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Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic tradition / editor, Graham Speake.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn, c2000.Description: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 1579581412
  • 9781579581411
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 938/.003 21
LOC classification:
  • DF757 .E53 2000
Other classification:
  • 15.70
Online resources:
Contents:
v. 1. A-K -- v. 2. L-Z.
Summary: Hellenism is the living culture of the Greek-speaking peoples and has a continuing history of more than 3,500 years. The Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition contains 1,000 entries devoted to people, places, periods, events, and themes, examining every aspect of that culture from the Bronze Age to the present day. The focus throughout is on the Greeks themselves, and the continuities within their own cultural tradition. Language and religion are perhaps the most obvious vehicles of continuity, but there have been many others-gardens, music, magic, education, shipping, metalwork, architecture, and countless other elements have all played their part in maintaining this unique culture. Today, Greek arts have blossomed again; Greece has taken its place in the European Union; Greeks control a substantial proportion of the world's merchant marine; and Greek communities in such countries as the United States, Australia, and South Africa have carried the Hellenic tradition throughout the world. This is the first reference work to embrace all aspects of that tradition in every period of its existence. Contains almost 1,000 entries devoted to people, places, periods, events, and themes, examining every aspect of that culture from the Bronze Age to the present day. The focus throughout is on the Greeks themselves.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (In-Library Use Only) Books (In-Library Use Only) Nash Library General Stacks DF757.E53 2000 V.2 1 Not For Loan 33710001046700
Books (In-Library Use Only) Books (In-Library Use Only) Nash Library General Stacks DF757.E53 2000 V.1 1 Not For Loan 33710001046692

Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1. A-K -- v. 2. L-Z.

Hellenism is the living culture of the Greek-speaking peoples and has a continuing history of more than 3,500 years. The Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition contains 1,000 entries devoted to people, places, periods, events, and themes, examining every aspect of that culture from the Bronze Age to the present day. The focus throughout is on the Greeks themselves, and the continuities within their own cultural tradition. Language and religion are perhaps the most obvious vehicles of continuity, but there have been many others-gardens, music, magic, education, shipping, metalwork, architecture, and countless other elements have all played their part in maintaining this unique culture. Today, Greek arts have blossomed again; Greece has taken its place in the European Union; Greeks control a substantial proportion of the world's merchant marine; and Greek communities in such countries as the United States, Australia, and South Africa have carried the Hellenic tradition throughout the world. This is the first reference work to embrace all aspects of that tradition in every period of its existence. Contains almost 1,000 entries devoted to people, places, periods, events, and themes, examining every aspect of that culture from the Bronze Age to the present day. The focus throughout is on the Greeks themselves.