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The adventure of the human intellect : self, society and the divine in ancient world cultures
The Adventure of the Human Intellect presents the latest scholarship on the beginnings of intellectual history on a broad scope, encompassing ten eminent ancient or early civilizations from both the Old and New Worlds.
* Borrows themes from The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man (1946), updating an old topic with a new approach and up-to-date theoretical underpinning, evidence, and scholarship
* Provides a broad scope of studies, including discussion of highly developed ancient or early civilizations in China, India, West Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Americas
* Examines the world view of ten ancient or early societies, reconstructed from their own texts, concerning the place of human beings in society and state, in nature and cosmos, in space and time, in life and death, and in relation to those in power and the world of the divine
* Considers a diversity of sources representing a wide array of particular responses to differing environments, circumstances, and intellectual challenges
* Reflects a more inclusive and nuanced historiographical attitude with respect to non-elites, gender, and local variations
* Brings together leading specialists in the field, and is edited by an internationally renowned scholar
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A companion to Archaic Greece
A systematic survey of archaic Greek society and culture which introduces the reader to a wide range of new approaches to the period. The first comprehensive and accessible survey of developments in the study of archaic Greece Places Greek society of c.750-480 BCE in its chronological and geographical context Gives equal emphasis to established topics such as tyranny and political reform and newer subjects like gender and ethnicity Combines accounts of historical developments with regional surveys of archaeological evidence and in-depth treatments of selected themes Explores the impact of Eastern and other non-Greek cultures in the development of Greece Uses archaeological and literary evidence to reconstruct broad patterns of social and cultural development.
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Thinking, recording, and writing history in the ancient world
Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World presents a cross-cultural comparison of the ways in which ancient civilizations thought about the past and recorded their own histories. Written by an international group of scholars working in many disciplines Truly cross-cultural, covering historical thinking and writing in ancient or early cultures across in East, South, and West Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Americas Includes historiography shaped by religious perspectives, including Judaism, early Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism
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مغامرة العقل البشري
يقدم هذا الكتاب دراسات معمقة لمناطق عديدة من العالم القديم إلى العالم الجديد وفي هذه الثقافات مصادر منوعة تمثل طيفا واسعا من إستجابات خاصة لبيئات وظروف خاصة يظهر فيها فهم العالم من الناحية المادية الواقعية ومن الناحية التخيلية حيث إن ما يوحدنا جميعا كبشر في التاريخ وما يفرقنا أيضا وهو الدافع لربط أنفسنا بالعالم والكون والآلهة وفي دراسة هذا الكتاب لجذوره ويبرز \"التفكير التأملي\" في إطار عصري جديا وذي بصمة غريبة ويعمد الدين والعلم فيه إلى نفي أحدهما الآخر كما يكون موقع الإنسان في الكون مسألة تكهنات أسطورية وقد ركز هذا الكتاب على شكل الممارسات الإجتماعية والمنتجات الثقافية.
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Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece
This book presents a state-of-the-art debate about the origins of Athenian democracy by five eminent scholars. The result is a stimulating, critical exploration and interpretation of the extant evidence on this intriguing and important topic. The authors address such questions as: Why was democracy first realized in ancient Greece? Was democracy \"invented\" or did it evolve over a long period of time? What were the conditions for democracy, the social and political foundations that made this development possible? And what factors turned the possibility of democracy into necessity and reality? The authors first examine the conditions in early Greek society that encouraged equality and \"people's power.\" They then scrutinize, in their social and political contexts, three crucial points in the evolution of democracy: the reforms connected with the names of Solon, Cleisthenes, and Ephialtes in the early and late sixth and mid-fifth century. Finally, an ancient historian and a political scientist review the arguments presented in the previous chapters and add their own perspectives, asking what lessons we can draw today from the ancient democratic experience. Designed for a general readership as well as students and scholars, the book intends to provoke discussion by presenting side by side the evidence and arguments that support various explanations of the origins of democracy, thus enabling readers to join in the debate and draw their own conclusions.
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مغامرة العقل البشري
يقدم هذا الكتاب دراسات معمقة لمناطق عديدة من العالم القديم إلى العالم الجديد وفي هذه الثقافات مصادر منوعة تمثل طيفا واسعا من إستجابات خاصة لبيئات وظروف خاصة يظهر فيها فهم العالم من الناحية المادية الواقعية ومن الناحية التخيلية حيث إن ما يوحدنا جميعا كبشر في التاريخ وما يفرقنا أيضا وهو الدافع لربط أنفسنا بالعالم والكون والآلهة وفي دراسة هذا الكتاب لجذوره ويبرز \"التفكير التأملي\" في إطار عصري جديا وذي بصمة غريبة ويعمد الدين والعلم فيه إلى نفي أحدهما الآخر كما يكون موقع الإنسان في الكون مسألة تكهنات أسطورية وقد ركز هذا الكتاب على شكل الممارسات الإجتماعية والمنتجات الثقافية.
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Peace in the ancient world : concepts and theories
Peace in the Ancient World: Concepts and Theories conducts a comparative investigation of why certain ancient societies produced explicit concepts and theories of peace and others did not.
* Explores the idea that concepts of peace in antiquity occurred only in periods that experienced exceptional rates of warfare
* Utilizes case studies of civilizations in China, India, Egypt, and Greece
* Complements the 2007 volume War and Peace in the Ancient World, drawing on ideas from that work and providing a more comprehensive examination
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