Eratosthenes' "Geography"

Eratosthenes'
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9780691142678
ISBN-13 : 069114267X
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Synopsis Eratosthenes' "Geography" by : Eratosthenes

This is the first modern edition and first English translation of one of the earliest and most important works in the history of geography, the third-century Geographika of Eratosthenes. In this work, which for the first time described the geography of the entire inhabited world as it was then known, Eratosthenes of Kyrene (ca. 285-205 BC) invented the discipline of geography as we understand it. A polymath who served as librarian at Alexandria and tutor to the future King Ptolemy IV, Eratosthenes created the terminology of geography, probably including the word geographia itself. Building on his previous work, in which he determined the size and shape of the earth, Eratosthenes in the Geographika created a grid of parallels and meridians that linked together every place in the world: for the first time one could figure out the relationship and distance between remote localities, such as northwest Africa and the Caspian Sea. The Geographika also identified some four hundred places, more than ever before, from Thoule (probably Iceland) to Taprobane (Sri Lanka), and from well down the coast of Africa to Central Asia. This is the first collation of the more than 150 fragments of the Geographika in more than a century. Each fragment is accompanied by an English translation, a summary, and commentary. Duane W. Roller provides a rich background, including a history of the text and its reception, a biography of Eratosthenes, and a comprehensive account of ancient Greek geographical thought and of Eratosthenes' pioneering contribution to it. This edition also includes maps that show all of the known places named in the Geographika, appendixes, a bibliography, and indexes.

Daddy, What is Money?

Daddy, What is Money?
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Total Pages : 30
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ISBN-10 : 1735069604
ISBN-13 : 9781735069609
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Daddy, What is Money? by : Sean K August

Join Jacob and Savannah as they embark on an incredible journey with their dad, to explore the basics of money, and how to manage it. Will they carry out what they learn? Will you? Through the use of stimulating and rousing rhyme, Wall Street CEO, Sean K. August, penned, Daddy, What is money? as the first book in the Self-Education Series that aims to teach children financial literacy.

Cosmic Order and Divine Power

Cosmic Order and Divine Power
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Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 3161528093
ISBN-13 : 9783161528095
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Cosmic Order and Divine Power by : Johan C. Thom

The treatise De mundo offers a cosmology in the Peripatetic tradition which subordinates what happens in the cosmos to the might of an omnipotent god. Thus the work is paradigmatic for the philosophical and religious concepts of the early imperial age, which offer points of contact with nascent Christianity.

Small + Mighty

Small + Mighty
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ISBN-10 : 1735938203
ISBN-13 : 9781735938202
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Small + Mighty by : Cyntelia Abrams

On Prophecy, Dreams and Human Imagination

On Prophecy, Dreams and Human Imagination
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Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 3161524195
ISBN-13 : 9783161524196
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis On Prophecy, Dreams and Human Imagination by : Donald A. Russell

Synesius' essay De insomniis ('On Dreams') inquires into the meaning and importance of dreams for human beings and treats themes - most of all the relationship of humans to higher spheres -, which for religiously- and philosophically-minded people are still important today.

Negotiating Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean

Negotiating Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 307
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ISBN-10 : 9781107019447
ISBN-13 : 1107019443
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Negotiating Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean by : Denise Demetriou

Explores the creation of identities through cross-cultural interactions in multiethnic commercial settlements in the Archaic and Classical Mediterranean.

Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity

Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 461
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ISBN-10 : 9780520918740
ISBN-13 : 0520918746
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity by : Gregory Crane

Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is the earliest surviving realist text in the European tradition. As an account of the Peloponnesian War, it is famous both as an analysis of power politics and as a classic of political realism. From the opening speeches, Thucydides' Athenians emerge as a new and frightening source of power, motivated by self-interest and oblivious to the rules and shared values under which the Greeks had operated for centuries. Gregory Crane demonstrates how Thucydides' history brilliantly analyzes both the power and the dramatic weaknesses of realist thought. The tragedy of Thucydides' history emerges from the ultimate failure of the Athenian project. The new morality of the imperialists proved as conflicted as the old; history shows that their values were unstable and self-destructive. Thucydides' history ends with the recounting of an intellectual stalemate that, a century later, motivated Plato's greatest work. Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity includes a thought-provoking discussion questioning currently held ideas of political realism and its limits. Crane's sophisticated claim for the continuing usefulness of the political examples of the classical past will appeal to anyone interested in the conflict between the exercise of political power and the preservation of human freedom and dignity.