{"title":"Robert Garland","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Garland's works invite readers to explore the rich tapestry of the ancient Greek world, blending meticulous historical research with accessible storytelling. His books offer insights into the daily lives, cultural practices, and philosophical underpinnings of classical civilisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBridging history, education, and philosophy, Garland's writing illuminates the ancient past with thoughtful analysis and engaging narratives, making complex ideas approachable for both scholars and general readers alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"wandering-greeks-by-robert-garland-9780691173801","title":"Wandering Greeks","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonisation movement came to an end. But Robert Garland 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAddressing a neglected but essential subject, \u003cem\u003eWandering Greeks\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on the diaspora of tens of thousands of people between about 700 and 325 BCE, demonstrating the degree to which Greeks were liable to be forced to leave their homes due to political upheaval, oppression, poverty, warfare, or simply a desire to better themselves. Attempting to enter into the mind-set of these wanderers, the book provides an insightful and sympathetic account of what it meant for ancient Greeks to part from everyone and everything they held dear, to start a new life elsewhere—or even to become homeless, living on the open road or on the high seas with no end to their journey in sight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach chapter identifies a specific kind of \"wanderer,\" including the overseas settler, the deportee, the evacuee, the asylum-seeker, the fugitive, the economic migrant, and the itinerant. The book also addresses repatriation and the idea of the \"portable polis.\" The result is a vivid and unique portrait of ancient Greece as a culture of displaced persons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46852455235820,"sku":"9780691173801","price":132.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/1725153482434.jpg?v=1759152840"},{"product_id":"what-to-expect-when-youre-dead-by-robert-garland-9780691266176","title":"What to Expect When You're Dead","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn entertaining and enlightening book about how ancient peoples dealt with death and what we might learn from them.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA lively story of death, \u003cem\u003eWhat to Expect When You're Dead\u003c\/em\u003e explores the fascinating death-related beliefs and practices of a wide range of ancient cultures and traditions—Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Hindu, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Etruscan, Greek, Roman, Early Christian, and Islamic. By drawing on the latest scholarship on ancient archaeology, art, literature, and funerary inscriptions, Robert Garland invites readers to put themselves in the sandals of ancient peoples and to imagine their mental state moment by moment as they sought—in ways that turn out to be remarkably similar to ours—to assist the dead on their journey to the next world and to understand life's greatest mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat to Expect When You're Dead\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles the ways ancient peoples answered questions such as: How to achieve a good death and afterlife? What's the best way to dispose of a body? Do the dead face a postmortem judgement, and where do they end up? Do the dead have bodies in the afterlife, and can they eat, drink, and have sex? 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This edition explores the perspectives and morals of typical ancient Greek citizens across a wide range of societal levels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFood and drink, literacy, the plight of the elderly, the treatment of slaves, and many more aspects of daily life in ancient Greece come into sharp focus. More than sixty illustrations are included, as are maps, a chronology, a glossary of Greek terms, and suggestions for further reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47558914769132,"sku":"9781624661297","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781624661297-daily-life-of-the-ancient-greeks.jpg?v=1776921276"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/robert-garland.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}