Robert Garland
Biographic Data
| ID | 541855 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Garland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Garland |
| SIGNATURE | GARLAND R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colgate University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1869 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Cassius Dio
This volume offers an introduction to the life and work of the 3rd-century-AD Greco-Roman senator and historian Cassius Dio, whose work, although imperfectly preserved in 80 books, is of fundamental importance to our understanding of Roman history. It is said that Dio is not one of the best ancient historians and his Roman history, due to its sheer size, is often imprecise and superficial in its analysis. It has also been assumed that there was n…
Xenophon
This book offers a concise introduction to Xenophon, the Athenian historian, political thinker, moral philosopher and literary innovator who was also a pupil of Socrates, a military general on campaign in Persia, and an exile in residence in the Peloponnese during the late fifth and fourth centuries BC. Alive during one of the most turbulent periods in Greek history, Xenophon wrote extensively about the past and present. In doing so he not only i…
Funerary Epigrams of Ancient Greece: Reflections on Literature, Society and Religion
Taking a wide selection of Greek funerary epigrams from the 6th to 4th centuries BC, this volume considers their historical and chronological contexts to draw out information about the society that created them. Using both Hansen’s corpus of epigrams and wider examples, it gives priority to those cases where the whole monument ensemble is preserved, both text and image, enabling a much better understanding of the significance of the texts
Funerary Epigrams of Ancient Greece: Reflections on Literature, Society and Religion
"Taking a wide selection of Greek funerary epigrams from the 6th to 4th centuries BC, this volume considers their historical and chronological contexts to draw out information about the society that created them. A thematic structure within a broader chronological framework provides a valuable lens on the epigrams, allowing readers to compare particular types across the time period. The focus is on epitaphs of individuals in the most significant …
Athens Burning: The Persian Invasion of Greece and the Evacuation of Attica
In this next offering for the Witness to Ancient History series, Robert Garland writes about the Persian invasion of Greece in the 5th century BC. After introducing the reader to the contextual background of the Greco-Persian Wars, including the famous Battle of Marathon, Garland describes the various stages of the invasion from both the Persian and Greek point of view. He focuses on the Greek evacuation of Attica (the peninsular region of Greece…
Athens Burning
Piraeus
Conclusions
This concluding chapter argues that the brilliance of Greek civilization was predicated in part upon the shiftlessness of its population. Being Greek meant facing the prospect of being displaced at some point in one's life without any certainty of return. When compelled to do so, the Greeks were fully capable of putting their roofs on their backs and moving an entire population elsewhere. It was also the case that the mobility of the Greeks, and …
Repatriation
This chapter discusses repatriation. L'esprit de retour certainly consumed the Greeks, as numerous passages in their literature indicate, even though relatively few migrants would have returned to their place of birth, compared with the large number who return eventually today. In many cases, however, returnees represented a serious threat to their city-state, since it was likely that their return would reignite the stasis that had initially prov…
The Wanderer
This chapter examines the centrality of wandering to the experience of being Greek. From earliest times, the Greeks were in restless movement, propelled from their familiar habitat either by human force or by the exigencies of their environment. Wanderer refers to the tens of thousands of men, women, and children who left their homes without a settled route or fixed destination. A wanderer in this sense was not only apolis (without a city-state),…
The Fugitive
This chapter looks at fugitives. In Athenian law, and in the laws of other city-states, exile was used to punish those guilty of voluntary and involuntary homicide, politicians who had committed treason, and generals who had suffered a military defeat. Depending on the circumstances of the crime, it might be imposed either for life or for a fixed term of years. It frequently involved loss of civic rights and/or confiscation of property. However, …
Prolegomena
This introductory chapter discusses ancient and modern responses to migration. Though the plight of migrants and refugees in the Greek-speaking world would have been similar to their plight today, absent the halting efforts of humanitarian agencies and the distracted gaze of the international community, there are some striking differences. Many people are at least somewhat sensitized to the predicament faced by displaced persons today, whereas th…
The Evacuee
This chapter explores the logistics of evacuation. The logistics of evacuating thousands of people in the lead-up to the outbreak of hostilities was one of the most challenging exercises a polis could undertake. Very often the decision would have been taken only in the teeth of great resistance by the inhabitants, many of whom would have found it impossible, at least initially, to conceive of a life elsewhere. Many families, faced with the need t…
The Itinerant
This chapter focuses on the itinerants in Archaic Greece. Itinerants are differentiated from the economic migrants investigated in the previous chapter by virtue of the fact that they regularly moved from one place to another, some making only a brief stop, others staying a month or more. Some might have a home to which they periodically returned, others presumably did not. Even so, their lifestyle had points in common with that of the migrant, w…
The Asylum-Seeker
This chapter discusses the principle of asylum. The Greek word asulia , which is somewhat misleadingly translated as “asylum,” literally means “not plundering” or in the case of an individual “the condition of not being plundered or abducted [viz from a sanctuary].” In theory at least asulia offered refuge for all, irrespective of a person's political affiliation, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, or any other qualifying condition. Because any lon…
Greek and Roman Priests and Religious Personnel
The Christian word “priest,” which is generally used to translate the Greek word hiereus and the Latin word sacerdos , only inadequately captures the essence of how those who bore this title functioned and were perceived in Greek and Roman polytheism. Foremost among the differences between pagan and Christian priests is the fact that the former did not have any pastoral responsibilities, were not expected to lead exemplary lives, and did not exis…
Wandering Greeks: The Ancient Greek Diaspora from the Age of Homer to the Death of Alexander the Great
Wandering Greeks: The Ancient Greek Diaspora from the Age of Homer to the Death of Alexander the Great
Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But this book argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement was essential to the survival, success, and sheer sustainability of their society, and that this wandering became a defining characteristic of their culture. Addressing a neglected but essential subjec…
Children in Athenian Religion
"In thirty chapters, The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World presents current research in a wide range of topics on ancient childhood, including sub-disciplines of Classics that rarely appear in collections on the family or childhood such as archaeology and ancient medicine. Contributors include some of the foremost experts in the field and younger, up-and-coming scholars. Unlike most edited volumes on childhood or t…
Disability
It is all too easy to overlook the fact that a sizable percentage of the population in any ancient community was disabled, primarily because the Greeks and the Romans themselves chose to ignore it, preferring to project the image of a people who were physically unimpaired.
