sympathetic account of what it meant for ancient Greeks to part from everyone and everything they held dear, to start a new life elsewhere-or even to become homeless, living on the open road or on the high seas with no end to their journey in sight. Each chapter identifies a specific kind of \"wanderer,\" including the overseas settler, the deportee, the evacuee, the asylum-seeker, the fugitive, the economic migrant, and the itinerant, and the book also addresses repatriation and the idea of the \"portable polis.\" The result is a vivid and unique portrait of ancient Greece as a culture of displaced persons.
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Athens Burning : The Persian Invasion of Greece and the Evacuation of Attica
\"In this next offering for the Witness to Ancient History series, Robert Garland writes about the Persian invasion of Greece in the 5th century BC. After introducing the reader to the contextual background of the Greco-Persian Wars, including the famous Battle of Marathon, Garland describes the various stages of the invasion from both the Persian and Greek point of view. He focuses on the Greek evacuation of Attica (the peninsular region of Greece that includes Athens), the siege of the Acropolis, the eventual defeat of the Persians by Athenian and Spartan armies, and the return of the Greek people to their land. Coming off his 2014 PUP book on the experience of diaspora in ancient Greece, Garland is well placed to speak authoritatively on this important time in ancient history when the Greeks had to flee their homeland. Garland is an experienced and productive writer whose experience producing video lecture courses for The Great Courses company makes him an ideal author for this introductory volume\"--Provided by publisher.
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Wandering Greeks : the ancient Greek diaspora from the age of Homer to the death of Alexander the Great
Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonisation movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement was essential to the survival, success and sheer sustainability of their society and that this wandering became a defining characteristic of their culture. Addressing a neglected but essential subject, this work focuses on the diaspora of tens of thousands of people between about 700 and 325 BCE, demonstrating the degree to which Greeks were liable to be forced to leave their homes due to political upheaval, oppression, poverty, warfare, or simply a desire to better themselves.
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الحياة اليومية لليونانيبن القدماء
الحياة اليومية لليونان القديمة هي تلك الحياة التي اعتاد فيها الآباء وأد البنين وكانت فيها المجاعة والمرض أمرين شائعين، ومتوسط العمر المتوقع أعلى بقليل فحسب من نصف المتوسط الحالي، ولم يكن فيها ترياق للألم الجسدي، وطارد فيها الإرهاب والقلق الآفاق العقلية حتى لدى أشد المستنيرين وبقيت فيها الثقافة حيوية على الصعيد السياسي، على الرغم من كل القوى التي سعت إلى كبتها. وكان ذلك الأمر المعتاد والمرور الذي يفضي إلينا بالكثير عن محنة الملايين اليوم، ومن بين المنافع التي تنطوي عليها دراسة اليونانيين من هذه الزاوية أنها تساعدنا على وضع مآثر حضارتهم الباهرة في سياقها الصحيح، المعتم والشاحب بعض الشيء. أما النتيجة فتتمثل في أننا نعرفهم وتعرف أنفسنا على نحو أفضل.
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