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Voice into text : orality and literacy in ancient Greece
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ISBN: 9004104313 9789004104310 9004329838 9789004329836 Year: 1996 Volume: 157 Publisher: Leiden : E.J. Brill,

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This volume deals with orality and literacy in ancient Greece and what consideration of these areas yields for that society, its literature, traditions and practices. Individual chapters focus on art, comedy, historiography, oratory, religion, rhetoric, philosophy, poetry, tragedy, and on orality in contemporary cultures (Greek and South African), which have a bearing on the ancient world. By considering such factors as oral elements in various genres and practices and how these have shaped the texts we have today, as well as the extent of literacy and the impact of literacy on oral traditions and on singers/writers, the book presents another insight into ancient Greek society and its people.

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Classical Greek literature --- History of civilization --- Thematology --- Mass communications --- Antiquity --- Greece --- Literary transmission --- Manuscript transmission --- Manuscrits--Transmission --- Tekstoverlevering --- Textual transmission --- Transmission de textes --- Transmission des manuscrits --- Transmission des textes --- Transmission littéraire --- Transmission of texts --- Greek literature --- Written communication --- Language and culture --- Oral communication --- Oral tradition --- Literacy --- Littérature grecque --- Communication écrite --- Langage et culture --- Communication orale --- Tradition orale --- Alphabétisation --- Criticism, Textual. --- History --- Critique textuelle --- Histoire --- Writing --- -Language and culture --- -Transmission of texts --- -Literacy --- -Oral communication --- -Oral tradition --- -Writing --- -Written communication --- -Written discourse --- Written language --- Communication --- Discourse analysis --- Language and languages --- Visual communication --- Chirography --- Handwriting --- Ciphers --- Penmanship --- Tradition, Oral --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Oral transmission --- Speech communication --- Verbal communication --- Illiteracy --- Education --- General education --- Criticism, Textual --- Editions --- Manuscripts --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Balkan literature --- Byzantine literature --- Classical literature --- Classical philology --- Greek philology --- Civilization. --- -Criticism, Textual --- Littérature grecque --- Communication écrite --- Alphabétisation --- Written discourse --- Criticism [Textual ] --- Civilization --- Greek literature. --- Language and culture. --- Literacy. --- Oral communication. --- Oral tradition. --- Transmission of texts. --- Writing. --- Written communication. --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Greece. --- al-Yūnān --- Ancient Greece --- Ellada --- Ellas --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grčija --- Grèce --- Grecia --- Gret͡sii͡ --- Griechenland --- Hellada --- Hellas --- Hellenic Republic --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Kingdom of Greece --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Xila --- Yaṿan --- Yūnān --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Greek literature - Criticism, Textual. --- Transmission of texts - Greece. --- Written communication - Greece. --- Language and culture - Greece. --- Oral communication - Greece. --- Oral tradition - Greece. --- Literacy - Greece. --- Writing - Greece.

Demosthenes : statesman and orator
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ISBN: 0415204577 0415204569 0203256093 1134628927 0203187695 1280354690 9780203256091 9780203187692 9780415204569 9780415204576 9781280354694 9781134628926 1134628919 Year: 2000 Publisher: London ; New York, NY : Routledge,

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Demosthenes is often adjudged the statesman par excellence, and his oratory as some of the finest to survive from classical times. Contemporary politicians still quote him in their speeches and for some he is the supreme example of a patriot. This landmark study of this remarkable man and his long career, the first to focus on him for more than 80 years, looks at the background behind this reputation and asks whether it is truly deserved.


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By the Spear : Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire
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ISBN: 9780199929863 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York Oxford university press

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"Alexander the Great, arguably the most exciting figure from antiquity, waged war as a Homeric hero and lived as one, conquering native peoples and territories on a superhuman scale. From the time he invaded Asia in 334 to his death in 323, he expanded the Macedonian empire from Greece in the West to Asia Minor, the Levant, Egypt, Central Asia and 'India' (Pakistan and Kashmir) in the East. Although many other kings and generals forged empires, Alexander produced one that was without parallel, even if it was short-lived. And yet, Alexander could not have achieved what he did without the accomplishments of his father, Philip II (r. 359-336). It was Philip who truly changed the course of Macedonian history, transforming a weak, disunited, and economically backward kingdom into a military powerhouse. A warrior king par excellence, Philip left Alexander with the greatest army in the Greek world, a centralized monarchy, economic prosperity, and a plan to invade Asia. For the first time, By the Spear offers an exhilarating military narrative of the reigns of these two larger-than-life figures in one volume. Ian Worthington gives full breadth to the careers of father and son, showing how Philip was the architect of the Macedonian empire, which reached its zenith under Alexander, only to disintegrate upon his death. By the Spear also explores the impact of Greek culture in the East, as Macedonian armies became avatars of social and cultural change in lands far removed from the traditional sphere of Greek influence. In addition, the book discusses the problems Alexander faced in dealing with a diverse subject population and the strategies he took to what might be called nation building, all of which shed light on contemporary events in culturally dissimilar regions of the world. The result is a gripping and unparalleled account of the role these kings played in creating a vast empire and the enduring legacy they left behind"--


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Ptolemy I : king and pharaoh of Egypt
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ISBN: 9780190202330 9780190620127 9780190202347 9780190202347 0190620129 0190202335 Year: 2016 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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This is the first full-length biography of Ptolemy I of Egypt in English. From his boyhood friendship with Alexander the Great to his reign as king and pharaoh of Egypt, Ptolemy's story is one of ambition and ruthlessness as he helped shape Egypt's history and that of the early Hellenistic world.


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Philip II of Macedonia.
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ISBN: 9780300120790 0300120796 Year: 2008 Publisher: New Haven Yale university press

Alexander the Great : a reader
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ISBN: 0415291860 0415291879 9780415291873 9780415291866 Year: 2003 Publisher: London Routledge

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A companion to Greek rhetoric
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ISBN: 9781444334142 Year: 2010 Publisher: Malden, MA Oxford : Blackwell Pub.,

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Greening business : research, theory, and practice
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ISBN: 1283919184 0191641383 0199535221 0199535213 9780191641381 9781283919180 9780199535217 9780199535224 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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Environmental protection has increasingly become a business issue at both the strategic and operational level for businesses of all sizes and across all continents. Greening Business is a comprehensive and highly contemporary analysis of the business/natural environment interface. Supported by numerous examples of current environmental practices in industry and commerce, the book examines why, when, and how businesses have responded to the growing pressures from governments, citizens, and other stakeholders to improve on their environmental performance. Focusing on the firm as the primary unit

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