The humanities: Plain and simple
This article raises a number of questions that the author believes need to be addressed in order to defend and justify the teaching and practice of the humanities in an age when they continue to face swingeing cuts and unreasoned attacks from many quarters, both inside and outside the Academy. They are questions that have to do with the uniqueness of the humanities, its role in teaching values, the objectives of research, the connection between r…
Celebrity Ancient and Modern
Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks
Ancient Greece comes alive in this exploration of the daily lives of ordinary people-men and women, children and the elderly, slaves and foreigners, rich and poor. With new information drawn from the most current research, this volume presents a wealth of information on every aspect of ancient Greek life. Discover why it was more desirable to be a slave than a day laborer. Examine cooking methods and rules of ancient warfare. Uncover Greek mythol…
Surviving Greek Tragedy
Surviving Greek Tragedy is a history of the physical survival to the present day of the thirty-two extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Beginning with the first revival of the plays in the fourth century BC, it charts the course of their transmission down the centuries as they passed through the hands of actors, readers, scholars, schoolteachers, monks, publishers, translators, theatre directors, and so on. Over the course of t…
The Eye of the Beholder: Deformity and Disability in the Graeco-Roman World
The Piraeus from the Fifth to the First Century B. C
The Piraeus was one of the largest and most impressive ancient ports in the Mediterranean. During the fifth century BC it was laid out on a grid pattern by the urban planner Hippodamos and linked by the Long Walls with the city of Athens, some 8km away. It served as headquarters for the Athenian navy during the time of Athens' Aegean empire. Its emporion or commercial sector handled the bulk of Athenian imports, especially the grain on which the …
The Eye of the Beholder: Deformity and Disability in the Graeco-Roman World
The famous works of Greek and Roman sculpture present an image of anatomical perfection which, as we know from other sources, was quite unrepresentative of the population as a whole. This is a detailed investigation of the plight of the disabled and deformed in ancient society - of the deaf, the blind, the lame; of hunchbacks, dwarfs and giants; and of those afflicted with more severe disabilities such as Siamese twins and Cyclopians. This work d…
Policing Athens: Social Control in the Attic Lawsuits, 420-320 B.C
Introducing New Gods: The Politics of Athenian Religion
The Well-Ordered Corpse: An Investigation Into the Motives Behind Greek Funerary Legislation
Journal Article THE WELL‐ORDERED CORPSE: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE MOTIVES BEHIND GREEK FUNERARY LEGISLATION Get access Robert Garland Robert Garland Colgate University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 36, Issue 1, December 1989, Pages 1–15, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1989.tb00559.x Published: 12 March 2010
Surviving Greek Tragedy
Surviving Greek Tragedy is a history of the physical survival to the present day of the thirty-two extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Beginning with the first revival of the plays in the fourth century BC, it charts the course of their transmission down the centuries as they passed through the hands of actors, readers, scholars, schoolteachers, monks, publishers, translators, theatre directors, and so on. Over the course of t…
Wandering Greeks: The Ancient Greek Diaspora from the Age of Homer to the Death of Alexander the Great
Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But this book argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement was essential to the survival, success, and sheer sustainability of their society, and that this wandering became a defining characteristic of their culture. Addressing a neglected but essential subjec…
The Causation of Death in the Iliad: A Theological and Biological Investigation
THE CAUSATION OF DEATH IN THE ILIAD: A THEOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION Get access Robert Garland Robert Garland University of Keele Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 28, Issue 1, December 1981, Pages 43–60, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1981.tb00418.x Published: 12 March 2010
Children in Athenian Religion
"In thirty chapters, The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World presents current research in a wide range of topics on ancient childhood, including sub-disciplines of Classics that rarely appear in collections on the family or childhood such as archaeology and ancient medicine. Contributors include some of the foremost experts in the field and younger, up-and-coming scholars. Unlike most edited volumes on childhood or t…
Wandering Greeks: The Ancient Greek Diaspora from the Age of Homer to the Death of Alexander the Great
Introducing New Gods: The Politics of Athenian Religion
Notice of a Kitchen-Midden at Craig of Boyne, Banffshire
The Causation of Death in the Iliad: A Theological and Biological Investigation
THE CAUSATION OF DEATH IN THE ILIAD: A THEOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION Get access Robert Garland Robert Garland University of Keele Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 28, Issue 1, December 1981, Pages 43–60, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1981.tb00418.x Published: 12 March 2010
The Greek way of death
