Dirty Greek

Dirty Greek
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Publisher : Ulysses Press
Total Pages : 178
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781612430256
ISBN-13 : 1612430252
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Dirty Greek by : Cristos Samaras

Learn all the fun words and modern slang street phrases you never got to in Greek class with this fun, super-handy English-Greek phrasebook. Next time you’re traveling or just chattin’ in Greek with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including: • cool slang • funny insults • explicit terms • raw swear words Dirty Greek teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets from Athens to Thessaloníki with phrases from "What’s up?" (Tee YEE-neh-teh?) to "Let’s party!" (EH-la na VHOO-meh toh VRA-thee!) and much more!

Dirty Love

Dirty Love
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9780190880781
ISBN-13 : 0190880783
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Dirty Love by : Tim Whitmarsh

Some of the world's earliest large-form fictional narratives--what would today be called novels-are found in ancient Greece. Dating back to the first century CE, these narratives contain many of the elements common to the novelistic genre, for instance, the joining, separation, and reunion of two lovers. These ancient works have often been heralded as the ancestors of the modern novel; but what can we say of the origins of the Greek novel itself? This book argues that whereas much of Greek literature was committed to a form of cultural purism, presenting itself as part of a continuous tradition reaching back to the founding fathers within the tradition, the novel reveled in cultural hybridity. The earliest Greek novelistic literature combined Greek and non-Greek traditions. More than this, however, it also often self-consciously explored its own hybridity by focusing on stories of cultural hybridization, or what we would now call "mixed-race" relations. This book is thus not a conventional account of the origins of the Greek novel: it is not an attempt to pinpoint the moment of invention, and to trace its subsequent development in a straight line. Rather, it makes a virtue of the murkiness, or "dirtiness," of the origins of the novel: there is no single point of creation, no pure tradition, only transgression and transformation. The novel thus emerges as an outlier within the Greek literary corpus: a form of literature written in Greek, but not always committing to Greek cultural identity. Dirty Love focuses particularly on the relationship between Persian, Egyptian, Jewish and Greek literature, and explores such texts as Ctesias' Persica, Joseph and Aseneth, the Alexander Romance, and the tale of Ninus and Semiramis. It will appeal not only to those interested in Greek literary history, but also to readers of near eastern and biblical literature.

Puerilities

Puerilities
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 152
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ISBN-10 : 0691088209
ISBN-13 : 9780691088204
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Puerilities by : Daryl Hine

Book XII of The Greek Anthology, compiled at the court of Hadrian by the poet Strato, contains 258 polished epigrams on the subject of Boy Love'. The short poems, written by such poets as Callimachus, Meleager and Strato himself, are presented in Greek with facing English translation.

Dirt

Dirt
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 299
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780520933163
ISBN-13 : 0520933168
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Dirt by : David R. Montgomery

Dirt, soil, call it what you want—it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations explores the compelling idea that we are—and have long been—using up Earth's soil. Once bare of protective vegetation and exposed to wind and rain, cultivated soils erode bit by bit, slowly enough to be ignored in a single lifetime but fast enough over centuries to limit the lifespan of civilizations. A rich mix of history, archaeology and geology, Dirt traces the role of soil use and abuse in the history of Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, China, European colonialism, Central America, and the American push westward. We see how soil has shaped us and we have shaped soil—as society after society has risen, prospered, and plowed through a natural endowment of fertile dirt. David R. Montgomery sees in the recent rise of organic and no-till farming the hope for a new agricultural revolution that might help us avoid the fate of previous civilizations.

A New Greek and English Lexicon

A New Greek and English Lexicon
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1768
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HWSGIZ
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (IZ Downloads)

Synopsis A New Greek and English Lexicon by : James Donnegan

A Greek-English Lexicon

A Greek-English Lexicon
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1778
Release :
ISBN-10 : PSU:000005341863
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis A Greek-English Lexicon by : Henry George Liddell

A Companion to Film Comedy

A Companion to Film Comedy
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 585
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781119169550
ISBN-13 : 1119169550
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis A Companion to Film Comedy by : Andrew Horton

A wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of film comedy from the ‘silent’ days to the present, this authoritative guide offers an international perspective on the popular genre that explores all facets of its formative social, cultural and political context A wide-ranging collection of 24 essays exploring film comedy from the silent era to the present International in scope, the collection embraces not just American cinema, including Native American and African American, but also comic films from Europe, the Middle East, and Korea Essays explore sub-genres, performers, and cultural perspectives such as gender, politics, and history in addition to individual works Engages with different strands of comedy including slapstick, romantic, satirical and ironic Features original entries from a diverse group of multidisciplinary international contributors

Plant Taxonomy

Plant Taxonomy
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Publisher : The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Total Pages : 375
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9788179933596
ISBN-13 : 8179933598
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Plant Taxonomy by : Rajni Gupta

Prithipalsingh, Indian taxonomist; contributed articles.

Vindicatory Justice

Vindicatory Justice
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 294
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9783030795955
ISBN-13 : 3030795950
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Vindicatory Justice by : Raúl Márquez Porras

This volume offers a new theoretical approach to the analysis of the law/revenge binary, and attempts to dismantle the common idea of revenge as lacking any legal, moral or rational dimension. In contrast, the book puts forward a model of a complex system of justice—which it terms 'vindicatory'—wherein vendetta constitutes an authorized action, the core of which does not (just) lie in vengeance but also in settlement procedures for peace—or 'composition.' The first part of the book ("Vindicatory Justice: Conceptual Analyses and Forerunners") seeks to identify the nature of vindicatory justice and to shed light on the structure of so-called vindicatory systems. In turn, the second part ("Mapping Vindicatory Justice") illustrates, using examples gathered from a range of sociolegal contexts, the dynamic relationship between composition and authorized revenge in vindicatory systems. Taken as a whole, the volume shows that applying a longue durée historical perspective to the study of revenge systems allows us to clearly recognize composition and authorized revenge as features of the same legal system, even though one of them may seem predominant (or more eye-catching) than the other in certain cultural settings.