Languagehat drew attention the other day to a remarkable collection of over 500 volumes at the University of Claifornia made available for public access over the
web, such as this history of Athens up to the time of
Pericles.
It’s worth a trawl, whether your interest is Spartan architecture or gender studies in post-modern flower arranging…
For heaven's sake--I thought I wouldn't find anything of interest to me, but my first hit garnered this:
It is proper to observe that the existence of isonomia as an anachronism in the Harmodius song, though it proves that the skolion is not archaic, fails to prove that isonomia could not have been an old word in use in the last part of the sixth century as a political expression. In fact, there is reason to infer the contrary—if, that is, Herodotus is a reliable guide and we interpret him correctly.
Also, it looks to me like the 3 indices listed should make it easy to locate many things.
Your first thought appears to have been correct.
Thanks for reminding us of that link, Mav. Hope to have the time, one of these days.
Your first thought appears to have been correct.
As usual, I rushed through, and only went to the second link, and not the first (till now). How about:
Title: 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance
Author: Thomas Harrison
Published: University of California Press, 1996
Subjects: Literature | Comparative Literature | European Literature | Art History
Publisher's Description: The year 1910 marks an astonishing, and largely unrecognized, juncture in Western history. In this perceptive interdisciplinary analysis, Thomas Harrison addresses the extraordinary intellectual achievement of the time., or
Title: ABC of Influence: Ezra Pound and the Remaking of American Poetic Tradition
Author: Christopher Beach, or
Title: Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance
Author: Randall Knoper
Published: University of California Press, 1995
Subjects: Literature | American Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Twain | American Studies
Publisher's Description: The phenomenon of performance is central to Mark Twain's writing and persona. But Twain's performative aspects have usually been dismissed as theatrical and discounted as lowbrow burlesque. Randall Knoper takes Twain's theatricality seriously and shows how Twain's work both echoes and engages, or
Title: Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982
Author: M. Hassan Kakar
Published: University of California Press, 1997
Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Politics | History | Middle Eastern History
Publisher's Description: Few people are more respected or better positioned to speak on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan than M. Hassan Kakar. A professor at Kabul University and scholar of Afghanistan affairs at the time of the 1978 coup d'état, Kakar vividly describes the events surrounding the Soviet invasion in 1979...and many more? There are 517 books listed.
Yes, there's a wide range of books available.
On an admin front, I keep on getting this and a few other threads flagged as New, even though there's been no change - is anyone else still getting this problem (which I gather was not uncommon after the software upgrade)?
