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Written by the renowned authority on ancient ships and seafaring Lionel Casson, The Ancient Mariners has long served the needs of all who are interested in the sea, from the casual reader to the professional historian. This completely revised edition takes into account the fresh information that has appeared since the book was first published in 1959, especially that from archaeology's newest branch, marine archaeology. Casson does what no other author has done: he has put in a single volume the story of all that the ancients accomplished on the sea from the earliest times to the end of the Roman Empire. He explains how they perfected trading vessels from mere rowboats into huge freighters that could carry over a thousand tons, how they transformed warships from simple oared transports into complex rowing machines holding hundreds of marines and even heavy artillery, and how their maritime commerce progressed from short cautious voyages to a network that reached from Spain to India.

winds. --- trireme. --- sails. --- quinquereme. --- papyrus. --- olive oil. --- navigation. --- marines. --- ivory. --- grain. --- gems. --- Tiber. --- Syria. --- Spain. --- Sicily. --- Russia. --- Red Sea. --- Persia, Persians. --- Nile. --- Marseilles. --- Macedon. --- Levant. --- Lebanon. --- Kenamun. --- Jason. --- Italy. --- Homer. --- Gibraltar. --- Ephesus. --- Aegean;Africa;Alexandria;Asia Minor;Black Sea;brails;Byblos;Carthage, Carthaginians;catapults;copper;Cyprus;Dardanelles;Egypt, Egyptians. --- Shipping --- History --- Mediterranean Sea --- Aegean. --- Africa. --- Alexandria. --- Asia Minor. --- Black Sea. --- Byblos. --- Carthage, Carthaginians. --- Cyprus. --- Dardanelles. --- Egypt, Egyptians. --- brails. --- catapults. --- copper.

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This anthology is composed of recently revised translations selected from the five volumes of work by major poets of modern Greece offered by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard during the past two decades. The poems chosen are those that translate most successfully into English and that are also representative of the best work of the original poets. C. P. Cavafy and Angelos Sikelianos are major poets of the first half of the twentieth century. George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis, who followed them, both won the Nobel Prize in literature. Nikos Gatsos is a very popular translator, lyricist, and critic.

Greek poetry, Modern --- Abishag. --- Achaean League. --- Acrocorinth. --- Actium. --- Aeneid. --- Aeschylus. --- Allusion. --- Amulet. --- Andreas Embirikos. --- Angelos Sikelianos. --- Art. --- Aulis (ancient Greece). --- Beloved Name. --- Censer. --- Child of God. --- Chios. --- Cilicia. --- City-state. --- Claudius. --- Clytemnestra. --- Conflagration. --- Constantine P. Cavafy. --- Courtship. --- Crete. --- Cyrus the Great. --- Easter. --- Edmund Keeley. --- Egyptians. --- Eleusis. --- Elpenor. --- Enthusiasm. --- Epigraphy. --- Et cetera. --- Euripides. --- Eyelash. --- Fireplace. --- Firmament. --- Flattery. --- Forehead. --- Germination. --- Greek War of Independence. --- Greek language. --- Greek literature. --- Greek name. --- Hellenistic period. --- Hour. --- Household deity. --- Incense. --- Isadora Duncan. --- Kalamata. --- Kerchief. --- Knossos. --- Laughter. --- Lesbos. --- Lightness (philosophy). --- Literature. --- Long poem. --- Magic Eye. --- Memoir. --- Menelaus. --- Mycenae. --- Mykonos. --- Nikitaras. --- Nikos Gatsos. --- Odyssey. --- Order of the Phoenix (fictional organisation). --- Osip Mandelstam. --- Parody. --- Pelion. --- Peloponnese. --- Philology. --- Plotinus. --- Poet. --- Poetic tradition. --- Poetry. --- Pontus (region). --- Populus. --- Priam. --- Princeton University Press. --- Procession. --- Prow. --- Prune. --- Ptolemaic Kingdom. --- Ptolemy II Philadelphus. --- Quince. --- Relative direction. --- Rhetoric. --- Rose water. --- Sensibility. --- Sophocles. --- Spindrift. --- The Persians. --- The Soul of the World. --- The Wide Window. --- Theodoros Kolokotronis. --- Theodosius I. --- Thermometer. --- Thessaly. --- Thucydides. --- Trireme.

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Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; and that it masks political interests. In On Beauty and Being Just Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from the political arguments against it but also argues that beauty does indeed press us toward a greater concern for justice. Taking inspiration from writers and thinkers as diverse as Homer, Plato, Marcel Proust, Simone Weil, and Iris Murdoch as well as her own experiences, Scarry offers up an elegant, passionate manifesto for the revival of beauty in our intellectual work as well as our homes, museums, and classrooms. Scarry argues that our responses to beauty are perceptual events of profound significance for the individual and for society. Presenting us with a rare and exceptional opportunity to witness fairness, beauty assists us in our attention to justice. The beautiful object renders fairness, an abstract concept, concrete by making it directly available to our sensory perceptions. With its direct appeal to the senses, beauty stops us, transfixes us, fills us with a "surfeit of aliveness." In so doing, it takes the individual away from the center of his or her self-preoccupation and thus prompts a distribution of attention outward toward others and, ultimately, she contends, toward ethical fairness. Scarry, author of the landmark The Body in Pain and one of our bravest and most creative thinkers, offers us here philosophical critique written with clarity and conviction as well as a passionate plea that we change the way we think about beauty.

Aesthetics. --- Arts --- Philosophy. --- A Dictionary of the English Language. --- Adjective. --- Albertus Magnus. --- All things. --- Alternative model. --- Amartya Sen. --- Analogy. --- Aristotle. --- Banishing. --- Beholder (Dungeons & Dragons). --- Benjamin Jowett. --- Calculation. --- Certainty. --- Deliberation. --- Dionysus. --- Divine Comedy. --- Edition (book). --- Embarrassment. --- Emily Dickinson. --- Encomium. --- Equal footing. --- Eric Partridge. --- Etymological dictionary. --- Etymology. --- Euripides. --- Filigree. --- Fragility. --- Generosity. --- Genre. --- Good and evil. --- Great Unity. --- Great power. --- Harvard University Press. --- Illustration. --- Immanuel Kant. --- Iris Murdoch. --- Irony. --- John Donne. --- John Keats. --- John Rawls. --- La Vita Nuova. --- Lecture. --- Lifesaving. --- Loeb. --- Mathematical proof. --- Mathematician. --- Modern English. --- Neoclassicism. --- Nicomachean Ethics. --- Nobility. --- Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime. --- Ode to a Nightingale. --- Of Education. --- On Beauty. --- On the Aesthetic Education of Man. --- Palinode. --- Particle physics. --- Perfect number. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Physicist. --- Plotinus. --- Plumage. --- Poetry. --- Political philosophy. --- Princeton University Press. --- Proportion (architecture). --- Prose. --- Publishing. --- Rainer Maria Rilke. --- Republic (Plato). --- Requirement. --- Research assistant. --- Result. --- Richard Wollheim. --- Righteousness. --- Sacred grove. --- Sanskrit. --- School of Criticism and Theory. --- Seamus Heaney. --- Sensibility. --- Sentience. --- Simone Weil. --- Stephen Dedalus. --- Student. --- Suggestion. --- Tanner Lectures on Human Values. --- The Sovereignty of Good. --- Theory. --- Thomas Eakins. --- Thought experiment. --- Thucydides. --- Treatise. --- Treaty. --- Trireme. --- University of California Press. --- Utilitarianism. --- Veil of ignorance. --- Wealth. --- Writing.