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The Buried City - Unearthing The Real Pompeii (Paperback): Gabriel Zuchtriegel The Buried City - Unearthing The Real Pompeii (Paperback)
Gabriel Zuchtriegel
R470 R370 Discovery Miles 3 700 Save R100 (21%) Pre-order

This is Pompeii, as you've never seen it before.

In this revelatory history, Gabriel Zuchtriegel shares the new secrets of Pompeii. Over the last few years, a vast stretch of the city has been excavated for the first time. Now, drawing on these astonishing discoveries, The Buried City reveals the untold human stories that are at last emerging.

Pompeii is a world frozen in time. There are unmade beds, dishes left drying, tools abandoned by workmen, bodies embracing with love and fear. And alongside the remnants of everyday life, there are captivating works of art: lifelike portraits, exquisite frescos and mosaics, and the extraordinary sculpture of a sleeping boy, curled up under a blanket that's too small.

The Buried City reconstructs the catastrophe that destroyed Pompeii on 24 August 79 CE, but it also offers a behind-the-scenes tour of the city as it was before: who lived here, what mattered to them, and what happened in their final hours. It offers us a vivid sense of Pompeii's continuing relevance, and proves that ancient history is much closer to us than we think.

The Making of the Doric Temple - Architecture, Religion, and Social Change in Archaic Greece (Hardcover): Gabriel Zuchtriegel The Making of the Doric Temple - Architecture, Religion, and Social Change in Archaic Greece (Hardcover)
Gabriel Zuchtriegel
R2,362 Discovery Miles 23 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this volume, Gabriel Zuchtriegel revisits the idea of Doric architecture as the paradigm of architectural and artistic evolutionism. Bringing together old and new archaeological data, some for the first time, he posits that Doric architecture has little to do with a wood-to-stone evolution. Rather, he argues, it originated in tandem with a disruptive shift in urbanism, land use, and colonization in Archaic Greece. Zuchtriegel presents momentous architectural change as part of a broader transformation that involved religion, politics, economics, and philosophy. As Greek elites colonized, explored, and mapped the Mediterranean, they sought a new home for the gods in the changing landscapes of the sixth-century BC Greek world. Doric architecture provided an answer to this challenge, as becomes evident from parallel developments in architecture, art, land division, urban planning, athletics, warfare, and cosmology. Building on recent developments in geography, gender, and postcolonial studies, this volume offers a radically new interpretation of architecture and society in Archaic Greece.

Colonization and Subalternity in Classical Greece - Experience of the Nonelite Population (Hardcover): Gabriel Zuchtriegel Colonization and Subalternity in Classical Greece - Experience of the Nonelite Population (Hardcover)
Gabriel Zuchtriegel
R2,928 Discovery Miles 29 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this book, Gabriel Zuchtriegel explores and reconstructs the unwritten history of Classical Greece - the experience of nonelite colonial populations. Using postcolonial critical methods to analyze Greek settlements and their hinterlands of the fifth and fourth centuries BC, he reconstructs the social and economic structures in which exploitation, violence, and subjugation were implicit. He mines literary sources and inscriptions, as well as archaeological and data from excavations and field surveys, much of it published here for the first time, that offer new insights into the lives and status of nonelite populations in Greek colonies. Zuchtriegel demonstrates that Greece's colonial experience has far-reaching implications beyond the study of archaeology and ancient history. As reflected in foundational texts such as Plato's 'Laws' and Aristotle's 'Politics', the ideology that sustained Greek colonialism is still felt in many Western societies.

Hellenistische Heiligtumer in Kampanien - Sakralarchitektur Im Grenzgebiet Zwischen Grossgriechenland Und ROM: Markus Wolf Hellenistische Heiligtumer in Kampanien - Sakralarchitektur Im Grenzgebiet Zwischen Grossgriechenland Und ROM
Markus Wolf; Contributions by Nicoletta Petrillo, Andrea Averna, Gabriel Zuchtriegel
R1,995 Discovery Miles 19 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Colonization and Subalternity in Classical Greece - Experience of the Nonelite Population (Paperback): Gabriel Zuchtriegel Colonization and Subalternity in Classical Greece - Experience of the Nonelite Population (Paperback)
Gabriel Zuchtriegel
R1,039 Discovery Miles 10 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this book, Gabriel Zuchtriegel explores and reconstructs the unwritten history of Classical Greece - the experience of nonelite colonial populations. Using postcolonial critical methods to analyze Greek settlements and their hinterlands of the fifth and fourth centuries BC, he reconstructs the social and economic structures in which exploitation, violence, and subjugation were implicit. He mines literary sources and inscriptions, as well as archaeological and data from excavations and field surveys, much of it published here for the first time, that offer new insights into the lives and status of nonelite populations in Greek colonies. Zuchtriegel demonstrates that Greece's colonial experience has far-reaching implications beyond the study of archaeology and ancient history. As reflected in foundational texts such as Plato's 'Laws' and Aristotle's 'Politics', the ideology that sustained Greek colonialism is still felt in many Western societies.

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