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Ancient Olympics
Av Nigel Spivey
E-bok, 2012
151 kr
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The word ''athletics'' is derived from the Greek verb ''to struggle for a prize''. After reading this book, no one will see the Olympics as a graceful display of Greek beauty again, but as war by other means. Nigel Spivey paints a portrait of the Greek Olympics as they really were - fierce contests …
Ancient Olympics
Av Nigel Spivey
E-bok, 2012
151 kr
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The word ''athletics'' is derived from the Greek verb ''to struggle for a prize''. After reading this book, no one will see the Olympics as a graceful display of Greek beauty again, but as war by other means. Nigel Spivey paints a portrait of the Greek Olympics as they really were - fierce contests …
The Ancient Olympics
Av Nigel Spivey
Häftad, 2012
204 kr
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The word 'athletics' is derived from the Greek verb 'to struggle for a prize'. After reading this book, no one will see the Olympics as a graceful display of Greek beauty again, but as war by other means.Nigel Spivey paints a portrait of the Greek Olympics as they really were - fierce contests …
Looking at Greek Vases
Av Tom Rasmussen, Nigel Spivey
Häftad, 1991
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
569 kr
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An ancient Greek vase is a difficult object for the non-expert to come to terms with. Faced with rows of apparently undifferentiated black, red and buff pots, he or she is at a loss as to where to begin. Greek vases are treated as objets d'art in the modern world, but how much were they worth in …
Greek Sculpture
Av Nigel Spivey
Häftad, 2013
574 kr
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Ancient Greek sculpture seems to have a timeless quality - provoking reactions that may range from awe to alienation. Yet it was a particular product of its age: and to know how and why it was once created is to embark upon an understanding of its 'Classic' status. In this richly illustrated and …
Songs on Bronze
Greek Myths Retold
Av Nigel Spivey
Häftad, 2006
129 kr
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Most of us would like to know the Greek myths better than we do, and in this book Cambridge academic and BBC presenter Nigel Spivey re-tells the Greek myths as the spellbinding stories they are. In exciting prose he tells of Jason and the Argonauts and the travels of Odysseus, of Oedipus's crime …
Greek Sculpture
Av Nigel Spivey
E-bok, 2013
585 kr
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Ancient Greek sculpture seems to have a timeless quality – provoking reactions that may range from awe to alienation. Yet it was a particular product of its age: and to know how and why it was once created is to embark upon an understanding of its ''Classic'' status. In this richly illustrated and …
Greek Sculpture
Av Nigel Spivey
E-bok, 2013
592 kr
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Ancient Greek sculpture seems to have a timeless quality – provoking reactions that may range from awe to alienation. Yet it was a particular product of its age: and to know how and why it was once created is to embark upon an understanding of its ''Classic'' status. In this richly illustrated and …
Songs on Bronze
The Greek Myths Made Real
Av Nigel Spivey
Ljudbok, 2006
278 kr
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Songs on Bronze is the first major retelling of Greek mythology in half a century; a set of lively, racy, dramatic versions of the great myths which, in a multicultural society, are recognized more than ever as stories without equal. Modern translations of the Greek myths have often sought to …
Classical Civilization
A History in Ten Chapters
Av Nigel Spivey
E-bok, 2015
110 kr
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A concise and accessible study of the foundations, development and enduring legacy of the cultures of Greece and Rome, centred on ten locations of seminal importance in the development of Classical civilisation. Starting with Troy, where history, myth and cosmology fuse to form the origins of …
Classical Civilization
A History in Ten Chapters
Av Nigel Spivey
Häftad, 2016
210 kr
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A concise and accessible study of the foundations, development and enduring legacy of the cultures of Greece and Rome, centred on ten locations of seminal importance in the development of Classical civilisation. Starting with Troy, where history, myth and cosmology fuse to form the origins of …
Sarpedon Krater
Av Nigel Spivey
E-bok, 2018
205 kr
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Once the pride of New York''s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Sarpedon krater is a wine-mixing bowl crafted by two Athenians, Euxitheos (who shaped it) and Euphronios (who decorated it), in the late 6thc BC. The moving image Euphronios created for the krater, depicting the stricken Trojan hero …
Civilizația clasică. O istorie în zece capitole
Av Nigel Spivey
E-bok, 2021
91 kr
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Nigel Spivey explorează bazele și moștenirea Greciei și a Romei antice prin intermediul a nouă orașe reale din lumea clasică și al unuia imaginar. Călătoria sa începe la ruinele Troiei – unde istoria, mitul și arheologia fuzionează pentru a forma originile civilizației clasice – și se termină în …
