Speaking for the Polis

Speaking for the Polis

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  • Author: Takis Poulakos
  • Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
  • ISBN: 9781570031779
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 152

Illumining Isocrates' effort to reformulate sophistic conceptions of rhetoric on the basis of the intellectual and political debates of his time, Poulakos contends that the father of humanistic studies and rival educator of Plato crafted a version of rhetoric that gave the art an important new role in the ethical and political activities of Athens.


Reading Greek

Reading Greek

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  • Author: Joint Association of Classical Teachers. Greek Course
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 0521698510
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 29

Second edition of best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students and adults. This volume contains a narrative adapted entirely from ancient authors in order to encourage students rapidly to develop their reading skills. The texts and numerous illustrations also provide a good introduction to Greek culture.


Athenaze

Athenaze

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  • Author: Maurice Balme
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 9780190607678
  • Category : Greek language
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Combining the best features of traditional and modern methods, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek 3/e, provides a unique, bestselling course of instruction that allows students to read connected Greek narrative right from the begining and guides them to the point where they can begin reading complete classical texts. Carefully designed to hold students' interest, the course begins in Book I with a fictional narrative about an Attic farmer's family placed in a precise historical context (423-431 B.C.). This narrative, interwoven with tales from mythology and the Persian Wars, gradually gives way in Book II to adapted passages from Thucydides, Plato, and Herodotuc and ultimately to excerpts of the original Greek of Bacchylides, Thucudides, and Aristophanes' Acharnians. Essays on relevant aspects of ancient Greek culture and history are also woven throughout.


Polis

Polis

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  • Author: Christophe Rico
  • Publisher: Polis Institute Press
  • ISBN: 9789657698013
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 96

The goal of this book is to enable the student to read ancient Greek without the use of a dictionary or translation, and to read as fluently as one could read in French or Spanish. For educational purposes, ancient Greek is treated as a living language in this text. Polis applies teaching methods commonly used for modern language acquisition to ancient Greek: total oral immersion, total physical response (TPR), gradual complexity of dialogs and stories, and gradual grammatical progression. Whether used by a self-taught individual or by an instructor with a group of students, this first level book submerges the student within the language. The audio files that are available to download from the Polis website will help the student internalize grammatical forms and vocabulary. As only Greek is heard by students, they are unable to rely on an intermediary language and are compelled to employ the new skills they have acquired through this text. Polis teaches Koine Greek, the dialect of Hellenistic literature from Alexander the Great till the end of Antiquity and in which most ancient Greek texts were written. The first edition of the Polis method has been published in French (Editions du Cerf, 2009), Italian (Edizioni San Paolo, 2010) and German (Helmut Buske, 2011). The English edition of Polis fully revises the first edition and expands its original twelve chapters to twenty. This volume is intended for self-taught readers. It comprises a handbook of grammar with the grammatical lexicon, declensions and conjugations studied in the first volume, the keys to all the exercises, a list of differences between Attic and Koine dialects, and all text translations.


Polis

Polis

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  • Author: Christophe Rico
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9789657698020
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 278

The goal of this book is to enable the student to read ancient Greek without the use of a dictionary or translation, and to read as fluently as one could read in French or Spanish. For educational purposes, ancient Greek is treated as a living language in this text. Polis applies teaching methods commonly used for modern language acquisition to ancient Greek: total oral immersion, total physical response (TPR), gradual complexity of dialogs and stories, and gradual grammatical progression. Whether used by a self-taught individual or by an instructor with a group of students, this third volume submerges the student within the language. Polis teaches Koine Greek, the dialect of Hellenistic literature from Alexander the Great till the end of Antiquity, and in which most ancient Greek texts were written. This second volume (draft) continues and expands the grammatical topics covered in Polis: Speaking Ancient Greek as a Living Language.


Numbers and Numeracy in the Greek Polis

Numbers and Numeracy in the Greek Polis

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  • Author:
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 900446722X
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 297

This is a wide-ranging study of numbers as a social and cultural phenomenon in ancient Greece, revealing both the instrumentality of numbers to polis life and the complex cultural meanings inherent in their use.


Unthinking the Greek Polis

Unthinking the Greek Polis

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  • Author: Kostas Vlassopoulos
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521188074
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

This 2007 study explores how modern scholars came to write Greek history from a Eurocentric perspective and challenges orthodox readings of Greek history as part of the history of the West. Since the Greeks lacked a national state or a unified society, economy or culture, the polis has helped to create a homogenising national narrative. This book re-examines old polarities such as those between the Greek poleis and Eastern monarchies, or between the ancient consumer and the modern producer city, in order to show the fallacies of standard approaches. It argues for the relevance of Aristotle's concept of the polis, which is interpreted in an intriguing manner. Finally, it proposes an alternative way of looking at Greek history as part of a Mediterranean world-system. This interdisciplinary study engages with debates on globalisation, nationalism, Orientalism and history writing, while also debating developments in classical studies.


Polis

Polis

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  • Author: Christophe Rico
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9789657698037
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 182

The goal of this book is to enable the student to read ancient Greek without the use of a dictionary or translation, and to read as fluently as one could read in French or Spanish. For educational purposes, ancient Greek is treated as a living language in this text. Polis applies teaching methods commonly used for modern language acquisition to ancient Greek: total oral immersion, total physical response (TPR), gradual complexity of dialogs and stories, and gradual grammatical progression. Whether used by a self-taught individual or by an instructor with a group of students, this second level book submerges the student within the language. Polis teaches Koine Greek, the dialect of Hellenistic literature from Alexander the Great till the end of Antiquity and in which most ancient Greek texts were written. This second volume (draft) continues and expands the grammatical topics covered in Polis: Speaking Ancient Greek as a Living Language, Level One.


The Language of Happiness

The Language of Happiness

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  • Author: Susan Polis Schutz
  • Publisher: Blue Mountain Arts
  • ISBN: 9780883964804
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 52

For this inspiring anthology, Susan Polis Schutz chose timeless words of wisdom by an impressive array of authors, poets, and philosophers to capture the essence of what it truly means to be happy.


Polis, Nation, Global Community

Polis, Nation, Global Community

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  • Author: Ann Ward
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1000425800
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 170

This book examines the basic tenets of nation, nationalism and citizenship. It explores the relevance of the nation-state to human freedom and flourishing, as well as the concept of citizenship that it implies, in contrast to that of the ancient polis and the "global community." The volume focusses on the shifting notions of various political concepts over time to present a systematic understanding of core concepts such as polis, nation and state from antiquity to the present. It includes contributions that analyze ancient and modern thought, and sections that address postmodern and contemporary thinkers, including Aristotle, Cicero, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Nietzsche, Arendt, Weil, Grant and Manent. A comprehensive handbook to introductory politics, this book will be invaluable to students and teachers of political science, especially political theory, political philosophy, democracy, political participation and international relations theory.