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Arms and armor of Achaemenid army
Cejnarová, Petra ; Stančo, Ladislav (advisor) ; Kysela, Jan (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to introduce Arms and Armour of Achaemenid Army. In this study I describe briefly clothing, arms and armour of the Persian army during the period since the reign of Cyrus the Great until the reign of Darius III. Kodomanés. War strategy of the Persian army will be also mentioned, whereas it is not possible to present military equipment without an adequate description of the method of use. Firstly we use the historical writings by Greek authors to describe Achaemenid arms. Furthermore, we observe the appearance and evolution of weapons and equipment in art. Artistic monuments of Persian origin, Scythian artefacts, which decoration was greatly influenced by Achaemenid art, Greek artefacts, to which, however, should be approached with caution, and the art of some other Asian nations (Lydians, Phrygians) we use as a sources of information. Secondly, we introduce a categorisation of weapons and equipment. The most important is the division of equipment between infantry and cavalry. In both sections, we firstly describe the clothing of troops, further we introduce defensive equipment and offensive weapons. The greatest change in the development of arms and armour of the Achaemenid army was caused by Greco-Persian wars. Finally, allied troops from neighboring Asian...
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Reception of classical culture in the Czechoslovak/Czech television of Prague created
Chalupová, Helena ; Skopek, Robert (advisor) ; Kepartová, Jana (referee)
This work focuses on original television dramatic production of domestic authors, which was created in The Czechoslovak/Czech Television of Prague, and which is based on themes related with the history of ancient Greece and Rome. The aim is to study thoroughly this production - especially to discover how many inscenations of ancient subject The Czechoslovak/Czech Television of Prague created, what the topics are, and which authors participated on it; whereas a single chapter concentrates on each inscenation. Every chapter contains the comparison of the storyline of an inscenation and historical facts (i.e. the approach of scriptwriters to ancient realia and the procedure during its reception); it further contains the circumstances of an inscenation's origin, if contemporary critics know them from available sources and the acceptance of an inscenation. The work is also complemented by a chapter, which specifies the basis of television aesthetics. Keywords Antiquity, ancient, Greece, Rome, television, dramatic production, Oldřich Daněk, Ferdinand Peroutka, Jiří Šotola, Jiří Hubač, reception.
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