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Around 428 BC, Plato was born into one of Athens’s most aristocratic families, and ultimately gathered around him some of the greatest minds of his age. Travel back to ancient Greece with Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Donald R. Moor and author Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) to meet this legendary thinker. In addition to expanding upon his famous allegory of the cave, Plato talks about learning through dialogue, the primacy of good and the price of wrong doing, democracy, freedom and censorship, women’s equality, love, and mathematics, and the search for truth.
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TIMON OF ATHENS , one of Shakespeare`s least performed plays, explores issues of loyalty and friendship, and the value of wealth. In ancient Athens, a lord and wealthy landowner, Timon, holds an opulent feast at which he lavishes his friends with gifts, food, and money, despite the misgiving of his faithful steward, Flavius, and the cynical warnings of the philosopher Apemantus. After discovering that he has lost all his land and money through wastefulness, Timon sends out his servants to ask his friends for assistance, but his friends refuse. Seeking revenge, Timon holds another banquet, but this time he serves rocks, and throws water on his guests. After fleeing into the wilderness, Timon discovers a hidden trove of gold. He gives some to a rebel and murderer, Alcibiades, to assist him in his planned attack on Athens. Finally, Flavius tracks down his master in the forest, and Timon calls him his only true friend. When the senators of Athens plea with Timon to prevent Alcibiades from attacking the city, he spurns them and dies. In its tale of a proud and naive man brought low by fate and the treachery of those he believed to be his closest allies, some critics have seen TIMON OF ATHENS as an early version of Shakespeare`s masterly KING LEAR.
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Athens, Still Remains is an extended commentary on a series of photographs of contemporary Athens by the French photographer Jean-Franois Bonhomme. But in Derrida`s hands commentary always has a way of unfolding or, better, developing in several unexpected and mutually illuminating directions.First published in French and Greek in 1996, Athens, Still Remains is Derrida`s most sustained analysis of the photographic medium in relationship to the history of philosophy and his most personal reflection on that medium. At once photographic analysis, philosophical essay, and autobiographical narrative, Athens, Still Remains presents an original theory of photography and throws a fascinating light on Derrida`s life and work.The book begins with a sort of verbal snapshot or aphorism that haunts the entire book: we owe ourselves to death.Reading this phrase through Bonhomme`s photographs of both the ruins of ancient Athens and contemporary scenes of a still-living Athens that is also on its way to ruin and death, Derrida interrogates a philosophical tradition that runs from Socrates to Heidegger in which the human-and especially the philosopher-is thought to owe himself to death, to a certain thought of death or comportment with regard to death. Combining philosophical speculations on mourning and death, event and repetition, and time and difference with incisive commentary on Bonhomme`s photographs and a narrative of Derrida`s 1995 trip to Greece, Athens, Still Remains is one of Derrida`s most accessible, personal, and moving works without being, for all that, any less philosophical. As Derrida reminds us, the word photography-an eminently Greek word-means the writing of light,and it brings together today into a single frame contemporary questions about the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction and much older questions about the relationship between light, revelation, and truth-in other words, an entire philosophical tradition that first came to light in the sha
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Athens County, Ohio, came out of the pioneer spirit of a new nation expanding westward after the Revolutionary War into the Northwest Territory. Upon declaration of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the Ohio Company of Associates bought millions of acres of land to sell to land-hungry easterners. In 1788, the first boat of new settlers arrived in Marietta, Ohio. By 1797, wars with the Native Americans had ended and more land became available. When they got here, settlers found some rich farmland, but more importantly they discovered salt, coal, clay and a need for industry to provide for the needs of the people. Opportunities abounded to make fortunes in other places from the resources readily available locally. Central to the development of Athens County was the vision people had years before the first settlers arrived; they dreamed of and made provisions for a university in the new territory. Today, more than 200 years later, Ohio University thrives in the city of Athens.
