The Imagery of the Athenian Symposium - Kathryn Topper

The Imagery of the Athenian Symposium - Kathryn Topper

Plato: The Symposium

Features research in a dynamic area of inquiry and practice. This book considers cross-cultural differences in the idea of the person and in models...

In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love, until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in and decides to discuss Soc...

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Publisher: University Press of AmericaAuthor(s): Kiki GounaridouNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 147 x 222 x 11Cover type: Har...

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Whats In Your Body uses a combination of catchy poems and captivating pictures to describe how the elements of the periodic table are incorporated ...

The illustrious and ancient Dunne family has ruled over land in the heart of Ireland since time immemorial.In the manor house known as Brittas, res...

A second edition of the popular and only book on sailing the Topper dinghy - one of the UK's most successful sailing classes.

DescriptionIn the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, immigrants called 'metics' (metoikoi) settled in Athens without a path to citizenship. Galvanized...

Reducere. In his brilliant dialogue, Symposium, Plato presents an imaginary dinner-party set in Athens in 416 BC where the guests include Aristophanes, Socra...

Using beautifully reproduced visuals, this book not only reveals how scientific images play a constructive role in shaping the findings and insight...

Coles Phillips (1880-1927) was among the most in-demand illustrators in his field during the 1910s and 20s. A dynamic and highly skilled watercolor...

Publisher: Pendragon PressAuthor(s): Stewart CarterNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 1997Dimensions: 163 x 236 x 28Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

Probably written by a student of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is both a history and an analysis of Athens' political machinery between the ...

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The Frist Art Museum and Vanderbilt University Press have partnered to copublish Murals of North Nashville Now. The publication includes plates of ...

Publisher: University of Oklahoma PressAuthor(s): Richard Harter FogleIllustration(s): 1 line drawingNumber of pages: 198Publication date: 1969Dime...

The visual language of the Roman Empire was remarkably consistent. These images were made, used, and reinterpreted at all social levels, and often ...

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Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Kathleen FreemanNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 1994Dimensions: 220 x 140 x 17Cover type: Har...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): PlatoNumber of pages: 128Collection: Penguin Great IdeasPublication date: 2005Dimensions: 180 x 113 x 9Cover...

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Written for the general visitor, the Athenian Agora Museum Guide is a companion to the 2010 edition of the Athenian Agora Site Guide and leads the ...

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DescriptionBased on ethnographic fieldwork at a small Chicago adoption agency specializing in transracial adoption, Contingent Kinship charts the e...

Plato's Symposium, written in the early part of the 4th century BC, is set at a drinking party (symposium) attended by some of the leading intellec...

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Plato, Allan Bloom wrote, is "the most erotic of philosophers, " and his Symposium is one of the greatest works on the nature of love ever written....

Reducere. DescriptionGreek playwright, Aristophanes, lived during the 5th and 4th century BC and is considered one of the principal authors of the Greek clas...

Representations, signs and symbols. Proceedings of the symposium on religion and magic - Nicolae Catalin Riscuta, Iosif Vasile Ferencz, Oana Tutila

SOMA 2016 focused on the archaeology of the Northern Black Sea; while rich in archaeological sites, the region is also subject to active industrial...

Is monastic profession in the West-Syriac tradition a "second baptism"? A relationship clearly exists between the two rites of initiation in the We...

First published in 2001 and revised in 2017, the Docent Handbook 2 is a valuable resource for docents, guides and interpreters from museums and cul...

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