Hardly any aspect of Greek culture, of its religious and philosophical bases, proves as revealing as its way of confronting human mortality and its observances in relation to the dead. Using both historical and anthropological approaches and sources, both visual and written, Garland describes the extensive and elaborate funerary rituals performed by the Greeks for their from the time of Homer to the fourth century BC. The book attempts to revive …
The Greek Way of Death
The Greek Way of Death
The Piraeus from the Fifth to the First Century B. C
The Piraeus was one of the largest and most impressive ancient ports in the Mediterranean. During the fifth century BC it was laid out on a grid pattern by the urban planner Hippodamos and linked by the Long Walls with the city of Athens, some 8km away. It served as headquarters for the Athenian navy during the time of Athens' Aegean empire. Its emporion or commercial sector handled the bulk of Athenian imports, especially the grain on which the …
The Piraeus: From the Fifth to the First Century B.C
The Well-Ordered Corpse: An Investigation Into the Motives Behind Greek Funerary Legislation
Journal Article THE WELL‐ORDERED CORPSE: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE MOTIVES BEHIND GREEK FUNERARY LEGISLATION Get access Robert Garland Robert Garland Colgate University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 36, Issue 1, December 1989, Pages 1–15, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1989.tb00559.x Published: 12 March 2010
The Piraeus from the Fifth to the First Century B. C
The Greek Way of Life: From Conception to Old Age
Old Age in Greek and Latin Literature
The Greek Way of Life: From Conception to Old Age
Introducing New Gods: The Politics of Athenian Religion
Introducing New Gods: The Politics of Athenian Religion
Policing Athens: Social Control in the Attic Lawsuits, 420-320 B.C
The Eye of the Beholder: Deformity and Disability in the Graeco-Roman World
The famous works of Greek and Roman sculpture present an image of anatomical perfection which, as we know from other sources, was quite unrepresentative of the population as a whole. This is a detailed investigation of the plight of the disabled and deformed in ancient society - of the deaf, the blind, the lame; of hunchbacks, dwarfs and giants; and of those afflicted with more severe disabilities such as Siamese twins and Cyclopians. This work d…
The Eye of the Beholder: Deformity and Disability in the Graeco-Roman World
Surviving Greek Tragedy
Surviving Greek Tragedy is a history of the physical survival to the present day of the thirty-two extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Beginning with the first revival of the plays in the fourth century BC, it charts the course of their transmission down the centuries as they passed through the hands of actors, readers, scholars, schoolteachers, monks, publishers, translators, theatre directors, and so on. Over the course of t…
Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks
Ancient Greece comes alive in this exploration of the daily lives of ordinary people-men and women, children and the elderly, slaves and foreigners, rich and poor. With new information drawn from the most current research, this volume presents a wealth of information on every aspect of ancient Greek life. Discover why it was more desirable to be a slave than a day laborer. Examine cooking methods and rules of ancient warfare. Uncover Greek mythol…
Celebrity Ancient and Modern
Disability
It is all too easy to overlook the fact that a sizable percentage of the population in any ancient community was disabled, primarily because the Greeks and the Romans themselves chose to ignore it, preferring to project the image of a people who were physically unimpaired.
The humanities: Plain and simple
This article raises a number of questions that the author believes need to be addressed in order to defend and justify the teaching and practice of the humanities in an age when they continue to face swingeing cuts and unreasoned attacks from many quarters, both inside and outside the Academy. They are questions that have to do with the uniqueness of the humanities, its role in teaching values, the objectives of research, the connection between r…
Children in Athenian Religion
"In thirty chapters, The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World presents current research in a wide range of topics on ancient childhood, including sub-disciplines of Classics that rarely appear in collections on the family or childhood such as archaeology and ancient medicine. Contributors include some of the foremost experts in the field and younger, up-and-coming scholars. Unlike most edited volumes on childhood or t…
Conclusions
This concluding chapter argues that the brilliance of Greek civilization was predicated in part upon the shiftlessness of its population. Being Greek meant facing the prospect of being displaced at some point in one's life without any certainty of return. When compelled to do so, the Greeks were fully capable of putting their roofs on their backs and moving an entire population elsewhere. It was also the case that the mobility of the Greeks, and …
Repatriation
This chapter discusses repatriation. L'esprit de retour certainly consumed the Greeks, as numerous passages in their literature indicate, even though relatively few migrants would have returned to their place of birth, compared with the large number who return eventually today. In many cases, however, returnees represented a serious threat to their city-state, since it was likely that their return would reignite the stasis that had initially prov…
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