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Greece, Athens and the Mainland will lead you straight to the best attractions this region has to offer. Packed with detailed maps and beautiful cutaways and floor plans of all unparalleled sites, this guide highlights the best things to do in Greece, Athens, and the Mainland, such as exploring the archaeological monuments of the Acropolis, visiting the monasteries of Meteora, relaxing on a beach, and taking a scenic walk to discover some of Europe`s most inspiring scenery. Fully updated and expanded, the DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Greece, Athens and the Mainland includes all the essential insider information every traveler needs, including dozens of reviews for hotels, listings of recommended restaurants, and tips for shopping, entertainment, and excursions, for any budget. Don`t miss a thing on your vacation with the DK Eyewitness Travel guidebook to Greece, Athens and the Mainland. HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: Packed with photographs, illustrations, and maps Cutaways and floor plans of all the major sights 3D aerial views of the city`s most interesting districts Huge selection of hotels, restaurants, stores, and entertainment venues Specially devised walking tours, special events info
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In Athens and the Cyclades: Economic Strategies 540-314 BC, Brian Rutishauser examines the history and economy of the island region known as the Cyclades during the late sixth to late fourth centuries BC. While certain aspects of geography in the Cyclades remained constant through ancient Greek history, the islanders were able to adapt to changing conditions and to changing hegemony imposed from outside the region, in order to increase economic prosperity.By the time of the Persian Wars many of these islands had their own naval forces, coinage, and monumental architecture. During the fifth century Athens established a naval hegemony over the region, which put an end to these practices. Until the Peloponnesian War, the Athenians maintained stability but redirected wealth generated from commerce and the export of local island products through the payment of tribute and other forms of taxation. The end of the Peloponnesian War saw a period of Spartan rule, followed by a resurgence of Athenian power and a period of shifting hegemonies. During the second half of the fourth century, many of the Cyclades renewed local monumental construction and the issue of local coinage. The Cyclades may have prospered during this period due to their mutual economic interests with Athens, a symbiotic relationship which persisted after the collapse of the Second Athenian League to the end of Athenian control of the temple of Delian Apollo.
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"What was ancient democracy like? Why did it spread in ancient Greece? An astonishing number of volumes have been devoted to the well-attested Athenian case, while non-Athenian democracy – for which evidence is harder to come by – has received only fleeting attention. Nevertheless, there exists a scattered body of ancient material regarding democracy beyond Athens, from ancient literary authors and epigraphic documents to archaeological evidence, out of which one can build an understanding of the phenomenon. This book presents a detailed study of ancient Greek democracy in the Classical period (480-323 bc), focusing on examples outside Athens. It has three main goals: to identify where and when democratic governments established themselves in ancient Greek city-states; to explain why democracy spread to many parts of Greece in this period; and to further our understanding of the nature of ancient democracy by studying its practices beyond Athens"–
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It is 612 AD and Aelric?senator of the Roman Empire, fresh from a bloodbath in Egypt?is forced to divert the Imperial galley to Athens. He finds a demoralized and corrupt provincial city threatened by an army rumored to contain twenty million starving barbarians. Not to mention an explosive religious dispute, an unexplained corpse, and hints of something worse than murder. He will have to call upon all his formidable intellect and lethal ingenuity to survive his enemies inside and outside the city walls.
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Long-standing and intractable family feuds amongst some of Athens most affluent and influential families encircle Greek Police`s Special Crimes Division Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis`s murder investigation. Rivalries and corruption connect the city`s high society with its seedy underbelly, and it`s up to the savvy detective to connect the dirty dots in between.
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Keep your cat active with this Athens Kitty Mansion. Your cat will have loads of fund with the four-story house, seven scratching posts, four punching bags, a step ladder, a tunnel to burrow in and a bed on the top floor.Color: Beige Materials: Faux Fur, Sisal Rope, PessboardSize: 53 inches high x 21 inches wide x 21 inches deepWeight: 30 poundsNot adjustableSize of animal intended for: 25 poundsAssembly required
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Idyllic but remote, the Greek island of Thiminos seems untouched by the modern world. So when the battered body of a young woman is discovered at the foot of a cliff, the local police–governed more by archaic rules of honor than by the law–are quick to close the case, dismissing her death as an accident. Then a stranger arrives, uninvited, from Athens, announcing his intention to investigate further. Hermes`s methods of investigation are unorthodox, and his message to the islanders is plain–tell the truth or face the consequences. But Hermes brings his own mystery into the web of dark secrets and lies. Who has sent him to Thiminos, and on whose authority is he acting? Rich in images of Greece`s beautiful islands and evoking a life unknown to most outsiders, this compelling novel leads the reader into a world where the myths of the past are not forgotten, and forbidden passion still has dangerous consequences.
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